— Change is in the air; after today, we won’t be posting daily baseball matchups anymore; I’ve been doing this for 23 years. Do the math; I’ve spent a ridiculous amount of time posting stuff every day for the last 23 summers. Time to cut back a little.
Rest of this blog should stay the same; home page will probably be better now— I’ll post lot of baseball stuff here. Will still post football info like we have been.
Thanks for reading; hope you still visit every day. I appreciate you guys.
— Eagles 34, Packers 29
Eagles turned ball over on their first two drives.
Green Bay managed only two FG’s on the ensuing drives.
Philly scored 24 points on their next four drives.
Saquon Barkley had 132 total yards, scored three TD’s.
Green Bay scored on five of first six drives; they led 19-17 at halftime.
Jordan Reed caught four passes for 138 yards.
Teams combined to convert only 7-25 third down plays.
Very bad news for Green Bay; QB Love sprained his ankle late in game, could be out a while.
— Duke 26, Northwesters 20 OT
Game was 13-13 after regulation.
Duke beats the Wildcats for sixth time in a row.
Both teams missed a field goal shorter than 35 yards.
Game was played in Northwestern’s temporary stadium, in front of 11,062 fans.
— BYU 18, SMU 15
BYU kicked game-winning field goal with 1:58 left.
SMU kicked five field goals, didn’t score a touchdown.
Teams combined to convert only 5-29 third down plays.
Both teams turned ball over three times.
— BYU’s defensive coordinator had a heart attack 10 days ago, was in the booth doing his job last night. Not sure how smart that is, but the freakin’ guy was working ten days after he had a damn heart attack.
— NFL hasn’t played games on Labor Day weekend since 2001, something that figures to change in the near future.
— You can bet over/unders on games, and also on individual teams; highest team team total this week is Detroit (28.5) in the Sunday night game.
— Famous birthdays, September 7th:
Gloria Gaynor, 81
Joe Rudi, 78
Bert Jones, 73
Corbin Bernsen, 70
Jason Isringhausen, 52
Kevin Love, 36
Sandy Alcantara, 29
Donovan Mitchell, 28
Heliot Ramos, 25
— NFL paid the soccer team in Brazil $500,000 to use their stadium this week.
— Revenue from the Brazil game gets split among all 32 NFL teams.
— I had no idea, but Twitter is banned in Brazil.
— A’s 7, Tigers 6 (13)
Seth Brown tied game with an 11th inning HR, won it with a 13th inning single.
Oakland was 50-112 last year; they’re 62-80 this year.
— Astros 8, Diamondbacks 0
Yordan Alvarez hit two 3-run home runs.
Framber Valdez tossed seven shutout IP.
— Mets 6, Reds 4 (10)
Mark Vientos hit a walk-off homer for the Mets.
New York has now won eight games in a row.
— Royals 5, Twins 0
Cole Ragans tossed six shutout IP.
Royals passed Minnesota in the AL Wild Card standings.