Forty years ago today, baseball witnessed perhaps the greatest one-game performance one player ever had. Yup, the Rick Wise game was on June 23, 1971. On that day, Wise dominated the game from both ends of the field. On the mound, he threw a complete game no-hitter—only the second by a Phillies pitcher in the […]

Marlins 5, Angels 2: The Feesh win! How they did it while allowing 13 hits is something you’d have to ask the Angels, who went 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position. Mike Stanton was 3 for 4 with 2 RBI and Hanley Ramirez had a multi-hit game himself. Brewers 5, Rays 1: Zack […]

Albert Pujols has proven to be a dependable star, playing in 140-plus games every year since 2001. In addition to showing up nearly every game, he has proven very resistant to slumps. This year, Albert started the year stuck in a prolonged, for him, slump, finally breaking out in June. They he suffering the first […]

Braves 2, Blue Jays 0: Tim Hudson allowed only two hits in eight innings and provided all of the Braves’ offense with a two-run homer. That’s not helping one’s own cause, that’s being a one man force eh, like Charlton Heston in Omega Man. You ever see it? Beauty. Dodgers 4, Tigers 0: Clayton Kershaw made the Tigers feel […]

Look, I ain’t gonna lie to you. I lost track of baseball for a couple of days. You’ll have that when you visit five distilleries and take in all manner of food, music, and odd, assorted — and a few sordid — people, all in places where the drink menus are longer than most metropolitan […]

Signing any player to a long-term deal is a roll of the dice. Signing a catcher to an eight-year, $184 million contract is playing Russian roulette. Doing so in a market that isn’t among the nation’s largest is akin to playing the lottery and counting on winning to fund your lavish indulgences. The mid-market Minnesota […]

Florida had an interesting managerial switch Sunday. First, manager Edwin Rodriguez resigned. Yeah, that’ll happen when your team drops 17 out 18 games (the worst stretch by any major league team since the 2005 Royals). Much more surprising was Florida’s apparent choice for a new manager. Baseball writer Buster Olney tweeted that the Marlins would […]

According to the rating system we have been using since the beginning of the season, the past week has not seen very exciting games. Only a couple of contests get two stars. Here are the top five, from June 12 to June 18. date game stars 06-16 Rangers @ Yankees ** box score 06-14 Orioles […]

The Mets find a new way to lose, the game ending balk in extra innings. D.J. Carrasco stopped and reset his motion without stepping off the rubber. This allowed the Braves Diory Hernandez to walking in from third base. Not quite the drama of game ending bases loaded triple or the uniqueness of a game […]

Diamondbacks 3, Giants 2: Justin Upton with the walkoff homer, served up by Santiago Casilla in the 10th. It was Upton’s first game-ending homer ever. He also had a single and a double on the day, but remember, don’t you dare say that he was a triple short of the cycle, because that’s just dumb, […]