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These aren’t the typical mom texts about eating right and your love life. Amid a breakout season on the mound for the Los Angeles Angels, Tyler Skaggs’ phone blows up with weekly missives about his pitching mechanics and emotional preparation. And he reviews them carefully, because on the other end is not just his mother, […]
Two separate investigations are underway into the leak of a photo of Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna in a holding cell after he was arrested and charged with assault on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, a CCTV camera image that showed the 23-year-old reclining in his cell with legs outstretched emerged in a Global News story. Toronto police Chief Mark […]
Canadian pitcher James Paxton threw a no-hitter for the Seattle Mariners against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday in a 5-0 win at the Rogers Centre. The 29-year-old lefty from Ladner, B.C., became the first Canadian to achieve the feat since Dick Fowler of Toronto pitched a no-hitter for the Philadelphia Athletics on Sept. 9, […]
Todd Kirkland/AP New York Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman hit Tampa Bay Rays prospect Jake Cronenworth in the ribs with a fastball. Chapman has the fastest fastball in Major League Baseball, averaging over 100 mph. The pitch left a bruise that looks like a crater and can best be described as “disturbing.” Early in Spring Training, […]
Phillippe Aumont will never forget carrying his luggage into the Philadelphia Phillies clubhouse on Aug. 21, 2012, two days before pitching a scoreless inning of relief against the Cincinnati Reds in his major-league debut. And he’ll never forget the first player he saw — ace right-hander Roy Halladay. “We played at 7 p.m. and no […]
AP Photo/Kathy Willens The New York Yankees’ night did not get off to an ideal start on Tuesday. Hosting the Minnesota Twins in a win-or-go-home American League Wild Card game, the Yankees sent starting pitcher Luis Severino to the mound to start the game. Throughout the season Severino had been one of the most reliable […]
Justin K. Aller/Getty Images In over 210,000 games of Major League Baseball, there have only been 23 perfect games, and fans haven’t seen one since Felix Hernandez in 2012. On Wednesday night, it felt like the Dodgers Rich Hill was going to be No. 24. The Dodgers have been rolling with one of the best regular-season stretches […]
Thomson Reuters (Reuters) – Jim Bunning, who showed much of the same combativeness as a U.S. congressman as he had done during his Hall of Fame career as a hard-throwing pitcher in baseball’s major leagues, died at the age of 85, his son said on Saturday. “Heaven got its No 1 starter today. Our lives […]
Hip-hop blares in the Phillies’ clubhouse after the latest win in a recent six-game streak. Aaron Nola sits at his locker, nonplussed, gunning for a return from the disabled list. April was good to Philadelphia, but a brutal start to May threatens to derail yet another season in Philadelpha. If the Phillies have any chance […]
To love baseball is to be disappointed half of the time. Almost every season follows the same arc of woe: the search for starting pitchers during the offseason, the underperformance of an ace flamethrower who’s making eight figures and, oh yeah, the injuries that ensue when 6-foot-tall monstrosities reach back for mid-to-high-90s power every five […]
