Cliff Corcoran

Exciting news! My WPBL coverage is moving to The IX Sports (@theixsports.bsky.social), where I will be their WPBL Insider, continuing with recaps of every game and adding a weekly Insider column on Tuesdays (also available as a direct-to-email newsletter). First gamer for the IX up tomorrow morning!

Slightly downgrade a musical artist: Fleetwood Meh

None of this would have happened if BABOOP had caught on:

Tremendous bit of trivia.

I was curious about this one . . . The last postseason in which the team with the better record won every series was 1986, but that was only three series. A Brewers win in the World Series would make it 11-for-11 this year, which has never happened.

I was honored to be a guest on the women's sports podcast Gloves off Seattle this past week to discuss my coverage of the #WPBL. Patti and Meagan are awesome, and this was a great conversation (available as audio or video in the usual places) youtu.be/-Yqw6czSV2E?...

#OnThisDay in baseball history

The team with the better regular-season record has won every series this postseason. This World Series will be just the third since 1911 between two teams that have never won a World Series following 1980 (Phillies-Royals) and 1920 (Cleveland-Brooklyn).

I was honored to be a guest on the women's sports podcast Gloves off Seattle this past week to discuss my coverage of the #WPBL. Patti and Meagan are awesome, and this was a great conversation (available as audio or video in the usual places) youtu.be/-Yqw6czSV2E?...

The team with the best record won every NL playoff series, and the most recent championship by any of the three teams still standing was in 1948.

Forty-four years is a long time. Congratulations, Milwaukee.

I need Curb theme over Will Smith’s look of befuddlement after that second ABS challenge in the Contreras at-bat wasn’t even close.

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Ah yes, the life of a freelancer.

I'm sorry to see Yordan Alvarez & Pete Crow-Armstrong's seasons end, but otherwise the 3 Wild Card Series results thus far seem correct. The team w/ better record won all 3, & the team w/ more recent WS championship lost all 3. It's been 17 years since any of 4 AL teams remaining won a World Series.

The Red Sox neither put multiple runners on base nor advanced a runner who was on base at any point in this Wild Card Series.

Bases-empty, two-outs, non-injury pitching change up seven runs in the 8th should be illegal.

Lou Merloni sounds so much like Al Leiter, it throws me every time he speaks.

#everyonewatcheswomenssports

It was an honor to be on this episode! I talk WPBL, sportydolphin, and fun nerdy things. Thanks for having me @ewpod.bsky.social #WPBL

The 11 completed seasons described below resulted in zero championships.

My final Baseball Insider column on the WPBL's inaugural season ties a bow on the season with my take on what might and might not change for 2027, plus reflections from stars Kelsie Whitmore, Amanda Gianelloni & Ashton Lansdell on the significance of this season & hopes for the league going forward:

My final Baseball Insider column on the WPBL's inaugural season ties a bow on the season with my take on what might and might not change for 2027, plus reflections from stars Kelsie Whitmore, Amanda Gianelloni & Ashton Lansdell on the significance of this season & hopes for the league going forward:

The Queens won the first WPBL championship Tuesday night behind the league's first CG/SHO, by Ayami Sato. My recap includes notes on the series's top performances, manager Eric Young's strategies, the impact of the weather, that the Queens' captain has been under it, and more:

I went back and looked, Kaplan was clearly safe at first base on that inning-ending double-play (top 1st). #WPBL

The WPBL Championship Series is going to a winner-take-all Game 5 on Tuesday night, which is what this league deserved. Here's my recap of the Firebells' record-setting Game 4 win, with details on each team's pitching budget for Game 5, the Queens' need for today's day off, and much more:

The Firebells came out of Friday's off-day hot and have given us a series. This afternoon, we find out if they can push the Queens to a decisive Game 5. My Game 3 recap includes Cailtin Eynon on the Queens' slow adjustment in Game 3 & notes on Niki Eckert's work situation and Joely Leguizamon's HR.

Oh, hell yeah

The LA Queens are one win from the first ever WPBL championship. My recap of their wild Game 2 win includes injury updates on several Firebells, Queens manager Eric Young on his pitching strategy, and notes on two oddly hitless players:

I don’t think @howardmegdal.bsky.social gets the credit he deserves for being a consistently excellent baseball reporter. Great little piece today @baseballprospectus.com on Christian Walker: www.baseballprospectus.com/fantasy/arti...

Jamie Mackay came up huge on the mound to hold the Firebells down while the Queens chipped away to win Game 1 of the WPBL Championship Series. Lots more in this recap, including Mackay on her preparation, a likely season-ending injury to Rosi del Castillo, other injury updates, uniforms, more . . .

The first championship series in WPBL history starts tomorrow night at 7 pm Eastern. Here’s my preview of the series between the San Francisco Firebells and the Los Angeles Queens, with projected rosters and lineups and analysis.

Of course the only way the Queens were going to beat the Heights was in their last at-bat in the highest-scoring game in WPBL history. My recap includes notes on Samaria Benítez and Jacqui Reynolds, the disastrous broadcast, the Heights wearing gray pants at home & parting thoughts from Val Perez:

The Heights & Queens played the best game in the history of the WPBL last night, with LA closing a five-run deficit, and NY hitting back-to-back HRs off Queens closer Meggie Meidlinger in its final at-bat. My recap includes comments from the HR hitters, LA's last-minute SP change & a look to Game 3:

The Hunters made them work for it, but the Firebells swept their way to the championship series last night, as expected, with homers from Skylar Kaplan, Alexia Jorge, and Kelsie Whitmore. My recap includes injury updates, manager insight, and the Hunters' thoughts heading into their offseason #WPBL:

Here's how the Queens shut down the mighty Heights' lineup in Game 1 of their semifinal last night, plus the latest on Jaida Lee, a great defensive game from birthday girl Denae Benites, and why London Studer licks her bats #WPBL:

A classic, and Cliff does it justice. #wpbl

The Hunters played their best game against the Firebells in the first postseason game in WPBL history but still came up short. My recap includes injury updates, what's different for the postseason, and reactions and inside info from players and managers:

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