Forty years ago today was one of the most famous and memorable promotional days in baseball history, Mustache Day in Oakland. Charles Finley paid all his players and coaches a bonus of $300 to grow one, and he let all fans with mustaches into the park for free for that one day. It doing so, […]

Thirty years ago today, one of the game’s All-Stars pulled of a nightmare play. It’s the sort of thing that could’ve—and nearly did—cost him the worst kind of lasting infamy in the game. June 16, 1982 was the day Brewers catcher Ted Simmons nearly became the Fred Merkle of his generation. On that day, the […]

Reds 12, Indians 5: One in a bunch of lopsided Thursday games. Brandon Phillips simply abuses Indians pitching as a rule and he did so again yesterday, driving in four. And he likes it too. He said after the game: “Deep down, it feels good to beat up on the Tribe.” Michael Brantley extended his hitting […]

Ten years ago today was one of the most famous games in the history of interleague play. It was the Battle for the Big Apple as the Mets took on the Yankees. But it wasn’t just any Mets-Yankees match-up. No, this would be the first time Mets catcher Mike Piazza and Yankee pitcher Roger Clemens […]

Giants 10, Astros 0: A simply unbelievable night for Matt Cain.  As we noted last night, this was among the best games ever pitched in the history of baseball. Perfection is one thing. Doing it while striking out 14 is dominant perfection.  And don’t try to diminish it by saying “hey, it was the Astros.” […]

60 years ago today, Warren Spahn—one of the greatest pitchers in baseball—had one of the greatest games of his career. It’s just a damn shame he lost. No, it’s not Spahn’s legendary duel with Juan Marichal. That happened over a decade later. But this one was one Spahn’s longest games, and one in which he […]

In case you missed today’s “And That Happened” entry by Craig Calcaterra (and you shouldn’t have), along with all the other sports news since late last night, Alex Rodriguez got into the record books again. When he hit a grand slam in the eighth inning against Atlanta, he did more than sweep away a 4-0 […]

Royals 2, Brewers 1: Luis Mendoza took a no-hitter into the seventh, but it was still close as prodigal Royal Zack Greinke was pretty sharp too, striking out eight and allowing one run over seven innings. Billy Butler’s RBI single in the eighth was the difference. White Sox 6, Cardinals 1: Paul Konerko is batting […]

A hundred years ago today, one of the game’s greatest talents achieved one of the game’s great milestones. On June 13, 1912, New York Giants ace Christy Mathewson chalked up career win No. 300. He was just the eighth pitcher to reach that lofty milestone, and the first in more than a decade. Cy Young, […]

Dave Boswell was an important part of the first division-winning team in the history of the Twins, but then faded into forgetfulness. A onetime workhorse for the Twins, Boswell died on Monday at the age of 67. His name is likely unknown to many younger fans, but he made news on at least two fronts […]