Larry Bowa went over the edge of oblivion Tuesday night, exploding on officials and New York Mets players in a meltdown seemingly in the making since Monday's 16-7 home loss.

The Philadelphia Phillies bench coach was ejected in the seventh inning of Tuesday's game after a tirade sparked by Mets righty Hansel Robles seemingly trying to sneak another quick pitch past a Phillies batter.

The MLB playoffs are right around the corner, and some teams are heating up at the perfect time.

Whose stock should fans be buying? Which teams are on their way out?

Watch as Bleacher Report MLB Analyst Scott Miller and Stephen Nelson discuss the MLB's contenders in the video above. 

The July trade deadline and the August waiver period are not the only ways teams can add to their rosters for the stretch run, as September also brings an influx of new players when the active rosters expand from 25 to 40.

Generally this is a time when teams promote the guys that have bounced between the minors and majors for most of the season, adding a few arms to the bullpen and bats to the bench in the process.

However, there are always at least a handful of top prospects who are given a chance to show what they can do during this time as well.

The finish line is in sight for this Major League Baseball season. 

With less than six weeks to play in the regular season, very little is decided when it comes to the playoff races, sans the Kansas City Royals and St. Louis Cardinals being locks to win their respective Central divisions. Everything else is still up for grabs. 

Counting to four really isn't that hard, but it is occasionally an issue in Major League Baseball.

After lining a ball right into the New York Mets' shift in the bottom of the eighth inning of Monday's game, Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard gave up on the play.

The problem with that is the ball did not end up being caught. It was still a live play as Howard started to make his way back to the dugout.

By all reports, Dallas Braden truly made the most of the amenities at Chase Field during Monday night's game between the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals.

More specifically, the former MLB pitcher turned ESPN analyst was all about that pool past the Diamondbacks' outfield wall.

When President Barack Obama went up against New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter on the golf course in Nevada last November, he was under the impression that the Captain was not good at golf.

That proved to be a costly mistake.

President Obama recently discussed his matchup against Jeter, according to Politico's Edward-Isaac Dovere, and it's clear the leader of the free world is still a little bitter about what happened that day, as he believes he was hustled:

Few things inspire feelings of dread like the crackle of a store's public address system on Christmas Eve, informing us that the store will be closing in five minutes when we've yet to find the gift (or gifts) we need to stick underneath the tree when we get home.

General managers around baseball are beginning to feel that knot in their stomach, for there are only six shopping days left—and it's only going to get tighter with each passing day. The rumor mill is immune to such maladies, but it's noticeably begun to pick up speed as we race toward the season's final month.

The Chicago Cubs placed outfielder Jorge Soler on the disabled list on Monday with a left oblique injury, according to Fred B. Mitchell of the Chicago Tribune. 

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