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Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Bob Willis ran the Orlando Twins in the Class AA Southern League for years. When the big leaguers arrived for spring training, Willis would have to move out of the largest office in the small headquarters at Tinker Field to make room for the boss, Calvin Griffith. There weren’t many days when I was covering spring training and the Twins were playing at Tinker that I failed to stop in…

Sandra Pulido of Dallas arrived near Globe Life Park at about 11 a.m. Sunday, three hours before the parking lots opened. “We just wanted to make sure we had a good spot because we knew the Cowboys game was going on,” she said. “That’s regular season – this is the playoffs. I can do without going to one game.” A crowd of 150,000 people swarmed in and around Globe Life…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

0 Shares Print ST. LOUIS — So you think it’s easy to “fix” the baseball postseason, huh? Oh, really? You might find out it would actually be easier to fix, say, your carburetor. What’s easy, after watching those 98-win Pittsburgh Pirates get sent home by Jake Arrieta in the wild-card game, is to say: This isn’t right. This isn’t fair. And in the next few days, when either those 97-win…

CHICAGO (AP) A cable TV ad salesman by day, Matt Smerge had hoped to join in the Chicago Cubs‘ smashing success this year – the 19th selling his own, low-budget baseball magazine for $2 a copy right outside Wrigley Field. Nearly all the profits, he says, go into a college fund for his teenage son. But just as the Cubs won the right to go deeper into the playoffs –…

David Price couldn’t resist showing a little school spirit. The Blue Jays ace had just pitched seven shutout innings to win at Yankee Stadium in early August, boosted by Justin Smoak’s grand slam. A half-hour later, while Smoak talked softly in the middle of the clubhouse about his big shot, Price sneaked up behind him. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” Price hollered. Waving toward Toronto teammate Josh Donaldson, the lefty from Vanderbilt let…

LOURDES GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: It’s time now for sports. It was a big night in the National League playoffs. The Chicago Cubs drew even against the St. Louis Cardinals. And the New York Mets and the Los Angeles Dodgers took the phrase breaking up a double play to new highs, or new lows if you’re a Mets fan. Mike Pesca, host of Slate’s The Gist podcast, joins me now. Hi, Mike….

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

A cable TV ad salesman by day, Matt Smerge had hoped to join in the Chicago Cubs‘ smashing success this year — the 19th selling his own, low-budget baseball magazine for $2 a copy right outside Wrigley Field. Nearly all the profits, he says, go into a college fund for his teenage son. But just as the Cubs won the right to go deeper into the playoffs — boosting hopes…

David Price couldn’t resist showing a little school spirit. The Blue Jays ace had just pitched seven shutout innings to win at Yankee Stadium in early August, boosted by Justin Smoak’s grand slam. A half-hour later, while Smoak talked softly in the middle of the clubhouse about his big shot, Price sneaked up behind him. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” Price hollered. Waving toward Toronto teammate Josh Donaldson, the lefty from Vanderbilt let…

David Price couldn’t resist showing a little school spirit. The Blue Jays ace had just pitched seven shutout innings to win at Yankee Stadium in early August, boosted by Justin Smoak’s grand slam. A half-hour later, while Smoak talked softly in the middle of the clubhouse about his big shot, Price sneaked up behind him. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” Price hollered. Waving toward Toronto teammate Josh Donaldson, the lefty from Vanderbilt let…

0 Shares Print It was a nice day of baseball. The Chicago Cubs beat the St. Louis Cardinals with some surprising tactics, Zack Greinke and Noah Syndergaard were locked up in another pitcher’s duel at Dodger Stadium … and then Chase Utley tried to kill Ruben Tejada, and everybody lost it. 1. The slide. In my view, Utley’s slide on Tejada is not how the game should be played. I’d…

Austin Gorrell, pictured playing for J.W. North High School.(Photo: Heston Quan/MaxPreps) Austin Gorrell, a freshman catcher on the Wolf Pack baseball team, died in the hours between Friday night and Saturday morning. No cause of death was given, but the Wolf Pack announced in a news release that Gorrell had a previous known medical condition. Gorrell, 19, from Riverside, Calif., joined Nevada in August after committing to the team last November….

Baseball may be getting younger, but 2015 has had its share of old guys who have played very well and added leadership to their teams. If you had to pick the Old Guy of the Year, you’d lean toward David Ortiz, who finished the season with 37 home runs, 108 RBIs, and a .913 OPS. Continue reading below We’re not homing in on a certain age, but it’s obvious which…

For many players, Philadelphia becomes merely a second home. What we aim to do is take a look at those whose squirming, shrieking forms first breached within our city limits before setting off on their grand baseball adventure somewhere else in the vast world. *** William “Yank” Robinson DOB: September 9, 1859 What was happening in Philadelphia at the time: Little did 1859 Philadelphia know, but…

David Price couldn’t resist showing a little school spirit. The Blue Jays ace had just pitched seven shutout innings to win at Yankee Stadium in early August, boosted by Justin Smoak’s grand slam. A half-hour later, while Smoak talked softly in the middle of the clubhouse about his big shot, Price sneaked up behind him. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” Price hollered. Waving toward Toronto teammate Josh Donaldson, the lefty from Vanderbilt let…

David Price couldn’t resist showing a little school spirit. The Blue Jays ace had just pitched seven shutout innings to win at Yankee Stadium in early August, boosted by Justin Smoak’s grand slam. A half-hour later, while Smoak talked softly in the middle of the clubhouse about his big shot, Price sneaked up behind him. “S-E-C! S-E-C!” Price hollered. Waving toward Toronto teammate Josh Donaldson, the lefty from Vanderbilt let…

There needs to be a name for yesterday. As long as Major League Baseball adheres to its current postseason format, it appears, we will have at least one day of every year with four guaranteed postseason baseball games (weather permitting, of course). Because the schedule dictates that this day now always occurs on a Friday, I propose that it be called — wait for it — “Four-Game Friday.” Is that…