0 comments by TOC Locker on 8/11/2014
Check out this fan catch from Sunday’s White Sox-Mariners game. The catch by this fan on this sinking liner hit by Dayan Viciedo was fine – nothing really outstanding, especially given that the fan was a grown man wearing a glove. But for him to make that catch while holding a tray full of fries, […]
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The San Francisco Giants are a very streaky team – and right now, they’re not streaking in the right direction. In the second half, the team is 10-13. In their last 17 games, the club is 5-12. In August, they’re 4-6. And over the past week, they went just 2-5, which includes a 1-5 stretch […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/10/2014
This is just gross. With the Brewers trailing the Dodgers 2-1 in the fifth inning at Miller Park, Jean Segura laid down a suicide squeeze bunt, with Rickie Weeks coming in hard from third. Segura popped the bunt up, and Clayton Kershaw somehow made an incredible leaping catch. Weeks was already just steps away from […]
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Well, this is unfortunate. During today’s Giants-Royals game, the competitor in the mustard suit fell flat in his face multiple times during the hot dog race between innings at Kauffman Stadium. This poor guy just couldn’t keep from tripping over his pants, time and time again. How embarrassing. It gives you a whole new respect […]
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After hitting his 29th home run of the season in the first inning against Johnny Cueto, Giancarlo Stanton looked to get his 30th in the eighth inning. However, Jay Bruce had something to say about that, scaling the right field wall to rob Stanton. Sorry Giancarlo – if you want your 30th homer, it’s not […]
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I’m not going to break down the *specific* bad decisions that took place last night, if only because I don’t want to completely turn this column into a mess of analysis. But we had one game on the east coast start at a time that would be considered late for a west coast game, and […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/9/2014
With star center fielder Andrew McCutchen on the shelf, you’d expect the Pirates to wither away and die in the National League playoff race. Of course, that hasn’t happened. Since McCutchen last played on Sunday, Pittsburgh is 3-1, scoring 19 runs over that four game stretch. Then again, the Marlins and Padres aren’t exactly the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/8/2014
This is just painful to watch. In the second inning of Friday night’s Nationals-Braves game at Turner Field, Washington right fielder Steven Souza violently slammed into the right field fence while chasing a Freddie Freeman home run. Souza’s head and shoulder slammed into the wall with a sickening thud, and he left the game after […]
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This weekend, the Rays take on the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Hanging outside of the park is a flag emblazoned with “Devil Rays”, Tampa Bay’s former moniker. The club isn’t too happy about that. To be fair, it is a turn back the clock weekend at Wrigley, and the Rays will be wearing these gorgeous […]
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Another week of bombs is behind us. Some of the names are familiar, some are not. However, one thing is for sure – a couple of these blasts are truly majestic.
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The two largest division leads in baseball reside in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The two teams that do battle in the Beltway Series every year in interleague play are seemingly rolling to division titles. Over in the American League, the Orioles have a five game lead on both the Blue Jays and […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/7/2014
The Detroit Tigers are obviously having a great year, and have dominated the AL Central from nearly wire to wire. But it’s August 7th, and their lead over the Royals is just 3.5 games. Somehow, the Tigers haven’t been able to pull away and coast to the division crown quite yet. In the second half, […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/6/2014
Laz Diaz is one of the most rage-inducing umpires in all of baseball. Needless to say, it was a bit of a shock to see Diaz show off a little bit of his personality on Wednesday night at Citizens Bank Park and dance with the Phillie Phanatic between innings of the Astros-Phillies game.
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The great defense got jacked up to another level this week. Some of these plays…man, I’m speechless.
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On Tuesday night, the two Chicago teams had very different highlights in their respective games. First, Adam Dunn made his pitching debut for the White Sox. It was as ridiculous as you could have possibly imagined. Then in Denver, Cubs stud rookie Javier Baez made his major league debut…and won the game for the team […]
