The Los Angeles Dodgers play the New York Mets in the first round of the baseball playoffs, so what’s more natural than the cities’ respective transit systems kidding each other? Don’t worry, @MetroLosAngeles – we sweep our subway just like the @Mets will sweep the @Dodgers — MTA (@MTA) September 30, 2015 It went on …
Within twenty minutes of each event’s ending today the Dodgers lost on a walkoff home run in the bottom of the ninth to the Rockies, the University of Hawai’i lost 28 – 0 to the U of Wisconsin (not really a surprise, but the 11 penalties for 100 yards was — disturbing) and the U …
Eight. EIGHT! By the METS! Your browser does not support iframes. I remember the Mets from the 1960s and 1970s when they had Seaver and Koosman and Matlack and Ryan and they’d get five hits a game but win because that pitching staff only gave up three hits and one run. Now they seem to …
Martin Maldonado does something that I’ve never seen before, but I’ve heard it around baseball games forever: he hit the cover off the ball. No kidding.
Here’s the explanation, if you don’t remember it. It was July 24, 1983.
Happy Birthday, Yogi Berra! If you’re a baseball fan you know Yogi’s name. Hall of Fame catcher for the Yankees, 13 World Series rings, 15 times an All-Star, manager of both the Yankees and the Mets and winner of a Series with each. I’ve never heard anyone say a bad word about the man, either. …
The Dodgers got a walk-off home run from Yasmani Grandal in the bottom of the 13th inning, ending a scoreless duel between the Diamondbacks’ and the Dodgers’ pitching staffs, both of which were stellar. Your browser does not support iframes. That was after a remarkable play in the top of the 13th in which the …
Let’s see who’s leading each division, shall we? AL East – Yankees by a game over the Rays and Red Sox. The Os are 2 games back and the Jays 2 1/2. Nothing particularly unusual there. Next! AL Central – The Royals by a 1/2 game over the Tigers. The Twins, White Sox and Indians …
Today I took Mom to a doctor we’ve only seen once before. Nothing serious, just a routine examination of things. There, in the waiting room, was a wall with a glassed-in set of shelves. There were three parts to this display of tchotchkes. On each side were figurines of San Francisco Giants baseball players of …
Josh Hamilton is a major league baseball player with an addiction problem which apparently began when he was 21 in 2002. He had a long history of addiction to booze and drugs in the early 2000s which cost him three years of potential major league service. He has had a couple of relapses since he …