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Let’s Play Ball: Who’s Who In The Baseball Playoffs – NPR
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And it’s time now for sports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: It’s the playoffs – the baseball playoffs, where heroes and goats are made, or so I’m told. Mike Pesca of “The Gist” joins us from the studios of Slate in New York. Hi, Mike. MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Hi. The goats – let us talk of the goats. MARTIN: The goats. OK, truth be told, I’d never heard…
Let’s Play Ball: Who’s Who In The Baseball Playoffs – NPR
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And it’s time now for sports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: It’s the playoffs – the baseball playoffs, where heroes and goats are made, or so I’m told. Mike Pesca of “The Gist” joins us from the studios of Slate in New York. Hi, Mike. MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Hi. The goats – let us talk of the goats. MARTIN: The goats. OK, truth be told, I’d never heard…
Baseball Players Get Really Deep When Their Teams Are Down 0-2 – Deadspin
Photo credit: Jason Miller/Getty Images Three of the four MLB division series have one team in an 0-2 hole. This isn’t a great spot to be in a best-of-five series, but it’s a very great spot for hearing the emptiest and most hackneyed postgame platitudes that athlete speak has to offer. Some highlights from this weekend, grouped by team strategy: Advertisement Get existential: This isn’t just about how you played,…
Let’s Play Ball: Who’s Who In The Baseball Playoffs – NPR
RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: And it’s time now for sports. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: It’s the playoffs – the baseball playoffs, where heroes and goats are made, or so I’m told. Mike Pesca of “The Gist” joins us from the studios of Slate in New York. Hi, Mike. MIKE PESCA, BYLINE: Hi. The goats – let us talk of the goats. MARTIN: The goats. OK, truth be told, I’d never heard…
Baseball: St. John Bosco’s Julian Boyd commits to Nevada – Los Angeles Times
Junior outfielder Julian Boyd of St. John Bosco has committed to Nevada. Boyd is a top athlete who continues to play football for the Braves. He’s a backup quarterback. In baseball, his hitting skills continue to improve each season. For the latest on high school sports, follow @LATSondheimer on Twitter
The Greatest Baseball TV Ad Of All-Time – Forbes
Kyle Hendricks benefits from best pitch-framing in baseball – ESPN (blog)
1:42 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Kyle Hendricks entered his Sunday Night Baseball start on June 19 against the Pirates never having registered a double-digit strikeout game in his 57 starts. He was a good-though-not-great pitcher with a 3.05 ERA at that point, most often described by those who follow the sport as a No. 5 starter. There’s a reason for that: Hendricks pitches with a fastball…
Astros prospect tweeted that ESPN shouldn’t let women call baseball games – Washington Post
Jessica Mendoza prior to the 2015 American League wild-card game with Aaron Boone. (Ben Solomon/ESPN Images) Playoff baseball is known for bringing out the best in players. Barely two days into the MLB playoffs, the same cannot be said of those watching. On Tuesday night, a fan in Toronto threw a bottle at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim as he was making a catch during the American League wild-card game. Wednesday, a Houston Astros prospect made…
Barred From Baseball (in Taiwan) – New York Times
There have been no reported cases of game-fixing since 2009, he said. Most players involved confessed to taking part in the scheme and avoided jail by paying fines equal to the bribes they took. They were banished from professional baseball and, having trained most of their lives to become ballplayers, they have had trouble finding work, the shame of being implicated sending them into hiding. But two players, Tsai and…
Aurora man’s book about Chicago baseball a trip down memory lane – Chicago Tribune
The inspirations for John O’Donnell’s two books about Chicago baseball are as different as the teams he loves. The idea behind “Like Night and Day,” published in 2009, came as the Benet Academy English teacher was driving on the Eisenhower to his home in Aurora and saw a couple in a convertible — one wearing a Sox hat, the other, a Cubs hat. O’Donnell, who has also taught in Plano,…
The Giants Rely on a Familiar Formula, and a Great Equalizer – New York Times
Photo The Giants’ Madison Bumgarner allowed four hits Wednesday in a shutout that ousted the Mets. Credit Ben Solomon for The New York Times These are the San Francisco Giants. This is what they do. You were expecting something else? The Mets did well just to get this far, into the National League wild-card game — at home, too — with a chance to get back to the World Series….
Astros prospect tweeted that ESPN shouldn’t let women call baseball games – Washington Post
Jessica Mendoza prior to the 2015 American League wild-card game with Aaron Boone. (Ben Solomon/ESPN Images) Playoff baseball is known for bringing out the best in players. Barely two days into the MLB playoffs, the same cannot be said of those watching. On Tuesday night, a fan in Toronto threw a bottle at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim as he was making a catch during the American League wild-card game. Wednesday, a Houston Astros prospect made…
Giants Rely on a Familiar Formula, and a Great Equalizer – New York Times
Photo The Giants’ Madison Bumgarner allowed four hits Wednesday in a shutout that ousted the Mets. Credit Ben Solomon for The New York Times These are the San Francisco Giants. This is what they do. You were expecting something else? The Mets did well just to get this far, into the National League wild-card game — at home, too — with a chance to get back to the World Series….
Astros prospect tweeted that ESPN shouldn’t let women call baseball games – Washington Post
Jessica Mendoza prior to the 2015 American League wild-card game with Aaron Boone. (Ben Solomon/ESPN Images) Playoff baseball is known for bringing out the best in players. Barely two days into the MLB playoffs, the same cannot be said of those watching. On Tuesday night, a fan in Toronto threw a bottle at Baltimore Orioles outfielder Hyun Soo Kim as he was making a catch during the American League wild-card game. Wednesday, a Houston Astros prospect made…
Baseball|After Buck Showalter’s Plan Fizzled, Questions: How? Why? Huh? – New York Times
That is important to remember: Showalter knows more about his team — and more about baseball strategy — than anyone in the stands or the press box. But unless Britton was hurt, it defied logic to use six other relievers, but not him. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Showalter said Britton was not hurt. Britton also said he felt fine. He warmed up in the ninth, 10th and 11th…
Playoff baseball is a whole new ballgame – Washington Post
The Washington Nationals won the National League East Division with an outstanding record of 95-67 (95 wins and 67 losses). The Nats begin play Friday in the Major League Baseball (MLB) playoffs. Playoff baseball is different from regular-season baseball. How is it different? Let’s take a look. Format: MLB teams play 162 games during the regular season. The teams are constantly moving from city to city, never playing the same…
Baseball|After Buck Showalter’s Plan Fizzled, Questions: How? Why? Huh? – New York Times
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As Baseball Playoffs Begin, an Issue That Has Not Left the Park – New York Times
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October Baseball: Our Writers Make Their Picks (and a Few Jokes) – New York Times
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