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Fastballs, faith and family: Pat Neshek on Father’s Day
Just off the back of the kitchen, in the family room, there’s another collection, a cluster of framed photos hanging on an otherwise stark wall. One is of a glowing mother kissing her newborn. Another shows a beaming father kissing the same infant. A third is the baby by himself. In each shot, Gehrig Neshek […]
Continue readingMLB in July brings revenge homers, dueling grand slams and a Zack (or Zach or Zac) attack
July 1 Kyle Schwarber — then a National — hit a double. Over his previous 35 games, he had 18 home runs — and no other extra-base hits. The only other player in major league history to hit that many home runs in a 35-game stretch and have no other extra base hits was Roger […]
Continue readingCleveland Indians RHP Aaron Civale (finger) expected to miss 4-5 weeks
Cleveland said Civale won’t throw for 1-2 weeks. Civale left in the fifth inning of Monday night’s win over the Chicago Cubs. His 10 wins this season is tied with the Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks for most in the majors. Civale had a 3-2 count on Eric Sogard with two out when he was visited by […]
Continue readingCleveland Indians expect MLB wins leader Aaron Civale to miss time with finger injury
The major league leader with 10 wins, Civale left in the fifth inning of Monday night’s win over the Chicago Cubs. The pitcher is scheduled to be examined by hand specialist Dr. Thomas Graham on Wednesday. “My guess is we will need to make a roster move,” manager Terry Francona said Tuesday. “Because of tomorrow’s […]
Continue readingCleveland Indians RHP Aaron Civale exits with injured finger on pitching hand
Civale, who leads the majors with 10 wins, had a 3-2 count on Eric Sogard with two out in the fifth inning when he was visited by manager Terry Francona and a trainer. The trainer examined Civale’s right hand before the pitcher was removed. “The tip of his finger was bothering him, so we didn’t […]
Continue readingChicago Cubs place outfielder Jake Marisnick on IL with right hamstring injury
Marisnick is dealing with a right hamstring strain. He got hurt in the first inning of Sunday’s 6-5 loss to Pittsburgh. The 30-year-old also had trouble with each of his hamstrings last year during the pandemic-shortened season. “A couple weeks it’s kind of been a little tight,” Marisnick said Tuesday. “Finally got to the point […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings: Where all 30 teams stand coming out of trade deadline
With the 2020 MLB trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, what you see on big league rosters is what you’ll get as baseball takes its turn into the stretch drive. As Major League Baseball clubs shook up their squads, we saw considerable moves up and down this week’s rankings. The biggest moves up were […]
Continue readingTwins finding out why trading for Kenta Maeda could help fix their October troubles
Kenta Maeda is what I refer to as a kitchen sink pitcher — as in he’ll throw the whole kitchen sink at you. On Tuesday night, the veteran right-hander had everything working for the Minnesota Twins in their game against the Brewers: fastball, sinker, slider, splitter, blender, waffle iron. Through eight innings, the Brewers looked […]
Continue readingMLB Power Rankings: Who needs to step up for all 30 teams
With a third of the 2020 MLB season already gone, it’s time to acknowledge that some of the bottom-tier teams that have had stunning turnarounds in the standings may well stick in the playoff picture the rest of the way. We knew the 60-game schedule was going to create some level of randomness and potentially […]
Continue readingMLB’s new extra-innings rule is here and — surprise! — it’s glorious
It became clear a couple of years ago that Major League Baseball and its commissioner, Rob Manfred, were working toward an inevitable introduction of weird extra-innings rules, and in this space we were pretty harsh to it. “The runner-on-second-with-nobody-out fix is just about the most boring idea to end games you could think of,” we […]
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