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The Mighty Josh Bell Just Keeps Smashing Monster Dingers

A loyal reader reached out this morning with a fantastic question:...

Jameson Taillon Somehow Kept Pitching After Taking A 102-MPH Line Drive To The Head

The Cubs kicked off their home opener in style this afternoon, hanging 10 runs on the Pirates within the first four innings. Pirates starter Jameson Taillon was on the mound when the Cubs scored the first six, though all of them went down as unearned runs. He lasted just two innings, which was remar...

Yasiel Puig Tried To Fight All Of Pittsburgh After Pirates Pitcher Chris Archer Threw Behind Derek Dietrich

Having been traded to an entirely new division in the offseason, Yasiel Puig needed to find a new rival to brawl with now that the trips to San Francisco would be far and few between. Luckily for him, the Pittsburgh Pirates gave him an excuse on Sunday to throw hands against what seemed like the ent...

Universe Rewards Home Plate Umpire For Defending His Crew Mate By Directing A Fastball Into His Junk

This delightful baseball sequence begins with Cardinals third baseman Matt Carpenter leading off the top of the 11th inning against Pirates hurler Steven Brault. With the count at 2–2, Brault threw a breaking pitch down and away, and Carpenter appeared to check his swing. Third base umpire Jordan Ba...

Georgetown's James Akinjo Teaches Seton Hall's Quincy McKnight A Lesson On Actually Playing Defense After Slapping The Floor

The most important part about taunting an opponent is one’s ability to back it up when the time comes. This was not the case for Seton Hall’s Quincy McKnight in Saturday’s game against Georgetown. After scoring on a tough drive to the basket, the junior guard got back on defense to face off against ...

Georgetown's James Akinjo Teaches Seton Hall's Quincy McKnight A Lesson On Actually Playing Defense After Slapping The Floor

The most important part about taunting an opponent is one’s ability to back it up when the time comes. This was not the case for Seton Hall’s Quincy McKnight in Saturday’s game against Georgetown. After scoring on a tough drive to the basket, the junior guard got back on defense to face off against ...

SB Nation Hired A Disgraced Pastor To Lead A Team Site And, Hoo Boy, Readers Have Questions [Update]

This week, SB Nation hired Christian Twitter personality R.C. Sproul Jr. to take over its Pittsburgh Pirates team site, Bucs Dugout. Sproul Jr. was brought in to fix a problem left over from the site’s previous leadership, but as was revealed in the comment section of his first post, he came with hi...

Sean Casey Once Won An Arbitration Case With A Suit That Reeked Of Cat Piss

MLB salary arbitration often yields stories of discontent, frustration and examples of how the sport’s labor relations are skewed towards ownership. But on the other side of this process is the story of how Sean “The Mayor” Casey was somehow able to secure an extra $200k-400k for his contract despit...

Former Major Leaguers Luis Valbuena, Jose Castillo Killed In Car Crash

Former major leaguers Luis Valbuena and Jose Castillo were killed in a car crash in Venezuela Thursday, as reported by the Orange County Register. Valbuena was 33; Castillo was 37....

Braves Rookie Ropes First Career Base Hit To Right Field, Wait, Oh No!

20-year-old Braves pitcher Bryse Wilson was called up to start Monday’s game against the Pirates. Wilson was drafted in 2016; he started this season in the Class-A Advanced Florida State League, but graduated to Double-A Mississippi after just five starts, and was in Triple-A Gwinnett by the start o...

Two Pirates Minor Leaguers Hit For The Cycle In The Same Game

Here’s something improbable: two minor league teammates in the Pirates system hit for the cycle Tuesday night, in the same game. Kevin Newman got his in five at-bats, notching a single, a pair of doubles, a triple, and finally, in the eighth inning, a solo dong to left:...

“Among the 14 versions the Post-Gazette collected, the Pirates use the slowest tempo by more than 20 beats per minute. Some teams, like the Oakland Athletics, have versions more than 25 percent faster than the Pirates.” What’s with Pittsburgh’s distinct, super-slow version of “Take Me Out to the Bal...

Aw, You Guys, The Pirates Are Actually Trying To Get Better

The Pittsburgh Pirates, a “small-market” MLB team whose owner prefers hoarding his money to spending it on good players, actually made a deal today to improve the team. I know, right?! These scrappy little tightwad nobodies acquired an honest-to-gosh name people have heard of in Rays starter Chris A...

Jacob DeGrom Is The Very Human Embodiment Of Futility

There’s a point in every typical Mets season when their astonishingly dependable ineptitude tips over from being a source of amusement to being a source of genuinely unpleasant secondhand embarrassment. Probably for Mets fans that moment reliably passes before the first day of summer; for the rest o...

Joe Musgrove Reminds Us That Pitchers Can Be Fielders, Too

Pitchers have both the toughest and perhaps the most dangerous job in baseball, so it’s unfair for us to rag on them too much if they choose to get the hell out of the way whenever a hitter puts a ball in play. They should let those lazy fielders do their part!...

Pirates Plunder Walk-Off Win On Basically The Open Sea

Playing extra innings on Sunday in a ballpark that had essentially become an extension of the Allegheny River, the Pirates managed to capture a walk-off victory. First baseman Josh Bell was the one who showed off his sea legs and sent Milwaukee to Davy Jones’s locker, crushing the ball about 60 fat...

Starling Marte And Gregory Polanco Combine For Rare Slice Of History With Double-Header Dingers

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. Thi...

Baseball Won't Stop Serving Us Its Gross Fake Beef

We need to get some health inspectors into MLB, because the league just cannot stop serving up all this fake beef. More often than usual this season, it seems like teams are looking for the smallest of faux pas just to have an excuse to rush onto the field and perform some masculinity....

The Mets And Pirates Managed To Empty The Benches For No Reason At All

What happened between the Mets and Pirates in New York last night doesn’t qualify as a brawl or even a fracas, but it did constitute one of the silliest bench-clearings in recent memory....

17 Years Ago Today, Lloyd McClendon Stole First Base

True manager meltdowns feel like a thing of the past. Oh, sure, once in a while someone’s ass ends up in the jackpot, but those are few and far between these days. So let’s treasure the ones we get, and never forget the greats. Like then–Pirates manager Lloyd McClendon getting so upset over a close ...