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[Ed. note: the following piece is another installment in our Hate Week series. Isabelle kicked us off, and then yesterday Mandy found some surprising sympathy for Bobby Ayala. This piece was originally slated to run yesterday, but felt like an unnecessary buzz-harsher after a thrilling late-innings victory. Luckily, the Astros—with an assist from HP umpire Dan Bellino—went right back to their dream-crushing selves yesterday. This is still pretty mad though,…

Baseball Hall of Fame players throw the ceremonial first pitch before the MLB baseball All-Star Game in Miami on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Wilfredo Lee / AP)   Get The Nation Daily. Independent news is more important than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox every weekday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a…

Clayton Kershaw pitched seven scoreless innings for his major league-leading 15th victory and the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the Chicago White Sox 1-0 Tuesday night for their 10th straight victory. Kershaw (15-2) made his first start since the All-Star break, scattering seven hits and a walk to post his 11th win in a row. The Dodgers, with the best record in baseball at 65-29, have won 30 of 34. This…

Baseball Hall of Fame players throw the ceremonial first pitch before the MLB baseball All-Star Game in Miami on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Wilfredo Lee / AP)   Get The Nation Daily. Independent news is more important than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox every weekday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Get to know this year’s El Paso Baseball Hall of Fame inductees. Wochit Buy Photo 2017 El Paso Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Rene Quinones graduated from Eastwood High School. The pitcher then played at Hutchinson Junior College and the University of New Mexico. He later signed a free agent contract with the Cincinnati Reds and pitched in the pioneer league for Billings, Winston/Salem and…

7:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Mike Trout is back just in the nick of time. The Angels superstar, who missed six agonizing weeks with a torn ligament in his left thumb, returned to action Friday, getting five hits and a walk during L.A.’s weekend series against Tampa Bay. During Trout’s absence, his bizarrely marginalized place as baseball’s consensus best player was compromised further by…

For those of you scoring at home, one day after newly acquired Jose Quintana struck out 12 and walked none while allowing just three hits in seven scoreless innings in Baltimore, Jon Lester held the Braves to one run in seven innings while also allowing just three hits to go along with six strikeouts and one walk. Pitching six innings while allowing three runs or fewer is called a quality start….

Baseball Hall of Fame players throw the ceremonial first pitch before the MLB baseball All-Star Game in Miami on Tuesday, July 11, 2017. (Wilfredo Lee / AP)   Get The Nation Daily. Independent news is more important than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox every weekday. Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe now for as little as $2 a…

7:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Mike Trout is back just in the nick of time. The Angels superstar, who missed six agonizing weeks with a torn ligament in his left thumb, returned to action Friday, getting five hits and a walk during L.A.’s weekend series against Tampa Bay. During Trout’s absence, his bizarrely marginalized place as baseball’s consensus best player was compromised further by…

Last week, after they cried for their fallen sister Miosotis Familia at her funeral in the Bronx, her NYPD colleagues from the Four-Six retired to a place in Yonkers called Rory Dolan’s. Familia was 48 years old, with 12 years on the job and three kids and an ailing 87-year-old mother at home, when a guy who hated cops walked up to the police vehicle she was sitting in and…

We’ve seen many gender reveals that had the baseball touch. Corey Knebel and his wife revealed the gender of their baby girl during family day earlier this season, and Avisail Garcia found out the gender of his son via the jumbotron at Guaranteed Rate Field. One story was a bit different. It had all the elements for a baseball-themed gender reveal, but it didn’t quite go as planned. Kyle Tait,…

“Do the Diamondbacks have the best rotation in baseball?” feels like a weird question to ask, not least because while there’s certainly a curvature to their movement, I’d call it more of a “slither” than a “rotation”… But seriously, folks. It’s a legitimate question now. For the first decade of their existence, the Diamondbacks were a team built on pitching. Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, maybe the best one-two punch…

If baseball is a business, then their customer service sucks! At least in Oakland this month this is, and will be, the case. How many times have we heard Billy Beane talk about “We’re getting ready…We’re rebuilding…We want to be ready for the new stadium.” Well we’ve been Beaned again by the same rhetoric regarding the trade of Ryan Madson and Sean Doolittle. But I’m telling you, there’s something lacking…

“The good hitters, you don’t gain too much ground forward,” Toronto catcher Russell Martin said. “It’s kind of a theme: They have their heads still because your head is your camera. If you move your head at all, it kind of changes how you’re seeing things.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story By staying so heavily weighted on his back side, carrying that sensation of squatting 300 pounds through his…

See more of the story How to make baseball better? We posed that question last week after batting it around in the office, where the responses ranged from half-price beer for last call in the seventh inning to pitch clocks and limits on visits to the mound. The topic of how to “fix” baseball is a popular one lately. The position here is that baseball doesn’t need fixing. The greatness…

“The good hitters, you don’t gain too much ground forward,” Toronto catcher Russell Martin said. “It’s kind of a theme: They have their heads still because your head is your camera. If you move your head at all, it kind of changes how you’re seeing things.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story By staying so heavily weighted on his back side, carrying that sensation of squatting 300 pounds through his…

It sounds like something from NASA. Launch angle. Yet, it is all the rage in Major League Baseball. Sluggers are clearing fences like never before. There were 1,101 home runs during June, breaking the previous record of 1,069 in May of 2000, which was at the height of the so-called steroid era. One of the explanations given:…

With the second half of the season underway, fantasy owners are looking for ways to give their team a much-needed boost. Sometimes looking on the waiver wires and keeping your fingers crossed is the way to go, but sometimes it’s the disappointments you drafted or picked up early then held onto who wind up being your saviors over the final months. Maikel Franco was expected to take a huge step…

The future of baseball is up in the air thanks to Major League Baseball‘s intent to make rule changes to speed up games. Commissioner Rob Manfred has been harping on pace-of-game issues since he took over for Bud Selig, yet the average game time of 3 hours, 5 minutes in the first half of this season would set a new record if it holds up the rest of the year….

With the second half of the season underway, fantasy owners are looking for ways to give their team a much-needed boost. Sometimes looking on the waiver wires and keeping your fingers crossed is the way to go, but sometimes it’s the disappointments you drafted or picked up early then held onto who wind up being your saviors over the final months. Maikel Franco was expected to take a huge step…