0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/18/2012
Your browser does not support iframes. When you hear the name "Giancarlo Stanton", the one baseball trait that should come to your mind is "massive homers". In tonight's Marlins-Rockies game at Coors Field, Stanton delivered one of his trademark blasts to left center that landed five rows from the top of the concourse. As soon […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/17/2012
Our former associate editor Matt Lindner has unearthed a cool little cool thing the Cubs are doing: offering a Groupon (for the low price of $30,000) for a fan to throw out the first pitch before a ballgame, along with some other assorted perks. The Groupon, which is still available and has just one total […]
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When the Houston Astros opened Minute Maid Park in 2000 (then known as Enron Field before *that* happened), there was an interesting quirk in a park full of them. That quirk was the inclusion of a 90 foot wide inclined hill in center field known as Tal's Hill, in reference to former team president Tal […]
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The Braves are transitioning to a six man starting rotation today, when they activate Tommy Hanson off of the DL. However, last night's performance from Kris Medlen has really made the conversation about how to knock out of the rotation on August 30th a little silly. Medlen threw a complete game shutout in Atlanta's 6-0 […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/16/2012
Your browser does not support iframes. In Thursday's Dodgers-Pirates game, home plate umpire Angel Campos ejected Dodgers star center fielder Matt Kemp from the game while Kemp was sitting on the bench for arguing balls and strikes. Kemp struck out to end the first inning, and his ejection came four pitches into Andre Ethier's at […]
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Philadelphia sports talk radio station 97.5 The Fanatic put up the above message on their city-wide electronic billboards this morning. The message is in reference to Jimmy Rollins, Philadelphia's starting shortstop for the last decade, and his perceived lack of hustle on a ground ball in the sixth inning of Wednesday's 9-2 blowout loss to […]
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Your browser does not support iframes. During Thursday afternoon's Rangers-Yankees game, Josh Hamilton of the Rangers hit a deep fly ball to left field. Yankees left fielder Andruw Jones, a ten-time Gold Glover in center field for the Braves, settled under the ball, but apparently lost it in the sun. Crippled by the sunlight in […]
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Tommy John, the former Dodgers and Yankees starter for whom the ligament replacement surgery is named after, went off this morning on ESPN Radio when discussing Stephen Strasburg's innings limit. “I would hope the general manager has a degree in orthopedic surgery, or at least kinesiology or physiology, and I don’t think Mike Rizzo has […]
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.As we all know by now, Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game against the Rays yesterday. Some interesting factoids about the game… -Hernandez got 26 swinging strikes on 113 pitches, good for 23%. Aroldis Chapman, the most dominant reliever in baseball, is getting whiffs on just 19.3% of his pitches. Also, that 23% more than […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
This is a picture of some tickets for a baseball game. The game was a Mariners game. Specifically, it was yesterday's Mariners game, the one where Felix Hernandez threw a perfect game. You might notice that those tickets are unused, that's because they were not used at the time of the picture and remain unused […]
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Home plate umpires seem to be dropping like flies when the Angels are involved. Just last week, Bill Miller got hit in the mask by a Zack Greinke pitch and suffered a concussion that twice caused him to lose track of the count. That incident was more odd than anything, but tonight, things got downright […]
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As Felix Hernandez was finishing off his perfect game against the Rays on Wednesday afternoon, Seattle's AA affiliate, the Jackson Generals were taking batting practice. A live feed of the Mariners game was playing on the scoreboard, and when Hernandez struck out Sean Rodriguez to reach hallowed ground, his potential future teammates celebrated like they […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/15/2012
The San Francisco Giants got hit with a huge blow on Wednesday, when
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Over the last week or so, the talk about Stephen Strasburg's innings limit has been talked about ad nauseum. The newest tidbit states that Nationals GM Mike Rizzo has vowed that he *won't* continue to let Strasburg throw once his innings limit is reached, playoffs be damned. The limit has also revealed at 180 innings, […]
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Thing in Boston just ugly. Errr, uglier. Double errr, even uglier. In a season where that has been dogged by reports of clubhouse tension between Red Sox players and manager Bobby Valentine, Yahoo's Jeff Passan may have just blown the dang roof off the whole thing with his explosive report yesterday detailing several key Boston […]
