Ten years ago today, something happened to the Yankees that hadn’t happened to them in a long, long time. The opposing team no-hit them. And that wasn’t even the capper. The Yankees were no-hit despite the fact that the opposing starting pitcher had to leave the game after one inning pitched. It was truly a […]

Cardinals 11, Reds 4: I’ll take “Improbable scores for an extra-inning game for $200, Alex.” It was already 7-4 in the top of the 10th when Matt Holliday came to the plate but he hit a grand slam off Curtis Partch to truly ice the game. J.J. Hoover was charged with six of the seven […]

15,000 days ago, one of the great monster shots in baseball history took place. Phillies slugger Greg Luzinski hit one of the great blasts in the history of the City of Brotherly Love. It was May 16, 1972, and the Phillies hosted the Chicago Cubs at Veterans Stadium. Still a relatively new place, the multi-purpose […]

Something happened Saturday in baseball that has happened only once before in the last 97 years, and possibly ever: two separate games went 18 innings or more. The Toronto Blue Jays finally walked off with a 4-3 victory over the Texas Rangers in 18, and the Miami Marlins outlasted the host New York Mets in […]

Rockies 12, Reds 4: The Colorado Wrecking Crew: Carlos Gonzalez hit three home runs and drove in six. Troy Tulowitzki hit two of his own. Pedro Villarreal had no idea what hit him. White Sox 7, Mariners 5: You figure if you score five runs in the top of an extra inning that you’re gonna […]

50 years ago today, something rather remarkable happened: a pitcher hit a walk-off, game winning home run. This has never been common, but used to happen on rare occasion. Now? It’s happened once in the last 40 years, and that was way back in 1986. On June 6, 1963, the Chicago Cubs hosted the San […]

Just cause doesn’t mean just ‘cause. You’re probably thinking about your non-unionized workplace. Your employer can discipline or fire you for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all. In a workplace represented by a union, like Major League Baseball’s, it doesn’t work that way. In cases of conduct and discipline, the […]

Phillies 7, Marlins 3: John Mayberry had a walkoff grand slam. Probably good that the Phillies won this one. After a brutally bad call by Bob Davidson in the bottom of the eighth on a Ben Revere takeout slide, the crowd didn’t stop letting the umps hear it. Apparently none of the tens of thousands […]

Dodgers 2, Padres 1: Welcome to the bigs Yasiel Puig. In his first game Puig had two hits and then in the ninth he made a catch at the wall and then a strong throw to first to double off Chris Donorfia to end the game. This guy has the chance to be something special. […]

25 years ago, a team suffered one of the hardest, roughest and worst losses in an otherwise meaningless regular season game. I guess you could flip it around and say a team won a game in an amazing and tremendous manner, but that wouldn’t be appropriate. This was a game decided not because the winning […]