It's all over for the D'backs

The Arizona Diamondbacks lost their final game of the season tonight at Chase Field as the Colorado Rockies win 2-1 despite another outstanding pitching effort from Ian Kennedy. Kennedy goes seven innings and allows no earned runs. Both of the Rockies runs were unearned and came in the fourth inning. Jeff Francis gets the win for the Rockies as the Diamondbacks collect just seven hits and finish the season with 81 wins and 81 losses.

Better luck next year, D'backs.

The division winners include the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Oakland A's, Washington Nationals, the Cincinnati Reds and the San Francisco Giants. The wild card winners include the Baltimore Orioles, the Texas Rangers, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Atlanta Braves.

Hats off to the Detroit Tigers'  Miguel Cabrera who became the first player to win the Triple Crown since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Cabrera hit 44 home runs this season, knocked in 139 runs and maintained a .330 batting average. In 1967, Boston's Yastrzemski hit 44 homers, knocked in 121 runs and batted .326. My all-time favorite player, Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees, won the triple crown in 1956. Mantle hit 52 home runs that year, collected 130 RBI and registered a batting average of .353. The Triple Crown has been accomplished 16 times. Roger Hornsby did it twice -- once in 1922 and again in 1925 and Ted Williams did it twice -- once in 1942 and again in 1947.