15,000 days ago, the baseball world saw one of its all-time great one-game performances, courtesy of future Hall of Famer Frank Robinson. Playing for the Orioles against the Senators, Robinson’s day began slowly. He lined out to second base in his first time up. A few innings later he drew a base on balls. The […]

Baseball Reference is offering a wonderful new way to look busy at work with their new Franchise Trade Partner History. I went to check on trades between the Indians and Reds, since I could not remember what the Indians received in trade for Brandon Phillips*. *Jeff Stevens. Now I remember why I wanted to forget. […]

Pirates 1, Reds 0: Pittsburgh keeps rolling, as four pitchers combine to shut out the Redlegs for the second night in a row. This is all pretty trippy, but I’m curious to see what happens to the Buccos when they start a ten-game stretch against St. Louis, Atlanta and Philly beginning this Friday. Rangers 7, […]

This weekend, Bert Blyleven celebrates his induction into Cooperstown. In honor of that, here’s a look back at his career—some highlights, lowlights, key moments, and random stories about games in which he appeared. Going team-by-team throughout his lengthy career… Blyleven has quite a career to look back on. Twins years, first go-around June 5, 1970: […]

This weekend, Roberto Alomar receives the game’s highest honor: induction into Cooperstown. Recently, I’ve posted a series of career highlights about baseball figures upon their deaths—this gives me the chance to do something like that under far more cheerful circumstances. The career highlights include a player’s best (and worst) games, most memorable moments, most important […]

Today is, by my calender, July 19. Baseball is 90-plus` games into the season. There were certain phrases that, if said aloud at the start of the season, would have required the speaker to have his mental capacity to be questioned. Only after, of course, the listeners had a chance to compose themselves from a […]

Red Sox 15, Orioles 10: Of course. The night after Boston took 16 innings to score one run, they unload for 15 against the O’s. That after getting almost no sleep due to the late night. I said yesterday that the Orioles had their worst series of the season against Boston before the All-Star break, […]

The Rays showcased another one of their top young players on Monday, as they called up left-handed pitcher Alexander Torres for their game against the Yankees. Torres was ranked by Baseball America as the Rays’ sixth-best prospect in a list headlined by fellow hurlers Jeremy Hellickson and Matt Moore. After Alex Cobb, a rookie in […]

15,000 days ago, baseball had a memorable doubleheader between the Indians and Yankees. It began generically enough, with the Indians cruising to an easy win in the first game. Then came one of its stranger at-bats—an at-bat so odd that you can see it on Youtube. In it, Cleveland’s Tony Horton fouled out in Yankee […]

Reds 3, Cardinals 1:  I spent my Sunday near Cincinnati. Not in Cincinnati, but just north of it, at the Kings Island theme park (i.e. the one the Bradys went to where Greg lost Mike’s plans or whatever it was; it has improved a bit since 1974).  I took Mookie and Carlo and my old […]