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HOUSTON — Ruth and Gehrig. Mantle and Maris. Ramirez and Ortiz. Altuve and Correa? Maybe it’s just the fatigue kicking in after a crazy-long and just plain crazy night at Minute Maid Park. But is there any other middle-of-the-lineup combination in baseball you’d rather have right now — and in whose future you’d invest — than the Astros’ Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa? Especially when you consider their defensive value?…

HOUSTON — Ruth and Gehrig. Mantle and Maris. Ramirez and Ortiz. Altuve and Correa? Maybe it’s just the fatigue kicking in after a crazy-long and just plain crazy night at Minute Maid Park. But is there any other middle-of-the-lineup combination in baseball you’d rather have right now — and in whose future you’d invest — than the Astros’ Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa? Especially when you consider their defensive value?…

HOUSTON — Words fail. Analogies go limp. A common refrain for a game like Game 5 of the 2017 World Series is that baseball is drunk. Baseball is not drunk. Drunk people don’t fall up the stairs, through a window, and explode upon contact with the moon. This is not a movie. Movies have plots, logical progressions from A to B. This is not an avant-garde movie, either, where the…

The racist gesture made by the Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel toward the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish on Friday night called for somebody in power to swing for the fences. Instead, baseball bunted. After a nation witnessed Gurriel tugging on the corners of his eyes while using an ethnic slur about Darvish, Commissioner Rob Manfred needed to make a powerful statement Saturday that included an immediate suspension. Instead, he offered words backed…

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too,” Yogi Berra once quipped. As the leaves change colors, the air becomes crisp, and the Dodgers and Astros prepare for a critical Game 5, I can’t help but agree with Yogi. Baseball is pretty good, even if it is as much a work in progress as America’s experiment in democracy. On the field, the game…

The Philadelphia Eagles have evolved their initial baseball group celebration against the 49ers. After an Alshon Jeffery touchdown against the 49ers, the wideout once again pretended to participate in a baseball celebration. Jeffery was the batter this time and got hit by a Zach Ertz pitch. Jeffery then pretended to charge the mound, as baseball players sometimes do. Next time, Ertz should probably pretend to square up since baseball players…

HOUSTON — After Game 4 of the 2017 World Series Saturday night, a report broke that several players and coaches from both teams have been complaining about the baseballs. Notably, the balls are more slick than the ones during the regular season — which we’ve been hearing have been “juiced” (Read: Wound tighter to travel further) since around the 2015 All-Star break.  We know home runs have been up everywhere….

If you were sitting, watching Game 5 and trying to stay awake through extra innings, and casually wondered “what’s something I should never do at a baseball game?” you have your answer. Of course, there are lots of things you should never do at a baseball game but this is definitely one of them. In the ninth inning of the never-ending Game 5, Yasiel Puig hit a two-run home run…

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too,” Yogi Berra once quipped. As the leaves change colors, the air becomes crisp, and the Dodgers and Astros prepare for a critical Game 5, I can’t help but agree with Yogi. Baseball is pretty good, even if it is as much a work in progress as America’s experiment in democracy. On the field, the game…

The Philadelphia Eagles have evolved their initial baseball group celebration against the 49ers. After an Alshon Jeffery touchdown against the 49ers, the wideout once again pretended to participate in a baseball celebration. Jeffery was the batter this time and got hit by a Zach Ertz pitch. Jeffery then pretended to charge the mound, as baseball players sometimes do. Next time, Ertz should probably pretend to square up since baseball players…

The racist gesture made by the Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel toward the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish on Friday night called for somebody in power to swing for the fences. Instead, baseball bunted. After a nation witnessed Gurriel tugging on the corners of his eyes while using an ethnic slur about Darvish, Commissioner Rob Manfred needed to make a powerful statement Saturday that included an immediate suspension. Instead, he offered words backed…

8:43 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment HOUSTON — Justin Verlander threw 17 sliders in Game 2 of the World Series last Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium. Only one of those pitches produced a swing-and-miss, leading the Houston Astros ace to suspect something might be amiss. Verlander isn’t alone. A new controversy gripped baseball Sunday when Sports Illustrated published a report in which players and coaches…

“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too,” Yogi Berra once quipped. As the leaves change colors, the air becomes crisp, and the Dodgers and Astros prepare for a critical Game 5, I can’t help but agree with Yogi. Baseball is pretty good, even if it is as much a work in progress as America’s experiment in democracy. On the field, the game…

The Philadelphia Eagles have evolved their initial baseball group celebration against the 49ers. After an Alshon Jeffery touchdown against the 49ers, the wideout once again pretended to participate in a baseball celebration. Jeffery was the batter this time and got hit by a Zach Ertz pitch. Jeffery then pretended to charge the mound, as baseball players sometimes do. Next time, Ertz should probably pretend to square up since baseball players…

This World Series feels different. Just ask the pitchers.  There’s long been speculation that the baseballs have been different in recent years, leading to a soaring home run rate. But in this year’s Fall Classic, the feel of the baseballs is creating problems for pitchers, especially when it comes to throwing their sliders, according to a report from Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci. “It’s different. I noticed it…

“Obviously,” Manfred said, “World Series games are different than regular-season games.” Among the other reasons Manfred cited for delaying the suspension, this stands out: “I felt it was unfair to punish the other 24 players on the Astros roster,” he said. “I wanted the burden of this discipline to fall primarily on the wrongdoer.” Denying Gurriel a chance to help his team in the World Series would have severely affected…

Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts, whose mother is Japanese, also praised Darvish’s handling of the situation. “The way that Yu responded I think on camera, through social media, I completely commend him, support him, echo his thoughts that we need to learn from this. It’s obviously not acceptable,” Roberts said.

The racist gesture made by the Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel toward the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish on Friday night called for somebody in power to swing for the fences. Instead, baseball bunted. After a nation witnessed Gurriel tugging on the corners of his eyes while using an ethnic slur about Darvish, Commissioner Rob Manfred needed to make a powerful statement Saturday that included an immediate suspension. Instead, he offered words backed…

Photo by Lelands The custom cap Jackie Robinson wore to shield him from bean balls. Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, seldom lost any baseball contests. But at 1:43 AM this morning his cap was no longer the most valuable in the sports memorabilia world. Jackie Robinson’s special cap to protect him from beanings sold for $590,994 in a Lelands auction. Robinson’s headgear eclipsed the previous record. In 2012 SCP…

The racist gesture made by the Houston Astros’ Yuli Gurriel toward the Dodgers’ Yu Darvish on Friday night called for somebody in power to swing for the fences. Instead, baseball bunted. After a nation witnessed Gurriel tugging on the corners of his eyes while using an ethnic slur about Darvish, Commissioner Rob Manfred needed to make a powerful statement Saturday that included an immediate suspension. Instead, he offered words backed…