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We continue along with our ranking of the most Metmorable home runs among the 6,000+ hit in team history with a look at #50-41. For those who may have missed our first piece in this series, you can find it here: http://www.metswalkoffs.com/2009/0...

When Orlando Hernandez defected from Cuba in 1997, he did not have a passport. Neither did his half-brother Livan two years earlier, nor did Jose Conteras in 2002. It took time for their agents to set everything up, and each debuted about a year a...

Presenting it a bit early to beat the Christmas rush, Chris presents the best games ever played in the Metrodome (so far). Click the title to read more. Read more great baseball stuff at The Hardball Times.

Whenever the Yankees and Angels square off, the coverage focuses around the Yanks’ seemingly historic inability to beat Anaheim. In fact, since 2002, the Angels, 40-30 against New York, are the only American League team to have a winning rec...

Like most Yankee fans, I've pretty much had it with Joba Chamberlain at this point. For most of the season, he's been terrible. He seemed to turn it around after the All-Star Break, but ever since the Yanks started 1) stretching his starts out and...

Giants wunderkind Angel Villalona turned himself in on a murder, according to sources out of the Dominican Republic. I may be forgetting somebody, but I can't remember anything like this happening during a player's career (thankfully, of course)....

This Week in Yankees History September 20th - September 26th September 20th 1911 - The Yankees commit 7 errors in the 1st game of a double header with the Indians (a 12-9 loss), and then commit 5 more i...

Sox begin a crucial, critical series against the Kansas City Royals. That is, if they're shooting for the division. If they're shooting for the Wild Card, then this series almost doesn't matter. In any event, there should be a lot of shooting go...

Game 147: September 19, 2009 Red Sox11W: Jon Lester (14-8)H: Billy Wagner (4)88-59, 2 game winning streak Orioles5L: Matt Albers...

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Jerry Seinfeld was once (or probably many times) asked which episode of Seinfeld he liked best.  He couldn't say he had one favorite in particular.  They were all his "babies."  I kind of think that way about the intervie...

According to multiple reports from St. Louis on Sunday, the Cubs suspended Milton Bradley for the remainder of the 2009 campaign. Jim Hendry cited the comments Milton Bradley made to Bruce Miles of the Daily Herald on Saturday as the final straw ...

It’s time. Time to shut down Joba Chamberlain for the ...

The Red Sox today placed righthander Junichi Tazawa on the 60-day disabled list with a mild left groin strain, ending his remarkable first season in the United States with the Red Sox.

Sunday was all about taking care of business for the pennant-race front-runners.In the biggest pressure-cooker of the day, the American League Central-leading Detroit Tigers did what they had to do with the Minnesota Twins breathing down their nec...