Today in baseball: World Series’ first perfect game Today, sixty-three years ago, Don Larsen accomplished what no-one had ever done before: pitching the first perfect game in World Series history. Game five was a pitchers duel from both sides. Not only did Don Larsen not allow a hit, his opponent, Sal Maglie, allowed only five…
DetailsGleyber Torres is the ‘next great Yankee’ and proving it at perfect time It isn’t like Gleyber Torres snuck up on anyone who’s watched him play every day for the last two years. You can’t excel in New York City in a vacuum, and Torres has excelled from the moment he arrived at Yankee Stadium…
DetailsA consistent lineup changes everything for the Yankees For 162 games the Yankees were a Transformer. Constructed by a chameleon. Painted by Jackson Pollock. You could have played a near daily game of ‘Who is here today?’ Is that Cory Gearrin or Tyler Lyons? Is Jonathan Loaisiga coming so the team could gauge where he…
DetailsManny Machado Reportedly Requests Padres Consider Buck Showalter Padres star third baseman Manny Machado is “letting it be known he would like [the] Padres to at least take a look at” his former skipper Buck Showalter, ESPN.com’s Buster Olney writes on Twitter. Showalter managed Machado for seven seasons in Baltimore. It’s somewhat unusual to hear…
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Groundhog Day in Minneapolis Minnesota Loses 5-1 to New York Sports fans tend to have an inferiority complex. You can see it in the lexicon: East Coast bias, curses of billy goats and Bambinos, jinxes, stadiums where we just never win, bad umpires, scheduling conspiracies, unfair rules, pithy charges of Southern Exceptionalism. The NFL now…
DetailsManfred Reportedly Told Oakland Officials That A’s Could Move To Las Vegas Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf said today that Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred has indicated that he sees Las Vegas, Nevada as a possible relocation spot for the Athletics, Sal Castaneda of KTVU reports on Twitter. Manfred’s threat of exploring options in Vegas had been…
DetailsConsidering Justin Verlander on Short Rest Justin Verlander has never started a game on short rest in the way we conventionally think about short rest starts. Back in 2011, Verlander started Game 1 of the ALDS against the Yankees, but the game was suspended after one inning; he then started Game 3 of that series…
DetailsGirlfriends of Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton support Yankees in ALDS win Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton weren’t without their good luck charms on Monday night. Source: https://nypost.com/2019/10/08/girlfriends-of-aaron-judge-giancarlo-stanton-support-yankees-in-alds-win/
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Starting Pitching is Making a Postseason Comeback The death of the starter has been greatly exaggerated. On the heels of a regular season in which starting pitchers threw a smaller share of innings than ever before, and one year after a postseason in which they threw barely over half the total innings, it seemed quite…
DetailsCameron Maybin deletes tweet shading Twins’ Uber-driving pitcher Cameron Maybin may want to keep an eye on his own Uber rating after this Twitter mishap. The Yankees outfielder deleted a tweet aimed at the Twins’ Uber-driving pitcher Randy Dobnak after the Yanks swept the Twins in the ALDS Monday night, writing, “I’d rate this series…
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