By Adry Torres

First of all, hours before Game 1 of the World Series, I predicted that Detroit would take it all in five games. So right now it seems impossible unless they win three straight, Bud Selig changes the rule book and gives the Tigers an extra win somewhere along the way.

They can still win their first championship since 1984 but if those broken bats, weird bounces and rolls of the ball don’t start going their way after Game 3 on Saturday night is over, we’ll soon be talking about why San Francisco was able to it all.

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By Jose M. Romero

Instead of staying home to watch Game 1 of the World Series Wednesday night, I opted to record the Spanish-language broadcast on, you guessed it, FOX Deportes, and attend a dinner honoring local teachers in downtown Phoenix.

A very wise choice for me.  Why? Teachers are important people, and I can’t bring myself to watch the San Francisco Giants. I just can’t.

I kept waiting for the Giants to be eliminated. The Cincinnati Reds choked away their divisional series, at home, no less. Then the St. Louis Cardinals had a 3-2 lead in the NL championship series, and the Giants came back to win that.

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By Adry Torres

Tigers’ Roar

As the home plate umpire is hours away from yelling ‘Play Ball’ in the 108th edition of the World Series, if the history of the Fall Classic is once again correct, the Detroit Tigers could come away with their first championship since 1984.

In World Series history, three times has a team that won a Game 7 in league championship series faced off against a team coming off a sweep. And if you believe in the baseball gods, the team coming off the Game 7 win swept its opponent in the World Series once as the Boston Red Sox brought out the brooms against the Colorado Rockies in 2007. In both other cases St. Louis had it easy against the Tigers in 2006 and during the 1988 World Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers took out the Oakland A’s in five games.

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By Adry Torres

Philadelphia - The idea behind adding a second wild card team was widely criticized by many because an extra game would just extend the playoffs especially if extra games are needed to settle ties that would determine the first and/or second place wild card winners and it would award the winner of that do-or-die play-in game the first two games at their home in the divisional series against the team holding the best overall record in each league.

But with a little over two and a half weeks left in the season, it’s made September baseball as exciting as it was down the stretch last year.

Can’t count anybody out now as the Philadelphia Phillies are taking advantage of baseball’s latest wrinkle to the game.

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By Jose M. Romero / @RomeroJoseM

LOS ANGELES – No spring or summer trip to L.A., for me, is complete without taking in a Dodger game at Dodger Stadium.

I make it a point to go to one game a year, at least one. Southern California is like a second (OK maybe third) home for this Northwest native living in Phoenix. But with so much familia in the area, I’m always guaranteed to A) have a place to sleep and B) see family, who go to the game with me.

Tuesday night was pretty special. Any night is, really – I have gone to games so many times I’ve lost count, somewhere in the low 20s I think – and every experience brings something new.

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Por Juan José Palomo / @JJPalomo19

Para FOX Deportes

No cabe duda que la era de los pitchers está en su mayor apogeo, y es que en tan solo dos meses de temporada ya hemos podido disfrutar de dos juegos perfectos y 3 ‘no hit’. Hasta los Mariners se dieron el lujo de lanzar un ‘no´hit’ con seis lanzadores distintos nada más y nada menos que al equipo con la mejor marca ganadora de toda la liga: los Dodgers.

Y ahora 22 hombres son los que han enriquecido la historia de la MLB y seguramente nuestros nietos hablarán de Halladay, Randy Johnson, Matt Cain pero pocos recordaremos que esos juegos perfectos, como en el caso de Cain, contaron con atrapadas de lujo como la de Blanco o la de Cabrera y la jugada polémica del roletazo sobre la primera base que fue marcado como foul.

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