Just too much exciting baseball going on for me to limit to just one game. An embarrassment of riches from a recap perspective. Delightful Debuts: Zach Duke, making his first start of 2011 and his first career appearance for Arizona, shut down the Astros from the mound and beat up on them from the batter’s […]
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Asdrubal Cabrera’s Interesting Start
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/28/2011
Here at the Outside Corner, we’ve talked about Asdrubal Cabrera a little bit already. That article was written two weeks into the season. Here we are now on May 28th, and we’re two months into the season, and guess what? Cabrera is still having himself an All-Star caliber season. Cabrera was also mentioned in this article […]
Scouting the Corner: Rome Braves 6, Lexington Legends 3
0 comments by Mark Smith
What would you say if a guy asked you, “Do you have tickets to tonight’s game?” while walking up to a Low-A stadium? What would you do if you said no and kept walking, but the guy continued to follow you repeating the question? My roommate and I were a bit confused, but realizing he […]
Dugout Digest: Royals Magic
It started out as a slugfest – back-to-back-to-back doubles and a single two batters later gave the Royals a quick 3-0 lead in Texas. One wouldn’t have been blamed for calling the Royals Mario, because they were immediately one-upped – Ian Kinsler led off the game with a home run (the 15th of his career), […]
Just a Bit Outside – 5/27/11
0 comments by Garrett Wilson on 5/27/2011
Every week, we here at The Outside Corner do are best to bring you the latest and greatest analysis from the world of Major League Baseball, but we are but humble bloggers and can’t quite cover every single bit of news as it happens. But when those stories do slip past our watchful eyes, Garrett […]
It Is the End of the World (Series)
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
I know mostly everyone was incredibly relieved this last weekend after the predicted Rapture failed to come to pass. I don’t know about the rest of you, but had some big plans last weekend (playing XBOX and eating cold pizza) and spiritually ascending to the heavens would have been super inconvenient. Even better than the […]
Bryce Harper is impressive even when he’s not
0 comments by Pat Lackey
When I moved to Chapel Hill, NC for grad school four years ago, I was a little worried about being five hours away from Major League Baseball in any direction. I’d spent my entire life to that point in Western PA, growing up an hour away from PNC Park and spending an undergraduate career a […]
Dugout Digest: Cliff Lee, slugger?
0 comments by Pat Lackey
Cliff Lee pitched eight innings against the Cincinnati Reds last night, striking out eight hitters, walking one, giving up four runs, and recording his fourth win of the year. None of that should seem surprising. He did given up 10 hits, but to be honest Lee does that from time to time. He’s already done […]
Ryan Braun Helping Power The Brewers Into Contention
Early in the season, I noted that Ryan Braun might be an NL MVP candidate if the Brewers made it to the playoffs. Well Milwaukee is right in the thick of things in the Central, and Braun is a major reason why. The 27 year-old is on pace to have the best season of his […]
A Brief History of Position Players on the Hill
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/26/2011
Wilson Valdez of the Phillies got some time on the mound last night in the marathon game that Philly played against the Reds, and shockingly, he actually pitched pretty well and picked up the win. That got me to thinking of other position players who got time on the mound, and if this has ever […]
The Manager Hot Seat is Heating Up
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
Duck season! Rabbit season! Duck season! Rabbit season! Nope, its Manager season!!!! Yes, folks, it is that time of year. Time for to start making some heads roll for teams not performing up to expectations and, as always, the first heads to roll are those of the managers. Nobody has gotten the axe yet this […]
3 Strikes Roundtable – All About Interleague Play
0 comments by Matt Yoder
Interleague play kicked off last weekend, so we’ve brought our writers together to discuss the once dreaded idea and how it has progressed since the first regular season AL vs NL battle in 1997. In case you were wondering, the AL leads the NL 1829-1673 in all-time interleague play. So, what is the best interleague […]
Rule Should Not Change Because of Posey’s Injury
In last night’s 7-6 loss to the Florida Marlins, the San Francisco Giants’ star catcher, Buster Posey, severely injured his ankle as he was blocking home plate while Scott Cousins attempted to tag up from third on a short fly ball to right field. Posey dropped the throw from right fielder Nate Schierholtz, which left […]
Rookies of the Year So Far
0 comments by Mark Smith on 5/24/2011
We’re nearing the end of the first third of the season, and it’s a nice to sit back and reflect on how some rookies have started. We’ll take a look at how key rookies have done, and we’ll also note a few possible contributors that could see some playing time over the next 110 or […]
Dugout Digest: 5/24/11
0 comments by Pat Lackey
Admit it: you’re happy interleague play is over. You don’t know why and you know you can’t do anything about it, but you’re happy that dumb first island weekend with classic Pirates/Tigers matchups is over. I’m happy to, and I’m also happy to give you last night’s recaps in today’s Dugout Digest. Indians 3 Red […]