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Santiago Casilla Wept After The Giants Collapsed Without Him

At 10:30 in Chicago, they decided to send the horses home....

The Giants Blew It

The San Francisco Giants spent the latter half of the year tumbling headfirst down the standings, forgetting how to hit the ball, and watching their bullpen blow any games they managed to keep close. It’s somewhat fitting that their season ended with a great big fart of a collapse....

Javy Baez Only Makes Spectacular Plays

The Giants finally remembered how to play offense and hit the baseball tonight, but Cubs second baseman Javy Baez is doing everything he can to shut them down. Baez only plays baseball at one million miles per hour, and he attacks approaching grounders like Jim Harbaugh attacks glasses of milk. ...

The Washington Nationals' Bullpen Finally Cracked

A Nationals starter hasn’t thrown a good game yet during the NLDS, but they managed to jump out to a 2-1 series lead thanks in part to a dominant bullpen. Tonight, they looked human for the first time....

Draymond Green Commits Latest Crime Against Balls By Bouncing First Pitch Into The Ground

Tim Tebow Closer To Sainthood After Healing Sick Fan For Second Confirmed Miracle [Update]

Let me tell you the story of Saint Timothy of Gainesville....

Blue Jays Play-By-Play Guy Won't Call Cleveland's Team "Indians"

It is news to me that Jerry Howarth, the radio play-by-play voice of the Blue Jays since 1981, does not use the name “Indians” when calling baseball games out of respect to Native people. But it’s not new news—Howarth has observed this practice for more than 20 years....

Hell Yes Tim Tebow's Teammates Should Be Trying To Make Money Off Him [Update]

Patrick Mazeika is a catcher currently playing Class A ball in the Mets’ organization. This classifies him both as a person who is struggling to make a living and also as a teammate of ultra-famous Tim Tebow. To Mazeika’s credit, he seems to have found a way to turn the latter circumstance into a lu...

Joe Panik Walkoff Double Keeps The Giants Alive

Joe Panik’s 13th-inning double to drive in Brandon Crawford gave the Giants a 6-5 win over the Cubs on Monday, keeping San Francisco’s season alive. The even-year cockroaches now have won 10 straight games while facing elimination....

Hitters Still Can't Touch Madison Bumgarner But A Pitcher Just Knocked One Of His Balls To Fiji

If failure is success in Silicon Valley, then Madison Bumgarner is a champion tonight. The Giants ace, last seen choking the life out of the Mets, is laying an egg in an must-win against the Cubs. He came into the game with a streak of 23 straight scoreless innings in elimination games, but managed ...

Pedro Martinez Recognizes Columbus Day By Stereotyping Native Americans [Update]

 Pedro Martinez tried to recognize the Indians’ sweep of his former employer the Boston Red Sox tonight during the TBS postgame show; instead, he got real racist....

Boston Red Sox Prematurely End David Ortiz's<em></em> Career By Getting Swept By Cleveland Indians

The Cleveland Indians narrowly beat the Boston Red Sox tonight in Game 3 of the ALDS to get the sweep and advance to the ALCS against the Toronto Blue Jays. Neither the Jays nor the Indians have won a World Series in over 20 years, and one of them will contend for their championship after they each ...

Danny Espinosa Has Zero Hits In The NLDS, But Has Been Hit By Pitch Three Times 

Nationals shortstop Danny Espinosa has yet to put a ball in play through three NLDS games between the Nationals and Dodgers. He has zero hits, has struck out six times, but has been hit by pitch three times. He is batting .000 in the series, but has a .300 OBP. He has no walks or sacrifice flies....

The Blue Jays Will No Longer Serve Canned Beer To Their Rude Fans

Blue Jays fans are quickly earning themselves a reputation for being beer-tossing goons, and so the team is taking steps to prevent another scenario in which an opposing outfielder is nearly brained by a flying can....

Curt Schilling Makes A Solid Point

Given all we’ve seen tonight, it’s good to see a straight shooter just giving us the true facts....

Blue Jays Sweep Rangers With Extra-Inning Walk-Off 

The Blue Jays are headed back to the ALCS for the second straight year after completing a sweep of the Rangers with a 7-6 win on Sunday night. It was their first postseason sweep in franchise history....

At Least Someone Has His Priorities Straight

Larry King is correct and really talking about Tim Raines makes much more sense than talking about the debate or Giants-Packers....

The Dodgers Were Completely Hapless With The Bases Loaded Sunday

The Los Angeles Dodgers jumped out to an early lead in Sunday’s Game 2 of the NLDS, with a solo shot from Corey Seager putting them on the board in the first inning....

Indians-Red Sox ALDS Game 3 Postponed Due To Rain

This afternoon’s ALDS Game 3 between the Indians and Red Sox has been rained out in Boston and moved to 6:08 p.m. Monday. ...

Baseball Players Get Really Deep When Their Teams Are Down 0-2<em></em>

Three of the four MLB division series have one team in an 0-2 hole. This isn’t a great spot to be in a best-of-five series, but it’s a very great spot for hearing the emptiest and most hackneyed postgame platitudes that athlete speak has to offer. Some highlights from this weekend, grouped by team s...