It’s getting difficult to remember the last time the St. Louis Cardinals weren’t part of the MLB postseason. The Cards clinched their third straight NL Central title with an 11-1 win over the Pirates on Wednesday, putting them in the playoffs for the fifth year in a row. With the victory, St. Louis also gets […]

The Los Angeles Dodgers are NL West champions for the third straight season, and they can thank the two-time reigning NL Cy Young winner for clinching their crown this season. On Tuesday night, Clayton Kershaw shut down the San Francisco Giants at AT&T Park. He threw a complete game shutout, tallying only 104 pitches in […]

In the seventh inning of Monday’s Pirates-Cardinals game at PNC Park, Cardinals outfielder Stephen Piscotty left the game on a stretcher after a collision with Peter Bourjos. Here’s the video. It’s not a pretty sight, as Piscotty took Bourjos’ knee in his face. Thankfully, Piscotty did wave to the crowd when leaving the field, but […]

Former Angels GM Jerry Dipoto didn’t stay a special assistant with the Red Sox for too long. On Monday, he was named as the new general manager of the Seattle Mariners, replacing Jack Zduriencik. Dipoto came under plenty of scrutiny during his time with the Angels because of the massive contracts he handed out to […]

Jonathan Papelbon won’t be blowing any more games for the Washington Nationals in 2015. The team announced on Monday that Papelbon had dropped his appeal of a three-game suspension earned by throwing at Manny Machado last week, and that he’d been suspended an additional four games by the team for his role in the dugout […]

Should have seen this one coming. After commenting on Jonathan Papelbon’s reaction to Manny Machado “showing him up” on a home run hit by Machado on Wednesday night, Papelbon took exception and went after Bryce Harper as he came into the dugout after an at-bat on Sunday. Reports say that it was due to Papelbon […]

There’s not much that one can say about this Mike Trout catch to rob Jesus Montero of a homer aside from “wow”. Mike Trout – good at baseball. Still.

The demons of 2007 and 2008 have been excised. The New York Mets are heading back to the playoffs as NL East champions for the first time since 2006 after a 7-2 win over the Reds on Saturday. The Mets haven’t fallen out of first place since August 3rd, and have been in first for […]

Brad Ausmus has rightfully received plenty of criticism for the Tigers’ play in 2015. The team has gone from worst to first in the AL Central, and Ausmus has been in the crosshairs for his on-field decisions. But Tigers fans hoping for him to be the scapegoat got a rude awakening on Saturday when GM Al […]

Rich Hill of the Boston Red Sox threw his second career complete game shutout on Friday night against the Baltimore Orioles, but his sphincter had to be clinched pretty tightly in the ninth inning. Hill had a hefty 7-0 lead, so the win wasn’t in question. But Chris Davis drove this ball to deep right […]

The Washington Nationals are desperately clinging to their playoff lives, and the Philadelphia Phillies are going to do everything in their power to make this a long weekend for the soon-to-be dethroned NL East champions. In the third inning of Friday’s game, Aaron Altherr hit a sinking liner to center field that Michael Taylor dove […]

Joe West is a terrible, attention whore of an umpire. During Thursday night’s Giants-Padres game, Bumgarner walked Jedd Gyorko in the sixth inning. A frustrated Bumgarner yelled at himself, and home plate umpire West took exception (because that’s what he does). The two then began a staredown, which resulted in something you rarely see. Joe […]

The Kansas City Royals will have to do without reliever Greg Holland for the rest of 2015, and possibly even longer as the former closer has been shut down due to an ongoing sore elbow. As Andy McCullough of the Kansas City Star notes, Holland has a

During Wednesday night’s Orioles-Nationals game at Nationals Park, Manny Machado hit his 30th homer of the year in the 7th inning, a 435 foot blast that put Baltimore in front 4-3. Machado reacted with all the exuberance you’d expect from a 23-year old. This pissed off Jonathan Papelbon, who decided to throw at Machado when […]

David Ortiz has had an unlikely path to greatness. It’s easy to remember all of his success in Boston – the World Series rings, launching hundreds of home runs – but at one time, his career was on life support. As outlined in a piece by Ortiz in the Players Tribune, following his release from […]