Diamondbacks 10, Pirates 2: Have yourself a day, A.J. Pollock. He homered twice, doubled and drove in four. He also made a diving catch in center field. And you were proud of yourself for only hitting the snooze button once. Nationals 5, White Sox 2: This game was delayed 15 minutes because the umpires were stuck […]

Just a little while ago, in the White Sox versus Nationals game, Chicago announcer Ken Harrelson talked a bit about what he felt was the most overrated thing that has come into baseball in the past 10 years. Yes, I know what you’re thinking—he was talking about the closer role. You know, the fact that […]

Yankees 14, Indians 1: “Man, where are the Yankees going to get any offense with all of their big hitters on the DL?” no one is asking today like they asked so much last week. I guess nowadays everybody wanna talk like they got somethin to say, but nothin’ comes out when they move their […]

Forty years ago today, a new baseball stadium hosted its first game—Royals Stadium in Kansas City. (Okay, it’s now called Kaufmann, but we’ll stick with the original name because that’s what it was called 40 years ago today.) We’ve all become so accustomed to the Generation Camden Yards places that’s it’s easy to forget what […]

Braves 2, Marlins 0: Justin Upton went 4 for 4 including another homer. At this point it’s getting so ridiculous that I feel like any more grit/lazy jokes are just gratuitous and cruel to Diamondbacks fans who may soon begin wondering why, again, it was so necessary to trade a stud slugger, still only 25, […]

A hundred years ago today, Dodgers history entered a new era. The team played its first real game in Ebbets Field, and the ballpark has gotten quite a bit of attention due to all the nostalgia surrounding Dem Bums, as Brooklyn denizens called the Dodgers. Histories of the game, most notably Ken Burns’ Baseball, spent […]

Royals 9, Phillies 8: Country. Breakfast. Billy Butler drives in seven via a grand slam and a three-run double. The loss is an especially disheartening one for Philly, as they were staked to a 4-0 lead early with their ace on the hill. Cole Hamels was rocked, though, and now stands at 0-2 with a 10.97 ERA […]

Fifty years ago today, one of the longest-lasting players in baseball history made his major league debut: Pete Rose with the Reds. Rose is one of the biggest names in the baseball universe. He had one of the longest careers in history. He is, after all, the man who played in more games than anyone […]

Reds 5, Angels 4: Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton finally upped their averages north of .000—each went 1 for 4 and drove in a couple—but not enough to matter. Aroldis Chapman came in to pitch the ninth against the top of the order. Mike Trout singled but then he got Erick Aybar—who sacrificed—Pujols and Hamilton, […]

20 years ago today, baseball entered a new era—the era of 28 teams. 1993 marked the emerged of the first round of expansion in 16 years—the longest gap between expansions in the last half-century (though soon we’ll pass it, as it’s been 15 years the Rays and D-backs first played). On April 5, 1993, the […]