Good buddy Bojan Koprivica sent me a graphic the other day, in which he included the best park performances by visiting players over the past two years (minimum of 30 plate appearances). These are the batters that teams were happy to wave goodbye to. Here it is:

Athletics 7, Royals 0:  Guillermo Moscoso took a no-hitter into the eighth inning . He allowed only two hits in all in eight and two-thirds and, between his last start against the Mariners and this one against the Royals, retired 30 batters in a row. Heck, if a hitting streak can stretch between two seasons, I’d […]

Twenty-five years ago today, a rookie with a nice future ahead of him made his big league debut: Rafael Palmeiro. He was one of several rookies with nice careers ahead of him to begin in 1986. Aside from Palmeiro, the baseball world had already welcomed Jamie Moyer and Greg Maddux. Impressive, no? Yeah, well that’s […]

Stephen Strasburg returned to the majors on Tuesday and threw five innings (only 56 pitches) against the Dodgers. He allowed two hits, walked no one, and struck out four. You could say that he was “pitching to contact” more (considering he struck out over 12 per nine innings last year), which was the report we […]

Red Sox 14, Blue Jays 0: Just when you thought it was safe to panic, Red Sox Nation, Josh Beckett’s ankle ends up being only sprained, Jon Lester dominates the opposition and the offense goes off for 14 runs on 20 hits. Yankees 5, Orioles 3: After a four hour rain delay, the game got […]

Exactly 100 years ago, on Sept. 7, 1911, baseball witnessed one of its most impressive and memorable pitching duels. It wasn’t the longest pitchers duel. It took a typical nine innings. It didn’t feature any incredibly dominating performances. Though the final was a 1-0 score, there were only eight strikeouts on the day. And neither […]

Blue Jays 1, Red Sox 0: Brett Lawrie’s 11th inning walkoff homer was the game’s only run. This kid is fairly fantastic. And he was born, like, seven months before the first Gulf War. White Sox 2, Twins 1, White Sox 4, Twins 0: Phil Humber pitched seven scoreless in the first game. Zach Stewart nearly threw […]

Diamondbacks 4, Giants 1: Bye-bye Giants? They drop two of three to the Dbacks and now find themselves down by seven with 22 to play. Sure, Arizona could collapse — anyone can — but the dirty little secret about history’s big collapses is that they were always accompanied by another team surging. Is there anything […]

Here’s are the week’s five most exciting games as per Max Marchi’s methodology, which is outlined in this article. date game stars 08-28 Astros @ Giants *** box score 08-28 Nationals @ Reds *** box score 08-31 Athletics @ Indians *** box score 08-30 Royals @ Tigers ** box score 08-30 Blue Jays @ Orioles […]

There are many ways a player can be impressive. If I were asked to rattle off a list of the five most impressive players in baseball, it would look something like Jose Bautista, Albert Pujols, Roy Halladay, Mariano Rivera and Justin Verlander. Each player is impressive in subtly different ways, although they all share one […]