Wanderlust A journeyman. A wanderer in search of a home. A bay offers solace, shade, and succor, But it is a temporary respite. Wandering to the heartland, Around the heartland, Six times. Finding couches to sleep upon, But never a bed. Then back North where it began. But not to stay, Never to stay. Then […]

Ten years ago today, major league baseball witnessed its greatest comeback in history as the Cleveland Indians rallied from a 12-run deficit to defeat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in 11 innings. Officially, it only tied the record. The Tigers rallied from a 12-run deficit to beat the White Sox on June 8, 1911, and the […]

Warning: If you plan to see the new Captain America movie you should not read the following entry What do Chris Jaffe, Rob Neyer and Captain America have in common? Probably not much, especially given that Steve Rogers—that’s Captain America, rather than the former Expos’ righthander—doesn’t actually exist. But one thing they do have in […]

Giants 8, Diamondbacks 1: The Giants beat back the charging horde. Three hits and two runs scored for Carlos Beltran, three runs batted in for Orlando Cabrera and a strong six innings for Ryan Vogelsong. Jason Marquis: eh, not quite the game-changing acquisition Kevin Towers may have imagined. Red Sox 4, Indians 3: Walkoff homer […]

Over the past week or so, the Pirates have cooled off. They now stand five-and-a-half games back in the NL Central after being right at the top for much of July. However, they’re still in the race, and surely they’re exceeding almost everybody’s expectations. Today, let’so focus on the Pirates’ All-Star closer, Joel Hanrahan, who […]

Ninety years ago today, the saddest chapter in baseball history turned its final page. In 1919, the Chicago White Sox infamously threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, agreeing to take money from gamblers in exchange for letting the Reds win the Fall Classic. At the time, arrangements like this were not exactly common, […]

Diamondbacks 6, Giants 1: Rookie Paul Goldschmidt hit his first major league home run and he did it off Tim frickin’ Lincecum. Justin Upton hit his own two-run shot, the Dbacks have won four in a row and they are now tied for first place with the Giants.  Now how about we divert some of […]

Cubs 5, Pirates 3: Impressive debut for Derrek Lee: two homers. Alas, that was all the offense the Buccos could really muster as Carlos Zambrano scattered seven hits over six innings. By the way, the last player who hit a home run in his Pirates debut was pitcher Matt Morris back in 2007. I was […]

Once we were able to get the new team rosters from mlb.com, our crew of team experts went to work last night updating the depth charts for each team, entering the expected playing time for each player from now until the end of the season. Oliver was re-run, and now the rest of season projection […]

Tigers 3, Angels 2: Wow, this was a wild one. Made all the more wild by the fact that (a) it was going on just as the trade deadline was approaching; and (b) since Justin Verlander had a no-hitter going, it seemed like everyone was watching it. At least everyone in my little corner of […]