San Diego Padres southpaw Cory Luebke will officially undergo Tommy John surgery on Wednesday to repair his ‘significantly torn’ ulnar collateral ligament. For some reason, Luebke was considering rehabbing the injury and pitching later this season, and still needing surgery down the line to go along with likely poorer results until then. Luebke’s decision to […]

On Friday, Los Angeles Dodgers second baseman Mark Ellis was taken out on a slide by the St. Louis Cardinals’ Tyler Greene while Ellis attempted to turn a double play. The slide looked clean and Ellis was able to walk away from it to the point he was walking into the clubhouse as if everything […]

It didnt’ take long after Bryce Harper’s first career home run for the young phenom of the Washington Nationals’ pitching staff to take one deep. Stephen Strasburg went deep during the Nats’ Sunday game against the Baltimore Orioles. It was in the fourth inning off starter Wei-Yin Chen and it received a curtain call. You […]

34-year-old Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood announced his retirement Friday, allowing himself one last appearance before hanging ’em up and ending an injury-filled 14-year career. With one out in the eighth inning, Wood was called upon to face White Sox OF Dayan Viciedo. Wood would need just three pitches to retire Viciedo on strikes, the third […]

In the first game between the North Siders and South Siders this season, Chicago White Sox first baseman Paul Konerko had to exit the game early after being hit in the face — in the face! — by a pitch from Cubs starter Jeff Samardzija.  Here’s a looping GIF of Konerko going down Hawk Harrelson didn’t shy […]

And this Mets fan was an off-duty police officer. The story comes from the NY Daily News:  Officer Eduardo Cornejo had a legit ticket to the Mets’ sad 6-3 drubbing by the Cincinnati Reds, but ballpark management confronted him once they realized he was stretched out in a seat better than the one he had […]

When Justin Verlander takes the mound for the Detroit Tigers Friday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates, garners much more attention, though, far beyond the Tigers. By the same WAR metric, he’s third in all of baseball, only behind Josh Hamilton and David Wright. After hitting just .249/.317/.690 and striking out in over 27-percent of his at […]

Not the bees! Again. Bees attacked in the middle of the Arizona Diamondbacks-Colorado Rockies game on Thursday afternoon, causing a brief delay:  The Diamondbacks’ afternoon game at Coors Field was delayed for a few minutes in the top of the fifth inning when a large swarm of bees came down the first-base line and past the Colorado Rockies’ […]

One of the more entertaining Twitter accounts in baseball is that of Miami Marlins skipper Ozzie Guillen. His broken English and unfiltered opinions made it a real joy to see the Lonely Island Venezualan family image pop up on my feed along with words spelled completely wrong and, assuming I could make out what he was […]

Stephen Strasburg took his first loss of the season on Tuesday against the Padres, allowing four earned runs in just four innings, his shortest outing since September 23, 2011. Strasburg lasted at least six innings in his only other seven starts this season and Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post offered what might be the […]

The MLB announced today that the 2013 MLB All-Star Game will be hosted by the New York Mets at Citi Field on July 16, 2013. It marks the city’s ninth All-Star game — the last being in 2008 at the old Yankee Stadium — but it is the first All-Star Game in Queens since 1964. That […]

During yesterday’s Phillies-Astros game, in which Hunter Pence was mostly the story, first baseman Carlos Lee went for a ball just inside the line and, probably because Lee is 35-years-old and almost 300 pounds, he lost his balance and started a dead-end stumble into first base umpire Hunter Wendelstedt as the ball trickled into right. The […]

Just before the Kansas City Royals won their third straight game on Monday night, they received bad news about their 23-year-old left-handed starter Danny Duffy, who had to leave Sunday’s start against the Chicago White Sox in the first inning:  May 14, 2012 The Royals feared the worst heading into the MRI on Monday, so […]

Just a few days after requiring stitches from his bat richocheting off the wall and back into his face in the midst of a 0-for-5 game with three strikeouts, 19-year-old phenom Bryce Harper hit his first big league home run to help the Washington Nationals to an 8-5 win on Monday night. The start of […]