Each week, our braintrust of bloggers will come together to give their best judgment calls on three of the most important baseball topics from the past week in the 3 Strikes Roundtable.  This week on the docket is the Indians and their impressive start, Andre Ethier’s newsworthy (or not) hit streak, and our guys will […]

Bud Selig, McGruff the Crime Dog would be very, very disappointed in you. Thanks to Shin-Soo Choo’s drunken misadventures early Monday morning, the 2011 DUI count for Major League Baseball is already up to a whopping six arrests (one more and they get a free sandwich at Quizno’s!).  Choo joins Austin Kearns, Miguel Cabrera, Adam […]

Twins 1, White Sox 0.  Francisco Liriano threw a no-hitter despite six walks and only two strikeouts. (See where it stacks up amongst “the worst pitched no-hitters of all time”). The Twins only had six hits themselves, with their lone run coming on a Jason Kubel solo homer in the fourth. Ironic that Edwin Jackson […]

Twins pitcher Francisco Liriano threw a no hitter last night, and many on Twitter were quick to jump on the “dear Lord, that was a horribly pitched game” bandwagon. I was thinking about it, and wondered just how bad it really was. I present to you a list of the five worst no hitters ever. […]

Prior to the start of the 2010 season, Jose Bautista had a career line of .238/.329/.400. He had a total of 59 home runs over 2038 career plate appearances, just about twice as many strikeouts as walks, and was a journeyman, playing for a total of five MLB teams over his six years in the […]

Missed Monday night’s baseball action? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered!   A’s 5 Rangers 4 (10 innings) The tenth inning in this game alone is exciting enough to write more about than most other games. A’s reliever Grant Balfour walked the bases loaded with two outs in the top of the inning when Ron Washington […]

There were some completely crazy lines this past week in the world of baseball, some by the usual suspects, and some by some guys totally out of left field. Note: if you hate the AL East, get the hell out of here. SCORCHING HITTERSMatt Joyce, Rays. .526/.591/.895, 7 R, 6 RBI, 1 2B, 2 HR, […]

While we were watching baseball yesterday, some soldiers killed Osama Bin Laden.  Does anyone else feel lazy? Angels 6, Rays 5: Jered Weaver was a late scratch due to illness, so he didn’t get his chance to win his seventh game in as many starts.  It seemed like that stroke of fate would cost the […]

Nearly every media outlet picked the Cleveland Indians to finish fourth or fifth in the AL Central in 2011. Their starting pitching was weak, the offense was unproven, and the bullpen was a mess. Here we are on May 1st, and the Indians are 19-8, 4.5 up in the Central and holding the best record […]

Whole lot of close, low-scoring games yesterday, with walk-offs aplenty. Phillies 2, Mets 1: Roy Halladay is good at baseball (9 IP, 7 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 8 K). He threw 80 of his 107 pitches for strikes, including the first 18 straight of the game. John Mayberry (2-4, HR) and Placido Polanco (2-3, […]

Hockey playoffs? Day two of the NFL draft? I don’t approve, but just in case… Nationals 3, Giants 0: Jason Marquis (9 IP, 5 H, 0 R, 0 BB, 7 K) outdueled Tim Lincecum (7 IP, 7 H, 3 R, 0 BB, 7 K, 1 HR). Marquis even drove in a run at the plate. […]

Did you not watch an out of baseball yesterday because you were so caught up in the NFL Draft coverage? No? Well, I got a recap of yesterday’s 11 MLB games anyway. Blue Jays 5, Rangers 2:  BJ’s scored three in the 9th inning off of 40-year-old lefty Darren Oliver on three hits and a […]

As we all should know right now (since the major media outlets love beating us over the head with information about STREAKS!), Andre Ethier of the Dodgers is in the midst of a 24 game hitting streak. He’s hit safely in 25 of the 26 games on the season, and is overall, having a pretty […]

The Lord giveth (with three extra inning games) and the Lord taketh away (with one rainout) Dodgers 5, Marlins 4 (10 innings): Andre Ethier can do it all for Dodgers, can’t he?  First he extends his hit streak to 24 and then he hits the game-winning homer in extra innings.  With the starts to 2011 […]

Say hello to another great new feature at The OC.  Each week, our braintrust of bloggers will come together to give their best judgment calls on three of the most important baseball topics from the past week.  Here’s hoping that we’ll be just as judicious as your favorite Major League umpires.  Wait… nobody has a […]