15,000 days ago, the Padres and Pirates faced off in a humdinger of a game. It had great pitching and plentiful comebacks, and then it sent all the folks in Three Rivers Stadium happy with a walk-off win for their team. July 15, 1971, was the first game after the All-Star break, and the matchup […]

Tigers 7, Yankees 2: Justin Verlander was amazing, striking out 14. I’m not sure why Jim Leyland kept him in there for 132 pitches given that the Tigers had a five run lead by the sixth inning, but I guess the fans liked it. And heck, he was still throwing 100 miles per hour, so […]

40 years ago today, the Cardinals topped the Mets in a memorable matter – with an extra innings walk-off, inside-the-park home run. Yeah, you don’t see too many of those.

Tigers 10, Indians 8: I was at this game, and I gotta tell ya, until the 9th inning it was one of the more lame, butt-dragging tie games you’ll ever see. Omar Infante and Austin Jackson kept hitting, but apart from that the highlight until then was Joe West getting all ejecty for no good […]

It was 15,000 days ago that one of the game’s greatest sluggers hit one of his most famous home runs. It wasn’t necessarily one of his most important homers, but it is one people still remember. It didn’t win the game, and it wasn’t a dramatic homer late in the contest. Why, it wasn’t even […]

Rangers 15, Angels 9: Ryan Dempster was shelled in his Rangers debut, but it didn’t matter because C.J. Wilson was shelled too. Josh Hamilton drove in four. You have to wonder if Wednesday night’s game was some kind of turning point in this race. Rockies 8, Cardinals 2: Homers in four straight games for Josh […]

25 years ago today, baseball had one of its most interesting – and humorous – ejections from a game. On Aug. 3, 1987, the Twins went with veteran knuckleballer Joe Niekro on the mound on the road against the California Angels. In the early going, it was a standard game. Both teams scored, and it […]

My article from this week, discussed each team’s most valuable player, in terms of percentage of total WAR. One of the commenters, brought up an interesting question, and I’d like to supply the answer. I’d love to see the same type of analysis done on each team’s highest paid player—who is contributing the least among […]

Rangers 11, Angels 10: Holy schnikes! The Angels jumped out to a 6-0 lead and the fans were booing Yu Darvish and the local nine. Then the comeback. Make that the comebacks. Four runs in the fifth and then single runs in the eighth and ninth to force extras. Then, down by three in the […]

I have a system I debuted last year that ranks how exciting a game is. There’s no point getting into a full account of how it works (methodology given a the end of this article if you’re curious), other than to say it gives points for the things that makes games exciting and/or memorable: lead […]