reds Page 38 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Cleveland Wins On Walk-Off Error With Sacrifice Bunt
What could have been a very bad night for Cleveland—losing star reliever Andrew Miller to a re-aggravated knee injury after just seven pitches and first baseman Carlos Santana to back pain in the eighth inning—ended up in victory, albeit via somewhat unconventional means. A sacrifice bunt from Rober...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Washington Redskins<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Washington Redskins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Washington Redskins. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Errant First Pitch At Red Sox Game Nails Photographer In The Dick And Balls
Maybe this dude shouldn’t have been urged to “fire it in there,” because boy did he ever fire it (the baseball) in there (this dude’s dick and balls)....
Joey Votto Is Having Himself A Week
The cool thing about Joey Votto is that he never stops being Joey Votto, and that’s what makes him one of the most peculiar and entertaining stars in baseball. He’s the slugging first baseman who chokes up on his bat and seems to love a walk more than a hit; he’s the guy who can force a team into pl...
Rafael Devers Is 17 Games Into His Major-League Career And Already Getting Intentionally Walked
It’s now been nearly three weeks since Red Sox top prospect Rafael Devers got the call to the big leagues, moving on up at the ripe ol’ age of 20 after spending just nine games at Triple-A. It’s gone better than the team ever could have hoped. In his first 16 major-league games, Devers has hit .339/...
Scooter Gennett Pitched, Says Radar Gun Readings Were "Fake News"
That funky delivery belongs to Reds 2B Scooter Gennett, called on to pitch to spare the bullpen in Cincinnati’s 15-5 loss to the Cubs last night. It went about as expected, which is to say: It didn’t go great. ...
Joey Votto Cares Not For Cubs' Four-Outfielder Shift, Hits Double
Like anyone who can boast a 166 wRC+, Joey Votto does a lot of impressive shit. (For the record, there are only three other players who meet the minimum for plate appearances and can boast a 166 wRC+ right now.) Here is one such example: the Cubs trying to use a four-man outfield shift on Votto, onl...
Rafael Devers's Home Run Broke This Yankees Fan
The Red Sox came back to beat the Yankees 3-2 and win the rubber game of their series thanks to their rookies: A ninth-inning home run from Rafael Devers and a 10th-inning single from Andrew Benintendi. And Devers’s homer silenced one very excited Yankees fan:...
Billy Hamilton Is Damn Near Superhuman
Billy Hamilton’s speed is, in and of itself, pretty damn fun; Billy Hamilton’s speed put on display in a play that ends with him leaping into the outfield wall to make an over-the-shoulder catch is even more so....
Don Baylor Dead At 68
An easy way to measure an athlete’s influence on his or her sport is to consider what they meant to different groups of fans. Don Baylor, who died of cancer today at age 68, was many things to many people....
Coldplay's Chris Martin On Football: "Oooooh Reeedskinnnsssssss"
Coldplay performed at the Washington Redskins’ stadium Sunday night and put together a brief (but somehow too long) tribute song to curry favor with fans of the local team. Lead singer Chris Martin crooned this 30-second masterpiece to the cheering crowd. ...
Record-Setting Minor League Hit Streak Broken Up With Benches-Clearing Walk
Jose Siri is an outfielder in the Reds system, currently playing with the Class A Dayton Dragons of the Midwest League. Baseball Prospectus pegged him as Cincinnati’s 10th-best prospect on July 19—on that date Siri was already nearly a month into a hitting streak that would eventually stretch to and...
The Kid Who Didn't Die At Riverfront Stadium
On April 22, 1981, an Ohio teenager named Randy Kobman skipped school to go to Riverfront Stadium to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Atlanta Braves. In the bottom of the 8th inning, Reds slugger George Foster fouled a pitch from Gaylord Perry into the grandstands behind home plate. The ball caromed...
Boston And Cleveland Just Played The Game Of The Year
When we last checked in on tonight’s Indians-Red Sox matchup, Austin Jackson was making an unforgettable catch for one of the year’s best highlights. The rest of the night lived up to that play....
Austin Jackson Flips Into The Bullpen For An All-Time Catch
The Indians and the Red Sox are in the middle of a thrilling shootout at Fenway, but Cleveland center fielder Austin Jackson was at least able to prevent one additional run from getting on the board. With Cleveland leading 7-5 in the bottom of the fifth, Jackson went over the bullpen wall to rob Han...
Mets Ship Addison Reed Up To Boston
It’s trade deadline day, and the stove is simmering....
Many People Are Saying Lorenzo Cain's Elegant 302-Foot Dinger Is The Greatest
One thing Lorenzo Cain understands that big mashing goons like Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper still haven’t mastered with all their grotesque and gratuitous moonshots is the precision and understated majesty of the, umm, short ball:...
The Prodigy Rafael Devers Dings A Dong For First Career Hit
Rafael Devers, just called up by the Boston Red Sox, is the youngest player in baseball. Today was only the second MLB game ever for the 20-year-old third baseman, but he has already made an impact:...
Defensive Back David Bruton Retires "To Have My Brain Functioning When I Get A Little Older"
After sustaining six concussions over eight years in the NFL, David Bruton announced his retirement to the Denver Post today. ...
Red Sox Admit That WEEI Hosts Say Some Shitty Things
WEEI is where to go to hear Boston Red Sox games on the radio. It’s been that way for most years since 1995, and it will continue to be that way through 2023. Despite the partnership, the team can still acknowledge that the radio station encourages some terrible people....