It's right there! The ball's right there!
Last night, San Francisco Giants pitcher Tim Lincecum was on the mound against the Colorado Rockies. In the fourth inning he lined up to throw a pitch, slipped, and toppled over. He got called for a balk.
Yesterday in the quarterfinals of the Volvo World Match Play Championship, Nicolas Colsaerts hit a tee shot on a par-4 that flew off the course, over the rest area, and into a bathroom. Because the ball landed in a hazard, a rules official was summoned, who determined that the nearest "point of relief" was in the…
So last night the Atlanta Braves played the Dodgers. They won, which was expected. What wasn't expected was ex-professional wrestler Jake "The Snake" Roberts making a cameo to lead everyone in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch. That's what happened, though.
"Looks like we're going to extra innings." That's what Greg Brown, the Pirates' TV broadcaster, said as soon as Russell Martin made contact on this fly ball to shallow right-center. But Brown should have known better. Because it ain't over till the Astros have finished tying all of their shoelaces together.
The fact that Bryce Harper ran face-first into a wall
The Bruins scored two goals inside the final two minutes of Game 7 against the Toronto Maple Leafs to tie the game and force overtime. Toronto is in the playoffs for the first time since 2004 and they rallied from down three games to one to even force this game. Toronto held the lead since Cody Franson score at 5:48…
What could possibly make this balk more perfectly Astros? The fact that it made the game 7-0, maybe.