0 comments by Joe Lucia on 4/8/2014
Walk off hits are awesome. When your team collects a walk off winner, you get dragged from the lowest of lows to the highest of highs in pretty quick fashion. Imagine a game looking hopeless, and all of a sudden, you string together a rally and win in quick fashion. Maybe your bullpen blows a […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
In their recent homestand, the Dodgers released into the wild an asexual costumed Dodger character to interact with fans. Behold the horror: Most right-minded people would consider this abomination to be a mascot. But don’t you DARE call it a mascot. The Dodgers simply won’t have it. Via Steve Dilbeck of the LA Times: “It’s […]
0 comments by Bob Biscigliano
Although no formal charges have been filed at the time of this post, Detroit Tigers reliever Evan Reed is under investigation by the Detroit Police Department for accusations made by a woman that she was sexually assaulted by Reed in a Motor City Casino hotel room during the early-morning hours of Opening Day. DPD sources […]
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The Marlins are the hottest team in baseball! It is the feelgood story of the early season, assuming you can be willfully ignorant of the prominent involvement of Jeffrey Loria and his acolyte David Samson. They are a team brimming with young talent and look as if they might be ready to have that talent […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr
Shoulder issues have plagued Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman for the last couple years, and it appears they’ve returned. Zimmerman left Washington’s game Saturday with shoulder soreness, and was out of the starting lineup on Sunday after undergoing an MRI. The results of the test showed no structural damage, meaning Zimmerman will likely avoid a […]
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0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Bench depth looked to be an issue for the Dodgers going into this season. Among the positions that could be seriously affected by injury was catcher. The team didn’t sign a viable backup for A.J. Ellis during the winter, creating a potential vulnerability. That’s now been exposed as Ellis will be sidelined for at least […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Back in January, Fifth Third Ballpark (home of the West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League) caught on fire. It was a terrifying situation, and the community in Comstock, Michigan was devastated after the incident.
Immediately after the fire, Whitecaps management vowed that they would play in 2014, and that their resolve would not break. On Tuesday night, baseball returns to Comstock at Fifth Third Ballpark, and the above time-lapse video of the rebuilding of the park is nothing short of amazing. My hat is off to everyone with the Whitecaps and the local community that got the park ready for Opening Day – this was awesome.
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0 comments by Ian Casselberry
Shawn Kelley, you’re up. With David Robertson going to the disabled list with a groin strain, the Yankees need a new closer for at least the next two weeks. This is a problem the Yanks didn’t have to worry about for the past 19 years with Mariano Rivera anchoring their bullpen. (The 2012 season being […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The DH for Vegas today is Bobby Abreu. Their starter is Daisuke Matsuzaka. Apparently Omar Vizquel is unavailable. — Sacramento River Cats (@RiverCats) April 8, 2014
0 comments by Joe Lucia
This was the first day of the 2014 season that really ended up being, for lack of a better word, crappy. Of the nine games on the schedule, two were rainouts and three were decided by five or more runs. So, we had four close-ish games, and two of those only became close because of […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 4/7/2014
In the seventh inning of Kansas City’s 4-2 win over Tampa Bay on Monday night at Kauffman Stadium, Royals second baseman Omar Infante was hit in the face by a pitch from Rays reliever Heath Bell. Infante immediately went down in a heap before popping up and getting helped off the field by Royals trainers with a towel covering his face. There’s no immediate word on Infante’s condition, but we obviously wish him the best and hope that he wasn’t serious injured.
0 comments by Tim Livingston
The Dodgers entered the season as prohibitive favorites to win the National League West, what with their quarter-of-a-billion dollars payroll, ginormous TV deal, the best pitcher on God’s Green Earth and all that high-priced talent that may or may not be overrated. (Jury’s still out.) But on Friday, before the Dodgers home opener against the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Instant replay is taking a hold of MLB this season, and there is some controversy on both sides about the new regulations. Some feel that baseball is losing its purity with the institution of replay reviews, while others feel that the changes came nowhere near soon enough. Here at TOC, we fall into the latter […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
Yu Darvish made his highly-anticipated season debut on Sunday for the Rangers, and the Cy Young contender looked pretty similar to his old self in Texas’ 3-0 win over the Rays. His fastball sat at 93 and topped out at 96 – just like it usually does. He generated seven whiffs on just 89 pitches. […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 4/6/2014
Jameson Taillon has been diagnosed w/an injury to his ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow & has elected to have Tommy John Surgery — Pittsburgh Pirates (@Pirates) April 6, 2014
