0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/11/2013
Every game down the stretch is crucial. In the NL Central, the Pirates and Cardinals both won, while the Reds lost, putting Pittsburgh a game behind St Louis and two up on Cincinnati. Washington also won again, moving the Nationals to six games behind the Reds for the second wild card spot. No one really […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/10/2013
By now, you know this already, but in case you haven't – the Pittsburgh Pirates won their 82nd game last night. 2013 will mark their first winning seasons since 1992, also the year of their last playoff berth. This run of failure is unprecedented across professional sports, and Pirates fans are just happy to have […]
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Finally. After winning their 81st game of the year last Tuesday, it took the Pirates five tries to win their 82nd game. That win came on Monday night in Texas, with Yu Darvish opposing rookie Gerrit Cole, who stared the game of win #81. Pittsburgh pushed one run across the board in the seventh inning, […]
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Things got ugly in the first inning of the Tigers-White Sox game on Monday night as Detroit third baseman Miguel Cabrera and manager Jim Leyland were both ejected by home plate umpire Brian Gorman in the first inning. Cabrera took issue with Gorman after the umpire said Cabrera swung on a check swing without checking […]
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During Monday night's Yankees-Orioles game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards in Baltimore, things got heated after the first inning between Yankees manager Joe Girardi and Orioles manager Buck Showalter. Apparently, Girardi was talking to Orioles third base coach Bobby Dickerson in a less than pleasant tone, offending Showalter. Showalter stormed out of the dugout […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/9/2013
The Los Angeles Dodgers are dipping into the Cuban market again according to a report from Jesse Sanchez of MLB.com. The name that the Dodgers are looking at is infielder Alexander Guerrero, and an announcement is expected this week. Sanchez is reporting that the Dodgers and Guerrero are nearing a deal for somewhere around $32 […]
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Baseball is back in Montreal! Well…sorta. According to a report by Shi Davidi of SportsNet, the Toronto Blue Jays will close out their 2014 Spring Training schedule with two games against the New York Mets at Olympic Stadium in Montreal, the former home of the Expos. These two contests will mark the first two baseball […]
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We've entered the final three weeks of the 2013 MLB season, and there's really only one playoff spot that still seems uncertain – the second wild card berth in the American League. It'll take some sort of fierce collapse for the Cardinals, Reds, or Pirates all not to make the playoffs in the National League, […]
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This is the third edition of Hope for the Hopeless, where we will take a look at the first ten teams in the league eliminated from playoff contention, and examine what their fans can be optimistic about after a disappointing 2013 season. Next up: the Chicago White Sox. Hope is a funny thing. Sometimes, the […]
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September road trips across the baseball world can mean only one thing: it's time for rookie hazing! This picture from ESPN New York illustrates just what the Yankees' crop of rookies had to go through. The crew of rookies had to dress as various musical performers and sing and dance through the clubhouse. You can […]
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Folks, the NL Central is getting absurd. After this weekend, here's where we stand. The Cardinals lead the division with an 83-60 record, 1.5 games up on the Pirates and the Reds. Pittsburgh is 81-61 while Cincinnati is 82-62, meaning that over these final three weeks of baseball, the Pirates play two more games than […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/8/2013
Dusty Baker's use of Billy Hamilton thusfar this season has been exactly what we expected. Hamilton has gotten action in four games as a Red. In all four of those games, Hamilton was used as a pinch runner. In all four of those games, Hamilton has stolen second base. He's scored runs in three of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/7/2013
Yusmeiro Petit was one out away. Hell, he was one strike away. A perfect game would have been oh so sweet for the journeyman, who has come out of nowhere to thrive for the Giants in 2013. But Eric Chavez hit a sinking liner into right that fell just in front of the glove of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/6/2013
The biggest thing to keep an eye on over the last month will be the spoiler teams that are completely out of the playoff race but are playing good baseball lately, and have plenty of games left against contenders. RANK TEAM CHANGE SCHEDULE COMMENT 1 — 0 @ CIN vs AZ The only question left […]
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The A's and Rays both had chances to improve their playoff odds on Thursday in California, and both failed. The A's fell to the Astros 3-2 to slip to half a game back of the Rangers in the AL West, while the Rays fell to the Angels 6-2 to lose ground in the wild card […]
