Tag Archives: baseball
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Watch This Brawl Between Giants Fans and Dodgers Fans at AT&T Park Last Saturday (Video)
This year, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ most heated on-field rivals might just be the San Diego Padres, given the way the Padres’ Carlos Quentin broke Zack Greinke’s collarbone and all. However, for Dodgers fans, there’s no question that the San Francisco Giants are still enemy number one. And despite that tragic beating outside Dodger Stadium [...]
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Not Even a Nose Bleed Could Distract Mets Pitcher Matt Harvey from Being Awesome Last Night (Video)
New York Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey has made just 17 starts in his major league career—10 last season, and seven so far in 2013. However, the hype around this 24-year-old is already reaching Doc Gooden proportions, and now, thanks to a bloody nose, he might already be turning into a legend. Last night the [...]
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Blue Jays Pitcher J.A. Happ Stretchered Off After Being Hit in the Head by a Line Drive (Video)
Most observers would tell you that the Toronto Blue Jays need a good slap on the side of the head to wake them up after a putrid start to a season in which they were supposed to be a shoe-in for the playoffs. That, however, is just a metaphor. What happened to starting pitcher J.A. [...]
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9 Famous Cases of MLB Pitchers Who Were Caught Cheating
The Red Sox currently have the best record in Major League Baseball. The biggest reason for this is the resurgence of their once great starting rotation, led by Clay Bucholz and his 1.01 ERA and 6-0 record through his first six starts. However, it seems not everybody is willing to believe that Bucholz could be [...]
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There Was a Kayak Selling Hot Dogs in McCovey Cove During the Giants-Dodgers Game Last Night (Video)
The San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park is famous for a number of reasons. Its picturesque setting and rabid fan base make it one of the best ballparks to take in a game. It’s the place where Barry Bonds made his historic steroid-fueled assault on baseball’s home run record. It’s the place where fans chiseled a [...]
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Dad Catches Foul Ball With Hat While Holding Baby (GIF)
Catching a foul ball with your hat is impressive. What’s even more impressive is catching a foul ball with your hat while holding a baby with your other arm. One brave father attempted to do just that during last night’s game between the Detroit Tigers and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park, and it was a great [...]
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Julio Borbon: Decent Ballplayer, Terrible Actor (Video + GIF)
The flopping epidemic has already spread from soccer to hockey and basketball. In fact, it got so bad in basketball that the NBA now fines players for flopping. Now it appears this flopping business has even spread to baseball. However, ballplayers are still new to the flopping game, so they have yet to hone their [...]
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The Anatomy of Justin Verlander’s Four-Pitch Arsenal (GIF)
Last week we showed you a mesmerizing aniamted GIF that shows the trajectory of each pitch that Texas Rangers pitcher Yu Darvish throws. To create it, some guy out there on the internet named Drew Shepard superimposed five separate clips of Darvish pitching over each other and then lined up the release point. The results were so awesome that [...]
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Watch Yu Darvish Strike Out Babe Ruth and Other GIFs of Baseball Legends vs. Current All-Stars
If Yu Darvish were to pitch to Babe Ruth, who do you think would win that battle? Babe Ruth has always been thought of as one of the best hitters to ever play the game of baseball, but in his lifetime he never had to deal with a pitcher that had an arsenal like Darvish’s. So [...]
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Edwin Encarnacion Became Just the 14th Player to Hit a Home Run into the Upper Deck at the Rogers Centre in Toronto (Video)
The Rogers Centre in Toronto is one of the last stadiums of its kind: a colossus multipurpose venue with perfect symmetry and an upper deck that’s about five stories high. They used to have joints like this in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburgh, among others, but now the Rogers Centre (née SkyDome) is the [...]
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Tampa Bay Rays Sideline Reporter Kelly Nash Captures Near-Death Experience with Selfie, Posts It on Instagram (Photo)
Of all people, you would expect a professional sideline reporter to understand how important it is to never turn your back to the play. If these people aren’t taking beatings themselves, they’re doing interviews with people who did. But apparently some folks just like to throw caution to the wind. You can include Kelly Nash [...]
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This Day In Sports History (April 29th) – Roger Clemens
It was on this day in 1986 that Roger Clemens became the first pitcher in MLB history to strikeout 20 batters in a nine inning major league game. Clemens accomplished the feat against the Seattle Mariners in a game played at Fenway Park. Clemens would achieve this mark in only his third full season, at [...]
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Nats Pitcher Gio Gonzalez and Attractive Sideline Reporter Julie Alexandria Get Doused with Gatorade (Video)
Last night the Washington Nationals’ Gio Gonzalez threw a one-hitter against the potent Cincinnati Reds. What did his teammates think of the accomplishment? Well, they deemed it worthy of a Gatorade shower. Thus, after the game, while Gonzalez was being distracted—err, interviewed—by attractive Nationals sideline reporter Julie Alexandria, a couple of his teammates crept up [...]
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This Day In Sports History (April 26th) – Coors Field
It was on this day in 1995 that the Colorado Rockies played their first ever game at Coors Field. The Rockies would beat the New York Mets 11-9 to earn their first victory in their new ballpark. Coors Field is known as a hitters’ ballpark due to the fact that it is located in Denver, [...]
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The Anatomy of Yu Darvish’s Five-Pitch Arsenal is Incredible (GIF)
Yu Darvish is off to a scorching start in just his second season in the Majors, as he has allowed just six earned runs against over the course of his first five starts, compiling a 4-1 record, 1.65 ERA (3rd in AL), 0.80 WHIP (2nd in AL) and 49 strikeouts (1st in AL). His solid [...]
