If the Yankees score runs early, they should win. This time of year, pitching wins but so does momentum and that seems like the Sox. My head tells me New York should win this 3-2. But in Boston? Against Aaron Boone in the dugout? Maybe an eighth inning homer?
Read moreThe Giants/Dodgers series is not a certainty. In fact, it’s very much in doubt. This is the same St. Louis Cardinals club that is just come off a 17-game winning streak.
Read moreWhat’s the record for blown saves in a game by one team? Better question. How can you not know?
Read moreTwo baseball scribes return to their roots to celebrate the game of baseball and a pretty magical movie.
Read moreEvery single year, he registered exactly zero (0) complete games. I mean, talk about pushing him beyond his limits!
Read moreAfter the trade deadline in Major League Baseball July 30, the team also has Kris Bryant, a well-known slugger and solid third baseman for fans to focus on while they try to remember where Lamonte Wade Jr. came from and if he’s a righty or a lefty.
Read more(Bunting is) another lost art, yet another skill that has been swallowed up faster than a mom-and-pop wiped out by a new big-box store.
Read moreNew Mayor League Baseball edict: we’re going to allow foreign substances on the field, but not for you pitchers. You must scrub your hands like you’re Macbeth and you just wacked three people.
Read moreSometimes a game is so full of badness, it ends up being great, like this little ditty from 1974. I enjoy baseball Twitter, especially the posts of statistical oddities and whatnot. These tweets, by people such as Doug Kern, Mark Simon, or Jayson Stark (among others) usually take the form of “The Reds haven’t hit four batters in an inning
Read moreIt was fun but you had to have thick skin. “For Chissake Gaffney you just cost me 75 cents,” someone groused after the 14 year old served up a three-run gopher ball. We noticed the “House” was doing pretty well.
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