History has a habit of repeating itself over and over in sports, especially in baseball. Saturday afternoon Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco got in some history-making of their own: they became the third teammates in MLB history to amass back-to-back home runs in both games of a double-header. This unlikelyâŚ
The St. Louis Cardinals axed manager Mike Matheny Saturday night, following an 8-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. The loss was their fourth in five games, and 10th in their last 15 games. The Cardinals are now 7.5 games back in the NL Central. The Cardinals announced Mathenyâs firing via a team release late SaturdayâŚ
The timing on this is very fun. Red Sox first baseman Blake Swihart singled in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday, with one out and the the Red Sox down a run. Three pitches later, Sandy LeĂłn skied a fly ball to left field, a harmless out that earned LeĂłnâs disappointed body language. And that was before he sawâŚ
By far the funniest thing about Fangraphs contributor Mike Wernerâs reaction to video of Billy Hamiltonâs insane catch Friday night is the possibility that Werner previously doubted the existence of spider monkeys, and understood this video of Billy Hamilton to be persuasive evidence of their existence.
Billy Hamiltonâs season at the plate has improved significantly from its dismal start. Where he was producing an awful .517 OPS in early June, and considering dropping switch-hitting as a potential remedy, he is now producing a more recognizable .636, in line with what heâs generally done over the past four seasons.âŚ
The start of this Oakland Athletics season started out in unsurprising fashion, by which I mean everything went wrong.
A striking thing to me, which struck when I went to look up his career stats, was the realization that this is Albert Pujolsâs seventh season in Anaheim. That is a long, long time in baseball terms, an entire second career that started at age 32. Itâs surprisingly tough to recall his Cardinals heyday in anything butâŚ
The best short film of the summer has arrived, and itâs Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts patiently working through a 13-pitch at-bat against Blue Jays pitcher J.A. Happ before socking a grand slam dinger over that big Green Monster in left field. Itâs got pathosâJustin Smoak dropping a foul pop-up just a few pitchesâŚ
These are truly the dog days of summer. Baseball has slipped into that surreal midseason phase where absolutely nothing seems to matter at any given moment, and the reason to watch is to doze off to the hypnotic lull of half innings breezing by uneventfully. We have hit the part of the year where even the oddity of aâŚ
In a truly troubling sign of poor judgment, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says he racked up huge sums of credit card debt purchasing season tickets to watch the chronically disappointing Washington Nationals play baseball in their charmless stadium year after year:
The St. Louis Cardinals are plainly, self-evidently enduring a period of persistent, chronic dunderheadedness. Nothing makes that more plain than the fact that theyâre publicly feuding with one of their own players, but thatâs not been the only sign: Tommy Pham, who broke out last season with the Cardinals, in hisâŚ
The Indians suffered a pretty humiliating loss to the Reds Tuesday night, surrendering seven runs in the ninth inning for a 7-4 defeat. The fatal blow came from Joey Votto, who plated three runs with a bases-loaded double against newly entered right-handed reliever Dan Otero.
Orioles shortstop Manny Machado is very likely going to be out of Baltimore by the end of the month, and if you believe the whispers, the Yankees are one of the teams that badly want to trade for him. For now, though, as the Yanks battle the Orioles at Camden, Machado remains an enemy of all that is pinstriped, andâŚ
The Yankees and Orioles split a doubleheader in Baltimore on Monday, but the games were almost a sideshowâafter all, we know whatâs going to happen in the standings: one team is bound for the playoffs and one team the cellar. No, the real story is the sudden and curious entrance of the Yankees into the Manny MachadoâŚ
Cubs infielder Javy Baez is so appealing as a baseball player because he always seems to know exactly how to change the game in the most creative, unexpected ways. But in tonightâs game against the Giants, Baezâs seemingly unlimited supply of wits and skill failed him, and he shockingly allowed an opposing run toâŚ
With a depleted bullpen in Sundayâs 16-inning showdown against the Padres, the Diamondbacks turned to backup catcher Jeff Mathis to pitch in a tie game. Seeing a position player pitch is always funâhey, theyâre not supposed to do that!âbut itâs not often that they actually determine the outcome of the game. AlthoughâŚ
The St. Louis Cardinals are currently a pedestrian 46-43 and 7.5 games behind Milwaukee in the NL Central. But this is Deadspin, and you didnât come here to read about how the Cardinals are doing on the field on some random-ass July day. You came here to read about why the Cardinals are a bunch of fake, suckyâŚ
