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After finishing their longest homestand of the season with a 3-6 record and a first-third of the season record of 31-24, the San Diego Padres know they have problems. No one on the team seems to be trying to deny it. The offense is the worst in baseball. The starters also have issues but have […]
What John Sterling always said was true. You can’t predict baseball, Suzyn. Except sometimes you can have a pretty fair guess. The expected outcomes for the American League’s top two teams came to pass last night because both the Yankees and Rays are better than the A’s and Angels. If you’ll forgive getting blue from […]
Hello friends and happy Saturday! The Mariners completed their climb back to .500 yesterday with a 7-6 walk-off victory over the Diamondbacks. Julio Rodríguez and Luke Raley continued their hot starts at the dish with a home run each, while J.P. Crawford had his first multi-homer game as a Mariner. Raley leads the M’s with […]
Meet the Mets Despite scoring four runs in the first and adding three additional runs in the rest of regulation, the Mets allowed the Marlins to chip away and ultimately tie it, and the first game of the series between the two division rivals thus went into extra innings. The Amazins emerged victorious, however, thanks […]
The Royals are searching for answers, writes Anne Rogers. “We felt like there’s a core here that we could rely on for offense,” Picollo said. “Surrounding them with a deeper, better group and more balanced group was the goal. I think we did that. But I’m accountable, too. There are some evaluations made that haven’t […]
Some of the team’s top prospects are looking much better of late, but the churn is beginning on the major league bench. Lehigh Valley 5, Buffalo 4 It’s starting to become a broken record of sorts, but Felix Reyes just keeps on demolishing Triple-A pitching, homering again last night in Buffalo. As the kids say, […]
Atlanta’s minor league affiliates went .500 on Friday as Augusta and Rome came away victorious in their respective matchups. (29-26) Gwinnett Stripers 3, (33-22) Nashville Sounds 4 Box Score Gwinnett came up short on Friday despite jumping out to an early lead against Nashville. The Stripers plated two runs in their first trip to the […]
Triple-A: Durham (Rays) 7, Norfolk Tides 4 Friends, it’s depressing looking at this Norfolk box score. No help is on the way and chaos reigns. The Orioles signed a pitcher more or less off of his couch to start this game. That’s Chris Kachmar, part of the Cubs organization last year, who pitched his first […]
Good morning, LSB. The Rangers smoked the Royals last night, 9-1. Evan Grant writes that the offense went old school. MacKenzie Gore got back on the right track with a dominant outing vs. KC. New Ranger Nicky Lopez’s first hit in Texas was a big one and came just days after the death of his […]
Cincinnati's reputation says small-ball. The Bearcats displayed physicality Friday night with six home runs in a 12-2 win
Ty France smacked a game-tying solo home run in the top of the sixth inning and Jackson Merrill hit what would prove to be a game-winning two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning to give the San Diego Padres a 7-5 win over the Washington Nationals at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. […]
Rangers 9, Royals 1
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Mike Sullivan is a top-tier coach. What he had to work with on this year's Rangers was not top tier.
Cubs left-hander Shōta Imanaga was off to such a good start this season. Over his first nine starts he posted a 2.32 ERA and allowed just five home runs in 54.1 innings. Maybe, just maybe, he had put the home-run issue from last year in the past? Well, nope, or so it now seems. Over […]
It’s only been two hits. Two hits over two days. Can you declare someone back from the dead after two hits, especially in such venues as Fenway Park and Great American Ball Park? But did you see the hits though? Let me help you with that. Here’s Thursday in Boston: And here’s last night in […]
There have been some subtle changes in the things Don Mattingly has done different than Rob Thomson this season. There had to be since whatever the team was doing prior to Thomson’s firing was clearly not effective any longer. One of, if not the, biggest changes has been the usage of Bryson Stott and Brandon […]
Continuing our deep dive of each Mountain West baseball team now that the season is over, the newcomer in GCU is up next. When Grand Canyon joined the Mountain West for the 2026 season, there was optimism that the Lopes could immediately become a factor in the conference race. With a talented roster, proven coaching […]
The New York Mets paid homage to an iconic moment in the franchise's history on Friday.
Adrian Beltre is often pointed to as the best one-year player to don the Red Sox uniform. Boston signed him to a one-year, $9 million contract for the 2010 season at age 31. All he did in that season was lead baseball with 49 doubles, slug 28 home runs with 102 RBIs while leading all […]
Once again, the Yankees boast the best offense in the American League. Ben Rice might actually get more MVP votes if they were tallied today than Aaron Judge, and Cody Bellinger has made everyone forget who Kyle Tucker is. Even Trent Grisham has started to hit like a key member of a powerful lineup, and […]
Liverpool and Arne Slot have today officially parted ways, with the club conducting a season-end review and deciding that between the poor performances and results of the 2025-26 season and the increasingly unhappy mood of the supporters at Anfield the Dutch trainer’s position was untenable. Now, questions will turn to what comes next, and whatever […]
Will Smith’s framing numbers decline precipitously to well below average in each of the last two seasons, but now he’s back to average in framing. The Dodgers catcher talked with Maddie Lee of the Los Angeles Times about the importance of framing, even now in the age of the automatic ball-strike challenge system: “It’s important […]
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Today’s Reflections Ah! Doesn’t that feel a WHOLE lot better?! (At least before last night.) ………. Oh, sorry. Deep reflection. Since I don’t live in Chicago, I can throw this out there — just think how good the Cubs (and Ian Happ) would be if the Cubs could move Wrigley Field to Pittsburgh!!! Amirite? Hmph. […]