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One great moment of the 2020 MLB season for all 30 teams
Before the 2020 MLB season began, when we wondered whether the World Series champion would get an asterisk for the season being so short/anomalous/weird, I predicted this: The winner would be seen as just as legitimate as in any other year, especially with an extra round of playoffs making the October run that much harder. […]
Continue readingMLB playoffs 2020: How the Atlanta Braves built arguably baseball’s best offense around Freddie Freeman
It began with Freddie Freeman. Literally. Turn the clock back to 2013. Freeman had completed his third season as the Atlanta Braves’ everyday first baseman, taking over at age 21 after a cup of coffee in the majors near the end of 2010. During those first three years, the Braves won 89, 94 and 96 […]
Continue readingAtlanta Braves shut out Cincinnati Reds again, win first postseason series in 19 years
ATLANTA — It had been so long since the Atlanta Braves won a postseason series, Marcell Ozuna wanted to make sure he captured the moment. Then Adam Duvall joined the selfie bandwagon. Ian Anderson dazzled in another shutout performance for Atlanta, and the Braves won a playoff series for the first time in almost two […]
Continue readingFormer World Series MVP Pablo Sandoval on Atlanta Braves roster
The 2012 World Series MVP joined the Braves after being released by the San Francisco Giants a couple of weeks ago. He started at third base in the final game of the regular season, going 0-for-2 with two walks in a 9-1 loss to the Boston Red Sox. Sandoval played 33 games for the Giants, […]
Continue readingMLB playoffs preview: Everything you need to know about the 16-team postseason
It’s time for the MLB playoffs! After a wild sprint to the finish that needed every day of the regular season to determine the seeding, the real fun begins. For the first time, 16 teams will enter the postseason, and just a few short days later half of them will be headed home. Who will […]
Continue readingFernando Tatis Jr. and MLB’s 100 most entertaining players
Fernando Tatis Jr. was wearing a microphone during a recent Padres game, chatting with the broadcasters from his shortstop position in the middle of the second-inning action. It was charming audio — hearing him encourage and coordinate with his teammates, getting a camera isolated on baseball’s most exciting player for every pitch and play — […]
Continue readingReds manager David Bell among those suspended for one game following a benches-clearing incident with Cubs in Cincinnati
He will serve the suspension Monday night, when the Reds take on the Cardinals. The punishment stems from Saturday’s incident between the Reds and Cubs on the back end of a doubleheader at Great American Ball Park. Chris Young, Major League Baseball’s senior vice president of baseball operations, announced the penalty for Bell on Monday, […]
Continue readingManagers tossed after ‘chirping,’ errant pitches lead benches to clear in Cubs-Reds
First, David Ross was tossed after Reds pitcher Tejay Antone threw a fastball over the head of Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo in the top of the fourth inning. Rizzo had homered twice in the Cubs’ 3-0 win in Game 1. “That’s not a slip,” Ross said after the Reds won Game 2, 6-5. “That’s […]
Continue readingWalkouts proof MLB’s men in uniform are learning to listen
Chicago Cubs manager David Ross, a white man raised in northern Florida, struggled to compose himself when asked about Jason Heyward‘s plight as a Black man in America. “I can’t even imagine what he’s going through,” Ross said, his voice quavering, before abruptly ending his video conference with MLB reporters Wednesday night. The following afternoon, […]
Continue readingEverything you need to know at halfway point of the 2020 MLB season
The motif heading into the 60-game Major League Baseball season was straight out of a 1950s horror movie or a bad slogan for a 1980s Mariners team: Anything can happen. As we come upon the halfway point of the season, however, as much as we hoped for a crazy, unpredictable two months, the top of […]
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