Rangers 6, Rays 5: Adrian Beltre was last week’s player of the week after hitting for the cycle one night and hitting three bombs on another. He’s off to a good start for that award again, going 3 for 3 with a homer a double and four RBI. David Price had one of his worst […]

10 years ago today, Odalis Perez had quite a day for himself. A decade ago, he barely needed his teammates to win a game – which is nice because they barely helped him. On Aug. 28, 2002, Odalis Perez was the starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Heading into the […]

I looked at the schedule as I sat down to write this and noted that, even including the postponed game, there were only 14 games yesterday. Rays-A’s played Thursday-Saturday, leaving yesterday off to avoid conflicts with the Republican National Convention. Guess you couldn’t expect the RNC to compromise, so … Anyway, it was weird and […]

Twenty years ago today, a hell of a trade took place, a trade involving two high-profile players with plenty of talent—and the two guys were traded for each other, too. Well, admittedly, one wasn’t anywhere near high profile at the time of the trade, but it’s still a bigger exchange of talent than you normally […]

Today, Bruce Bochy fights to get back to sea level. As of this moment, his all-time career record is 1,430-1,431. Thus, if the Giants win today he’ll no longer be underwater but be at .500. He’s been underwater for quite some time with all those sad sack San Diego games. The early squads, most notably […]

It was a light schedule and my Braves played a late game, so I watched “Eight Men Out” last night. For, like, the fifth or sixth time. And that just made me want to watch “Matewan” again for, um, the 20th time or thereabouts. Maybe tomorrow night. Anyway, damn you John Sayles, damn you. As […]

Sixty years ago today, Hall of Fame shortstop Lou Boudreau’s career came to an end—and what an end it was! On Aug. 24, 1952, Boudreau was the 35-year-old player-manager for the Boston Red Sox. In reality, he was just the manager. Though he’d played in 82 games the year before, prior to Aug. 24 he’d […]

Rangers 12, Orioles 3: Five years ago last night Texas laid 30 runs on the Orioles. Not so bad last night, but still pretty ugly. Adrian Beltre smacked three dingers and drove in five. Sadly, Tommy Hunter was only allowed to give up a solo homer, two-run homer and a grand slam, falling just short […]

30 years ago today, it finally happened. The Man finally caught Gaylord Perry. On Aug. 23, 1982, Perry was the starting pitcher for the Seattle Mariners against the Boston Red Sox. In all that time, two things were true about Perry: 1) he’d long been known as a spitball pitcher; and 2) he’d never been […]

As I am apt to do on a random afternoon, I was watching Mike Francesa’s show on the YES Network on Tuesday and heard him make an interesting historical reference to baseball. He mentioned a promotion that Charlie Finley once conducted for his slugging outfielder, Rocky Colavito, who was on the verge of hitting his […]