0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/5/2013
The Indians beat the Twins7-3 on Saturday night. OK, there's nothing too ordinary about that…except for the winning pitcher for Cleveland: former Rays and Angels starter Scott Kazmir. Kazmir legitimately pitched well on Saturday, and his win was his first in three tries this season. Perhaps more importantly, it was his first win since September […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/4/2013
St Louis Cardinals closer Jason Motte will undergo Tommy John surgery next week, and will be out for the rest of the regular season. The 30-year old Motte tied Craig Kimbrel for the National League lead in saves last season with 42, and struck out 86 in 72 innings while posting a 2.75 ERA. The […]
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Friday was not the best night for the American League East. Not only were the Rays the only team in the division to win on Friday night, they were the only team to score a *run*. The Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles, and Blue Jays were all held scoreless in losses, and the four teams totaled […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/3/2013
The Boston Red Sox are 20-8 and on top of the baseball world after a disastrous 2012 season under Bobby Valentine. The team revamped themselves this offseason, and a new manager was brought in: former Boston pitching coach John Farrell. The Sox won their 20th game last season under Bobby Valentine on May 20th, and […]
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Two nights after Tim Hudson won his 200th career game, Jake Westbrook of the Cardinals won his 100th career game, as St Louis held on to beat Milwaukee 6-5. We were actually deprived of the exact same historical moment for Ervin Santana, who also came into Thursday sitting on 99 career wins and got the […]
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Prior to the Red Sox-Blue Jays series finale in Toronto on Thursday night, former Blue Jays pitcher and current commentator Jack Morris accused Boston starter Clay Buchholz of throwing spitballs during Boston's 10-1 win on Wednesday night. Jack Morris, a former World Series hero and a Toronto Blue Jays broadcaster, said Thursday that he watched […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/2/2013
In Thursday's Padres-Cubs game, San Diego third baseman Chase Headley hit a pop up near the crowd on the first base side of the field. Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo settled under the ball, reached over the tarp, and made the catch. After making the huge stretch, Rizzo proceeded to fall between the tarp and […]
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Mike Napoli loves himself some Rogers Centre. Four of Napoli's six homer runs this season have come in the home of the Blue Jays, and three of those four homers have cleared 460 feet. In Wednesday's Red Sox-Blue Jays game in Toronto, Napoli put on an unreal performance of pure strength. In the fourth inning, […]
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We've touched on how surprising the NL Central race has been this season, but I think Wednesday's games really put the division in a nutshell. The first place Cardinals now have just a two game lead on the fourth place Reds, with the Pirates and Brewers sandwiched between them. The games on Wednesday saw the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/1/2013
The first month of the 2013 MLB season is in the books, and this will serve as your de facto recap of which players starred, and which players faltered this April. AL Hitter of the Month Chris Davis, Orioles. Davis raked to start the season off, bashing nine homers in his first 27 games (second […]
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Giancarlo Stanton left the Mets-Marlins game on Monday night with a hamstring injury. An MRI on Tuesday revealed that Stanton has a grade 2 strain, and will miss at least a month. Miami called up 22-year old prospect Marcell Ozuna from AA Jacksonville to take Stanton's place in right. Ozuna was generally ranked as the […]
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During Tuesday's Red Sox-Blue Jays game, Toronto first baseman Edwin Encarnacion hit a pair of two-run homers in the 9-7 Blue Jays victory. While neither of Encarnacion's homers were the longest of the night (that honor went to Mike Carp's blast off the facade in right center field), E5's first homer of the evening off […]
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We had our second pitcher of the season pick up win #200: Tim Hudson of the Braves. Hudson's Braves dominated the Nationals in an 8-1 win, and the 37-year old turned in one of his best performances of the year to reach the milestone. He even added a homer on the offensive side of teh […]
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In the bottom of the fifth inning of Tuesday's Nationals-Braves game, Atlanta pitcher Tim Hudson hit a ball to deep right field. Washington right fielder Bryce Harper went back on the ball, leapt up to make the catch, and inadvertently knocked it over the fence, giving Hudson his first home run of the season and […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 4/30/2013
In the ninth inning of Monday's Braves-Nationals game, Atlanta was clinging to a 3-2 lead. Braves closer Craig Kimbrel got Ian Desmond to hit a grounder to shorstop Andrelton Simmons, who slipped as he was fielding the ball. Undaunted, Simmons fired the ball across the field like a laser beam while in a seated position, […]
