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Yasiel Puig Hit This Season's First Little League Inside-The-Park Home Run
I feel bad for the Padres fans who went to watch their team host the Dodgers yesterday, only to watch horrified as their Southern California rivals whipped the everliving shit out of their team in front of masses of visiting fans. It was an altogether embarrassing 15-0 drubbing, in which Clayton Ker...
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This Is Not The Yasiel Puig Bar Fight Video [Update]
Update (2:00 p.m.): TMZ has retracted their report. The man in the above video is not Puig. TMZ said: ...
Report: MLB Investigating Yasiel Puig Under New Domestic Violence Policy
Dodgers slugger Yasiel Puig will face an MLB investigation under the league’s new domestic violence policy after his alleged involvement in a Miami brawl earlier this week, the Los Angeles Times is reporting....
Andy Van Slyke Hints That Clayton Kershaw Wants Yasiel Puig Off The Dodgers
Andy Van Slyke, a former MLB player turned coach who is also the father of Dodgers outfielder Scott Van Slyke, had some juicy gossip from Chavez Ravine that he kept to himself by sharing it on a St. Louis radio show. According to Van Slyke, someone [Clayton Kershaw], and Van Slyke isn’t the type to ...
Yasiel Puig Catches Gregory Polanco With Perfect Throw
You’re Gregory Polanco. You’re not sure what to make of Starling Marte’s soft yawn of a hit, so you hedge. The rightfielder won’t be able to pick you off if you find the right space, right? Surely he won’t try to barehand it? ...
How The Dodgers Got Baseball's Last Buried Treasure
The following is excerpted from The Best Team Money Can Buy: The Los Angeles Dodgers’ Wild Struggle to Build a Baseball Powerhouse. ...
Is Yasiel Puig Suddenly Expendable? Nah.
You would think that a lengthy stint on the disabled list would spare us from dopey columns about Yasiel Puig. And yet, here we are, watching L.A. Times columnist Bill Plaschke turn his palms toward the sky and ask, “Do the Dodgers even neeeeeeed Yasiel Puig???”...
The Pissbabies Win: Yasiel Puig Says He's Cutting Down On Bat Flips
Here’s some crappy news from the Los Angeles Times regarding Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig, a favorite around these parts:...
Yasiel Puig Leaves Exhibition Game After Outfield Collision
Dear Injury Gods, ...
Yasiel Puig Will Not Be A Distraction
You can always count on Yasiel Puig to keep things interesting, even on a cold January night in the deadest of baseball's dead period. Puig, your favorite hack columnist's favorite target, made light of the "distraction" label he is often tagged with by posting this photo on Instagram tonight an...
Yasiel Puig Benched For Game 4
Yasiel Puig has barely been a warm body since the start of September, but Don Mattingly chose today's potential elimination game to make the change. Puig is out of the lineup, replaced by nonentity Andre Ethier....
Cardinals-Dodgers Game One Was An Awesome Thrill Ride
The two National League playoff series finally kicked off yesterday, and while the Giants-Nationals opener was a solid appetizer, we'll really only be remembering the satisfying main course between St. Louis and Los Angeles, a 10-9 win for the Cardinals. ...
Yasiel Puig Uses His Mouth To Open Two Beers At The Same Damn Time
At the same damn time?...
Bumgarner Hits Puig, Sets Off Bench-Clearing Panel Discussion
There's no brawl here. Let's get that straight off the top. But the bad blood that's existed all season between Giants pitcher Madison Bumgarner and Dodgers bat-flip enthusiast Yasiel Puig reared up again tonight in Los Angeles with a simple hit by pitch....
Grindcore Gods Puig Destroyer Are Back, And We've Got An Exclusive Track
Last summer, we introduced you to Puig Destroyer, a supergroup of scream-y grindcore enthusiasts and baseball fans named in honor of a certain Dodgers phenom. Today, we are pleased to report that the quartet (a "virtual band" featuring dudes from Thrice, Kowloon Walled City, and Curl Up and Die) i...
Dodgers Screw Up So Hard, Commit Three Errors On One Play
The Dodgers pulled off a blooper for the ages tonight against the Padres. Let's go over it slowly and appreciate how terrible it was....
Yasiel Puig, You Are Not <i>That</i> Fast
Yasiel Puig tried to score from second base on a ground-ball double play in the bottom of the sixth inning against the Mets. He did not score; he turned a double play into a triple play. So...it did not go well. ...
Yasiel Puig Has Crazy Reflexes
It should come as no surprise that a gifted athlete like Yasiel Puig, who can do ridiculous things like totally misread a ball yet still manage to catch it and start a double play, cover 95 feet in the outfield nearly perfectly, or...this, would also have cat-like reflexes. Here he is slamming his h...
Yasiel Puig Almost Hits Matt Kemp With Angry Bat Toss
Yasiel Puig popped up on the first pitch he saw from Mike Minor in the third inning in Atlanta and tossed his bat away in disgust. Unfortunately, he threw it right at the on-deck circle where Matt Kemp was getting himself ready for his at-bat. Celebratory bat flips for all, angry bat tosses for none...