ALCS Game 3 – Oakland A’s vs. Detroit Tigers
Right Off the Bat with Marty Lurie – Playoff Show

Segment one : Show Open with Shooty Babitt & Art Howe
Segment two : Report from Jessica Haren in Detroit
Segment three: Marty & Shooty
Segment four : Interview – Rich Harden
Segment five: Marty, Shooty & Glen Kuiper
Segment six : Memories of the Game – Red Schoendienst
Segment seven: Rattle the Lumber with Ken Korach & Shooty

[Read more →]

With plenty of baseball still to be played here’s the weekend schedule.

All shows heard on KNTS 1220 am, KYCY 1550 am, or through the web site, just click the icon on the left.

Plus we are on MLB.com’s baseball package.

Friday is now a day game.

Friday show begins at 11:15 AM live from Crogan’s Montclair.

Saturday Right Off The Bat 11:15 am live from the Warehouse, 4th and Webster in Oakland.

Saturday….Inside Baseball Saturday Night after the game live from Fenton’s Creamery, Piedmont Ave. in Oakland.

Sunday 11: 30 am live from Crogan’s Montclair.

Thanks to Raf, Thomas, and Jeff for putting the shows on the site just in case you miss the live broadcast.

Marty [Read more →]

Detroit has a seemingly safe two games to none lead in the ALCS, but are they home free?

In 1966, the Orioles swept the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series four games straight. The Dodgers didn’t score after the third inning of game one.

Yet I had the feeling in that series that if the Orioles didn’t finish LA off when they did in game four that the Dodgers could come back and win the series.

The Dodgers had Don Drysdale pitch game four, Sandy Koufax was ready for game five, Claude Osteen ready for game six, and then it was back to Drysdale or maybe Koufax on two days rest for game seven.

The O’s beat Drysdale 1-0 to wrap up the series so the prospect of facing the Dodger’s big three one more time was never faced by Baltimore.

So how does this stroll down memory lane apply to the A’s and Tigers.

Click below for more! [Read more →]

ALCS Game 2 – Oakland A’s vs. Detroit Tigers
Right Off the Bat with Marty Lurie – Playoff Show

Segment one : Show Open with Shooty Babitt & Ray Ratto
Segment two : Marty, Shooty & Rob Parker, Detroit News columnist
Segment three: Interview – Justin Verlander
Segment four : Marty & Shooty
Segment five : Memories of the Game – Don Robinson
Segment six: Rattle the Lumber with Ken Korach

[Read more →]

Even though it was only one game, the A’s first game loss has bigger implications.

Detroit got away with its fourth starter against the A’s number one guy, Barry Zito.

Now Detroit has Justin Verlander, Kenny Rogers, and Jeremy Bonderman lined up in the next three games with two of those games at Comerica.

Click below for more! [Read more →]

ALCS Game 1 – Oakland A’s vs. Detroit Tigers
Right Off the Bat with Marty Lurie – Playoff Show

Segment one : Show Open with Shooty Babitt
Segment two : Marty, Shooty, Vince Catroneo & Rod Allen
Segment three: Interview – Danny Nobler
Segment four : Marty & Shooty
Segment five : Interview – Nick Swisher
Segment six : Memories of the Game – Marty Brenneman
Segment seven: Rattle the Lumber with Ken Korach

[Read more →]

Rick Kaplan
Staff Writer

OAKLAND (October 9) – Will Kenny Rogers run his record at the Coliseum to 24-1? Or, will he get food poisoning from the pregame meal and be unable to pitch?

Who is going to win the ALCS and how?

The one thing we can say pretty confidently is we are going to be surprised. So, this is probably all for naught. But let me give it a whirl.

The first pitch is tomorrow night in Oakland. Lots of predictions have already been offered, and the experts seem to be split fairly evenly between favoring the Tigers and the A’s.

Click below for more! [Read more →]

Last time the Oakland Athletics faced the Detroit
Tigers in the American League Championship
Series was 1972, the Athletics won in five games
advanced to the World Series against the
Cincinnati Reds and went on to win three
consecutive World Series.

Amaury Pi-González [Read more →]

Now that the annoying five game AL Division Series is out of the way the A’s can get down to the serious business of getting to the world series.

Every time the A’s needed to make a big pitch, they did. Every time the Twins had a chance to lose the game, they did.

Pure and simple the A’s played better baseball for three days.

A’s and Tigers now that’s a series.

Click below for more! [Read more →]

Rick Kaplan
Staff Writer

OAKLAND (October 5) – Forget about worrying about being over-confident and the danger of letting the Twins sneak back in the series.

It’s in the bag. Start counting your chickens right now.

Let’s be serious. Mark Ellis, Oakland’s very solid second sacker, has a broken index finger. Brad Radke, the Twins starter in game three, has a broken shoulder.

Advantage, A’s.

Click below for more! [Read more →]