Braves 6, Royals 3: I suppose the Braves will lose again at some point. I just don’t know when that point is. The team has 25 homers in 13 games. Yankees 4, Diamondbacks 2: I wasn’t watching this, but as I was going to bed people on Twitter were noting that Mariano Rivera was coming […]

Twenty years ago today, the Orioles hit into an utterly preposterous double play. It was something so bizarre, it’s hard to believe it had ever happened before, though something close to it once had. On April 17, 1993, the Orioles battled the Angels in Baltimore. It was a close game, with California nursing a narrow […]

Red Sox 3, Rays 2: Mike Napoli’s RBI double in the ninth sent everyone home happy. The happiness would last less than an hour after game time, sadly. The Red Sox are now in Cleveland, which all things considered is probably a good thing. Padres 6, Dodgers 3: No one threw at anyone, so that’s […]

It was the top of the fifth inning and the Giants were down by one run to the Cubs last Thursday. The bases were loaded and there was one man away. Hisanori Takahashi, a soft-tossing lefty, was in for Chicago, and the ninth spot in the order was up for San Francisco. This meant Ryan […]

Tigers 10, Athletics 1: Austin Jackson was 4 for 6 with three RBI. Prince Fielder is now hitting .429/.527/.833. Once this team gets its bullpen figured out, man, watch out. Diamondbacks 1, Dodgers 0: When Nick Swisher hit a walkoff homer in a 1-0 game the other day I thought to myself, “man, you don’t […]

Ten years ago today, lightening struck for a second time on the South Side of Chicago. It was a case of déjà vu all over again that absolutely no one wanted—not players, not coaches, and certainly not umpires. Tuesday night April 15, 2003, was the first in a three-game series between the hometown Chicago White […]

A Very Good Movie Could Be Made About: The end of the color line. Actually the movie—The Jackie Robinson Story, with Jackie playing himself—was made in 1950. Someone should try again. —The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, 2001 It took 63 years, but someone tried again. The movie, 42, debuted in theaters this weekend, […]

In a recent broadcast, Twins color man Bert Blyleven commented on the recent dust-up between Zack Greinkeand Carlos Quentin. (Grienke hit Quentin with a pitch, Quentin ignored that fact that it was likely an accidental HBP, charged the mound and in the melee the highly paid pitcher broke his collarbone). Anyhow, Blyleven noted that in […]

Zack Greinke went down last night with what can be loosely described as a baseball-related injury. The main reason for that injury is that Greinke picked up his fight moves from a National Geographic special on water buffaloes. Another important reason is that there was an angry person running in his direction. That person was […]

Had tickets to the Columbus Clippers-Indianapolis Indians game. Daisuke Matsuzaka was scheduled to start. Then it rained and they canceled the game. I have mixed feelings about it all because, on the one hand, baseball. On the other hand I dodged the Matsuzaka bullet. Oh well. Dodgers 3, Padres 2: FISTICUFFSMANSHIP!  Zack Greinke hit Carlos […]