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Victor Robles, Who Gets Hit By Pitches, Hit By Pitch
Victor Robles, the top prospect in the Washington Nationals minor league system, was called up to the big league club this week, and got his first major league start this afternoon, against the Phillies. Robles is considered one of the top prospects in all of baseball, and he’s rocketed up through t...
Cycles Are Good, And Jose Abreu Did A Good One
Before you come in here with your mew mew mew cycles aren’t valuable, a two-homer game is more valuable than a cycle routine, know this: cycles are good because they are unlikely and interesting. If an alien spacecraft were to land on the pitcher’s mound in the third inning of a meaningless Septembe...
Odubel Herrera Is One Man Who Is Ready For The Offseason
The big play from Friday night’s Nationals-Phillies game came when Washington’s Michael A. Taylor roped a liner to center with the bases loaded, and wound up with the rare inside-the-park grand slam. This was great fun to watch:...
The Dodgers Are Hobbling And It Doesn't Really Matter
Every great baseball team hits a skid at some point or another; the season is too long and too taxing for even the best teams not to. Even the 1998 Yankees, probably the greatest team of all time, spent the first three weeks of September struggling to put together two wins in a row; two years later ...
Corey Kluber Continues To Be Ridiculous, Gets Cleveland Franchise-Record 15th Straight Win
Cleveland continued their recent streak of insane dominance tonight, beating the White Sox for their franchise-record 15th win in a row. Corey Kluber, as usual, was a huge contributing factor....
How The Oakland A's' Two Jewish Players (And Reggie Jackson) Responded To The Munich Massacre
The following is excerpted from Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic: Reggie, Rollie, Catfish, and Charlie Finley’s Swingin’ A’s, by Jason Turbow. Follow along with a day-by-day account of the early ‘70s Athletics on Twitter @DynasticBook....
Hell Yes, Now The Red Sox Are Accusing The Yankees Of Cheating
If this sign-stealing scandal is truly going to reignite the rivalry between the Yankees and Red Sox, it needs to hit a few more stages of escalation. Thankfully, the Red Sox have reportedly brought us to Stage Two, by running to the commissioner’s office and yelling, But, but, but! The Yankees are ...
Cleveland Won't Stop, Wins Fourteenth In A Row
The last two weeks were not necessarily going to be especially good for the Cleveland Indians. Jason Kipnis was suddenly back on the disabled list, as were Andrew Miller and Danny Salazar. Michael Brantley and Lonnie Chisenhall and Josh Tomlin had been there for weeks. The team’s lead over Minnesota...
Matt Chapman: Please Respect The Oakland A's, Do Not Stare At Us While We're In The Batter's Box
After arguing with Angels catcher Juan Graterol during today’s fourth inning, A’s third baseman Matt Chapman received the very special honor of his first career ejection. The argument had its origins in a larger beef over whether or not the A’s were stealing signs—they swear that they weren’t, the A...
Ian Happ's Bat Rebels And Humiliates Him
Sick of being swung through the air at high speeds and getting smashed against rushing white orbs, Ian Happ’s bat finally got a bit of revenge tonight, tripping up its owner as he tried to run out a grounder....
Pablo Sandoval Is Hitless In 37 At-Bats, And The Giants Have Given Up
The San Francisco Giants currently have the worst record in all of Major League Baseball, and are running Pablo Sandoval, whom they dragged out of the Boston Harbor earlier this year, out to third base every day. If there’s one stat to capture just how bleak this season has been, it might be this: S...
Red Sox Bosses Don't Like It When You Call Them To Chat About The Team's Sign-Stealing Scheme<em></em>
This morning, a day after news broke that the Red Sox allegedly used technology to steal signs from the Yankees, I called up executives from both teams to ask about how the smartwatch-assisted, sign-stealing operation came to be and what they thought would and should happen next....
Manny Machado Walks Off Yet Again
The AL East was up late last night. While the Red Sox were on their way to a 19th-inning walk-off over the Blue Jays, the Orioles and Yankees were sitting through a two-plus-hour rain delay, and Baltimore was slowly inching back from a 6-1 run hole. And then, finally, around 1 in the morning, Manny ...
Red Sox Outlast Blue Jays With Hanley Ramírez Walk-Off<em></em> In Brutal 19-Inning Slog
There was a point tonight—this morning, actually—when the Red Sox made a mid-17th-inning pitching change so that Ezequiel Carrera could face Fernando Abad instead of Blaine Boyer. That is what this Boston-Toronto game was. That, and the Blue Jays’ franchise-record 23 strikeouts. That’s it....
Padres Pitcher Travis Wood Crushes Second-Deck Home Run
Travis Wood’s night, for the most part, was bad. He was pulled after pitching to four batters but recording zero outs in the third inning, ultimately tagged with six earned runs off seven hits. Bad night for him! Just not an unusual one, at least not this season, as his 5.47 ERA and career-worst str...
Bryce Harper, What The Hell???
Bryce Harper’s hair has already generated much more discourse than any baseball player’s hair reasonably should. That is, in all likelihood, about to get much worse. He posted the following picture on his Instagram story this evening during the Nationals’ game against the Marlins: ...
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Willson Contreras Slides Into Mia Khalifa's DMs, Refuses To Leave [Update]
Cubs catcher Willson Contreras has been on the disabled list with a strained hamstring since August 9. He has apparently spent some of that time in the DMs of former porn star Mia Khalifa, seemingly undeterred by the lack of encouraging response. But if the 25-year-old had still been unclear on whet...
Report: Red Sox Used Smartwatch To Steal Signs Against Yankees
The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry hasn’t been particularly contentious for a while, with the last waypoint being that time Boston called out Michael Pineda for the obvious pine tar on his hand. Maybe a good sign-stealing feud will bring it back....
Outfielder Leonys Martin Makes Cubs Debut As Pitcher
When Joe Maddon looked at his bullpen depth chart in the eighth inning of yesterday’s blowout against the Pirates, he somehow settled on recently acquired center fielder Leonys Martin....
The Dodgers Should Probably Be Afraid Of The Diamondbacks
When the Diamondbacks shipped three prospects to Detroit for J.D. Martinez, it was that most classic of deadline deals: the rental slugger. Martinez is a free agent after the season, but for the D-backs he’s a big bat in the lineup for a very good, playoff-bound team that believed it needed only a c...