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1943 Holding a slim 5-4 lead in the top of the ninth at Fenway Park, the White Sox rallied to load the bases with two outs. With Mike Tresh at the plate, Don Kolloway broke from third base and scored before Red Sox pitcher Oscar Judd could deliver the ball home, with Luke Appling stealing […]
Initially filled with soft-tossers, the Twins' bullpen has added high-velocity arms in season, like acquiring Lawrence from the Pirates.
The 2026 MLB season is gearing up for week eleven. Through the first ten weeks, numerous players have gotten off to fast starts. There have been front-runners for All-Star selections, early cases for season-long awards, as well as rookies quickly…
Jacob Misiorowski just went (almost) a whole month without allowing a run. Over 38 1/3 innings across six starts, he had a 0.23 ERA, he struck out 57 batters, and he walked only six. It’s an arbitrary cutoff, but there are only four other pitchers in the history of baseball to strike out at least […]
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Munenori Kawasaki, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, in 1995 – Pedro Martinez of the Montreal Expos pitches nine perfect innings against San Diego before giving up a leadoff double to Bip Roberts in the 10th inning of the Expos’ 1-0 win. Martinez becomes the second pitcher in history, after Harvey Haddix, to […]
Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (29-28) SCRANTON/WILKES-BARRE 6, SYRACUSE 5 (BOX) Early on, the RailRiders and Mets matched each other tit-for-tat, with both teams failing to score in the first and second and then both teams scoring a run apiece in the third and fourth. In the later innings, the RailRiders pulled ahead and took a lead […]
After getting Monday off on their way back from the west coast, the Yankees returned to action Tuesday night, opening a series against the Guardians. And, well…it could have gone better. For one, Aaron Judge was out of the lineup, as he apparently is dealing with a bone bruise, which flared up over the weekend […]
Here come the Los Angeles Dodgers. They have won 15 out of 19, thus increasing their lead in the NL West and reasserting that they're for real about achieving a World Series three-peat.
From the thriving Atlanta Braves and Tampa Bay Rays to the floundering Detroit Tigers and New York Mets, we've assigned a report card grade for each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams with roughly 100 games left to be played in the 2026 season.
Don’t look now, but the Detroit Tigers are undefeated in June after their 8-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field on Tuesday night. Sure, the month is only two days old, but the Motor City Kitties have already scored as many runs (18) over the past pair of games as they did […]
I know the big news is the Phillies winning last night, but how about how impressively bad the Padres are at hitting with runners in scoring position? I think McCarthy said they were 0 for their last 27 against the Phillies? That’s just horrid. On to the links. Phillies news: MLB news:
Good morning Birdland, Beating divisional opponents is usually a good way to get yourself back into the playoff picture. Starting on May 25, the Orioles last eight games have been against AL East foes. They have gone 6-2 in those games. So it tracks that they have progressed from 12.5 games back of first place […]
The Boston Red Sox returned from Cleveland riding momentum. They had taken a road series from a competitive club, and for a team that had been one of the better road teams in the American League, it felt like evidence of something real. Then Fenway Park happened again. Tuesday night, the Baltimore Orioles handed Boston […] The post Red Sox Veteran Drops Cryptic Quote After Orioles Game appeared first on HEAVY .
The New York Yankees had won six of their previous seven games heading into Tuesday night against the Cleveland Guardians. The pitching was set. The offense had been producing.It didn’t hold. Cleveland won 9-4, with the Guardians’ offense doing damage after Cam Schlittler was pulled in the fifth inning and the bullpen struggled to contain […] The post Yankees Get Cam Schlittler Reaction to Aaron Judge Injury Scare appeared first on HEAVY .
Jo Adell is so many things. The post Box Score Banter: Bonk appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
Everything about it says it should work. Which is a big chunk of the problem. The post The Utterly Logical, Halfway Mystifying Disappearance of the Sidearm Four-Seamer appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
Sometimes we really, really want something to be a skill. The post The Secret to One-Run Games appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
Plus another, discrete Chourio. The post MLU: Los Angeles Root(s) appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
The Cincinnati Reds had a brutal Monday night against the Kansas City Royals and made two roster decisions because of it. Lyon Richardson and Brandon Leibrandt were both designated for assignment, with right-hander Zach McCambley and righty Luis Mey recalled from Triple-A Louisville in corresponding moves. Chase Burns was scratched from Monday's start with an illness, forcing the Reds into an unplanned bullpen game that began with Richardson as opener and ended with a 9-2 final. The #Reds ...
Sin Elly De La Cruz por primera vez en mucho tiempo, los Reds recurren a un bate revelación de Triple-A. The post La llamada: Edwin Arroyo appeared first on Baseball Prospectus .
Welcome to the Morning Commute Today we are talking about Mizzou Basketball! Mizzou Basketball will be taking on Kansas for the last time in the foreseeable future this upcoming season with the six-game agreement coming to an end. The date is officially set. The news was announced when the Jayhawks released their nonconference schedule. The […]
The Yankees lost an annoying game last night in a series opener in the Bronx against the Guardians, but that’s probably not what’s front-of-mind for most of their fans. For the first time all year, Aaron Judge was absent from the startng lineup, as manager Aaron Boone revealed that he’s been battling a bone bruise […]
Toledo Mud Hens 16, Iowa Cubs 1 (box) With Justin Verlander on the mound, the Mud Hens’ offense honored their famous temp by absolutely mauling Cubs’ pitching on Tuesday. Verlander, sidelined after one start this spring with a hip issue, looked pretty good. He had no trouble at all with the Cubs, scattering three singles […]
The Minnesota Twins acquired right-handed reliever Justin Lawrence from the Pittsburgh Pirates for cash considerations, adding a hard-throwing veteran to a bullpen that has been one of the most inconsistent in the American League this season. Lawrence was designated for assignment by Pittsburgh last Friday and joins a Twins roster dealing with injuries to Bailey Ober, diagnosed Monday with a mild flexor strain that will sideline him from throwing for ten to fourteen days, and Kendry Rojas, w...
From Bryan Hoch: It had been more than a month since Cam Schlittler had allowed more than two The post Yankees.com: Stuff ‘a tick down,’ Schlittler struggles through rare rocky start appeared first on Replacement Level Yankee Weblog .