They can really mess up your season, as everyone who lived through the Blue Jays 2005 campaign will tell you. Over and Over again.
The Yankees lost another game by a singleton last night. In twelve games decided by one run, the Yankees have won just two of them, while losing 10 times. Which is one of the ways a team that has scored 258 runs while allowing 239 still finds itself with a 21-29 record.
Only one team in baseball has been worse in close games. That, naturally, would be the Chicago Cubs who have spent the better part of the last one hundred years exploring the various ways defeat can be snatched from the jaws of victory. The Cubs are 2-12 in one run games.
(Of course, maybe Joe Torre and Lou Piniella are doddering old fools who don't have a clue what to do in the late innings of a close game... Nah.)
Weird times in the NL Central. As they've done for the most of the last forty years, the Astros were cruising along at .500 with a 21-21 record. Since then, they've lost eight in a row. And old friend Woody Williams (1-7, 5.65) may be this close to the end of the road. The defending world champs, beset by some very disturbing off-field incidents, have a worse record than the Devil Rays.
As a result, Pittsburgh is in second place. The Pirates. Still in the league and everything.
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