• Baseball, Dad, and Me

    I had come home from another summer with him—a summer I assumed would be followed by countless more. At that age, I believed summers could last forever. I believed fathers did, too.

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  • Morons Arrested In Ludicrous Gambling Scheme. Somewhere, Someone Is Surprised.

    Advertisements .are available to be purchased. Please contact the publisher for details. Somehow, allowing gambling to be associated with professional sports has allowed gamblers to…wait for it…infiltrate professional sports. Somewhere,

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  • The 2025 World Series: Two Teams That Know The Meaning Of The Word “Clutch” And A Great Story

    Advertisements This one could be fun. The storylines seem never ending. The Toronto Blue Jays were last in the World Series in 1993 and won it with the famous Joe

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  • Dear Parents, Coaches, and Admin

    …consider if you immediately come to their defense to protect them when someone like a teacher or coach tells them to correct the same behavior you’ve been nagging them about for years.

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  • The Reason Behind Fernando Rodney’s Hat

    Advertisements For years, I railed against the off-kilter angle of Fernando Rodney’s hat. Why? Maybe because I had nothing better to do. Or I keep seeing grownups doing dumb things

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  • Magic

    Advertisements Game 1 of the 2024 World Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees had already met the expectations of the baseball world even before the

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  • One Helluva National Anthem

    Please allow me to pleasantly and kindly review the version of the anthem as sung before the Major League All Star game home run derby by Ingrid Andress and explain to all of you as to why it was so amazing.

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  • Victim?

    You could make the case that maybe he was under the illusion that he wasn’t really cheating. But, if that was the case, why did he apologize, why did he say he would do it all differently if he had the chance, and why did he apologize to Roger Maris’ wife?

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  • Balls on ice

    What’s right next to the microwave? The freezer.

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  • Dear Rob Manfred

    So we may or may not have dug through Rob Manfred’s trash and we may or may not have found a letter of gratitude from a man who knows what it’s like to be the focus of intense scrutiny.

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Small Ball: Just Like That Old Platonic Friend You Won’t Date

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Just like Edna Crampus, the sacrifice bunt has always been there for the Dodgers. The Dodgers have ignored it in favor of the hot girl, the home run. Just like Edna, the bunt listens to their problems. It tells them that they’re good enough to deserve something better than the last girl who just walked out of their lives. But the Dodgers refuse to recognize that the solution to their despair has been – and I quote Taylor Swift – “been here the whole time.”

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Will The NLCS Really Be Decided By One Game?

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In 2024, the bullpen was so bad going into the playoffs it didn’t seem possible that they could win. The bullpen carried the team through every series. In 2025, the starters were a mess ending the year. The starters carried the day. This year, Los Angeles hit into an insane number of double plays (128), which cost them dearly in their regular-season series against Milwaukee, Atlanta, and San Diego. Their inability to drive in runs cost them. But, this team has a tremendous record of recognizing weakness and addressing it in the postseason.

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A Record For BS

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Advertisements You have to hand it to the Washington Nationals. As of September 4, the all-time record for blown-saves in a season was 37, set by the horrifically bad 2014 Chicago White Sox. But, when the Nationals saw they had 35 blown saves with three weeks to go in the season, they didn’t shirk their responsibility. They didn’t shy away

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Perfect

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Advertisements Every year, when September 9 arrives, baseball seems to pause beneath the California night sky. For me, this date never grows old. It carries back to September 9th, 1965, at 9:46 p.m. in the City of Angels—Los Angeles, California—where the lights of Dodger Stadium shone down on a masterpiece that still feels too pure to belong to the past.

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All-Star Pageantry And Gimmicks Yield Mixed Results

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MLB may have finally evolved the All-Star Game to the point where it no longer knows what it is for. The ceremony is lavish, the staging immaculate, the production values high enough to make an emperor blush. But beneath the glitter, the game itself can feel like an afterthought, a moving backdrop for the spectacle that surrounds it. P.T. Barnum would have admired the scale. I’m not sure he would have loved the baseball.

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The Bloom Is Off Baseball’s All-Star Game

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I remember racing home to see the 1968 game and watching Don Drysdale pitch three innings of one-hit baseball. The Great Juan Marichal followed that up with two innings of high-leg-kick mastery. And 1976, during his unforgettable Cinderella season, Mark “The Bird” Fidrych earned the start for the American League All-Stars—a moment that captured the rise of a pitcher unlike anything baseball had seen before or since. It felt real. It was real.

