Blue Jays 9, Red Sox 3: Who is hated more in Boston right now: John Lackey or Lebron James? Probably Lackey. Dude even hates himself. His quote after the game — and I am not making this up — “Everything in my life sucks right now, to be honest with you.”  Man, way to take […]

Something that I have always found interesting is how baseball games end. Most likely because it is the last thing I remember about the game. Any game. But the wonder that is Retrosheet is easy to check. It shows some really interesting game ending events. EVENT_ID EVENT_NAME GAME_END GAME_END_WITH_SCORING 2 Generic out 78,659 659 3 […]

Marlins 2, Phillies 1: The pitcher’s duel was as good as advertised, as neither offense broke out against Roy Halladay or Josh Johnson, each of whom pitched well enough to win even though neither did. This one was decided on the basis of mistakes. One of them was Halladay’s, as he inexplicably walked Johnson in […]

This may be hard for a younger fan to understand, but Ted Williams was every bit as unpopular, in his time, as Albert Belle . . . Ted Williams was despised everywhere in the American League, including Boston for at least the first half of his career. He took constant actions to reinforce that relationship. […]

Brewers 4, Padres 3: Holy moley, this Yuniesky Betancourt-to-Rickie Weeks double play is the defensive play of the year so far. It’s enough to make you contemplate the nature of Yuniesky Bentancourt. How someone can just do that without thinking — because he had no time to think — yet is unable to make basic plays a […]

In 2010, David Ortiz got off to a horrible start to the season, but he rebounded to have an excellent overall year, launched by a strong game in early May. Could the same thing happen with Derek Jeter this year? Did Sunday’s big day kick-start what could end up being another classic Jeter season? Ortiz […]

Fifty years ago today, baseball witnessed one of its greatest one-game performances of all-time. In the top of the first inning in a Twins-Orioles game, Baltimore loaded the bases with no outs for its cleanup hitter, Jim Gentile. BOOM—a deep shot to center brought all the runners home and gave Baltimore an early 4-0 lead. […]

Yankees 12, Rangers 5:  We read a lot of “Derek Jeter is done” commentary last week. Well, whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that Jeter was only mostly dead. And there’s a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Two homers for The Captain.  As for the game overall, I’ll […]

May began with a bang: Three games get a three stars rank in the first week, and that’s not counting Francisco Liriano’s and Justin Verlander’s no-hitters. The reason why such remarkable feats do not make the top five list deserves a few lines of explanation, since the reference article was written five months ago. Games […]

Thirty years ago today, Tom Seaver had one of his most terrific performances. No, it wasn’t his no-hitter. That was 33 years ago. And it wasn’t his near perfect game—that was over 40 years ago. And it wasn’t the time he fanned 19 Padres—including 10 in a row—in one game. That occurred within a year […]