Baseball is chock full of odd habits and conventions that, through decades and decades of use, we've all normalized as "tradition" -- not to be trifled with, or touched, or thought about for too long. Why is the foul pole in fair territory? Why is it called a shortstop? Why do we...
Another memorable evening came thanks to the hotel OMO5 Tokyo Otsuka, part of the Japanese group Hoshino Resorts. Otsuka is a small neighborhood with quiet streets, a tram service, and, for Tokyo, a remarkable lack of cars; it is also home to a large population of Vietnamese, Indian, an...
Posada is synonymous with the Yankees, and played all 1,829 of his career games with New York. He came up in their farm system, as well, and played seven games in Albany at the end of the 1993 season. He hit .280 during that stretch, and was in Triple-A to start the next season...
Kapler ran out of reliable bullpen arms. He had used Tony Watson to lock up the first win of the doubleheader, and Caleb Baragar and Sam Selman had been used after Jeff Samardzija was pulled in the second game, each going a third straight day. Jarlin Garcia was used. Tyler ...
This is it, more than anything. The Mets swing at strikes more than all butthree other teams, andonly one teameats fewer called strikes. When they're either taking balls or strikes of any variety (including fouls), they're one of baseball's most efficient offenses. ...
"As he's bragging to the bullpen about standing up to this mobster, you can see that there is a replacement painting on the wall where Pam's watercolor would have been. It says, 'Being Cleaned,' and it has stars and smiley faces all around it," she said. "This is something that ...
penalties, we get instant replays of penalties. Talk about a bad joke. Now any play, even one with no flags, can be called back. Even a flag itself can, after five minutes of boring delay, be nullified. NFL time has entered the Twilight Zone. Nothing is real; everything is ...
Fifty years ago, Leonard Kleinrock helped create the internet. In an interview via FaceTime, he reflected on the experiment of a world living more and more inside the internet during lockdown, why the internet probably won’t break under the s...
Is there any way Vlad Guerrero Jr. doesn't win this award in the AL next year? Schoenfield: Sure, he'll be the overwhelming favorite and should be called up early in the season, but there could be other impact rookies like Kyle Tucker, Forrest Whitley andJosh Jameswith the Astros; Eloy...
After arriving at Three Rivers to begin his preparations for Game 5, Tanner called a hospital in nearby Greenville, where his mother had been recovering from a stroke that occurred two weeks earlier. He wanted an update on her condition before focusing on the gam...