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Cubs Super Prospect Javier Baez Debuts With Game-Winning Homer

Javier Baez, the 21-year-old prospect that Cubs fans have been jonesing for all damn season, finally made is major-league debut last night. It took him 12 innings to record his first career hit, but it was a hit worth waiting for....

Nats Fans Went A Little Crazy Over Jayson Werth Gnomes

The first fans got in line for Jayson Werth garden gnome giveaway night at about 2:10 p.m., five hours before first pitch and more than two hours before the gates to the ballpark actually opened. That would turn out not to be excessive: gnome night ended up being so popular, some 15,000 Nats fan...

Adam Dunn Pitched In A Game Tuesday Night

If there is a silver lining to a 15-0 game, it's the possibility that you might see something absurd, like watching a bear-man with 457 career home runs pitch in the ninth inning. Adam Dunn was called in to pitch the final inning for the White Sox tonight in a Rangers blowout. In one inning of wor...

Trout Vs. Kershaw Settled By Replay Review

The first Mike Trout-Clayton Kershaw showdown finally went down tonight and it ended up being a pretty great baseball play all around. It was also subject to a replay review before the ultimate outcome was certain, which was kind of anticlimactic. ...

Dammit, Dunn

Rogue Ball Thrown On Field During Live Play, Confusing Everyone

Someone threw a ball onto the field in Cleveland tonight at the same moment Yan Gomes had just slapped the real, live, ball against the wall in right field. Jay Bruce fielded the true ball and threw it to the cutoff man, but the imposter ball was already making its way to the infield. ...

Here's Darren Rovell Munching On Kale

The Popeye of #brandawareness did a segment for ABC's Nightline on the "economy of kale" last night. Part of it included that bit up there of a munching, bovine Rovell. After he swallowed the hot new vegetable on the streets, Rovell wondered: "It doesn't taste the greatest, the texture isn't the gre...

Brendan Ryan Slows Liner Down With Glove, Makes Bare-Handed Grab

That's one way to record an out, sure. Not the most efficient way, but an out's an out and Brendan Ryan finally corralled J.D. Martinez's liner with his bare hand after it popped out of (or off) of his glove....

The Premier League will introduce new concussion rules this season, the biggest being that a player with a head injury now needs to be cleared by a doctor to play, rather than by a coach. Hey, gotta start somewhere....

Deadspin Up All Night: Duck A Diddle Dill, Dill

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. Have a good evening. Go see Guardians of the Galaxy tonight....

This Is The Best Excuse For Failing A Breathalyzer Test

The Daily Mirror's Sophie Gadd called attention to this News of the Weird item, and we here at Deadspin had some thoughts about it. We discussed it in our staff chatroom....

Lawyers representing a group of 40 women's soccer players, including Abby Wambach, have sent letters to FIFA and Canada Soccer claiming that the use of artificial turf for next year's World Cup "is discriminatory and violates Canadian law."...

Dude's Massive Rave Leads To Historically Great Local News Segment

This is a local news report about James Taylor, a wonderfully goatee'd, 20-year-old West Michigan man who threw a big-ass party at his house that featured multiple DJs, fire-throwers, go-go dancers, and about 2,000 attendees. It's a really funny news report, but it achieves transcendence around the ...

One Of These Three Men Will Be The Next MLB Commissioner

Bob Nightengale at USA Today has a big scoop: the field of finalists for MLB Commissioner has been narrowed down to three, and one of them is a pretty huge surprise. There are two of Bud Selig's top deputies, and, somewhat out of nowhere, the chairman and minority owner of the Red Sox....

Soccer Star Ezequiel Lavezzi Poses With Naked Vagina [NSFW]

This is Argentina and Paris Saint-Germain player Ezequiel Lavezzi. According to one soccer reporter, Tancredi Palmeri, once-private pictures of the soccer player with a lady are now being circulated around the internet. They are below:...

Jason Statham Dives In The 1990 Commonwealth Games

In today's edition of "huh, neat": did you know that British actor Jason Statham was a diver back in the motherland who participated in a few Olympic trials? ...

Which NFL Teams Do Fans <em>Not</em> Want To Watch In Person?

Going to an NFL game is an investment, just as much in time and misery as it is in cash. So who in god's name would go watch the Jaguars? Not many, it turns out. ...

Is Booze A Performance-Enhancing Substance For Ultrarunners?

While a frosty beer or refreshing ethyl alcohol can certainly serve as motivation to hurry back, runners have been laboring under the limited view of liquor as solely a recovery drink. ...

Report: Bon Jovi's Bills Bid Rejected For Being Too Low

According to the Toronto Sun, the bid from a group led by Jon Bon Jovi for the Buffalo Bills has been rejected because it was "uncompetitively low," and because the bank conducting the sale does not believe the group will keep the Bills in Western New York. But they'll get another chance....

Trout Vs. Kershaw, Round 1, Visualized

Tonight is the first time Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw will face each other. ESPN Stats & Info has a nice breakdown of the matchup, full of telling details to watch for, like this: ...