Tag Archives: MLB
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This Day In Sports History (May 17th) — David Wells
It was on this day in 1998 that David Wells pitched the 15th perfect game in baseball history. Wells accomplished the feat against the Minnesota Twins in a game played at Yankee stadium. This was the first regular season perfect game in the storied history of the New York Yankees and the second in team [...]
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Celebration Fail: Korean Baseball Player Prematurely Celebrates Home Run, Watches in Horror as it Turns into Pop Fly (Video)
I’m not one of those stuffy old baseball types who thinks celebrations should be reserved for the clubhouse. However, I do believe that there is a time and a place for everything, and that certain types of celebrations are just uncool. Consider, for example, the home run celebration. It’s natural to be excited when you [...]
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Latino Band Plays Gig in Rays Clubhouse Before Game Against the Red Sox (Video)
The Tampa Bay Rays do not operate under ideal conditions. They play in a market that has a luke-warm interest in baseball at best, and they play in a stadium that most minor league teams would find unsuitable. Nevertheless, they’ve managed to become an extremely successful franchise in recent years. The key to their success? [...]
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Bryce Harper Injures Himself Running Face First Into the Outfield Wall (Video)
Warning tracks on baseball fields are intended to warn outfielders chasing down fly balls that they are approaching the outfield wall. Whether or not they actually work is up for debate, but I can almost certainly state that Bryce Harper would argue against their effectiveness. With the Washington Nationals leading the Los Angeles Dodgers by a score [...]
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This Might Be the Worst Ceremonial First Pitch Ever (Video)
We’ve seen some pretty awful ceremonial first pitches in recent years. Some of them came from rather attractive women, in which case everyone pretty much got the results they expected. Others came from elite athletes who you would have thought could do better. But none of these, however, really merited consideration for “worst ceremonial first [...]
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The 9 Most Infamous Blown Calls in MLB History
We’re only six weeks into the 2013 MLB season, and already we’ve seen umpires blow a number of calls that have had real impacts on the outcomes of games. Are the umpires somehow worse than they used to be? Probably not. The increase in the number of bad calls probably has more to do with [...]
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Navy Daughter Gives Mom Surprise Homecoming at White Sox Game for Mother’s Day (Video)
Whatever you got your mom for Mother’s Day, I can almost guarantee it wasn’t as good as what U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Amanda Paige got her mom. She hadn’t seen her mother, Ginny Paige, for 16 months thanks to military service that included an eight-monght deployment fixing F-18s on an aircraft carrier in [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 5/12/2013 — Chris Sale
In case you were too busy watching the NBA and NHL playoffs to notice, it was quite the weekend for pitchers around Major League Baseball. On Friday night, the Red Sox’s Jon Lester threw a one-hitter against the Blue Jays, going nine innings and walking none while striking out five. Meanwhile, over in St. Louis, [...]
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9 of the Most Terrifying Injuries in Baseball History
Earlier this week, Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher J.A. Happ was hit in the side of the head by a scorching line drive. Both the sight and the sound of the impact gave chills to anyone who watched it, and the blow landed the 30-year-old Happ in the hospital and then the disabled list with [...]
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There Were Some UFOs in McCovey Cove Outside AT&T Park Yesterday (Videos)
Apparently, the San Francisco Giants’ AT&T Park is a magnet for the bizarre and mysterious. Since the start of last season, we’ve just seen one weird thing after another go down in and around that place. And no, I’m not exaggerating, either. Last year, during Matt Cain’s incredible perfect game, there was some guy flying [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 9th) — Longest MLB Game
It was on this day in 1984 that the Chicago White Sox and the Milwaukee Brewers played in the longest game in Major League Baseball history. The game lasted eight hours and six minutes before the Sox finally won 7-6 in the 25th inning. The game actually began at 7:30 pm on May 8th, but [...]
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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 [...]
