0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/11/2014
Whew. There was no shortage of excitement this week. There were a couple of marathon games that ended dramatically, and a few wild comebacks as well. And hey, even though some of these teams have a bleak future over the rest of the year, they’re not going down without a fight.
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Check out this fan catch from Sunday’s White Sox-Mariners game. The catch by this fan on this sinking liner hit by Dayan Viciedo was fine – nothing really outstanding, especially given that the fan was a grown man wearing a glove. But for him to make that catch while holding a tray full of fries, […]
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The San Francisco Giants are a very streaky team – and right now, they’re not streaking in the right direction. In the second half, the team is 10-13. In their last 17 games, the club is 5-12. In August, they’re 4-6. And over the past week, they went just 2-5, which includes a 1-5 stretch […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/10/2014
This is just gross. With the Brewers trailing the Dodgers 2-1 in the fifth inning at Miller Park, Jean Segura laid down a suicide squeeze bunt, with Rickie Weeks coming in hard from third. Segura popped the bunt up, and Clayton Kershaw somehow made an incredible leaping catch. Weeks was already just steps away from […]
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Well, this is unfortunate. During today’s Giants-Royals game, the competitor in the mustard suit fell flat in his face multiple times during the hot dog race between innings at Kauffman Stadium. This poor guy just couldn’t keep from tripping over his pants, time and time again. How embarrassing. It gives you a whole new respect […]
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After hitting his 29th home run of the season in the first inning against Johnny Cueto, Giancarlo Stanton looked to get his 30th in the eighth inning. However, Jay Bruce had something to say about that, scaling the right field wall to rob Stanton. Sorry Giancarlo – if you want your 30th homer, it’s not […]
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What was a more ridiculous controversy involving Bryce Harper this week? Was it the question of whether or not the 21-year-old should be sent to the minors when he was hitting .249 with an OPS under .700? Harper quickly scotched that question by hitting a walkoff home run in the Nationals’ 5-3 win over the Mets […]
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I’m not going to break down the *specific* bad decisions that took place last night, if only because I don’t want to completely turn this column into a mess of analysis. But we had one game on the east coast start at a time that would be considered late for a west coast game, and […]
0 comments by Jaymes Langrehr on 8/9/2014
Yasiel Puig is a strong man. This is obvious if you’ve seen any number of his throws to nail runners at third from right field. But we got another reminder in Milwaukee on Friday night. In the 7th inning, Puig tried to check his swing while facing the Brewers’ Zach Duke. Puig’s hands stopped. The […]
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With star center fielder Andrew McCutchen on the shelf, you’d expect the Pirates to wither away and die in the National League playoff race. Of course, that hasn’t happened. Since McCutchen last played on Sunday, Pittsburgh is 3-1, scoring 19 runs over that four game stretch. Then again, the Marlins and Padres aren’t exactly the […]
0 comments by Joe Lucia on 8/8/2014
This is just painful to watch. In the second inning of Friday night’s Nationals-Braves game at Turner Field, Washington right fielder Steven Souza violently slammed into the right field fence while chasing a Freddie Freeman home run. Souza’s head and shoulder slammed into the wall with a sickening thud, and he left the game after […]
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This weekend, the Rays take on the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Hanging outside of the park is a flag emblazoned with “Devil Rays”, Tampa Bay’s former moniker. The club isn’t too happy about that. To be fair, it is a turn back the clock weekend at Wrigley, and the Rays will be wearing these gorgeous […]
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Another week of bombs is behind us. Some of the names are familiar, some are not. However, one thing is for sure – a couple of these blasts are truly majestic.
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The two largest division leads in baseball reside in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The two teams that do battle in the Beltway Series every year in interleague play are seemingly rolling to division titles. Over in the American League, the Orioles have a five game lead on both the Blue Jays and […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 8/7/2014
Pitchers getting hit in the head by line drives is a disturbing event that we’ve seen too often in recent years. Unfortunately, just such a scene occurred Thursday night in Pittsburgh as Marlins reliever Dan Jennings became the latest pitcher to be struck down by a batted ball. The play occurred in the seventh inning […]
