Last night, Detroit Tigers’ RHP Justin Verlander once again flirted with history. Verlander was going for his third career no-no and carried a no-hitter into the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, but with one out in the ninth inning, Verlander hung a curveball to Josh Harrison and Harrison singled cleanly up the middle. Verlander [...]
Last night the Pittsburgh Penguins exploded for 10 goals in Game 4 of their best-of-seven series against the Philadelphia Flyers. In four games against the Flyers, the Penguins have scored 22 goals. Amazingly, what the Penguins have done in four games against the Flyers, the Pittsburgh Pirates have done in 12 games this season. The [...]
Poor Erik Bedard. Well, not really. Bedard has made over $22 million in his career, but when it comes to run support, Bedard is really poor. Bedard pitched decent enough again last night against the Arizona Diamondbacks as he allowed three hits, two runs, four walks, and he struckout three in five innings of work. [...]
After a mediocre first start of the season in which he blew a six-lead, Matt Cain pitched the best game of his career (by Game Score standards) Friday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Cain pitched a complete game shutout or a CGSO as the cool kids say, while only giving up one hit, didn’t walk a [...]
There are 365 days in a year, but only one that counts and that’s Opening Day in baseball. And with all due respect to the games played in Japan and baseball’s Opening Night on Wednesday, Thursday was the real Opening Day. There’s nothing better than a slew of day baseball games and the enthusiasm is [...]
Today is Opening Day in baseball and every team starts out 0-0 and a dream. Well, every team starts out 0-0 except for the Seattle Mariners, Oakland A’s, Miami Marlins, and St. Louis Cardinals. Be it as it may, this year baseball is wide open. You could make the argument for at least 12 teams [...]
