Fendley Dives Deep: Houston vs Chicago, September 28, 1995
What’s the record for blown saves in a game by one team? Better question. How can you not know?
Read moreIowa? We could have sworn this was Heaven.
Two baseball scribes return to their roots to celebrate the game of baseball and a pretty magical movie.
Read moreHarmon Notebook: On Coddling Pitchers, The Baseball God Hisself Not Happy With 100-pitch Counts
Every single year, he registered exactly zero (0) complete games. I mean, talk about pushing him beyond his limits!
Read moreHoly Trade Day, Bartman
After 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 moreBaseball Is Teetering On Boredom. Here’s How To Fix It.
(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 moreMLB Breaking News: Pine Tar Is On The Field; Sky Is Blue
New 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 morePitch Count? We Don’t Need a Stinkin’ Pitch Count!
Sometimes 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 moreFraternization, the Black Sox and Blood in the Hay
It 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.
Read moreThe A’s Early Losing Woes: Nothing Compared To The 1974 Padres
The 2021 Athletics start could have been worse. They could have been donning the brown and yellow of the team 47 years ago that had just been kept in San Diego.
Read moreDo The Right Thing… Unless It’s Not Reviewable
Good play or cheating… or failure by everyone responsible for getting a simple, stupid call correct?
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