It is not everything, but it might be something. Baseball is an incredibly mental game. It is a skill game based around failure, so being able to keep one's head is paramount in deriving long-term ...

If the outcome of games decided by one run is considered fickle, why do the Brewers keep winning them with regularity year after year? If the baseball gods laugh at the randomness of who wins close ...

Last season, we saw the Miami Marlins find a way to sneak into the postseason. The biggest reason why they were able to do that was their success in one-run games. Miami went an unprecedented 33-14 in ...

There was a lot to feel good about in the Red Sox' 6-5 loss to the Tigers. They became the first team this season to put up as many as five runs against reigning American League Cy Young winner Tarik ...

The Atlanta Braves dropped the series to the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night, 3-2. For the 34th time this year, they were hard-pressed to find that extra big hit. Their seven-year streak of winning ...

Why can’t the Red Sox win any one-run games? That question sums up the Red Sox’s season so far, which has been a massive disappointment largely because the club has come up short in so many close ...

Every baseball season tells a unique story, and like most good dramas–feel-good tales and tragedies alike–there are usually several ways to judge what we’ve seen. It’s certainly true in the case of ...