Rays 5, Indians 2: Cleveland was done in yesterday by two homers for Carl Crawford, a strong start from Wade Davis and a sociopathic heel-turn from LeBron James.  Cleveland is a tough city, though.  They handled a burning river. They handled the implosion of basically the entire economy. They handle about ten feel of snow […]

Giants 15, Brewers 2: Observations regarding this bloodbath: (1) Brian Sabean spent the first month of the season talking about how Buster Posey wasn’t ready for the bigs yet. Yeah: 4 for 4, 2 HR, 6 RBI; (2) Lost in the carnage is the fact that Tim Lincecum pitched a whale of a game: 7 […]

Robinson Cano doesn’t have a reverse platoon split, except for his home run numbers. Out of the 16 home runs Cano has hit this season, 10 have been against left-handed pitchers after his 26 home runs during 2009 in which 10 came off lefties. Only Albert Pujols has hit more home runs against left-handed pitchers […]

I’m sitting here watching the Reds/Mets game on ESPN, and as usual the announcers are driving me crazy. The secret to the Reds’ success this year? Why Dusty Baker, of course (that according to Joe Morgan). The Mets’s success? Jerry Manuel has done a terrific job (Bobby Valentine, I think). The real key to the […]

Here’s a random one for you baseball history fans – 20,000 days ago, for the first and only time, the Brooklyn Dodgers clinched the World Series, in what has scientifically proven to be the eighth greatest World Series Game Seven ever.

Last summer when they acquired Scott Rolen, many observers wondered just what the Reds thought they were doing. Now 85 games into the season, we know just how serious the Reds were about competing in 2010. They have a 2 game lead on the St. Louis Cardinals in the NL Central and show few signs […]

The hits just keep on coming for Boston. The Sox now have have five regulars on the disabled list, including three all-stars. Also on the DL are Jason Varitek, Mike Lowell, Jeremy Hermida, and Manny Delcarmen. Particularly devastating are the injuries to Victor Martinez and Varitek. Boston traded for Kevin Cash and also called up […]

Rockies 12, Cardinals 9: Seth Smith, after the biggest ninth inning comeback in living memory: “Baseball’s crazy, even stupid sometimes . . . I don’t even know what just happened . . . You go from, ‘Let’s not give any at-bats away,’ to ‘Good try,’ to ‘Oh, wait, we can do this.’”  That kind of […]

Since he signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers out of Taiwan in 1999, Hong-Chih Kuo’s career has come to be defined by strikeouts and surgeries. Kuo’s minor league K rate is 12.3 per nine innings pitched, and he has punched out 10.6 per nine frames in the majors. In 231.2 MLB innings over the 2005-2010 […]

Phillies 3, Braves 1: I was momentarily angry when Derek Lowe gave up the homer to Greg Dobbs in the sixth, but then I acknowledged to myself that it didn’t matter. Lowe wasn’t likely to pitch a shutout anyway, and with Roy Halladay dealing like he was dealing, that’s what would have been required. So […]