Baseball Page 1164 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Dancin' Mariners Fan Is A Dancin' Fool
What do you do when you get tired of watching your team lose to the Yankees? You dance, man. You just dance like nobody's watching....
David Ortiz Hit A Walk-Off Home Run That's Famous As Fuck
Big Papi homered off Michael Kirkman in the bottom of the ninth. It was his 11th career walk-off home run, and first in four years, and it kept the Sawx 1.5 games ahead in ... ah, who cares? Check out his T-shirt!...
Little Kid Jumps Right In Front Of Woman To Snatch Away Baseball
This kid has great reflexes and an ice-cold heart....
Yasiel Puig Does It Again, Goes Opposite Field For Grand Slam
Yasiel Puig has played in four Major League Baseball games. He has made three curtain calls already....
Yesterday's White Sox-Mariners Game Was Historically Crazy
We alerted you to the wackiness that was going on in the White Sox-Mariners game last night, but we feel it's necessary to mention it again today, because it really was one of the craziest games history. How crazy was it? Let's count the ways:...
Report: A-Rod Refuses To Give Bosch Money; Bosch Cuts Deal With MLB
According to the New York Daily News, Anthony Bosch tried to get money from A-Rod to help pay his mounting legal bills, due in part to the frivolous lawsuit filed by Major League Baseball for tortious interference. A-Rod refused his request, so Bosch cut a deal that would end the lawsuit and require...
Guy Runs Over Kid Trying To Get Game-Tying Grand Slam In Seattle
So, there's a pretty bonkers game going on in the Pacific Northwest. The Mariners and White Sox were in a scoreless tie for 13 innings before Alex Rios broke the tie with a little single to left-center. Chicago added four more runs and, mercifully, it looked like the game was over....
Guy Tries To Catch Foul Ball, Fails, But His Lady Friend Catches It
This is a refreshing change from how it's been going lately. ...
Ump John Hirschbeck Gets Drilled With Fastball, Crew Still Blows Call
Umpiring comes with all sorts of occupational hazards, not the least being that a catcher might just whiff on a 93-mph fastball, allowing it to connect directly with one's bare hand. ...
10 Or So Thoughts On Biogenesis, A Scandal For All The Wrong Reasons
A few observations, in no special order, on the latest iteration of the scandal, now ongoing for at least 124 years, involving major league ballplayers using steroids:...
Indians Closer Chris Perez Is The Subject Of A Dumb Panic Over Weed
And it got started because Zack Meisel, a reporter for Indians.com, tweeted that Perez was "arrested for drug possession," and that police in Rocky River, Ohio, "confirm" it. One problem: It wasn't true, and Perez may not be involved at all....
Yasiel Puig Clubs Two Homers In Second MLB Game
Yasiel Puig is not fucking around. After wowing everyone with his cannon of an arm in his major league debut, the rookie decided to show off his skills with the bat last night in his second game with the Dodgers....
Tony Randazzo Ejected Mike Aviles From A Game That Was Already Over
When we profiled umpire Tony Randazzo last year, we noted he had an "aggressive attitude." That aggression was on display tonight in New York, as the ump blew a call with two outs in the ninth inning, tossed Mike Aviles from the game after it was already over, then taunted Indians skipper Terry Fra...
ESPN: MLB Plans To Suspend Everyone Connected To Biogenesis
In late January, the Miami New Times broke the story of South Florida's Biogenesis anti-aging clinic, the shop that allegedly provided human growth hormone and other drugs to major leaguers. The press uncovered records linking lots of big names—Ryan Braun, Alex Rodriguez, Nelson Cruz—to Biogenesis's...
Milton Bradley's MLB Career, As Told By Wife-Beating Headlines
Or: a modern portrait of free agency. Let's count Bradley's stops, working backwards:...
Gentlemanly Angels Fan Runs Away, Allows Flying Bat To Just Miss Woman
This has kind of become a thing in recent years, hasn't it? A man and a woman are seated next to each other at a baseball park. They are enjoying themselves, relaxing to the game's gentle rhythms, when all of a—HOLYSHITIT'SCOMINGRIGHTATUSRUNFORYOURLIVES!...