MLB Page 1097 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Home Plate Umpire Forced To Leave Game After Taking A Fastball To The Face
Being a home plate umpire is not without its risks. One of those is getting hit in the face with a baseball, which has got to hurt even with a mask on. Jerry Layne left tonight’s Blue Jays-Orioles game in the third inning after an Aaron Sanchez fastball caught him right on top of the mask....
Tim Tebow Got What He Needed
Tim Tebow threw and hit some baseballs in front of 40 MLB scouts yesterday, and didn’t seem to impress too many of them. One scout described him as an “actor trying to portray a baseball player,” and another proclaimed that the former quarterback “has a long way to go.” Most everyone there seemed to...
Rougned Odor Slaps Walk-Off Dinger, Stares Down Edwin Diaz
Rougned Odor spent the Rangers’ game against the Mariners tonight messing with Dae-ho Lee, hitting the ball over the field, and futzing around on the basepath. He capped it off with a walk-off home run, and because he’s Rougned Odor, he capped that off with a stare down and a little tiny baby bat fl...
Manny Machado Hits The Ball So Dang Hard
The Baltimore Orioles are in the hunt for the AL East title and hold a 1.5 game lead over Detroit for the second wild card spot precisely because their offense does one thing better than any other baseball club: They mash so many dingers....
This Is How You Celebrate Catching A Foul Ball
Oh yeah baby, oh yeah! Someone give me a high-five!...
Three Minor Leaguers Arrested After Wild Bar Brawl
On Sunday night, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ AAA affiliate Indianapolis Indians beat the Toledo Mud Hens, the Tigers’ AAA club, 6-2. After the game, several players from both clubs went to The Bronze Boar, a sports bar across the street from the Mud Hens’ stadium. Pirates prospects Gift Ngoepe and Dovyd...
Adrian Beltre Lovingly Messes With Switch Pitcher Pat Venditte
Ambidextrous relief pitcher Pat Venditte has been in Major League Baseball for about a year. He’s bounced back and forth between the show and the minors, and Venditte made his Mariners debut this evening. After starter Hisashi Iwakuma was chased after three innings, Venditte stepped in and pitched t...
Yoenis Cespedes Punctuates Extra-Innings Walkoff With Tremendous Bat Flip
Since Yoenis Cespedes returned to the Mets from the DL, his team is 7-2. He’s had a hit in every game but one over that duration, and tonight, he rocked a tenth-inning homer to give the Mets a walk-off win over the Marlins. ...
The Cardinals Lost Their 61st Game
Jaime García gave up two two-out home runs and the Cardinals lost 7-4 to the A’s on Sunday to finish interleague play a dismal 8-12....
Look At Bryce Harper
Maybe this is weird to say, but I don’t think any player in baseball is as visually captivating as Bryce Harper. The home runs and helmet-ditching sprints from home to second—all produced by that loopy, torquing swing of his—are an easy sell, but there’s also just something about the way Harper look...
The Cardinals Lost Their 60th Game
Seung-hwan Oh let two inherited runners score in the eighth inning, as the A’s came back to beat the Cardinals 3-2 last night....
What's Going On With Blake Rutherford?
Saturday night, the Yankees’ rookie league affiliate, the Pulaski Yankees, tweeted rather cryptically about Blake Rutherford, the team’s first-round pick in this year’s MLB draft. Less than two hours later, they deleted the tweet, elevating the cryptic factor....
Gary Sanchez Is More Or Less Babe Ruth Right Now
Unless you’re into sweet sweet schadenfreude, there haven’t been many reasons to watch the Yankees this year. But the last few weeks have been a little different, courtesy of rookie catcher Gary Sanchez and the 2004 Barry Bonds-esque stat line he’s put up. ...
Intentional Walks Can Be Hard
One of the strategies that’s been suggested for speeding up baseball is eliminating the pitches in intentional walks. Which would be a shame, because then we’d all miss out on glorious fuck-ups like this:...
Bartolo Colon Gets Hits, Gives Massages Now
Bartolo Colon nearly doubled his season hit total last night. When you consider that such a feat only required going from three hits to five, this is not as impressive as it sounds. When you consider that it involved Bartolo Colon getting not just one hit, but two, it might actually be more impressi...
Chris Sale Is Great. The White Sox Are Still The White Sox.
Chris Sale was peak Chris Sale last night....
The Cardinals Lost Their 59th Game
Alejandro De Aza homered and drove in five runs Thursday as the Mets beat the Cardinals 10-6....
Did An MLB Star Pay A Teammate $2.5 Million To Take The Fall On A Drug Test?
Dozens of Major League Baseball players have been suspended for testing positive for performance enhancing drugs, but relatively few stars have been caught. Could it be that there should be one more star on this list, but he instead paid his less heralded teammate millions of dollars to take the fal...
Somehow, Freddie Freeman Didn't Break His Back Trying To Catch This Foul Ball
The Braves are 34 games under .500. Pretty much their only good player is Freddie Freeman. This is more or less by design—Atlanta dumped a bunch of talent so they would be at their worst right before moving into their boondoggle of a new suburban stadium, but they kept Freeman around as a lifeline t...
Matt Moore's No-Hitter Broken Up With One Out To Go
Matt Moore, who was traded to the Giants earlier this month from the Tampa Bay Rays, took a no-hit bid as close as he possibly could before it got dashed at the last second. With two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Corey Seager sent a flare into right field on Moore’s 133rd pitch. It landed squarel...