Welcome to the new edition of top games of the week, ranked as described in this article. This has been an intense week. In fact, as you’ll see below, all the games in the top five get three stars out of five. date game stars 05-18 Yankees @ Orioles *** box score 05-20 Rockies @ […]

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In recent weeks I’ve listed a bunch of historical anniversaries here at THT Live. These normally fall into one of two categories: (1) traditional anniversaries (40 years ago today, 20 years ago today, etc), and (2) my personal specialty: “day-versaries,” which note an occasion that happened 10,000 days ago or 20,000 or some similar big […]

Rockies 7, Phillies 1: In yesterday morning’s recaps I slammed Jason Giambi and declared him dead. Last night he hit three homers and drove in seven.  I see my little foray into reverse psychology worked. Don’t thank me now, Jason. Just let me know where to send my bill. Mets 1, Nationals 0: Sucks to […]

Royals are pretty good at being unique this week. Not in a good way, either. Last night, bottom of the ninth, a possible superstar in the making ties the the game with a home run. The next batter gets a walk and the Royals bring in a pinch runner. He gets picked off at first […]

I went to the optometrist’s office yesterday for an eye exam. They gave me the eye drops. And they were worse than usual. In addition to causing my pupils to dilate and my vision to blur, they somehow caused me to be transported back in time to 1968 when no one could score any damn […]

Yankees 6, Rays 2: Wait, I thought the Yankees’ season was over and everything was doomed, so how does this happen? Two homers for A-Rod, and a two-for-three night for Jorge Posada, who will probably now stick in the seventh spot in the order for a while because, hey, no drama. But since apocalypses apparently […]

Harmon Killebrew passed away the morning of May 17, 2011. A few days ago, after Killebrew announced he was entering a hospice to prepare for the end, I wrote a column on him, the last section of which noted some of the more interesting games/moments of his career. I actually looked up a lot more […]

About once a week, I run a few special processes on my collection of PITCHf/x and Gameday data which I call “Oddities,” where I try to look for things “off the beaten path.” Typically it just brings something I already know: someone has a hitting streak, someone is not pitching well, etc. Then I get […]

Cardinals 3, Phillies 1: I had this game on in my den with the sound off while my wife watched “Black Swan” in the other room. That made it really creepy, especially when I tweeted about it last night and people kept proposing scenes in which Cliff Lee was the Natalie Portman character and Charlie […]