Baseball: MLB and college baseball
Baseball is fun, obviously, but many Major Leaguers understand there are more important things than the game on the field. That’s why a recent social media trend, from big leaguers like Cody Bellinger, to battle pediatric cancer is so cool. On the field, meanwhile, celebrations for big wins are getting more and more viral-post worthy […] More
The Bronx Bombers? More like the Midwest Mashers. The best slugging team in Major League Baseball appears to be none other than the Minnesota Twins, who continued their assault on opposing pitching with eight home runs Thursday against the Angels. The Toronto Blue Jays want to build their own slugging empire, so they’ve called up […] More
The Yankees’ Gleyber Torres owns the Orioles, by which we mean he hits a lot of home runs against them. As in, 10 of his 12 homers this year have come against Baltimore. But Torres also apparently owns part of Gary Thorne’s mind. The Orioles’ play-by-play announcer lost it — twice — when Torres homered […] More
The Miami Marlins had been historically bad through their first 35 or so games, but in Major League Baseball, almost every team has a hot stretch every now and then. The Marlins are getting their turn now. They beat the Detroit Tigers 6-3 on Wednesday night to extend a winning streak to five, the best […] More
One of the great things about modern technology and Major League Baseball is the ability to hear any team’s broadcast of any moment. The Nationals caught the Mets’ Keith Hernandez complaining about Juan Soto’s swing just before Soto hit a long home run … and the rest is social-media history. Elsewhere, Tigers fans still love […] More
The MLB draft has been the top option — really the only option — for the top amateur baseball prospects looking for a big payday. But Carter Stewart, whom the Braves picked eighth in last year’s draft but failed to sign, is forging a new path: He agreed to a deal with a Japanese team […] More
As the Yankees came back from a 6-1 deficit to tie the Orioles, 7-7, they needed one more hero. Gary Sanchez was the man who provided, both the go-ahead home run in the ninth inning and the social media-worthy moment. Earlier in the game, the Orioles announcers got tired of another Yankee beating up on […] More
The New York Mets have seen one thing after another go wrong this season, but this week has been a bad one even by their standards. Manager Mickey Callaway is under serious heat after the lowly Marlins swept New York. Robinson Cano is under fire because he has failed to run on an eventual double-play […] More
The social media content you need is entertaining, meaningful and usually a bit silly. Sunday Night Baseball provided all three with a special edition of the Presidents Race at Nationals Park. This one included Alex Rodriguez, Jessica Mendoza and Buster Olney from SNB. Big wins also make for good social media. The Rangers and Cubs […] More
An incredible statistic as the Major League Baseball season starts to mature: It’s been more than three full games since Hyun-Jin Ryu allowed a run for the Dodgers. Elsewhere, the Astros’ George Springer, perhaps the early front-runner for AL MVP, left Houston’s game in Boston with back stiffness. The Cubs dropped their protest of their […] More
We love a good old-fashioned Twitter beef, especially when there’s not REALLY a beef. All in good fun, we say. And that’s what happened Saturday night between Angels outfielder Kole Calhoun and Royals catcher Martin Maldonado, who played for the Angels last year. Elsewhere, the Twins can hit home runs off of anybody, it seems. […] More
Official protests are rare in Major League Baseball, and successful ones are rarer. But Cubs manager Joe Maddon decided to file one Saturday after Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle was allowed to use his usual delivery with a slight toe-tap. Outlawing the tap was supposed to be an emphasis for umpiring crews, and they enforced it […] More
