The Beach hit just .248 as a team in those 15 games, but coach Valenzuela states, “I love our offense. The batting average from last year doesn’t show the success we actually had. The pitching and competition we played against obviously had a lot to do with it.” But...
Since this is a baseball trip, here’s a riddle: what 9-man squad took 7 years before being caught stealing? Turns out it’s not a baseball team at all, but rather the 9 thieves who were charged in June 2023 with the July 2016 pilfering of Roger Maris’ 1960 MVP Award and Hickok...
"We get an on-shore breeze most days," Riddle told me. "So that makes the park play a lot bigger. We used to have guys that would come in and say, 'Oh man, I'm gonna hit three home runs today.' But then there's always the smart guy on the team, and the smart guys says,...
Paul DeJong, Chris Taylor, Brock Holt, Trea Turner, JT Riddle, and Tim Anderson fall in somewhere between nine and twenty. If you’re scoring at home, that’s zero in the top six, one in the top eight, and seven in the top twenty-five. Down the list we’ll find Nick Ahmed at ...
At the bottom line, baseball has a heck of a riddle to solve. That doesn't mean that it should quit trying. The game needs to keep pushing even though things could get a whole lot worse while it makes the effort. Imagine what it looks like if the current rate...
Earlier this year, I tried to solve the riddle of how Shota Imanaga threw his invisible fastball. The pitch had (and still has) a rare combination of traits: At the time of writing, only Imanaga and Cristian Javier threw fastballs from super flat vertical approach angles (VAA) with elite...
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We pass time playing cards (Pitch, Texas Hold 'Em are popular) and riddle games (Hat Game, Snaps, City Game, Green Glass Doors are a few popular ones for those who are familiar).The coaching staff thus far has been great. I have worked hard with the pitching coach (former DI pitcher...
607 J.T. Riddle 608 Ehire Adrianza 609 Kauffman Stadium 610 Howie Kendrick 611 Chris Shaw RC 612 Mark Canha 613 Welington Castillo 614 Ryan Braun 615 Nick Tropeano 616 Oracle Park 617 Hernan Perez 618 Nick Martini RC 619 Tommy Hunter 620 Jared Hughes 621 Pat Valaika ...
Hand the bat to the first person in line. This pitcher will toss a balloon in the air and the other player must keep it in the air and guide it to the bucket using the bat. Set the timer to two minutes. When the game begins they will try to get as many balloons to the bucket ...