The Winning Run

06/04/2026

Predictions Sure To Go Wrong 12.0. The season is in full swing. How bad will we swing and miss this season?

The 2026 MLB Regular Season is upon us. Every team has a chance to win the World Series. Baseball is unpredictable. Teams can overachieve or fall flat. The greatest strength baseball possesses is t…

12/03/2026

Another year proving we are bad at predicting baseball.

It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future. ~Yogi Berra Yogi Berra and his Yogisms often have solid meaning if you can get past the odd way in which he said them. While there is a …

05/03/2026

14 years of baseball.

The Winning Run started one Winter afternoon in the room I rented during Graduate School. The 2012 MLB season was upon us and I felt moved to begin writing about baseball. Baseball has given me so …

12/02/2026

Pete Rose was obsessed, on and off the diamond. Keith O'Brien tells it like it is.

They say to never meet your heroes. They are not always right, some heroes are better in person than you might ever imagine. Unfortunately, they are right some of the time when our heroes do not li…

04/02/2026

United States of Baseball- Washington. The Evergreen State has been good to the Cubs.

The Pacific Northwest is home to more than Sasquatch and lush forests, it has a baseball history that has shaped the game. Washington has sent 230 players to the Major Leagues. The best pitcher fro…

19/01/2026

Our official unofficial Hall of Fame ballot.

As the calendar slowly works its way towards Spring Training, baseball fans receive a distraction from the snow shoveling and the struggle of getting their kids into Winter jackets. The results of …

06/01/2026

2026 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot. So many possibilities and only 10 votes.

The 2026 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot has come out. There are 27 players on the ballot this year. There are 15 returning candidates and 12 first time candidates up for consideration. The candidates…

18/11/2025

Unbreakable Youth. Some records can never be broken.

On January 15, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt responded to a letter from Baseball Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis instructing Major League Baseball to keep playing. The Green Light Let…

02/10/2025

October Has Arrived. Postseason baseball is the best.

It is the best and worst time of the baseball calendar. October. The Postseason has arrived. The high stress games from which legends are made and goats labeled. The Postseason is what the players …

29/09/2025

Solo Baseball. Baseball is fun even when you're alone.

I went to a baseball game solo this Summer. I have done it before and will certainly do it again. Baseball fandom is usually a social experience, but attending a baseball game alone changes the fee…

01/08/2025

2 Reds games in 1 week. Tuesday vs. the Dodgers and Thursday vs. the Braves. Never a bad day to watch baseball.