Pirates 5, Cubs 0: A rejuvenated A.J. Burnett came into a Wrigley Field with the wind blowing in from center against a Cubs team hours off of a significant selloff and tossed a one-hitter. Oh, and Neil Walker drove in all five Pirates runs. Rays 8, Athletics 0: James Shields pitched a very relieved “oh […]

Ten years ago today, it finally happened. A trend the Kansas City Royals franchise had been hurtling toward for the last several years finally came to an unwanted fruition. On Aug. 1, 2002, the Kansas City Royals fell to the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-2. In and of itself, the game was not terribly important or […]

Angels 15, Rangers 8: Kendrys Morales hit homers from each side of the plate in the sixth inning — one of which was a grand slam — and drove in six runs overall as the Angels make mincemeat out of the Rangers. Roy Oswalt got tattooed. Between that, Cliff Lee trade rumors and Roy Halladay’s […]

40 years ago today, a White Sox slugger did something very rare—and then did it for a second time in the same game. On July 31, 1972, Dick Allen twice raced around the bases for an of inside the park home run. The fun began in the top of the first inning of that game […]

What better way to highlight a trend in one of Ichiro Suzuki’s splits … … than with a split haiku: ICHIRO! Splits By Ed DeCaria I Can No Longer Hit Inside Pitches Thrown By Righties OR Lefties ! © 2012 Ed DeCaria, All Rights Reserved What is a split haiku? I just made it up. […]

Braves 6, Phillies 2: Pretty good day for me yesterday. I took Mookie and Carlo to an amusement park and the Braves swept the Phillies. All I needed as a nice steak or something to cap the day and it would have been perfection.  Only the Astros, Rockies and Cubs have a bigger division deficit than the […]

In mid-May, I wrote about Chris Sale’s faulty elbow and discussed valgus stress in the elbow as it relates to sidearm pitchers. Now there are reports that Sale will be shut down for a start or two due to “dead arm.” Well, I bet many of you are asking… What is dead arm, anyway? Dead […]

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We are now pretty deep into the 2012 baseball season, and while there’s been plenty of action on and off the field, there is one fairly common event that we have not yet seen. To date, not one major-league manager has been fired. Judging subjectively by the flow of reportage and rumor, there aren’t even […]

Matt Harvey made his much-anticipated debut Thursday on the road against Arizona. The Mets spotted him with two runs in the top of the first and Harvey had no intention of letting the D-backs back in. He struck out Gerardo Parra with a slider, down and in, to begin his major league career. Aaron Hill […]