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After a series loss to the Nationals, which had a blowout loss followed by a heartbreaking late-game loss, the Mets headed west again, starting in Anaheim to face the Angels. Christian Scott was getting his second start of the season, hoping to have a much better performance than his first, which would be difficult not […]
Royals 7, Mariners 6 Your Apple TV Winning Moment: Julio Rodríguez, +0.43 WPASetting your apple on fire: Bryan Woo, -.038 WPA Game Thread Comment of the Day
The White Sox have been worse than .500 all season long, so declaring them a must-watch team seems a bit hyperbolic. But Friday’s 8-2 annihilation of a Padres team very strong out of the gate — 5 1/2 games better than Chicago entering play — touched on the three players most likely to make you […]
The Colorado Rockies came out hot. The Atlanta Braves stirred in the fourth, pushed again in the seventh, and fully woke up in the eighth and ninth. A 6-0 Colorado lead became an 8-6 loss at Coors Field. The Braves improved to 23-10, while the Rockies fell to 14-19. For a while, it looked like […]
This Braves road trip couldn’t have started much worse, with the team facing a 5-0 deficit in the first inning. It ended, though, like so many games have this season. With Atlanta celebrating a victory. The Braves rallied from a 6-0 second-inning deficit for an 8-6 victory over the Colorado Rockies in the opener of […]
Friday night at Mizzou Softball Stadium should have been a celebratory occasion. In front of a very nice sized crowd of 2,864 and with a great giveaway — Truman the Tiger bobbleheads! — the Missouri Tigers (27-28, 8-15 SEC) celebrated their four seniors— Haidyn Sokoloski, Kayley Lenger, Courtney Donahue and Cierra Harrison —and hoped to […]
The Dodgers (20-12) failed to get their bats going in a 7-2 loss to the Cardinals (19-13) Friday night at Busch stadium in St. Louis. The L.A. bats didn’t muster much against the Marlins this week, including in Wednesday’s series finale. They got their first day off in two weeks, and a break was what […]
Northwestern baseball’s cherished tradition of playing at Wrigley Field filled the dugout and the stands with joy and humility. But it did not deliver a win this year, as Indiana (21-25, 7-15 B1G) used two offensive spurts and stifling pitching to outlast the Wildcats (17-25-1, 5-17 B1G) 9-2 on Friday night. The fourth annual ‘Cats […]
Daniel Palencia was throwing hard in St. Paul. Mason McGwire might just be a prospect. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs declared the St. Paul Saints (Twins) to be heretics, 6-5. Connor Noland put the I-Cubs in an early hole after he got battered around for five runs on six hits over four innings. He walked […]
Thanks to a strong start by Matthew Liberatore and offensive thunder from Nolan Gorman, Jordan Walker and Alec Burleson, the St. Louis Cardinals welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers to town by beating them 7-2. After a 1-2-3 top of the first from Matthew Liberatore, the St. Louis Cardinals did not hesitate to get on the […]
First-year MLBer Kazuma Okamoto put some hurtin’ on Simeon Woods-Richardson, the Twins threw too many outs and chances away. Inning-by-inning notes: 1: George Springer with the leadoff single, and a good cheer comes through on the radio. So, as usual, there’s a lotta Jays fans at TF. Who in my experience are basically the nicest […]
Gwinnett Stripers 4, Charlotte Knights 3The Knights seemed to be doing fine with their 1-0 lead, courtesy of an RBI double from Oliver Dunn in the fifth, but then Luke Bell took the mound. After seven strong games in High-A, the decision to advance Bell to Triple-A and bypass Birmingham turned out to be a […]
The Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals are back at it on Saturday for the middle game of the weekend series at Busch Stadium, with Roki Sasaki looking to build off his first win of the season. Sasaki remains a mixed bag in the rotation, and rode his harder splitter to more control last Saturday against […]
What started as a pitchers’ duel and later opened up to look like a comfortable win became a nailbiter as the Philadelphia Phillies (13-19) defeated the Miami Marlins (15-17) by a score of 6-5 to secure their fourth straight victory. In his second start of the season, Zack Wheeler notched his first win, striking out […]
Jays 7 Twins 3 Kazuma Okamoto had a slow start to the season, but he’s picked things up lately. Today he had 2 home runs, a walk, 3 runs and 3 RBI. 31 games into his MLB career he has 7 home runs, and 18 RBI. And, unlike yesterday, the pitching was good and the […]
For a Major League leading seventh time, the San Francisco Giants have been shutout, 22% of the 32 games played in the 2026 season. To put this dismal display in perspective, the 2019 Miami Marlins were shutout 22 times, the most in the Wild Card Era, which is roughly 14% of the 162 games in […]
Day one in Lawrence is in the books, and Missouri track & field wasted no time making noise at the Rock Chalk Classic on Friday, May 1. From distance dominance to throwing power, the Tigers showed up across the board. Men’s 1,500m Set the Pace Lasse Funck led the charge with an impressive win, and […]
Two early Yankees home runs dug the Orioles a hole they couldn’t fly out of, as the O’s dropped their series opener in the Bronx 7-2. As we’ve seen many times this season, a disastrous 2nd inning put the Orioles behind early and ruined the outing for Povich. With the game tied at 1-1, Povich […]
Spearheaded by a fantastic effort from Will Warren, the Yankees took early command of their first regular-season matchup against the Orioles in 2026, ultimately winning it 7-2. Specifically on Warren, seeing the front-level starters dominating is all well and good, but the built-in expectations may work against the excitement of it in certain instances. Although […]
Box Score Jacob Misiorowski had a historic night on the mound. He also put a gigantic scare into the Brewer faithful when he had to be removed from the game while cruising in the sixth inning, but the Brewers have hopefully avoided any major concern over Misiorowski’s health (early reports are that he was cramping), […]
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, not in losses. Arizona lost 4-2 at Big 12 leader Kansas on Friday night to open a weekend series, dropping to 6-12 this season in games decided by two or fewer runs. That includes the last two contests during what’s now a 4-game losing streak. The Wildcats […]
The Texas Rangers scored five runs while the Detroit Tigers scored four runs. The Rangers escaped the dank, musty confines of The Shed and immediately started scoring some runs. That included a real first inning, lead-grabbing unicorn with Josh Jung plating the game’s first tally with a two-out RBI single to show that his torrid […]
Your Oregon Ducks fly north to take on the Washington Huskies in the first game of a weekend series! When: Friday, May 1st @ 7:00 PM PST Where: Husky Ballpark, Seattle, WA Watch: BigTen+ ‘Sco Ducks!
We should be in store for an excellent pitching matchup tonight as Cole Ragans faces off against Bryan Woo. Weirdly, I can find no evidence that Woo pitched on Saturday or was injured or ill, even though it was his turn in the rotation. But he’s basically picked up this season where he left off, […]
Welcome to Noah Schultz Night! And quite a late night it is, with the White Sox back on the West Coast, taking on the high-flying Padres. Basically beyond his first inning in the major leagues, Schultz has been spectacular, certainly better than advertised for a 22-year-old whose 2025 wasn’t terribly impressive/marred by injury. A new […]