0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/28/2013
Everyone loves long homers. The longest homer of the 2013 season (so far) was hit last night at Coors Field (because of course jt was). The man behind this monstrous homer wasn't Giancarlo Stanton, or Mike Trout, or Mike Napoli, but actually Hunter Pence of the Giants. Wait, what? Hunter Pence? That's right, Hunter Pence. […]
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There is this growing sentiment from Nationals and Diamondbacks fans that their teams are still in the playoff race. Both clubs won last night, while both the Pirates and Reds both lost. Arizona is now five games back of the Reds for the second wild card spot, and Washington in seven games back. That season-ending […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/27/2013
With Starling Marte going on the DL with a bruised hand last week, the Pirates needed an outfielder. They got one in Marlon Byrd. Byrd, along with catcher John Buck, will head to Pittsburgh along with cash to cover some of their salaries in exchange for 19-year old prospect Dilson Herrera and a player to […]
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If you fall into the rabbit hole of the media narrative, you might believe that everyone in baseball despises Alex Rodriguez and that everyone would have thrown at him like Ryan Dempster did last Sunday. Well, an ESPN poll of 36 players (admittedly a small sample) revealed that isn't exactly the case, along with some […]
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This is pretty wild. In the fourth inning at Coors Field on Monday night, the sprinklers randomly went on in the middle of DJ LeMahieu's at bat in the fourth inning with men on the corners and two outs. Looks like someone fell asleep at the dial. The Rockies would go on to win 6-1, […]
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The Astros have the number one pick pretty close to locked down. The Marlins are pretty solidly locked in to the second pick at this point. From there on out, it's a crap shoot. The Chicago teams are picking third and fourth. The Brewers are picking fifth. and they've done very well with top ten […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/26/2013
The season just got awful in a hurry for Mets fans. Ace starting pitcher Matt Harvey has
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Miami Marlins owner Jeffrey Loria, already a multiple time winner of the "Worst Owner in Sports" award, is at it again. This time, Loria is overruling personnel decisions by Miami's front office because of petty grudges. Check out this tidbit from Jeff Passan's 10 Degrees column at Yahoo! Loria is the East Coast Moreno, dirtying […]
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This was one hell of a wacky play from Sunday's Cubs-Padres game. With the bases loaded and none out in the top of the 13th, Nate Schierholtz hit a grounder to first baseman Jesus Guzman that looked like it would be a surefire double play ball. Except…things didn't really go that way for the Padres. […]
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During Sunday's Braves-Cardinals game, Andrelton Simmons caught a pop-up hit by Kolten Wong of the Cardinals to end the seventh inning. As Simmons jogged back to the Braves dugout, he tossed the ball into the crowd for a Braves fan. Based on the arc of Simmons underhanded throw, I'm assuming he was targeting the female […]
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On Saturday, we saw the Diamondbacks and Phillies play a game that defied the laws of time, lasting 18 innings and over seven hours. On Sunday, we saw another ridiculously long game, but thankfully, it didn't reach the benchmarks set in Philly. The Padres beat the Cubs 3-2 in 15 innings. There were no runs […]
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Calling the 2013 Washington Nationals season a disappointment is probably a gigantic understatement. After winning the NL East last season, Washington was the sexy pick to win the World Series this year. Of course, the Nationals haven't come close to touching those expectations. After their game with the Royals on Sunday concluded, the Nationals sat […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/25/2013
You don't see the things that happened in Philly last night too often. The Diamondbacks beat the Phillies 12-7 in 18 innings in a game that saw Arizona use nine pitchers and Philadelphia use 11. Each team used two starting pitchers (bringing one out of the bullpen in addition to the one that started the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/24/2013
There were a lot of big innings on Friday night. The Orioles scored six in the third against the A's, and promptly allowed four in the fourth. The Rays scored five runs over the second and third innings against the Yankees. The Rangers scored four in the second, and one run in each of the […]
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The dysfunction of the 2013 Angels season apparently has nothing on the 2012 season. Last year, when Anaheim finished 89-73 and third in the AL West, teammates Albert Pujols and Torii Hunter reportedly got into a fight in the Angels clubhouse after an altercation between Hunter and CJ Wilson. Here's an excerpt from Scott Miller's […]
