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D-Backs GM Kevin Towers Is Mad At His Team About The Dumbest Thing

The Arizona Diamondbacks did not have the best season, finishing with an 81-81 record, and that disappointment seems to have filled general manager Kevin Towers with impotent rage. But Towers isn't upset about his players not performing well enough to get his team into the playoffs. No, he's angry b...

Victor Martinez's shot in the seventh inning was reviewed by the umpires and upheld, as it was determined that the ball would have cleared the yellow line even if these two jabronis didn't try to grab at it. The home run tied the game at four. [@CJZero]...

What Did Craig Kimbrel Say To His Bullpen Coach? We Asked A Lipreader [Update]

Much criticism has landed on Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez since the Braves' miserable exit last night from the National League playoffs. Atlanta closer Craig Kimbrel, the game's best reliever, was warm and ready in the bullpen, but Gonzalez says he never gave thought to bringing his closer in ear...

Sir Bam Bam

There are 23 large iron lamps affixed to the ceiling. The tints of neon light they throw down into the indoor batting cage, a concrete room tucked deep into the guts of Yankee Stadium, vary according to when they were last smashed out by errant balls and replaced. Under these lights, largely out of ...

Report: Braves Players Boycotted Chipper Jones's First Pitch

Christ, could the Atlanta Braves get any more annoying? Baseball's fun police reportedly added another name to their "People Who Don't Respect The Game And/Or The Atlanta Braves And All That They Stand For" list, and that name happens to belong to Braves legend Chipper Jones....

What The Heck Was Joe Maddon Doing Last Night?

If he were anyone else (and the box score looks like a Tony La Russa special), the Rays manager would be getting flayed this morning. But everybody loves Joe Maddon, and his magnum opus of overmanaging in the Rays' 5-4 win over Boston somehow came back around to directly stave off elimination. That ...

Juan Uribe Sends The Dodgers To The NLCS With This Bomb

In the bottom of the 8th in Los Angeles, Juan Uribe sent the Atlanta Play The Game The Right Ways packing with an absolute monster blast to left field....

The Dodgers Just Keep Destroying Other People's Things

Rays Keep Season Alive With Walkoff Homer Into Rays Tank

Facing elimination for the fourth time in eight days, the Rays overcame a blown Fernando Rodney save to extend their season and beat the Red Sox thanks to a ninth-inning Jose Lobaton homer that ended up in the center field fish tank....

Dodgers To Start Clayton Kershaw Tonight On Short Rest

Had they lost last night, the Dodgers let it be known, they would have considered starting Clayton Kershaw tonight in what would have been an elimination game. Sensible enough—Kershaw is the best pitcher in baseball, after all! No reason not to start him in an elimination game. But then they went ou...

Win Or Lose, Carlos Beltran Is The King

Carlos Beltran hit the 16th postseason home run of his career yesterday, passing Babe Ruth on the career postseason home run list. If you've watched playoff baseball over the last decade you know all about Beltran's surreal ability to come up big in October, but there probably aren't that many casua...

A's, Tigers Trade "Fuck You"s Then Shoves As Fight Breaks Out In Ninth

Grant Balfour's no stranger to brawls in the ALDS sparked by profanity, and he was at the center of one again today in the ninth as he attempted to close out a win for the A's against the Tigers. Alas, Victor Martinez was going to make sure today's bottom of the ninth would be punctuated with pugil...

You Can't Neutralize Stupid: Why Dusty Baker Might Not Get Another Job

Originally published on Baseball Prospectus....

Middle-Aged A's Fan Fights All The Cops Before Getting Tasered

We've seen our share of rowdy and violent sports fans, but this guy right here is something else. ...

Do You Believe In Magic? Restoring The Dodger Way

Over at ESPN, Howard Bryant has a long piece on the rebuilding of a once-proud franchise:...

The Pirates Are Five Wins Away From The World Series

This single from Pedro Alvarez in the bottom of the eighth gave the Pirates a 4-3 lead in Game 3 of the NLDS and proved to be the game-winning run. Pittsburgh is now one win away from the NLCS. Four wins there would get them to the World Series for the first time since 1979. ...

Everybody Is A Nerd, According To David Price [UPDATE]

David Price had a rough outing yesterday, giving up seven runs in seven innings and losing Game 2 to the Red Sox. He didn't take the media criticism well....

Stephen Vogt Is Your Newest Unlikely Postseason Hero

The most compelling bat of last night's Tigers-A's game came in the bottom of the seventh. Oakland had runners on second and third with two outs, and backup catcher Stephen Vogt did his best to make Justin Verlander look mortal....

Albert Pujols Will Sue You If You Say He Used PEDs

In what is surely a distant second in sexiness among today's baseball lawsuits, Albert Pujols is suing former radio host Jack Clark for claiming he knew "for a fact" that Pujols used steroids in St. Louis....

Pittsburgh Babies Born Into Life Of Indentured Pirates Fandom

There is every possibility that this playoff appearance isn't a fluke, that a Pirates dynasty could be in the making. Perhaps one day you will resent these children with the vitriol reserved for Yankees, Heat, and United fans. Or perhaps, like a generation of Yinzers before them, they have emerged f...