Today marks the 25th anniversary of one of the most improbable and unlikely achievements in baseball history. For it was 25 years ago that Mark McGwire hit a home run in the 16th inning—for the second straight day. Yes, really. Yes. Really. In back-to-back games on back-to-back days, Mark McGwire homered in the 16th inning. […]

Reds 3, Giants 0: Homer Bailey does it again. You can read about all of the important details of his no-hitter here and here. Less mentioned in the aftermath? (a) Homer dropped an F-bomb in a postgame interview when talking about the walk he gave up to blow the perfect game; and (b) the Giants’ loss […]

Mets 5, Diamondbacks 4: Arizona took two leads in this game: a 3-0 lead it held for most of it and then, after the Mets tied it in the ninth, a 4-3 lead in the 13th. The ultimate rally was capped with Andrew Brown’s two-run single. The best part of that, though: Kirk Gibson ordered […]

Fifty years ago today, one of the greatest and most famous pitching duels in all baseball history took place, a marathon match up featuring Hall of Fame studs Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves and Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants. It was a 16-inning game with both hurlers going the distance. And why […]

Marlins 6, Padres 2: An improbable walkoff grand slam from Jeff Mathis caps an improbable winning month from the Miami Marlins. 15-10 in June for the worst team in baseball. Not bad. Oh, and Mathis’ homer was the 3,000th in team history. Pirates 2, Brewers 1: A 14th inning walkoff win for the hottest and […]

Twenty-five years ago today, the Chicago White Sox stayed the Chicago White Sox. When the day began, it wasn’t clear that would be the case. There was a very real chance the Chicago White Sox would end the day as the St. Petersburg White Sox. Back in the 1980s, the Sox still played at old […]

Dodgers 6, Phillies 4: Six straight wins for the Dodgers as Yasiel Puig singled home the tying and go-ahead runs in the seventh inning. Puig also smacked into the scoreboard in right field, so he’s basically Bryce Harper in multiple respects. That seventh inning rally was occasioned by the bases being loaded on a walk, a […]

Blue Jays 3, Rays 0: R.A. Dickey throws a Maddux (i.e. a shutout in under 100 pitches), with his knuckler back up to the velocity he featured so often during his Cy Young season. Game was over in two hours, ten minutes. Athletics 5, Reds 0: A.J. Griffen needed 108 pitches for his two-hit shutout […]

Yankees 4, Rangers 3: Walkoff homer for Ichiro? Well shut my mouth. Wait, what? Well jeez, Brian, it’s just an expression. You don’t have to agree so emphatically and profanely. Angels 14, Tigers 8: Well that fifth inning got out of a hand in a hurry. Rick Porcello was beaten around for seven runs on […]

Jonny Venters, Jason Motte, and now Dylan Bundy are those who have had major setbacks after receiving platelet-rich plasma injections in their elbow, combined with a rehab program intended to avoid replacing the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL, Tommy John surgery). Bundy had discomfort in his pitching forearm/elbow on Monday after his rehab for 2013 had […]