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Dugout Digest – southern disappointment

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 […]

Dugout Digest – getting distance

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 […]

MLB Watchability Rankings – 8/16/13

The good stayed good, and the bad…well, they stayed bad. RANK TEAM CHANGE SCHEDULE COMMENT 1 — 0 vs WAS @ NYM So, I guess the Braves *can* lose…but they've still only lost consecutive games twice since the beginning of July. 2 — 0 vs KC vs MIN This series with the Royals can either […]

Dugout Digest – central crunch

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 […]

Dugout Digest – a bundle of walkoffs

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 […]

Rajai Davis hit a Little League home run on Wednesday night

Remember when you were in Little League, and you'd hit a home run that didn't even leave the infield? Yeah…that happened to Rajai Davis on Wednesday night in Toronto. With two outs in the bottom of the third inning, Davis grounded back to the mound. Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester deflected the ball, and attempted […]

Minor league team loses on walkoff intentional walk

Minor League Baseball is home to some of the wackiest finishes in the sport, and our friends at FTW unearthed this incredibly weird one from Tuesday. The New Britain Rock Cats trailed the New Hampshire Fisher Cats 5-3 heading into the seventh inning of their AA Eastern League contest. After winning game one of their […]

Replay was used perfectly in Oakland on Tuesday night

During Tuesday night's Astros-A's game, Chris Young smashed a ball to deep left field with a runner on first, two outs, and Oakland down by a run. The ball cleared the fence, and the big question was whether or not it was a fair or a foul ball. Third base umpire Doug Eddings ruled it […]

Dugout Digest – by the drop of a ball

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 […]

Braves place Dan Uggla on DL after LASIK surgery

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 […]

The ultra confusing, yet extremely entertaining, NL MVP battle

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, […]

Dugout Digest – driving me crazy

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 […]

Trout: Ban PED users for life

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 […]

Rose: “Should have picked up alcohol or beat my wife”

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 […]

What would pushing the trade deadline back have accomplished this season?

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 […]

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