There is always something special in my mind when we get to see regional World Series match-ups or even better, two teams from the same city. Elijah Wilkinson Jersey . We havent had that kind of a showdown since 2000 when the Yankees beat the Mets in five games in a World Series that pitted the Bronx against Queens in the battle of New York. This year though, there are plenty of great possibilities now that were down to the final 10 clubs. The cities of Washington and Baltimore have a great rivalry, though they only ever meet in inter-league play. The Orioles have been in the World Series six times, but not since 1983, and have won three and lost three. Washington has been to the Fall Classic three times, but not since their original incarnation. They won in 1924 over the New York Giants, lost in 1925 to Pittsburgh and then lost again in 1933 to the Giants. Next to the Cubs, Washington has the longest World Series famine. If a Beltway series doesnt do it for you, how about Kansas City against St. Louis in a rematch of the I-95 series of 1985. The Royals won their one and only World Series title that year beating the Cardinals in seven games. Dick Howsers crew also became the first team to win the ALCS and the World Series when rallying from a 3-1 deficit. They beat the Blue Jays in the American League Championship series. Bay area rivals Oakland and San Francisco met in the infamous Earthquake series of 1989. Roughly half an hour before Game 3 was to begin at San Francisco, the Loma Prieta quake as it was known struck. The damage was such that the series wasnt resumed for 10 days with the As ultimately winning it in four straight. Dave Stewart of the As won Games 1 and 3 and last week 25 years later, was named general manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks, working with then-As manager Tony La Russa. That was the first cross-town series involving two teams from the same metropolitan area since 1956, when the Yankees played the Brooklyn Dodgers. Not only that but it was just the third not involving a New York team. The Dodgers and As - while not exactly next door neighbours - are still West Coast rivals. Theyve met twice in the World Series. Oakland won in 1974 to cap its three-peat run and the Dodgers pulled off what was considered a sizable upset in 1988, the year of Kirk Gibsons incredible game-winning pinch hit homer off Dennis Eckersley. The Dodgers havent been back to the Fall Classic since. There are other potential match-ups that have lots of history attached including Tigers-Cardinals and Pirates-Orioles. But the one Im hoping for has never happened before. That would be the Angels versus the Dodgers. Trout vs. Puig, Kershaw vs. Weaver, Mattingly vs. Scioscia, and on and on it goes. Wild Card watch The American League Wild Card game goes Tuesday night with Oakland at Kansas City. Sixteen-game winning lefty Jon Lester will be on the hill for the As against righty James Shields, who won 14 for the Royals. The winner will open an ALDS series Thursday at Anaheim against the Angels, while Detroit opens at Baltimore the same day. The National League Wild Card game goes Wednesday night at Pittsburgh with the Pirates hosting the Giants. Edinson Volquez (13-7) will face San Franciscos ace Madison Bumgarner (18-10). The winner will play at Washington Friday, while the Cardinals take on the Dodgers Friday at Chavez Ravine in the other NLDS. For whatever its worth, I like the Royals to beat the As simply because they are at home and the Giants to beat the Pirates because of Bamgarner, who is also one of the better hitting pitchers in the National League. Canadian Content It was great to see Canadian Justin Morneau of the Rockies win the National League batting title with a .319 average. But I do wish he had done more than just pinch-hit once over the final two games. Nationals No-No It was as exciting as it was unexpected to see the Nationals Jordan Zimmermann pitch that no-hitter at home on the final day of the season on Sunday, blanking Miami 1-0. It was the fifth no-no in history to end a season and first no-hitter in Washington since Bobby Burke did the honours back in 1931. You might have thought though that skipper Matt Williams, with the post-season looming, would have pulled Zimmermann after five or six innings. But as fate would have it, Zimmermann took a liner off his pitching shoulder and suffered a bruise in his previous start. In this start against Miami, working on seven days rest, Williams decided to let Zimmermann go for it, and thanks to that incredible circus catch by Steve Souza Jr. in left centre in the ninth to end the game, the current edition of the Washington Nationals picked up the first no-hitter in this franchises history. That leaves San Diego as the only team without a no-hitter. Derek Wolfe Jersey . Ozuna hit Reeds 2-2 pitch off the batters eye far above the 407-foot sign in straightaway centre. It was the fifth blown save in 25 tries for Reed (1-5) and the ninth home run the closer has allowed in 38 appearances. Nuno, acquired in the deal that sent Brandon McCarthy to the New York Yankees, gave up three hits, struck out a career-high seven and walked one in seven innings. Dymonte Thomas Jersey . Wearing bib No. 1, Maze skied through the gates cleanly to defend her big first-run lead and finish 0.07 seconds ahead of Anna Fenninger of Austria. Defending champion Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany was third, trailing 0. http://www.cheapbroncosjerseyssale.com/?tag=demarcus-walker-jersey-sale . And thats about it. After the Salukis 73-65 loss at Murray State on Tuesday night, Hinson called his players "uncoachable," "a bunch of mamas boys" and compared the disciplining of his young team to housebreaking a puppy.MADRID - One man died and 11 others suffered minor injuries after a fight broke out outside Atletico Madrids soccer stadium between its fans and those of visiting team Deportivo La Coruna, officials said Sunday.Madrids Clinico San Carlos hospital said a man died of injuries sustained in the clash between rival fans that broke out hours before the game near the Vicente Calderon stadium. Police made several arrests.The man, identified only as a 43-year-old Deportivo fan, had to be removed from Madrids Manzanares River and attended to by emergency services, which initially resuscitated him before transferring him to hospital where he died hours later.Televised images on Canal Plus showed large groups of men wielding what appeared to be metal poles, tossing chairs and firing flares on the wide pavement along the bank of the river. Images also showed at least one man falling into the water.The presidents of both clubs appeared together on television to lament the incident.This has nothing to do with football, said Atletico president Enrique Cerezo. Neither Atletico nor Deportivo have anything to do with these incidents, they are organized by radical groups who have their histories and accounts to settle.Sports minister Jose Ignacio Wert also said the clash waas not linked to sport, but it nevertheless tarnished its image and had to be eradicated. Connor McGovern Jersey. .Two people who were at a bar linked to Atleticos fan club in the northwestern city of A Coruna were slightly injured in a separate incident at noon when they were involved in a barroom brawl with six hooded men, Europa Press news agency reported.Police said on its Twitter account they had made 24 arrests among four radical groups linked to football clubs, and named them as: Riazor Blues, Atletico Front, Buccaneers, and Alkor Hooligans.The 11 injured included a police officer who suffered a broken finger.We are very sad, and we condemn this completely, said Atletico coach Diego Simeone. We hope these types of situations dont happen again.The Spanish league said in a statement that it had tried to suspend the match before it began.The Spanish football league was firm in its conviction to suspend the match, but that wasnt possible, the league said in a statement without explaining why the match started as scheduled at 1100 GMT.In December 1998 a Real Sociedad fan was killed outside Atleticos stadium and a man was sentenced to a 17-year jail term for his murder.___Associated Press writer Joseph Wilson in Barcelona contributed to this report. 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