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Another day of minor league baseball is in the books. See the results below. Check out the previous day’s recap here. AAA: Sugar Land Space Cowboys (23-31) lost 9-2 (BOX SCORE) Pecko started for Sugar Land but struggled allowing 6 runs over 4.1 innings. The Sugar Land offense got on the board in the first […]
Hickory starter Jesus Lafalaise allowed two runs in six innings of work, striking out two and walking three. Hector Osorio was 2 for 5 with a homer. Paulino Santana homered. Marcos Torres homered, walked and stole a base. Esteban Mejia was 2 for 4 with a walk and a double. Josh Spring doubled. Yolfran Castillo […]
The battle between shortstops Roch Cholowsky and Grady Emerson to be the No. 1 pick in the 2026 MLB draft could be tightening.
Since this is Friday Flakes and I get to write about whatever I want, then today I choose baseball. Get to know the name Ashton Nance. If this kid ends up being as good for Nebraska as he has been for Johnson County (Kansas) Junior College and plays with the same energy and intensity that […]
Listen, you’re just here to see how Gage Wood did last night, so let’s get to the good stuff. Lehigh Valley 9, Buffalo 4 Felix Reyes continued to stay hot with the Ironpigs and makes the question of why not see what he can do again at the major league level one that deserves a […]
Good morning everyone and happy Friday! The M’s will take on the Diamondbacks today for the first in a three-game weekend set. The D-Backs have long been one of my favorite NL squads — they’re geographically close(ish) but harmless to the Mariners in the grand scheme. Though, nobody will top the Nationals for me. What […]
Hello, and welcome to my column about positivity. Please leave all negative feelings at the door as they won’t be tolerated. Lol, just kidding, I’m a super negative person. I’m Irish, an attorney, and a Kansas City sports fan. I never stood a chance. But sometimes I have these terrible bouts of optimism. They’re rare, […]
Diamondbacks News (SI.com) The Diamondbacks Have a Geraldo Perdomo Problem Franchise shortstop Geraldo Perdomo, who sprung to life with an elite seven-WAR season and a fourth-place MVP placement in 2025, has a mere .671 OPS. He’s on pace to produce his worst full-season OPS since 2022, when (at 22 years old) he hit just .195. […]
Brewers broadcaster Jeff Levering stops by The Crawfish Boxes to preview the weekend series versus Milwaukee. Q: Christian Yelich was slowed in May with that groin strain. Last May when he last faced the Astros, he had some nice at bats against them. What kind of season is he having this year? A: Yelich […]
There was plenty to like on the offensive end at the lower levels, with some top prospects going off for big games in wins. Isaiah Drake broke a nearly two-week long streak of no extra base hits with an impressive home run in a Rome win, a game that was also marked by another great […]
Following a much-needed sweep of the Kansas City Royals, the Yankees enjoyed an off day on Thursday. They next head further west to take on the Athletics, who are very much in the American League’s playoff picture. The first place Rays were also off the schedule, though there were still games of note to take […]
The New York Mets (22-33) welcome the Miami Marlins (26-31) to Citi Field, one week after Miami swept New York down at loanDepot Park. Miami promptly went out and lost two out of three to the Blue Jays, much like how the Mets lost two of three to the Reds following the sweep. The Mets […]
We made it through another week A’s fans! Ready for a huge weekend of A’s baseball? The Yankees are in town and the series kicks off tonight in Sacramento. The Athletics just got swept for just the second time this season and have fallen out of first place so stacking up a couple wins against […]
The Comets and Drillers won comfortably as Tulsa managed to get at least one of the games in, pushing the doubleheader to this Friday. Player of the day The standout player in the Dodgers’ minor league system early in the season, James Tibbs III, returned to the spotlight with one of his most impressive performances […]
The Brayan Bello Experience is turning into a complicated one in Boston on numerous levels. In the short-term, it’s unclear whether he should start or enter the game behind an “Opener.” In the season-long term, it’s unclear if he should be in the starting rotation or the bullpen. In the long, long term, it’s unclear […]
When it was happening, the San Diego Padres and their fans knew the walk-off wins and seventh inning surges would not propel them through the season — but it was fun. The most recent homestand saw the Padres finish with a 3-6 record over nine games at Petco Park and was hardly the result anyone […]
We took a little mini break from bases per out, but we were always going to come back. This is really about two suppositions. First, the Astros current pitching staff is MLB average. We saw that in the last lab that we ran on Wednesday. Yes, Josh Hader is due back next week. Hunter Brown […]
Astros 5, Rangers 1
Good morning, LSB. The Rangers lost to the Astros last night, 5-1. Shawn McFarland’s game story discusses the hole that Texas’ starting pitching has been digging in the early going of games. Kennedi Landry evaluates what’s gone wrong with the Rangers’ season one-third of the way into it. Skip Schumaker missed the game while attending […]
The league and the union are debating the future of baseball's economic structure. They took very different approaches in the proposals they each announced this week.
Happy Friday, everyone. It’s been a rough week to be a Tigers fan, and with the two upcoming series against the White Sox and Rays the Tigers are going to need to fight for every potential win. I never thought I’d say that about the White Sox, but they’ve just had their first winning month […]
The Cubs broke their long losing streak with a 10-4 win over the Pirates Wednesday, though that game was close until the late innings after the Cubs had taken an early lead. They followed the same script Thursday, though it took them a while to break through against Paul Skenes. Even so, a 3-0 lead […]
Jhoan Duran has been every bit the elite closer he was advertised as since arriving in Philadelphia last year. In 40 appearances since joining the Phillies at the trade deadline last season, Duran is 27 for 30 in save opportunities with a 1.93 ERA and 0.96 WHIP. He’s off to a great start so far […]
Back in February, Jordan Westburg got a double-whammy of bad news: after suffering an oblique strain, he started feeling elbow discomfort, only to learn he’d partly torn his UCL—a bad injury, under any circumstances. Most people figured that Jordan Westburg was gone for this calendar year (this even before it was announced in May that […]
As the most recent member of the 20 jacks club, Munetaka Murakami has proven that he’s the real deal. As the first rookie ever to blast 20 homers before June, Murakami quickly progressed from winning over White Sox fans’ hearts to gaining national traction. In less than two months, his name is already getting thrown […]