My congratulations go out to the 2018 Boston Red Sox, who won this year's Major League Baseball World Series last night, defeating the Los Angeles Dodgers four games to one. Although this wasn't one of those classic seven-game series, it did feature some interesting things. The third game was won by the Dodgers in a series-record eighteen innings and the next one featured Boston, down 4-0 going into the seventh inning, coming back with a three-inning nine-run explosion...powered by series MVP Steve Pearce and his hitting...to gain the improbable win, 9-6. I was rooting for the Red Sox and also liked how former Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher (and Cy Young Award winner) David Price, one of my favorite pitchers in baseball, performed so well in this series, especially the final game when he pitched seven full innings and gave up only a run...
Baseball seems to have drastically slid in popularity over the past few years. I remember the first World Series I saw: the Minnesota Twins against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1965...it was so big back then that they even showed the day games live on TV at my elementary school! This year Fox Sports channel and TBS showed the playoff series leading to the World Series, which the regular Fox network aired. "My" Florida teams had mixed results in 2018. Tampa Bay had a very respectable 90-72 record, but that wasn't enough for them to make the playoffs. Miami, which under new CEO Derek Jeter had gotten rid of the core of its star batting lineup of Giancarlo Stanton, Christian Yelich, and Marcell Ozuna, dismally finished with the National League's worst record at 63-98. If the pattern holds for the Marlins, they'll keep improving from year to year until they have produced more standout star players...at which point they will predictably deal them away to other teams and return to last place for some more "rebuilding". Losers!
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