MLB: As the Baseball World Turns

Posted on | June 5, 2008 | No Comments

The Diamondbacks are finally beginning to look like they’re getting back to their winning ways. They have won back-to-back games for the first in a quite a while. The Diamondbacks just beat the Washington Nationals. Couple their two wins with back-to-back loses by the second place Los Angeles Dodgers and suddenly the D-Backs have a very comfortable four and a half game lead again. Perhaps this is just going to be how it is for Arizona this year. They’ll have hot streaks, cold streaks, and just hope that the hot steaks last a lot longer than the cold streaks.

But the D-Backs can’t be consdiered the best team in the National League anymore. That honor – for now – has to belong to the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs have rattled off seven straight games. They are now a whopping 15 games over .500. No other teams in the National League is even close to that. The other two division leaders, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Diamondbacks, are sevent and eight games over respectively. Yet, the closest team to the Cubs is in their own division. That is the St Louis Cardinals who are ten games over .500 and just two and half games behind the Cubs.

But the closest team to the Cubs in the Majors is the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays are thirteen games over .500 and they’re enjoying a one game lead in the American League East. Perhaps it’s time to stop waiting for this team to collapse. This team is all about getting clutch outs and timely hitting. And they don’t look like they’re going anywhere anytime soon.

Of course all of the above is subject to change and probably will change in a week or so. But right now, it’s a crazy world that’s turning in baseball.

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