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Josh Beckett‘s 2013 continued in its nightmarish fashion last night. He moved to 0-5 after losing to the Nats, giving up four runs — two earned — in three innings. His ERA went up to 5.19 and, as a capper, he “tweaked his groin,” which sounds way more fun than it actually is. Beckett said…
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Braves 10, Diamondbacks 1: Justin Upton went 4 for 5 with a homer and 2 RBI. Chris Johnson went 3 for 4 with a homer and 3 RBI. Martin Prado had a couple of hits and I suppose he was gritty. Gonna say that the first visit to Arizona for the Braves post-trade falls to…
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Yesterday Shane Victorino did this: It looked like the kind of thing that would crack every rib in your body. He was taken to the hospital to be checked out. Apparently he checked out OK because he’s been cleared to play in tomorrow’s game. Baseball players: they’re tougher than you and me.
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UPDATE: It’s a done deal, complete with the team’s plans for his playing time: Rick Ankiel in lineup tonight, playing center field. — Adam Rubin (@AdamRubinESPN) May 13, 2013 Terry Collins said Rick Ankiel will start against righties and Juan Lagares against lefties in center field. — Adam Rubin (@AdamRubinESPN) May 13, 2013 Bonus fun:…
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How long will players be under suspicion for PED use because they fought testing in the 90s?
May 13, 2013, 4:30 PM EDT
Gregg Doyel has a column up at CBS Sports.com talking about that whole David Ortiz-Dan Shaughnessy flap from last week in which Shaughnessy basically said it was cool to assume Ortiz was on PEDs because he was hitting well at the time. Doyel’s not a big fan of how Shaughnessy raised the issue — he said…
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Today I fly solo on HBT Daily, talking about all the near-misses we’ve had so far this year. And speculating as to who may through baseball’s first no-hitter in 2013.
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Breathe easy, everyone: Melky Cabrera is going to get his World Series ring
May 13, 2013, 2:30 PM EDT
The Giants’ 2012 World Series win didn’t feature any contributions from Melky Cabrera, but their 2012 regular season sure did. And it’s not going unrecognized: Cabrera will receive his championship ring when the Giants visit the Blue Jays, Cabrera’s new team, on Tuesday. Manager Bruce Bochy performed a similar act last month with Chicago Cubs’…
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Watching the Tigers-Indians game yesterday and noticed that Chris Perez was warming up to come into a close, extra-innings game. Then he sat down and Terry Francona went with a combo of Rich Hill and Cody Allen in the 10th. What gives? While warming up in the bullpen in the top of the ninth, Perez…
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The Rays have had a lot of run-ins with the umpires this season. David Price and that whole deal with Tom Hallion. Joe Maddon’s multiple ejections. But Maddon tells Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times that he’s not worried about retaliation or getting boned on future calls: “You only get a bad reputation if…
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Foul balls into the stands: “You can hear the screams of the fan that’s been hit”
May 13, 2013, 11:33 AM EDT
I was on the first base line at Great American Ballpark on Saturday and a pop fly foul ball came my way, about three rows back and 25-30 feet beyond where we were sitting. It wasn’t caught on the fly. A few moments later I heard some commotion, looked back and saw a girl a…
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First there was Neil Young’s “ditch trilogy.” Now we have Chris Jaffe’s “morbid trilogy.” First, he looked at who lived the longest time after playing in a World Series. Then he looked at the last surviving men to have played for some important managers. Now he’s looking at who were the last surviving teammates of some of the game’s…
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Marlins reliever A.J. Ramos tried to eat a 12-egg omelet at the Broken Yolk in San Diego the other day. He failed: “It was really good with the chili and everything, but when you eat that much of anything it started tasting pretty bad,” Ramos said. “I saw a girl on [the wall], so I…
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Last week we learned that the Giants are paying back wages to clubhouse attendants who were not properly compensated for their work. Now, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, AT&T Park concession workers have authorized a strike against the company which operates in the Giants’ ballpark. The concession employees have not had a contract for three…
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That’s the implication one gets from this interview with Chris Carpenter in the Post-Dispatch. He’s a friend of Halladay’s, and suggests that Halladay decided to have the surgery he’s having in order to come back and take another shot at a World Series, which Carpenter says is very important to him. Maybe, but there’s no…
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Michael Clair of Old Time Family Baseball brings the “science” for the third straight Mother’s Day, comparing the performance of pink bat users during yesterday’s games to the non-pink-bat users. His findings are somewhat different than they were the past couple of years. Did the pink bats lose their mojo? Did the pink-stitched ball throw…
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The media, particularly the Washington media, has spent several years now trafficking in some pretty major Bryce Harper hype. To his credit, Harper has lived up to that hype. More than lived up to it, in my view, to the point where the hype isn’t all that crazy. So what to do you now if…
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What you missed while you were beating on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past, while watching 23 straight showings of a most silly and inappropriate film adaptation: They imposed a No Mo Zone in Kansas City Roy Halladay apologized The Marlins should apologize Just when you thought you were rid of Chris Carpenter Just…
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White Sox 3, Angels 0: Chris Sale was fantastic. And not just because of that suh-weet 1983 throwback jersey. A perfect game into the seventh and then the hit that inning to Mike Trout was all the Angels could muster. Indians 4, Tigers 3: Watched this one with the girlfriend’s parents. Tigers fans. Let’s just…
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Relatively unprecedented. From MLB: Umpire Fieldin Culbreth, the crew chief in Thursday night’s game between the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim and the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park in Houston, has received a two-game suspension and a fine for the misapplication of Official Baseball Rule 3.05(b) in the top of the seventh inning, Major League Baseball…
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Red Sox CEO Tom Werner goes after the media for making unfounded accusations against Red Sox players
May 10, 2013, 4:15 PM EDT
This is somewhat unusual: Tom Werner, the CEO of the Boston Red Sox has taken to MLB.com to respond to Dan Shaughnessy’s accusing questions to David Ortiz about PED use and various media members’ accusations against Clay Buchholz about doctoring the baseball: I fully acknowledge the right the media has to ask difficult questions and…
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Kay and I talk about the only thing keeping them from getting an F.
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Was Angel Hernandez’s bad call because he’s philosophically opposed to replay?
May 10, 2013, 12:30 PM EDT
From the Dan Patrick show today, a suggestion by Peter Gammons that Angel Hernandez may have refused to credit Adam Rosales of the A’s with a home run rather than a double even after instant replay showed it was clearly a homer because he doesn’t believe in instant replay. If so … wow. Of course, if…
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David Ortiz thinks Shaughnessy’s PED accusations were culturally insensitive
May 10, 2013, 11:36 AM EDT
I was going to say “racist” but Ortiz doesn’t actually say that. I think the phrase “culturally insensitive” is stupid. I dunno. Here are his words, translated from Spanish, over at ESPN Boston. You decide what he thinks: “Yesterday, the guy came to see me and asked some questions about steroids, and when you see…
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The moment Josh Hamilton signed with the Angels I began wondering when T.J. Simers would saunter up to him and do his usual antagonistic shtick. The answer: yesterday. And what’s Hamilton’s awful transgression for which Simers demands answers: he smiles. Uh-oh, we’ve got another smiler. This catches on and we won’t have any athletes around town who…
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Mentioned this in ATH, but it’s worth another look: here’s Juan Lagares robbing Andrew McCutchen of what might have been a homer in the ninth inning last night. Could have fallen short, in which case it would have been a double. Unless Angel Hernandez was umping, in which case it might have been a homer…
