0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/24/2014
TOC pop quiz: aside from the pathetic trio (Astros, Diamondbacks, Cubs), which team in baseball has the worst record? What if I told you that it was the defending World Champion Boston Red Sox? The Sox are 20-27, and their .426 winning percentage is worse than every team in the league aside from those three […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/23/2014
The usual suspects are all gone this week. But I hope you enjoy a pair of Hunters, because out of all the Weeks we’ve done this, this is a pretty unique one. 1. Hunter Pence vs Jhoulys Chacin, 456 feet (May 21st) This is another one of those Coors Field homers that doesn’t look like […]
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#Dodgers Zack Greinke on his "streak" of 22 starts allowing 2 ER or less: "They keep changing the wording of it to keep it as a streak." — Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) May 23, 2014
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The bad news for the White Sox is that Jose Abreu is still on the DL. The good news for the White Sox is that Chris Sale is back, and Chris Sale is dominating once again. In Chicago’s 3-2 win over the Yankees on Thursday night, Sale was perfect through 5 2/3 innings before […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/22/2014
The @Pirates have reinstated @russellmartin55 from the DL. To make room for Martin, Wandy Rodriguez has been designated for assignment. — Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) May 22, 2014
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It looks like that we’ve finally had a week of awesome defense – no more having to call relatively routine sliding catches plays of the week! This week, you’re going to see dives, home run robberies, and much more. May 15th, Rays vs Angels – the return of Mike Trout. Rumors of Mike Trout’s demise […]
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Last night at Tropicana Field, the Oakland Athletics showed why they’re one of the best teams in baseball. The A’s improved to 30-16 on Wednesday night despite notching just one hit on the evening and allowing two runs. Let me explain – in the second inning, Yoenis Cespedes reached base on an error and Erik […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/21/2014
10-10. Bottom of the 13th inning. Bases loaded. Two outs. The Indians won their wild game with the Tigers in this scenario…without a pitch even being thrown. Ryan Raburn didn’t even get a chance to swing the bat after Al Albuquerque balked in the winning run for the Indians. Now that’s certainly something you don’t see every day.
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During Wednesday’s Tigers-Indians game, two-time reigning AL MVP Miguel Cabrera and Tigers manager Brad Ausmus were both ejected by home plate umpire Tim Timmons in the sixth inning. The ejections were spurred by Timmons not asking first base umpire Tim Welke for an opinion on a check-swing by Cabrera, causing the Tigers first baseman to get just a little irritated.
All Timmons needed to do was point down to Welke and get his opinion, and that would have been that. But he took matters into his own hands, began jawing with Cabrera, and ejected him after five seconds of chatter – things didn’t even get heated until Ausmus came out of the dugout and looked ready to have a vein pop out of his neck.
Don Kelly finished out Cabrera’s plate appearance and walked. He walked again in the eighth inning.
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Because of the introduction of The Weekly Puig and The Week That Was, we went ahead and pushed our compendium of replay reviews back to Wednesday, where you can expect to find it from now on. I think managers are beginning to get accustomed to the whole replay thing now – we’re seeing fewer and […]
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This is awesome. During Tuesday night’s Blue Jays-Red Sox game, Dioner Navarro hit a ground rule double to left field at Fenway Park. This Red Sox fan caught the ball without even getting up and barey moving his hands, and immediately (and rather smoothly, I might add) handed the ball to his female companion. Man…that’s one way to get brownie points.
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Yasiel Puig hit the streets of New York with the crew of MLB Off the Bat on MTV2, and taught various New Yorkers how to flip bats to celebrate any occasion. This segment showed me that the art of bat flipping is something that takes practice, and isn’t something that can be mastered quite easily. In fact, the only two bat flips featured that I considered acceptable were from the kid in the cap and gown and from the long-time Dodgers fan in the green polo. So while Puig’s bat flips are beautiful, they’re not something he picked up overnight.
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Last Tuesday morning, the Cardinals were coming off of a 17-5 thrashing at the hands of the Cubs. They were 19-20, 5.5 games behind a Brewers team that was coming off of a series win over the Yankees, and would complete a series win over the Pirates that week. Fast forward to today. The Brewers […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/20/2014
This was one of those weeks were some teams just seem snakebitten, and they can’t get on the right side of the ledger when it comes to walk offs. Sure, that will happen when you’re on a week-long road trip, but I digress. May 13th, Red Sox vs Twins – snuffing the comeback. This was […]
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There were only five games last night. FIVE games. It’s disappointing for that to happen in the middle of May, but that’s life I guess. At least the five games we did have delivered – two went into extra innings, and one was decided by one run in nine innings. I guess nights like this […]
