MLB Page 1049 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Steve Bartman Got A World Series Ring From The Cubs
Fourteen years after reaching for a foul ball, tipping it away from Moises Alou in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, and entrenching himself forever in the tortured mythos of Cubs fandom, Steve Bartman will receive a World Series ring. ...
Cooperstown Brought Together Bud Selig And Angry Expos Fans One Last Time
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.—It was always going to be a losing proposition. I came here for Hall of Fame induction weekend with one question: Where are the Bud Selig fans?...
Mets Ship Addison Reed Up To Boston
It’s trade deadline day, and the stove is simmering....
Three Days After Walkoff Grand Slam, Steve Pearce Hits Another One
Last Thursday, the Toronto Blue Jays completed a sweep of the Oakland A’s when Steve Pearce hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 10th for an 8-4 win. It was a great moment for Pearce!...
Adrian Beltre's Got Jokes
Adrian Beltre is a delight. (Unless you touch his head, in which case he will kill you.) That extended to his post-game press conference after becoming the 31st player ever to reach 3,000 hits. ...
Chris Christie Gets Razzed By Cubs Fan, Leans In For Awkward Scolding
The Chris Christie humiliation spiral continued today with the fully-inflated Violet Beauregarde-looking New Jersey governor getting right into the face of a Cubs fan at today’s Cubs-Brewers game in Milwaukee:...
Adrián Beltré Smoked A Double For Career Hit Number 3,000
Adrián Beltré today became just the 31st player in Major League Baseball history to record 3,000 hits, smoking a 3-0 fastball from Orioles starter Wade Miley into left field for a stand up double....
Brewers Ball Boy Ranges Right For The Heroic Diving Grab
Hey, look at this ball boy laying out to make the sliding stop on a foul ball in today’s Brewers-Cubs tilt:...
Many People Are Saying Lorenzo Cain's Elegant 302-Foot Dinger Is The Greatest
One thing Lorenzo Cain understands that big mashing goons like Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper still haven’t mastered with all their grotesque and gratuitous moonshots is the precision and understated majesty of the, umm, short ball:...
Jersey Worn By Aaron Judge In His MLB Debut Sells For $157,000
Aaron Judge is a dong-mashing hero whose feats of dinger-smokage have come to define the 2017 baseball season, and also a Yankee, and so authentic Aaron Judge memorabilia is already sort of a big deal. Hop on ebay and you will find hundreds of listings: weird things like “signed baseball golf ball i...
Mets Trade Prospects For Bullpen Help, Because Now They're Buyers?
The NL East played a little role-player musical chairs Friday: the Phillies, owners of the worst record in all of baseball, sent outfielder Howie Kendrick to the Nationals for 21-year-old lefty pitching prospect McKenzie Mills; and the Mets, currently 13.5 games back of the Nationals in the division...
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Diamondbacks Pitcher Robbie Ray Takes 108-MPH Line Drive To The Head [Update]
Cardinals first baseman Luke Voit sent a fastball from Diamondbacks pitcher Robbie Ray directly back where it came from in the second inning of tonight’s game. Voit’s line drive (measured at 108 miles per hour) zipped straight at Ray’s dome, sending him sprawling to the dirt. His teammates and Voit ...
Here Come The Cubs, Ready To Murder The Brewers
Fresh off being tagged by a record-tying number of dingers Thursday against the Nationals, the Milwaukee Brewers—losers in nine of their last 11 games—return home hoping to avoid a serious ass-kicking at the hands of the red-hot Chicago Cubs, who come into town leading the division for the first tim...
Most Exciting Baseball Plays, Ranked
There’s not much happening besides baseball right now, but that’s okay. It’s a great sport because every single pitch is an opportunity to see a new, weird thing....
Yadier Molina Tells Mike Matheny To Can It<em></em>
How mad does an All-Star catcher have to be to air out his manager on Instagram? Yadier Molina, definitely mad online, gave Mike Matheny the business after Matheny barely stopped himself from calling Molina tired—or maybe old, depending on how generous you’re feeling at the moment....
Rays And Mariners Make Weird Trade
The Rays and Mariners made a weird trade this morning, completing an exchange of right-handed relievers that they seem to think will help them both capture the playoff spot for which they are directly competing. The Rays will send Erasmo Ramirez back to Seattle and will get Steve Cishek in return. ...
John Gibbons To Power-Mad Umpire: "Were You Out All Fucking Night?"
The Blue Jays ran into one hell of an Ump Show during their game against the Oakland A’s yesterday. Over the course of a few pitches, home plate umpire Will Little managed to eject manager John Gibbons, pitcher Marcus Stroman, and catcher Russell Martin....
Which Baseball Legends Had Two Separate Hall-Of-Fame Careers?
When discussing Rickey Henderson’s Hall-of-Fame prospects, Bill James once wrote that “if you could split him in two, you’d have two Hall of Famers.” It’s a seemingly hyperbolic quip from one of sports’ most precise thinkers. So it’s probably worth a closer look....
We Played Connect Four With New Hall Of Famer Pudge Rodriguez
Over the winter, Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez became just the second catcher ever to be elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. (Johnny Bench was the other.) It was well deserved: Over 21 seasons in the big leagues, Pudge was, amont other things, a 14-time All Star, a 13-time Gold Glove winner, a...
Reports: Yu Darvish Is All But Gone
Yu Darvish’s worst career start sure sounds like it’ll be his last-ever start in a Rangers uniform. Multiple reports have Texas, struggling since the All-Star break, ready, willing, and able to move Darvish to a contender by Monday’s trade deadline....