0 comments by Dave Tobener on 10/17/2014
I was 10 years old in 1989 and had been to more baseball games than a kid could ever hope to attend. My Dad, a baseball fan his entire life who used to watch games at Seals Stadium and went to the first game at Candlestick Park in 1960, had bought season tickets in 1988 […]
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When Travis Ishikawa sent the Giants to the World Series on Thursday, many announcers attempted to replicate Russ Hodges’ famous “THE GIANTS WIN THE PENNANT” call. Well, MLB.com did all of those guys one better – they overlaid Hodges’ call on Ishikawa’s homer. Baseball, I love you. [Big League Stew]
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The San Francisco Giants won the NL pennant on Thursday night, and Mike Matheny once again managed to the save stat and not the in-game situation. Tie game, bottom of the ninth, one run ends your season…so Matheny goes with Michael Wacha, who hadn’t pitched since September 26th. Yeah, Trevor Rosenthal struggled in the Postseason […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 10/16/2014
The San Francisco Giants are heading back to the World Series for the third time in five years following a thrilling, absurd 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 5 of the NLCS. The insanity of this game was off the charts. The Cardinals got on the board first thanks to a Jon Jay […]
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Though Tim Bogar may have once seemed the favorite to be the Texas Rangers’ new manager, the team decided to make a wholesale change in their dugout. On Thursday, Texas named Pirates bench coach Jeff Banister as its new skipper. The hiring was first reported by
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Even though they got swept in the ALCS, it was a pretty damn good year for the Baltimore Orioles. They won 96 games and took home their first AL East crown since 1997, despite getting picked to finish last in the division at the beginning of the year. Star center fielder Adam Jones was asked […]
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New Arizona Diamondbacks manager Chip Hale is beginning to assemble his coaching staff. That staff will include a somewhat surprising name in Mark Grace. Source: Mark Grace will become
0 comments by Garrett Wilson
The AL East was expected to be a dogfight between the Yankees, Red Sox and Rays this year. Instead, the Baltimore Orioles shocked them all and ran away with the division. So how exactly did they go about making everyone look so stupid for overlooking them? Preseason Prediction: The Orioles face a pretty tall task if […]
0 comments by Randy Holt
It’s probably fitting that when the Kansas City Royals recorded their final out to head to the World Series for the first time since 1985 (consequently, also the last time they were even in the playoffs) that it was Mike Moustakas that threw out J.J. Hardy at first base to end it. It’s been a tumultuous season for the former top […]
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The San Francisco Giants have slowly been welcoming Barry Bonds back into the good graces of the franchise this year, and that welcome was capped off by Bonds throwing out the first pitch before Game 4 of the NLCS at AT&T Park on Wednesday. Of course, Bonds doesn’t look like he did during his career. […]
0 comments by TOC Locker on 10/15/2014
The Kansas City Royals are heading to the World Series, and one of the happiest people at Kauffman Stadium was…Paul Rudd? Yup – the actor spent a good chunk of his childhood in Kansas, went to the University of Kansas, and is a huge Royals and Chiefs fan. Naturally, after the win on Wednesday, Rudd […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia
It’s official – the Kansas City Royals are the champions of the American League. The Royals beat the Orioles 2-1 in Game 4 of the ALCS on Wednesday to complete a four-game sweep and win the pennant. They’ll meet either the Cardinals or Giants in the World Series, and Game 1 will be on Tuesday […]
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In the fifth inning of Game 4 of the ALCS, Alex Gordon robbed J.J. Hardy of extra bases, slamming into the wall to make this catch. It’s just the Royals’ year, folks.
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The Arizona Fall League is testing out several rules intended to speed up the pace of games this season. Those measures include a 20-second time limit between pitches and a two-minute, five-second break between each inning, both of which are clocked. Pace of Play clocks installed next to each dugout at
0 comments by Joe Lucia
The catch that Mike Moustakas made on Tuesday night in Kansas City, where he reached over into a dugout suite, gave himself a boost on a railing, fell into the suite, and somehow held on to the ball, has gone down as one of the most iconic moments of the playoffs this season. In fact, […]