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Morons Arrested In Ludicrous Gambling Scheme. Somewhere, Someone Is Surprised.

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Advertisements .are available to be purchased. Please contact the publisher for details. Somehow, allowing gambling to be associated with professional sports has allowed gamblers to…wait for it…infiltrate professional sports. Somewhere, a U.S. Supreme Court justice is saying, “Whaaaaaaat? How’d that happen?” This week, Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were indicted on charges they took bribes from gamblers.

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Has Baseball Turned Into Nothing More Than a Home Run and Strikeout Showcase?

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Fans could not get enough of the home run. And why not? They were seemingly drenched ad nauseum by giddy announcers and a plethora of analysts ballyhooing all kinds of metrics such as Exit Velocities, Launch Angles, and Expected Home Run Rate, or xHR%. The players themselves were given to cartoonish theatrics after hitting one out, from fancy bat-flips to the perfunctory pointing, glaring and glittering of bling as they sashayed around the bases.

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Dear Mr. Roberts

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Advertisements for thespitter.com are available. Reach tens of thousands of potential customers. Contact for rates and information. I hate to tell you this, but it is not June 28. Your bullpen is not reliable. Anthony Banda is falling so far off the mound to the right that it is almost impossible for him to know where the ball is going.

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Notes From One Of The Greatest Games

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Advertisements or thespitter.com are available. Reach tens of thousands of potential customers annually. Contact the publisher for rates and information. I don’t know when I started taking notes. Hours ago. Here they are. I’m going to bed. Game three Edman swinging at everything neck and higher. Then can’t get low enough to field what should have been an inning-ending double

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The 2025 World Series: Two Teams That Know The Meaning Of The Word “Clutch” And A Great Story

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Advertisements This one could be fun. The storylines seem never ending. The Toronto Blue Jays were last in the World Series in 1993 and won it with the famous Joe Carter home run. George Springer won another game in the postseason with his 23rd career homer…after limping through a game and a half with a sore knee (Fouling a ball

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Of All People…

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Advertisements You would expect more from a manager with 14 years of experience as a catcher in the Major Leagues, especially one who put up really good numbers (.262 batting average, .995 fielding percentage) over a career that came up just one short of 1300 games. But, the postseason is a different animal from the regular season and Mariners’ manager

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You’re Outta Here!

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Advertisements It is not often that we can be the very best at something. Major League Baseball umpire Angel Hernandez’s career has seen a lot of “bests.” Let’s celebrate them now that he has called it quits after 30 years of missing things.  The best check swing strike three call: Bryce Harper’s bat was parallel to the inside of the

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Dodgers 2023 First Look

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You can’t lose Trea Turner, Corey Seager, Justin Turner, and Alex Verdugo without it catching up to you eventually, especially if Mookie Betts is trying too hard to carry the load and the Swiss Army Knives like Chris Taylor aren’t hitting. The bullpen is full of gas cans. We don’t know how long this is going to last but we do know this is going to be painful, at least for a little bit.

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It Was Perfect…Until It Wasn’t

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Advertisements Or, how an over-protective manager robbed a player of a chance at immortality. Of course Dodger manager Dave Roberts should have pulled Clayton Kershaw from the game after 80 pitches and a perfect game after seven innings. After all…um…nope. What I mean to say is, it’s better for Kershaw to be denied the opp…ur…nuh uh. Let’s try…cooler heads will

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A Career So Sweet…But Too Short For The Hall?

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Bob Moffitt: (Posey was) rookie of the Year, MVP, 7-time All Star in 10 full years in the field, four Silver Sluggers, one Gold Glove,
Steve Harmon: Not arguing at all that he wasn’t great, that he accumulated all that platinum. But one thing he didn’t accumulate were the numbers. I’m sorry, but 1,500 hits and 153 home runs – even for a catcher.

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Buster Posey and the Legacy of “If”

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Kipling knew that both triumph and disaster fade. Look no further than baseball history to see how quickly the public forgets. From 1921–1924, the then-New York Giants won four pennants in a row and won the World Series twice, defeating the “Babe Ruth” Yankees twice. Ross Youngs was the fearless leader of these teams. What do Giants’ fans know of him today?

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