0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/5/2013
The Tigers led the Red Sox 3-2 on Wednesday night. The teams traded runs, and Detroit took a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the fourth inning. Then, Boston went off. David Ortiz tied the game with a solo homer in the fourth, and Dustin Pedroia gave Boston a 5-4 lead with a sac fly […]
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Well, you don't see this every day…but then again, it is Cleveland. It's a, well, interesting day at Progressive Field. Yes, that is a live chicken in the outfield shagging flies. pic.twitter.com/fKTHeG5LIA — Cleveland Indians (@Indians)
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/4/2013
This is the second edition of Hope for the Hopeless, where we will take a look at the first ten teams in the league eliminated from playoff contention, and examine what their fans can be optimistic about after a disappointing 2013 season. Next up: the Miami Marlins It's fun to kick a team while they're […]
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Here we are, folks: the End of Season Post-Mortem series. If you're new here (which about 50% of our reader base is in comparison to last year), here's a brief explanation: after a team is eliminated from playoff contention, we're going to put their season under a microscope and look at just what the hell […]
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Cincinnati Reds prospect Billy Hamilton is fast – really fast. He's probably the fastest man in baseball today. He was a September call-up by the Reds, and got into Tuesday night's game with the Cardinals as a pinch runner in the seventh inning. Hamilton, who stole 155 bases last year at an 80.7% clip and […]
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Well, at the end of this season, we're going to see something that I haven't seen since I was in first grade – the Pittsburgh Pirates are going to finish the season with a record no worse than .500. The Pirates beat the Brewers 4-3 in dramatic fashion on Tuesday night, The Pirates are now […]
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Oakland has more foul territory than nearly other ballpark in the league. In the top of the sixth inning, David Murphy of the Rangers hit a pop up down the right field line in that vast foul territory. A's third baseman Josh Donaldson got on his horse, ran to the wall between the crowd and […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 9/3/2013
Mike Matheny was talking about Adam Wainwright, but could he just as easily have been talking about his entire St. Louis Cardinals team? "He's searching right now," Matheny said to reporters after the Cards' 7-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday. "He doesn't have the same feel he had earlier." Wainwright was rocked for […]
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Remember a few seasons ago on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, when Mac wrote Chase Utley a letter that seemed like a love letter you'd write to someone in third grade? Well, Utley finally responded to the letter in the above video, explaining to Mac that he's been busy playing baseball and that's why he […]
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Well, you don't see this every day. In the fourth inning of Monday's Phillies-Nationals game, Chase Utley swung and missed at a pitch from Stephen Strasburg. Wilson Ramos hopped up to fire a pickoff throw down to first, and the ball somehow, some way, hit Utley's bat, which was in mid-air during the follow through […]
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The Atlanta Braves are a major league best 84-53, 15 games up on the second place Washington Nationals in the NL East. Their magic number for clinching the division is 11, meaning that they could conceivably have the division locked up at this time next week with a little bit of luck. Yet, Atlanta is […]
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The Rays might be in a bit of trouble. Tampa Bay has lost five in a row and eight out of nine. On August 24th, they were tied at the top of the AL East standings with a five game cushion on the Indians for a playoff spot. Now, they're just two games up on […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/2/2013
We've reached September, and the playoffs are upon us. The status quo stayed strong in August, with no playoff teams changing from the beginning of the month until the end of the month. But which players stepped up the most, and which disappointed? Time for the best and worst MLB players of August. AL Hitter […]
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What does it say about your team when a come from behind 6-5 win over the lowly Mets is considered a huge win? What does it say about your team when that win helped you avoid a sweep at home against the lowly Mets? What does it say about your team when your franchise player […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 9/1/2013
If you take a gander at the standings today, you'll notice a familiar name right under the two wild card leaders in the American League – that's right, it's those pesky New York Yankees again, just 3.5 games behind the Rays for the second wild card spot. New York finished off a 16-12 August with […]
