So much has been made about the Mets’ propensity for winning series so far this year as a foundation for why they’ve surged to an early lead in the NL East. And that has clearly been a good thing: heading into Thursday’s matinee in Washington, DC, the Mets were 8-0-1 in their first 10 series. … Read more
MINNEAPOLIS – The runaway train that is the Astros rolled into Target Center and bowled over the Twins en route to sweeping a three-game series, including a pair of wins on Thursday afternoon to run their winning streak to a season-high 10 games. It’s the longest current streak in the Major Leagues. The Astros had … Read more
DETROIT – The last time I rushed to my laptop late at night to write a Detroit Tigers piece, it was because the team had just traded for Austin Meadows. Everyone was excited. Opening Day was right around the corner and the long, miserable rebuild was finally coming to an end. Or so we thought. … Read more
If it feels like you’ve heard that before, it’s because you have. Yelich became the first player in MLB history to hit for the cycle three times against the same team, completing the feat with a triple amid a six-run ninth inning in the Brewers ’14-11 loss on Wednesday at Great American Ball Park. Trouble … Read more
NEW YORK – Gleyber Torres tracked the flight of his fourth-inning drive as he jogged toward first base on Wednesday afternoon, raising his right index finger toward his teammates as the ball dropped just beyond the right-field wall. Go ahead and call it a “Little League” homer if you want; the runs all count. Yankee … Read more
There’s nothing Little League about Gleyber Torres or the Yankees these days. The second baseman homered and knocked in all five runs in the Yankees 5-3 win over the Blue Jays in The Bronx on Wednesday – their third straight victory. Before the game, general manager Brian Cashman called the Yankees’ white-hot first month of … Read more
WASHINGTON – The innings-eater in the Mets rotation these days was possibly the biggest question mark among the team’s starting pitchers when this season began. Carlos Carrasco is pounding strike zones and working deep into games, lengthening a rotation that has more than killed Jacob deGrom’s stay on the injured list. On Tuesday, the veteran … Read more
ST. LOUIS – Feeling that they had been plenty “positive and patient” with Paul DeJong, the Cardinals optioned the struggling shortstop to Triple-A Memphis on Tuesday when “the at-bats looked the same and the adjustment wasn’t coming” and started the process of finding their next long-term shortstop. On Tuesday, when the Cardinals hosted the Orioles … Read more
BALTIMORE – A day later than they expected, the Orioles are en route to St. Louis for the first time since 2003. It took them a rain-slogged four-day stretch against another team from Missouri to make it to that point – all while riding their nicest stretch of winning this season. The Orioles are victors … Read more
NEW YORK – The cutter is a bread-and-butter pitch for Nestor Cortes, and when everything is clicking right, the left-hander uses it to feast upon opposing lineups. Imagine his delight in the first inning on Monday, when his third and fourth pitches of the afternoon generated feeble swings from leadoff hitter Marcus Semien. Cortes knew … Read more
