Another week of baseball is in the books. The top five games of the past seven days follow: date game stars 04-12 Rangers @ Tigers ** 04-11 Athletics @ White Sox ** 04-12 Reds @ Padres * 04-10 Cubs @ Brewers * 04-12 Athletics @ White Sox * What does it take to get a […]

Rockies 6, Mets 5; Rockies 9, Mets 4:  The Rockies sweep the doubleheader and the series, with Troy Tulowitzki hitting home runs in both games yesterday.  His line on the year right now is .364/.491/.909 with seven homers and 14 RBI, which I think makes him your NL MVP at the 12 game mark.  In […]

In Alabama, August of 1942, a black soldier got into an argument with a white bus driver. The situation escalated and the soldier eventually told the driver to “drive your bus and leave me alone.” Shortly thereafter the bus driver pistol-whipped the soldier. Then, for good measure, he shot the private three times as he […]

Kyle Drabek has now thrown six starts in the big leagues—three in 2011 and three in 2010 after his September call-up. While 36 innings (actually, a little bit less) isn’t a ton to go off of, it’s enough to know that Drabek has great stuff. What’s more, Drabek is mixing his pitches much differently this […]

Don’t blame Dusty Baker, but Aroldis Chapman seems to be injured. His electric fastball has dropped in velocity over his two most recent outings, with last night’s appearance maxing out below the normal minimum of his fastball range. Going back to the 2009 World Baseball Classic, you can see just how much drop-off there has […]

Marlins 5, Braves 1: Josh Johnson takes a no-hitter into the eighth before Freddie Freeman breaks it up with a double. Probably for the best. Johnson was at 109 pitches. If he keeps the no-no up all the way his pitch count is getting a bit nutty. Chipper Jones’ otherwise meaningless home run in the […]

If you love baseball and have an academic bent as well, allow me to recommend The Cambridge Companion to Baseball, a new publication from Cambridge University Press. You may remember Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, John Thorn’s and Pete Palmer’s ultimate baseball reference book. Total Baseball was primarily filled with numbers and statistics, of […]

I’m back … You can’t stop the Indians, you can only hope that you can contain them. Since they got their good luck charm,* they are 7-1. *Mathew Julius Kovach…New Indians fan and is part Native American. So an Indian Indians fan. Mom and baby are doing well, thanks for asking. While I would like […]

Nationals 7, Phillies 4: Heavy matchup. Both literally — Livan Hernandez vs. Joe Blanton — and figuratively as Jayson Werth faced the Phillies for the first time since he signed with the Nats. A signing that the Phillies fans who made the now-customary trek to Washington and decided to boo Werth throughout the game apparently […]

Monday night, little Brent Lillibridge, he of four career home runs in 146 games, hit the 10,000th homer in the history of the Chicago White Sox franchise. That leads to an obvious question: who hit #10,000 for other franchises? Well, none of the expansion clubs are there, but almost all the pre-expansion ones are. The […]