Baseball Page 1270 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Lonnie Chisenhall Was Playing With Cheat Codes Last Night
Indians third baseman Lonnie Chisenhall entered last night's game against the Rangers with four home runs and 23 RBI. He left the game with seven home runs and 32 RBI, because he was basically playing a video game. ...
Child Suffers For Baseball
A young man in San Francisco got smoked in the leg by a ground rule double off the bat of Tyler Colvin. He went down like he had been shot. The only thing that could save his life was being handed the baseball....
Sportswriter Fired For Calling Louisiana City "Worst Place In America"
Matthew Stevens, formerly the Mississippi State beat guy for The (Columbus, Miss.) Commercial Dispatch, recently got back from Lafayette, La., where was covering an NCAA baseball regional. On his radio show, Stevens had some not-so-kind things to say about the host city:...
Marlins Fan Gives Foul Ball To Cubs Fan, Who Gives Ball Back To His Son
At the end of the day, one Marcell Ozuna foul ball made three fans happy at a Marlins-Cubs game, even though only one of them actually got the baseball....
Manny Machado Flings Bat Onto Field, Benches Clear Again
For the second time in three days, an angry Manny Machado caused the benches to clear between the Orioles and Athletics....
Royals Ball Boy Fields Fair Ball, Compensates For It In The Best Way
Look at that face. That's the face of a kid dealing with screwing up on TV during an MLB game. Today, Royals Ball Boy scooped up Brian Roberts's fair ball, unwittingly turning the play into a ground-rule double for the Yankees. Thankfully, the tale of Royals Ball Boy doesn't end there....
Someone Wore A Bear Suit To Petco Park
Petco Bear looks like it would beat the shit out of Dodgers Bear in a fight....
A Few Questions About This Cat On A Boat In McCovey Cove
How did this cat end up on a boat in McCovey Cove?...
Watch The Touching Tribute To Don Zimmer Before Mariners-Rays
Prior to today's game against the Mariners, the Tampa Bay Rays held a tribute to honor the late Don Zimmer. The ceremony featured a video montage of Zimmer's career that spanned more than 60 years, and statements from players (James Shields, in particular, seemed very emotional) and coaches from ar...
Pete Rose To Manage Baseball Team
The Bridgeport Bluefish, a Connecticut-based team in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, has announced that Pete Rose will be a "guest manager" for the team on Monday, June 16th. ...
Benches Clear Because Manny Machado Did Not Like Josh Donaldson's Tag
That is a headline you just read. Sometimes baseball is just the worst. ...
Yasiel Puig Loves Playing In The Snow, Is Still A Giant Six-Year-Old
When we last checked in on Yasiel Puig's Instagram account, we found him proudly showing off all of his neat toys like a kid trying to impress the new neighbor boy. This one is mine. So is this one. Do you have this one? I got it for Christmas. Now, we find him frolicking in a patch of snow and cont...
Clayton Kershaw And Kenley Jansen Impersonate Each Other's Windups
Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen have two of the more unique windups in baseball, which makes them ripe for imitation. This fact is not lost on Kershaw and Jansen themselves, and so they spent some time before a recent game working to perfect their imitations of each other....
Unlucky Norichika Aoki Gets Hit In Head With Throw Back To Mound
Royals outfielder Nori Aoki has had an odd string of bad luck recently. He's swung at a terrible pitch, received a foul ball to the dick, and now, he's taken Yadier Molina's throw back to the mound to his dome....
Mark Teixeira's Fake Talk Show Is Actually Pretty Funny
I had no idea that Mark Teixeira has a fake talk show, which comes off as some kind of cross between Between Two Ferns and The Chris Farley Show, and I am upset about that because Foul Territory with Mark Teixeira is pretty funny. This is a surprising development, as I always just assumed that Mark ...
Aloe Blacc Is Your Sports Music Overlord
This right here is MLB's official commercial for the 2014 All-Star Game. It features, somehow, Aloe Blacc's "The Man," a song that even the most casual of sports fans is already sick and goddamn tired of listening to....
There Was Yet Another Immaculate Inning Pitched Last Night
So this is officially some sort of trend. Last night, Garrett Richards struck out three straight Houston Astros on just nine pitches, tossing the fourth immaculate inning of the season. There has never been more than four such innings tossed in a single season—that number was last reached in 2002—an...
Vin Scully Fondly Remembers The Late Don Zimmer
Vin Scully has a knack for making anything significantly better with his voice, so it was no surprise that Scully effortlessly worked in some lovely memories of the late Don Zimmer while calling tonight's White Sox-Dodgers game....
Rays Broadcaster Todd Kalas Chokes Up While Reporting Don Zimmer's Death
The passing of MLB lifer Don Zimmer was announced in the middle of numerous baseball games, but the report by Rays broadcaster Todd Kalas stuck out in particular for being so damn sad....