The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim may be looking for a new GM. It looks like Jerry Dipoto is out following a chaotic week that saw him (again) clash with manager Mike Scioscia. After the Angels’ win over the 2-1 win over the Yankees on Monday night, Dipoto packed up his office and got out […]

During Sunday’s Reds-Mets game, an odd thing happened when Jason Bourgeois pinch hit for Cincinnati. The scoreboard at Citi Field read “unknown” instead of his name. Well, that’s embarrassing. The scoreboard eventually switched from “unknown” to “Bourgeois”. There was likely some confusion because of the fact that Sunday was the first game of the year […]

Jeff Francoeur had a rough day in the field on Sunday in Philadelphia. First, he bobbled a ball hit to the wall by Denard Span of the Nationals. Then, when attempting to throw the ball into the infield…well, he barely got it past his own feet. Well Jeff, at least it didn’t go backwards…

Carlos Correa hit what looked like a routine fly ball in the fourth inning of Sunday’s Yankees-Astros game. But this is baseball, and crazy things happen from time to time. Today, Correa’s ball wasn’t caught, and all hell broke loose. It went down in the books as a double and a two base error on […]

On Wednesday, Toronto Blue Jays starter Marco Estrada set down the first 21 Tampa Bay Rays hitters he faced. The 22nd batter was David DeJesus, who hit a foul pop down the third base line. Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson really wanted Estrada to keep his perfect game going, and flew into the crowd to […]

Giancarlo Stanton did what Giancarlo Stanton does on Tuesday night. Check out this missile he hit off of Carlos Martinez of the Cardinals. Friendly reminder that we here at TOC use data from the ESPN Home Run Tracker to determine THE LIST of the longest home runs of the week as opposed to the Statcast […]

For years, Pete Rose denied betting on baseball. Then he changed his story, and claimed to only have bet on baseball as a manager. Now, new evidence obtained by ESPN’s Outside the Lines seemingly disproves that line of thinking and proves that Rose bet on baseball while he was playing. OTL obtained pages from a […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Texas Rangers 1-0 on Thursday night…because of a balk by Texas pitcher Keone Kela with two outs in the bottom of the ninth with Kike Hernandez on third base. I love balk offs. You very rarely see them. Oddly enough, this was also the *correct* call by Marvin Hudson […]

By now, the exploits of minor league manager Joe Mikulik are quite well-known. When an umpire makes a call Mikulik doesn’t like, he’ll go on a child-like tirade for the ages. Sure enough, that happened again on Tuesday night after a play at the plate involving Mikulik’s Frisco Rough Riders and the Midland Rockhounds. Midland catcher […]

During Tuesday night’s Indians-Cubs game at Wrigley Field, Cleveland outfielder Michael Bourn was tossed from the game during an argument with home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi. Bye Michael… – The Outside Corner | Facebook If you’ll notice, Indians manager Terry Francona wasn’t out there defending Bourn during his ejection. Why not? Well….he was otherwise indisposed. […]

Just how bad are things going for the Philadelphia Phillies right now? During Tuesday’s 19-3 thrashing at the hands of the Baltimore Orioles, they brought Jeff Francoeur to the mound. But Frenchy didn’t just pitch one inning – Ryne Sandberg and company let him throw TWO innings. It seems like Sandberg wanted to pull Francoeur […]