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Red Sox Come Down With The Sickness

The flu is apparently spreading through the Boston Red Sox’s clubhouse, and it’s taking down some of the team’s major players. ...

George Springer Has Zero Regard For Life Of Baseball, Smashes Dinger

George Springer ended last night’s marathon game with a walk-off homer, and he led off tonight in similar fashion. Per Statcast, this poor baseball went a ridiculous 454 feet:...

Tim Tebow Kills Baseball In First At-Bat; Ball Passes Over Outfielders' Heads For Home Run<em></em><em></em>

Tim Tebow, author and former college football quarterback, kicked off his time with the class-A Columbia Fireflies this evening with a bang. The motivational speaker stepped up to the plate against the Augusta Greenjackets and socked a dinger in his very first at-bat....

Keon Broxton Hit In The Head By Pitch: Helmet Flap "Saved My Life"

Today’s Brewers-Rockies game got a bit frightening in the second inning when Keon Broxton was hit in the head by a pitch. The 92 mph fastball from Antonio Senzatela struck the outfielder squarely on the side flap of his helmet, taking him down instantly. (A slo-mo replay makes it appear that the pit...

Matt Adams Defeated By Fly Ball

Cardinals first baseman Matt Adams manned left field for the Redbirds today after Stephen Piscotty was absolutely battered with baseballs Tuesday night. Adams caught a few flies earlier this week during his first outfield stint, but the experiment took a turn for the worse when Anthony Rizzo hit a b...

Ryan Howard's Going To Try And Make It With The Braves

Ryan Howard, who played 13 seasons for the Phillies, became a free agent late last season after the club bought out of his contract and released him. While in Philly, he won an MVP award and World Series title, made three All-Star teams, and hit 382 homers. But Howard was clearly on his last legs in...

Eric Thames Is Back In The U.S. And Ready To Mash Big Taters

Eric Thames never managed to stick in the majors. He got 633 at-bats between the Blue Jays and Mariners from 2011-12, hit a few dingers, and then went to play ball in Korea. There, he became a damn folk hero, winning the MVP award, becoming the first KBO player to join the 40-40 club, and just gener...

Reds Prospect Posts Video Of Himself Snorting What Appears To Be Cocaine

Cincinnati Reds pitching prospect Ian Kahaloa was drafted in the fifth round of the 2015 amateur draft, and has been playing rookie ball ever since. He won’t be playing much this year, though, as he’s currently serving a 50-game drug suspension that was handed down on Tuesday. Last month, a Twitter ...

Francisco Lindor Redeems Himself By Obliterating The Rangers With Dingers

Indians shortstop Francisco Lindor is one of the best defenders in the game, yet he committed a critical error in tonight’s game against the Rangers. In the fifth inning, Lindor handled a routine grounder from Shin-Soo Choo and overthrew his first baseman, allowing two runs to score instead of endin...

Kevin Pillar Robs Manny Machado, Eats Fence

Baseball is back and with it comes the return of Kevin Pillar, one of the most reliably terrific defensive center fielders in baseball. Dinger-mashing Manny Machado tried to squeeze one past him tonight, but Pillar pounced on it, even if he had to run into the fence in the process....

West Virginia Pitcher Plucks Line Drive Right Out Of The Air With His Bare Hand

Alek Manoah is a big, talented pitcher for West Virginia who snagged this line drive out of the sky and got his team a slick double play....

Rained Out While Trailing 10-1, Florida Baseball Decides Not To Reschedule To Avoid Loss

Florida, the seventh-ranked team in the nation, hosted Stetson, a team that entered the game 13-17 overall, Tuesday night, playing four full innings that can only be described as an ass-beating by the visiting team....

Yankees Prospect Clint Frazier Reportedly Asked If He Could Wear Mickey Mantle's Number [Update]

On WFAN today, Yankees radio broadcaster Suzyn Waldman told Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts that highly touted Yankees prospect Clint Frazier asked the Yankees “if they ever un-retire numbers.” As if that question wasn’t batshit enough, Waldman says Frazier wanted to wear No. 7, which once belonged to ...

Yasiel Puig Shows Us How Much Fun Catch Probability Will Be

Former one-man highlight reel Yasiel Puig made a sprinting catch at the foul line to rob Padres center fielder Manuel Margot of a hit in the top of the third of last night’s game in Los Angeles, and thanks to recent additions to MLB’s Statcast technology, we know exactly how difficult that catch was...

Joey Gallo Sent This Baseball To Hell, Where It Belongs

Texas Rangers third baseman Joey Gallo unleashed on a Carlos Carrasco offering in Tuesday’s game, and the ball ended up in the middle of the second deck....

Jeremy Hellickson Vows To Never Hit Another Triple

The designated hitter is a farce and an abomination, but it does keep your pitcher from getting all tuckered out after a jaunt around the basepaths. That’s what happened to Phillies starter Jeremy Hellickson on Monday, after a line drive to right field made him the first Phillies pitcher to hit a tr...

Adam Wainwright Threw One Of The Worst Pitches Ever On Purpose

During the fourth inning of yesterday’s game between the Cubs and Cardinals, St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright let loose a truly horrendous pitch. With two men on and one out, Wainwright spiked an 0-2 pitch into the ground, about 25 feet in front of the mound....

Stephen Piscotty Had An Extremely Painful Inning 

Cardinals outfielder Stephen Piscotty had a great day yesterday, signing a six-year extension with St. Louis the day after beating the Cubs on national television. He had the opposite sort of day today, as he had to leave the Cards’ game early with a head contusion after getting hit by a trio of bas...

Diamondbacks Fuck Up Online<em></em>

Who’s ready for #TealTuesday in Arizona??? These guys!!!...

Eric Nusbaum hung out with Rougned Odor and wrote a very entertaining profile of him over at Vice Sports. Spoiler: Odor loves horses and hates dessert....