Today was supposed to be the first day that I posted ATH later than I used to. Really: I was going to restore life balance with this one. I watched the Braves game last night but rather than stay up another hour and a half or two hours getting most of the recaps done, I […]

Cleveland Indians’ hurler Ubaldo Jimenez has a lot in common with his teammates Trevor Bauer and Scott Kazmir—they’re all trying to fix various mechanical issues. Bauer believes how his back leg operated caused a groin strain, so he’s changed how he initiates linear movement. Kazmir’s velocity dropped like a stone and he started becoming more […]

Twenty-five years ago today, George Bell made history with one of the greatest performances in the history of Opening Day. It was April 4, 1988, and Bell wasn’t merely the star left fielder for the Toronto Blue Jays, he was also the defending AL MVP. Sabermetric types don’t think much of Bell’s winning that award […]

Rangers 7, Astros 0: Part of me feels like if the Rangers didn’t score all those runs in the eighth and ninth innings that Darvish would have been fresher and finished this thing off. Part of me feels like if he wasn’t facing the Astros that it would have been over in the sixth. But […]

Dodgers 4, Giants, 0: I watched part of this game with my kids after they got home from school. When they were showing the lineups, they showed Clayton Kershaw’s career .146 average and my son asked me why it was so low compared to the other players’. I explained to him that pitchers can’t really […]

20,000 days ago, the A’s lost a game in heart-breaking fashion. It was a walk-off error game that even by the standards of walk-off error losses was mind-numbingly awful. The only positive for the A’s was that it didn’t mean anything to them, as they were already well out of any pennant race. In the […]

You’re probably wondering what in the world The Walking Dead has to do with our great game of baseball. I’ll get into that in a moment, but last night’s enthralling season finale tied up more than a few loose ends to one of my favorite programs. Rick’s crew pulled off the upset of the century […]

Astros 8, Rangers 2: The fundamental problem with baseball opening with a lone, prime time game is that everyone is watching it. And with all of the attention on one game, people are bound to overanalyze it, draw ridiculous conclusions and reach hard to make meaningful statements because, hey, if it’s the only game it […]

It’s easy to overlook how fine a player Gus Triandos was during the 1950s. After all, he wasn’t a Hall of Famer, and never received the promotional boost that comes with performing in the postseason. His prime seasons occurred for some non-contending Orioles teams, and that will always prevent him from receiving his full due. […]

Twenty years ago, the impossible happened. The most legendarily bad team’s most hapless player won a game, and the eternal goat had his moment in the sun as a hero. On March 30, 1993, Charlie Brown hit a game-winning home run. Yeah, that Charlie Brown, the fictional one. The guy from the comic strip who […]