MLB Page 1186 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Alex Cobb Struck Out Every Batter In An Inning And Still Gave Up A Run
This highlights video of Alex Cobb's start last night features his 13 strikeouts in 4.2 innings, but it doesn't show the conclusion of the most interesting part of the night....
MLB.com Gave Red Sox Owner A Byline To Respond To Dan Shaughnessy
Well, this is ... interesting. MLB.com published a column this afternoon that takes the Boston Globe's Dan Shaughnessy to task for filling precious newspaper space by creating accusations of PED usage for David Ortiz to deny. The author of that MLB.com column? None other than Tom Werner, the Red Sox...
Who Made The Not-Quite-Baseball-Hall-Of-Fame In 2013?
So we know who made up the class of 2013 at the Baseball Hall of Fame: no one. Well, OK, the veterans committee voted in Hank O'Day, Col. Jacob Ruppert, and Deacon White. But they all died in the 1930s; we wouldn't expect much in the way of induction speeches....
MLB Has Disciplined The Umps From Last Night's Angels-Astros Game
Well, what do you know? MLB has not only decided to swing its shithammer at the crew that screwed up a basic rules interpretation during last night's Angels-Astros game. It's also publicizing the discipline being meted out....
Umps Don't Give A Shit As Astros Make Illegal Pitching Change
The human element is really on a roll this week. Approximately 24 hours after the umpires in Cleveland reviewed an obvious home run and declared it wasn't a home run, another blue crew in Houston allowed the Astros to make a pitching change that is explictly prohibited by MLB's rules....
Charting The Decline Of The Black Baseball Player
A few years back, baseball writer and SABR member Mark Armour tracked the integration of baseball from 1947 to 1986, the 40 seasons after Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Why 1986? That year would begin a precipitous decline in the number of African Americans, to less than half the high-wat...
Dan Shaughnessy Invents Some David Ortiz PED Rumors
David Ortiz is hitting well, and Dan Shaughnessy wrote a stupid, awful column. Stop me if you've heard these ones before....
MLB's Crappy Replay Tech: It's A Miracle Umps Ever Get A Call Right
Much has been made of umpire Angel Hernandez's botching of replay review in last night's Oakland-Cleveland game, a mistake that might have cost the A's the game. You've doubtless already seen the play numerous times on your home TV or computer screen, but you've probably never seen it the way Hernan...
Joe Girardi Batted His Pitcher Eighth And Had Vernon Wells Play Third
I don't know how much of this was Girardi and how much was The Binder, but somehow, for some reason, Joe Girardi managed a May game against the Rockies like it was an 18-inning World Series Game 7. And it...worked?...
Umps Review Blown Home Run Call In Cleveland, Still Blow Call
In some bizarre way, the terrible call Angel Hernandez made in Cleveland is a great argument for more video replay and also no replay whatsoever....
Nick Swisher Still Doing Nick Swisher
Depending on your point of view, Nick Swisher is either a lovable team mascot or the worst. It's all a matter of team loyalties. To his credit, Swisher doesn't seem to care either way. Swish just does Swish....
The Nationals' New Rainout Policy Is Only A Problem If You Have A Job (UPDATE)
The Nats game was rained out last night; it happens. Fans can exchange their unused tickets for tickets to a future game; as is standard. Unfortunately, that "future game" is very specifically Thursday afternoon's game, no substitutions. ...
The Marlins Will Close Their Empty Upper Deck For Weeknight Games
Fuck it, it's Marlins Day....
White Sox Pitcher Hector Santiago Forgets His Turn To Bat
Hector Santiago pitched so well last night that the Mets' Matt Harvey didn't even get the win even though he took a perfect game into the seventh inning. But when he was due to hit with two outs in the sixth, Santiago was nowhere to be found. Stupid interleague play....
The Marlins Are So Bad, Businesses Don't Want To Open Nearby
Apologies if it seems that we're dwelling on the failures of Marlins Park—but there are oh so many of them, each more embarrassing than the last. This one's about that huge "economic impact" the new stadium was supposed to bring to the area. More than a year after the stadium debuted, not one single...
Video: Toronto Blue Jays Pitcher J.A. Happ Hit In Head By Line Drive
In the second inning of tonight's game against the Tampa Bay Rays, J.A. Happ was struck in the head from a line drive hit off of Desmond Jennings. He immediately collapsed, bloodied, and his teammates and medical personnel rushed to his side. ...
Joel Hanrahan Fastball Punctures Hole In Sign
Joel Hanrahan is not off to a grand start as the Red Sox closer. But last night, just before he gave up a game-tying homer to the Twins' Brian Dozier, he did manage to destroy an ad behind home plate. That has to count for something, right?...