77-60. It's a pretty solid record. It's the record held by both the Orioles and Yankees after Thursday's games, too. Baltimore smashed New York 10-6, coming back in the eighth inning after blowing a 6-1 lead. Nine of Baltimore's ten runs came via the home run, including a pair by the white hot Mark Reynolds. […]

In Thursday's Cubs-Nationals game, benches cleared in the sixth inning after Cubs reliever Lendy Castillo threw inside at Bryce Harper. Both benches cleared and the bullpens emptied onto the field. There was an incident at first base between Cubs reliever Manuel Corpas and Nationals reliever Mike Gonzalez led to both of their ejections, and Cubs […]

After A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy was hit in the side of the head yesterday by a line drive, I thought out loud that it didn't seem to be that bad. I was completely and utterly wrong. From an A's press release… After the incident occurred in the fourth inning yesterday, the A’s pitcher was taken […]

All the talk around Atlanta's pitching staff has been around Kris Medlen and Craig Kimbrel, but last night showed that Mike Minor is just as crucial a part of the Braves staff. Minor threw seven one hit innings last night against the Rockies in the Braves 1-0 win, and he's sheared his ERA down by […]

During Wednesday's Angels-A's game, Angels shortstop Erick Aybar hit a liner off of A's starter Brandon McCarthy's head in the fourth inning. McCarthy immediately went down on the play, but sat up shortly thereafter. There was no blood, and McCarthy looked more rattled than anything else as he sat there with trainers attending to him.  […]

During his weekly interview today on WEEI's The Big Show out of Boston, Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine went absolutely crazy. If you want to listen to the full audio, WEEI has it up on their website, and I've also embedded it below. Some of the highlights, courtesy of WEEI's recap…   When asked about the […]

The Baltimore Orioles are in first place, and it's September. The O's beat the hell out of the Blue Jays 12-0, and combined with the Yankees 5-2 loss to the Rays, Baltimore moved into a tie with New York. And hell, the Rays are right there too at just a game and a half behind […]

WWE star Daniel Bryan's entrance music is a remix of Wagner's classic opera song "Ride of the Valkyries". During Bryan's entrance, the WWE crowd chant YES! at him, his former catchphrase. Oakland A's right fielder Josh Reddick recently came up to bat while Bryan's remixed version of the classical song played. The infamous A's right […]

This is the first edition of Hope for the Hopeless, where we will take a look at all of the teams in the league that finished under .500, and examine what their fans can be optimistic about after a disappointing 2012 season. FIrst up: the Houston Astros. It's been a bad year for the Astros. […]

The Astros started the 2012 season with almost no hope of playoff contention and, as Joe pointed out, they have taken steps to clean house in hopes of building a team capable of contending years down the road in the AL West. In order for that plan to work, they will need a strong group of […]

This AL East race is going to be crazy over this final month. The Yankees are still tops in the division with a 76-58 record, but fell to the Rays 4-3 on Monday after an eighth inning RBI single by Chris Gimenez. The Rays are now 74-61, 2.5 games back of the Yankees. Meanwhile, there's […]