At some point you expect the Chicago Cubs to start ‘taking it easy’ with the playoffs looming. They’ve already clinched the best record in the league which will give them home field advantage throughout the NL playoffs. Even though they …

Despite the fact that the Atlanta Braves are going nowhere with one of the worst records in baseball this series with the New York Mets is very important. The Mets are likely not going to run down the NL East …

At some point, there’s every reason to think that the Chicago Cubs will ‘downshift’ a bit before the playoffs begin. They have a 17 game lead over the second place St. Louis Cardinals with 19 games to play (pending the …

This might be the most important series of the season for the New York Mets and they sure didn’t get things started right with a loss on Monday. That puts the Mets 10 games back of the Washington Nationals with …

The Atlanta Braves have been an awful team all season long but credit where it’s due–they’ve kept playing hard, even if they weren’t playing well. Now they’re in a position when they won’t finish in last place in the Majors. …

It wasn’t that long ago that people were writing the Cubs’ obituary after the team sputtered into the All Star Break in horrible form. That’s changed dramatically since then. The Cubs are back in domination mode 40 games over .500 …

The St. Louis Cardinals will be glad to be done with the Cincinnati Reds after Sunday’s series finale. The Reds have won the first two games of the weekend series and can complete the sweep with a victory here. The …

The first full day of September baseball goes on Friday and the top game on the board is a matchup between the slumping San Francisco Giants and the red hot Chicago Cubs. The Cubs hit a ‘rough patch’ around the …

The San Diego Padres and Atlanta Braves finish off a three game set at Turner Field on Thursday as part of a very short (4 games) card in Major League Baseball. Atlanta won the opening game of the series on …

The Washington Nationals aren’t playing particularly well at the moment with 6 losses in their last 10 games but give them credit for doing what they have to do when they need to do it. With Miami and the Mets …