Mets owner Fred Wilpon, who lost a metric ton of money in Bernie Madoff’s ponzi scheme madness, and is being sued for over a billion dollars by trustees, made some dubious claims today about some of his players on the Mets. These claims ranged from the insane to the ridiculous…not much of a leap there, […]

I didn’t get Raptured away on Saturday, so my schedule was free to watch and recap as much baseball as humanly possible yesterday. Brewers 3, Rockies 1: Oh Ubaldo Jimenez, you and all your crazy walks.  When will you ever learn?  Thanks in large part to five free passes from Jimenez, the Brewers needed a […]

Blue Jays 7, Astros 5: Down 4-0 in the 6th inning, Jose Bautista both started and then capped off the Toronto comeback with a home run – giving him 18 on the year. Plus he also stole a base, and also threw a baserunner attempting to go first to third on a single out from […]

In news unrelated to the world (not) ending, Marlins ace and a half Josh Johnson was put on the DL today. The official diagnosis is mild inflammation of the right (throwing) shoulder, something that has apparently been bothering him all season [via Yahoo!]: “It took everything I had to go and say something,” he said. […]

It was the beginning of interleague play last night, and regardless of how you feel about it, I’m going to tell you about it anyway. Marlins 5, Rays 3 Anibal Sanchez continued his excellent work to date (7 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 1 BB, 6 K), and he got help from Logan Morrison and […]

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 […]

Colby Lewis came back from Japan and had a nice season for the Texas Rangers last year, tossing 201 innings with a 3.72 ERA. His success went right along with his peripherals, as he struck out a good number of batter (8.8 K/9) while keeping the walks down (2.9 BB/9). This year his ERA is […]

15 games, 15 recaps. Some walk offs, some snoozers. Let’s get right into it, shall we? Red Sox 4, Tigers 3:  Carl Crawford hit his third walk off of the month, this one coming with the bases loaded and one out in the 9th off of rookie Al Aburquerque. The 4-3 loss for the Tigers […]

Cardinals 5, Astros 1 Bud Norris has had an excellent start to the season, but he got roughed up (5 IP, 7 H, 5 ER, 3 BB, 4 K) in this one. Pete Kozma came in for an injured Lance Berkman, and he doubled in his first career at-bat. Gotta love that, and it was […]

It was an eventful week in baseball with drama finally coming to New York (it’s about time, it’s already the middle of May after all) in the fashion of Jorge Posada asking out of the lineup.  We also saw a sweep by a new division leader and the worst recorded pitching performance since 1900.  Sorry, […]

If you didn’t believe all the whack jobs predicting that the End of Days will occur this weekend, I present to you Brandon League.  If League four losses in four straight games doesn’t trigger the Rapture, I don’t know what will. OK, so maybe having an ineffective closer isn’t exactly the end of the world, […]

Braves 3, Astros 1 (11 innings). A pair of Brian McCann homers in the ninth and eleventh capped a comeback win for the Bravos. Wandy Rodriguez threw eight shutout innings for Houston, but when you have a godawful bullpen, these things happen sometimes. Rockies 5, Giants 3. The Rockies got four in the eighth to […]

One week ago, the New York Yankees had the third best record in the majors, and were in first place in the AL East, a game up on the Tampa Bay Rays. Here we are just seven days later, and the team is three out in the East, tied with Boston and Toronto, and only […]