The Pitching Matchup of the Day I put together at the end of the Dugout Digest every day usually lives up to the hype to some extent. However, on Saturday night, the matchup I picked was a complete and utter bust. I thought Mike Minor and Stephen Strasburg would light the world on fire in […]

Friday was a good night for the Pirates. After a disappointing series loss in St Louis, the Pirates got back on the winning track by beating the Diamondbacks 6-2 in Pittsburgh. The Cubs curbstomped the Cardinals 7-0, and the Brewers dealt the Reds a 7-6 walkoff loss, helping give Pittsburgh a little more separation in […]

The NL Central race has always been close, but now…it's *close*. The Cardinals took two out of three from the Pirates this week (with a pair of extra inning, walkoff wins in the mix), and the Reds have ripped off five wins in a row. St Louis is now two back Pittsburgh, while Cincinnati is […]

Something odd happened in Arizona this week that quite frankly, I didn't even notice. The Diamondbacks swept the Orioles, which isn't too eye-opening. But they won all three games in walkoff fashion, with Wednesday's 5-4, 14 inning victory as the cherry on top. The Diamondbacks also beat the Mets 5-4 in a walkoff win on […]

The Pirates led the Cardinals 3-2 going into the ninth inning. With one out, Daniel Descalso hit a sinking liner into left field. Starling Marte got a beat on the ball and went to catch it…but the ball popped out of his glove with no spurring from anything else. Matt Carpenter struck out for out […]

The Atlanta Braves have placed second baseman Dan Uggla on the 15-day DL following LASIK surgery, and have recalled Tyler Pastornicky from AAA Gwinnett to replace him on the active roster. Uggla's vision has been an issue all season, and he's gone through numerous different contact lenses to attempt to correct his vision issues. The […]

Over in the American League, we're hearing the safe refrain we did last year: "Trout or Cabrera?" Miguel Cabrera's actually having a better year than he did last season when he won the AL's Triple Crown, but Mike Trout's also improved on his 2012. But with each team in completely different places in the standings, […]

Being a Rockies fan is something that would drive me insane. In losing nine out of ten games heading into this past weekend, the team scored just 23 runs, with eight of those coming in one loss. Of course, Colorado has won their last four games, scoring 33 games while sweeping the Pirates and taking […]

The PED train continues on, and the opinion of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim center fielder Mike Trout might be one of the more relevant opinions out there. The 22-year old Trout is one of the best players in baseball, and also a guy who grew up watching players break records on a regular basis […]

Pete Rose is in the news once again discussing PEDs and his lifetime suspension with baseball, as if you really wants to know what he thinks about the situation. In an interview with John Phillips of 93.7 The Fan in Pittsburgh, Rose says that instead of betting on baseball, which got him a lifetime banishment […]

After a very inactive trade deadline this year, talks have intensified among analysts about pushing the trade deadline back in the season, perhaps two weeks into August, perhaps until the end of August. Just two weeks ago on July 31st, there were more teams that considered themselves buyers than sellers. Half of the league was […]