0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/25/2014
The Pirates looked dead in the water a week ago. After splitting a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, the club was 18-25, nine games behind the Brewers in the NL Central. But something happened this week – the Pirates got their game together. After losing game one of a two-game series with the Orioles, Pittsburgh has […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/24/2014
This is the ultimate moment in dumb luck. This beer vendor at Citizens Bank Park was walking along, hawking cold beers on a warm day during Saturday’s Dodgers-Phillies game. All of a sudden, Carlos Ruiz hits a foul ball down the right field line, and the ball lands in the vendor’s beer bucket – which he was holding on top of his head, with his back facing the field. Give this man a standing ovation, a raise, and some craft beer for that bucket!
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During Friday’s Cubs-Padres game at Petco Park, this Padres fan made a great barehanded catch of a Seth Smith foul ball in the first inning…and proceeded to celebrate by dancing thrusting his hips numerous times. I don’t even know what to say about this – it’s fantastic. Thankfully, he didn’t knock over any of those cans of Boston Lager. That would have been a disaster.
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TOC pop quiz: aside from the pathetic trio (Astros, Diamondbacks, Cubs), which team in baseball has the worst record? What if I told you that it was the defending World Champion Boston Red Sox? The Sox are 20-27, and their .426 winning percentage is worse than every team in the league aside from those three […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 5/23/2014
Has this become the curse of Nolan Ryan? After the Rangers’ former president left Arlington last October and eventually took a front-office job with the Astros, did the baseball gods cast some sort of hex over Globe Life Park? (Or maybe that corporate ballpark name has something to do with it.) Could there be any […]
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The usual suspects are all gone this week. But I hope you enjoy a pair of Hunters, because out of all the Weeks we’ve done this, this is a pretty unique one. 1. Hunter Pence vs Jhoulys Chacin, 456 feet (May 21st) This is another one of those Coors Field homers that doesn’t look like […]
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#Dodgers Zack Greinke on his "streak" of 22 starts allowing 2 ER or less: "They keep changing the wording of it to keep it as a streak." — Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) May 23, 2014
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The bad news for the White Sox is that Jose Abreu is still on the DL. The good news for the White Sox is that Chris Sale is back, and Chris Sale is dominating once again. In Chicago’s 3-2 win over the Yankees on Thursday night, Sale was perfect through 5 2/3 innings before […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/22/2014
The @Pirates have reinstated @russellmartin55 from the DL. To make room for Martin, Wandy Rodriguez has been designated for assignment. — Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) May 22, 2014
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The Royals made what seemed like an inevitable decision on Thursday, demoting third baseman Mike Moustakas to Triple-A Omaha. With a .152 batting average and .543 OPS in 139 plate appearances, Kansas City had to press the eject button. When Moustakas was in the lineup, he was batting eighth. But manager Ned Yost was also […]
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It looks like that we’ve finally had a week of awesome defense – no more having to call relatively routine sliding catches plays of the week! This week, you’re going to see dives, home run robberies, and much more. May 15th, Rays vs Angels – the return of Mike Trout. Rumors of Mike Trout’s demise […]
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Last night at Tropicana Field, the Oakland Athletics showed why they’re one of the best teams in baseball. The A’s improved to 30-16 on Wednesday night despite notching just one hit on the evening and allowing two runs. Let me explain – in the second inning, Yoenis Cespedes reached base on an error and Erik […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 5/21/2014
10-10. Bottom of the 13th inning. Bases loaded. Two outs. The Indians won their wild game with the Tigers in this scenario…without a pitch even being thrown. Ryan Raburn didn’t even get a chance to swing the bat after Al Albuquerque balked in the winning run for the Indians. Now that’s certainly something you don’t see every day.
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During Wednesday’s Tigers-Indians game, two-time reigning AL MVP Miguel Cabrera and Tigers manager Brad Ausmus were both ejected by home plate umpire Tim Timmons in the sixth inning. The ejections were spurred by Timmons not asking first base umpire Tim Welke for an opinion on a check-swing by Cabrera, causing the Tigers first baseman to get just a little irritated.
All Timmons needed to do was point down to Welke and get his opinion, and that would have been that. But he took matters into his own hands, began jawing with Cabrera, and ejected him after five seconds of chatter – things didn’t even get heated until Ausmus came out of the dugout and looked ready to have a vein pop out of his neck.
Don Kelly finished out Cabrera’s plate appearance and walked. He walked again in the eighth inning.
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Because of the introduction of The Weekly Puig and The Week That Was, we went ahead and pushed our compendium of replay reviews back to Wednesday, where you can expect to find it from now on. I think managers are beginning to get accustomed to the whole replay thing now – we’re seeing fewer and […]
