Gabe Kapler observed his own moment of silence sometime before the San Francisco Giants team he manages opened its Memorial Day Weekend series in Cincinnati on Friday night. His moment came not before a national anthem nor while standing at attention at the edge of a dugout. Instead, it occurred at a keyboard as he …
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The Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees baseball teams took the unusual step on Thursday of turning their Twitter accounts over to disseminating facts about gun violence in the wake of recent mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas. Instead of flashing information about pitching performances or the latest home run distances, both …
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Despite their recent struggles – relative struggles, to be clear – the Yankees woke up on Thursday morning with the best record in Major League Baseball. No other team had reached 30 wins nor possessed a winning percentage over .700. At 31-13, the Yankees were off to their best start since 1998, when they won …
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SAN FRANCISCO – Joc Pederson turned a pair of pregame chats with home run King Barry Bonds into the best night of his career. Pederson homered three times and drove in a career-high eight runs, including a tying single with two outs in the ninth inning, and the San Francisco Giants outslugged the Mets, 13-12, …
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Ramón Urías hit a tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning off Gerrit Cole and the Baltimore Orioles withstood Aaron Judge’s two home runs to beat the Yankees, 6-4, Monday night, sending New York to its season-high third straight loss. “I thought we grinded out at-bats really well,” Baltimore Manager Brandon Hyde said. “Gerrit Cole’s got …
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Roger Angell helped me survive college midterms. Late at night, studying in the library at Vanderbilt University, I’d make a deal with myself: When these are over, when you’re settled into your seat for the flight home, Roger will take you back in time. I would find The New Yorker archives, photocopy his year-end essay …
Roger Angell Was Around the Game and of the Fans Read More »
White Sox Manager Tony La Russa didn’t mince words when he was asked what happened between Yankees third baseman Josh Donaldson and Chicago shortstop Tim Anderson on Saturday. “He made a racist comment,” La Russa said of Donaldson. “That’s all I’m going to say.” Shortly after the Yankees beat Chicago at Yankee Stadium, 7-5, Donaldson, …
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BALTIMORE – The new wall in the left field at Camden Yards served its purpose, denying Aaron Judge a home run on his 399-foot drive in the first inning. “I learned my lesson and decided to go to the right field after that,” he said. The ballpark couldn’t hold Judge’s next two hits, a pair …
Judge Homers Twice in Yankees Win, Narrowly Missing a Third Read More »
SAN DIEGO – The pawns are lined up and the gleaming white knight stands ready to attack. The game will resume, again, as soon as the hitters’ meeting is finished and sometime before the star third baseman lights up a box score. Given Manny Machado’s torrid start for the San Diego Padres this season, it …
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Aaron Judge hit a mammoth three-run drive in the ninth inning for his first walk-off home run in the major leagues to give the Yankees a 6-5 comeback victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday night. Giancarlo Stanton tied it with a modest three-run shot in the sixth, and the Yankees rallied for their …
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