Pirates closer Jason Grilli's dreams of perfection are over. Grilli allowed a solo homer in the ninth inning to Jay Bruce last night in Cincinnati, tying the Pittsburgh-Cincinnati game at one. It was the first save Grilli has blown this year after converting his first 25 attempts of this season. To add insult to injury, […]

This June has been absolutely crazy across the world of baseball, and quite frankly, I don’t think anyone could have predicted the way this month has gone so far. You can place sports bets at a number of sites online, and if you placed a bet on everything that has happened thusfar in June, you’d […]

The Mets stink this year. But on Tuesday, a glimmer of hope poked through the sky. The Mets swept the Braves in a doubleheader, winning by scores of 4-3 and 6-1. Each of the two games was started by a young phenom: game one by Matt Harvey, and game two by Zack Wheeler in his […]

The New York Yankees have a 7-8 record in June, with six of those wins coming against the Mariners and Indians, and their schedule is about to get even more brutal. To make matters worse, the Yankees will have to tough it out without Kevin Youkilis and Mark Teixeira as they try to keep their […]

The San Diego Padres? Most of us predicted them to finish last in the NL West this year, right? That division was expected to be a two-team race between the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants and megabucks Los Angeles Dodgers. Early in the season, however, the surprise emergence of the Arizona Diamondbacks and […]

The San Diego Padres beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 in 13 innings last night. With the win, the Padres moved to third place in the NL West, just one game behind the Arizona Diamondbacks for first place in the division. The Padres have won seven in a row and are 11-5 in June, a […]

This really bears repeating from earlier this week: the Texas Rangers are not playing good baseball right now. At all. The Rangers have lost six of seven games on their current 11 game homestand, with the only win coming last Monday against the Indians. Texas' typically high-powered offense has had issues putting runs on the […]

Rays fans have been impatiently awaiting the arrival of Wil Myers. Since he hadn't been called up yet, it was safe to assume that Tampa Bay was playing service-time games with last year's USA Today minor league Player of the Year. At issue was the "super-two" date, which determines when players become eligible for arbitration. […]

Earlier this week, I mentioned that the Padres were "likely" sellers. On Friday, I mentioned that San Diego could probably use their three game sweep of Atlanta as a springboard to better things this year. Fast forward to today, and the Padres are 34-34, three games out of first in the NL West after a […]

There might be something special happening with the Blue Jays right now. Toronto smashed the Rangers 8-0 last night, and are just six games under .500. The Jays have won three in a row, and in June, their ERA is 2.50, fourth best in baseball and nearly two runs lower than their season ERA. The […]

The Diamondbacks-Dodgers brawl on Tuesday has resulted in eight players getting suspended, with ten games for Diamondbacks starter Ian Kennedy being the harshest punishment. Eric Hinske of the Diamondbacks got five games, while managers Kirk Gibson and Don Mattingly each got a game. JP Howell and Skip Schumaker of the Dodgers each got a pair […]