Major League Baseball News and Rumors
Anderson-led A's shut out Tigers to stay aliveAssociated Press, ESPN.com Brett Anderson outdueled fellow playoff first-timer Anibal Sanchez and received stellar defense all over the diamond, and the upstart Athletics avoided another playoff sweep by Detroit, beating the Tigers 2-0 Tuesday night. |
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Coco Crisp scored a run and made a home-run saving catch and Brett Anderson pitched six shutout innings as the A's topped the Tigers 2-0 on Tuesday to force a Game 4 in the ALDS. |
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Sorry-looking broom jinxes Cincy’s sweep chancesOct 9, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com If you're wondering why the Cincinnati Reds couldn't close out a NLDS sweep over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night, look no farther than this woman who showed up with Charlie Brown's Christmas tree in broom form. Or at least it's what I believe … |
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David Brown, yahoo.com Your browser does not support iframes. Oakland Athletics outfielder Coco Crisp berated himself on Twitter after his attempt at a basket catch failed for a huge two-run error in Sunday's Game 2 of the ALDS. That's a terrible feeling seeing the ball fly o… |
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Steady defenders slip at wrong moment for RedsOct 9, 2012
Mark Clements, MLB.com Ryan Hanigan and Scott Rolen -- arguably the two most reliable infielders for the Reds -- made the two most crucial mistakes Tuesday in Game 3's 2-1 loss to the Giants in 10 innings. |
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Giants score in 10th to drop Reds and stay aliveOct 9, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Third baseman Scott Rolen's error with two outs in the 10th inning gave San Francisco the go-ahead run, and the Giants edged the Cincinnati Reds 2-1 Tuesday night to cut their NL playoff deficit to 2-1. |
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Latos or Leake the options for Reds in Game 4Oct 9, 2012
Adam McCalvy, MLB.com Who will start for the Reds in Game 4 of the National League Division Series opposite Barry Zito and the Giants? As of Tuesday night, his name was TBA. |
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Top prospect Puig to miss Fall League playOct 9, 2012
Ken Gurnick, MLB.com Top Dodgers outfield prospect Yasiel Puig will miss the Arizona Fall League because of a staph infection in his right elbow that required a surgical procedure. |
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History Lesson: The Time Dave Stewart Was Arrested For Soliciting A Transvestite ProstituteOct 9, 2012
Sean Newell, deadspin.com An occasional feature in which we recall notable incidents that we would've covered the hell out of had we existed at the time. More » |
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Leyland confirms desire to continue managingOct 9, 2012
The Tigers and manager Jim Leyland both say they'll address his contract situation once their season ends. Leyland did, however, say on Tuesday that he wants to continue managing. |
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Pat Borzi, nytimes.com The Tigers manager says his vote would go to the Orioles' Buck Showalter and the Athletics' Bob Melvin. |
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Holliday OK being an under-the-radar starOct 9, 2012
Tracy Ringolsby, MLB.com At 32 years old, Matt Holliday has found a comfort zone out of the limelight, even if he is among Major League Baseball's elite offensive players. |
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Jane Lee, MLB.com With his club facing elimination from the playoffs on Tuesday, manager Bob Melvin essentially ran out the same starting nine for Game 3 of the American League Division Series against the Tigers that yielded losses in the first two contests. |
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A-Rod's struggles hurting Yankees vs. OriolesOct 9, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) Alex Rodriguez carried the New York Yankees to the 2009 World Series title with an amazing power display. His more recent postseason memories all too often involve ending with a swing and a miss. |
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Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com Young players often feel they have things figured out. As a result, it would be easy to assume that a group that won a Minor League-best 88 regular-season games and a South Atlantic League title would balk at the idea that there were things to work on d… |
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After advice from an ace, Lynn returns to formOct 9, 2012
Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com In the span of only a few months, Chris Carpenter had watched Lance Lynn rise from projected setup man to fill-in starter to All-Star pitcher. By August, he also eyed an unraveling. |
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'Goon Squad' valuable coming off Nats' benchOct 9, 2012
Bill Ladson, MLB.com Nationals GM Mike Rizzo overhauled the bench and added veterans Mark DeRosa and Chad Tracy, along with youngsters Tyler Moore, Steve Lombardozzi, Roger Bernadina and Sandy Leon. Jesus Flores is the only holdover. Together, they are known as the Goon Squ… |
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No Strasburg for Nats; Cards turn to CarpenterOct 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) The Washington Nationals are carrying on without their acknowledged ace, Stephen Strasburg, and the St. Louis Cardinals are counting on their returning ace, Chris Carpenter. |
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Bailey shows command of Giants in Game 3Oct 9, 2012
Corey Brock, MLB.com Homer Bailey tossed 5 2/3 no-hit innings before Marco Scutaro singled in the sixth of Game 3 against the Giants at Great American Ball Park on Tuesday. |
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Tonight's Giants-Reds NLDS Game Was Delayed By A Fan Who Ran Onto The Field With A Mitt Romney SignOct 9, 2012
Timothy Burke, deadspin.com Tonight's NLDS Game 3 at Great American got off to a late start tonight thanks to an Idiot On The Field bearing a Romney-Ryan sign. The reverse of the sign had a difficult-to-read message about abortion on it, and the fan made it from right field to lef… |
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Your Giants-Reds And A's-Tigers Open ThreadOct 9, 2012
Tom Ley, deadspin.com Welcome to today's divisional series open thread. There are two games to watch tonight. The San Francisco Giants are fighting for their playoff lives against the Cincinnati Reds in a game that just got underway, and the A's will be trying to stave off e… |
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Mark Newman, MLB.com MLB Network will be the exclusive live broadcaster of Game 3 of the National League Division Series between the Cardinals and Nationals at 1:07 p.m. ET, with Bob Costas and Jim Kaat in the booth and Sam Ryan reporting. |
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T.R. Sullivan, MLB.com Rangers manager Ron Washington, in reviewing what went wrong with his club at the end of the season, said Tuesday he may have made a mistake by not getting his starting players enough time off down the stretch. |
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Create-a-Caption: A-Rod conditions his batOct 9, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com For the time, it would appear that Alex Rodriguez's annual foray into the world of October controversy is being limited to a discussion of whether or not Robinson Cano should take his third spot in the New York Yankees lineup. The overwhelming opinion? … |
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Patrick Burns, deadspin.com This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. More » |
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Girardi doesn't rule out dropping A-Rod in orderOct 9, 2012
Matt Ehalt, ESPN.com New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi has not ruled out moving third baseman Alex Rodriguez in the lineup for Wednesday's Game 3 of the ALDS. |
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Rangers won't make initial offer to HamiltonOct 9, 2012
T.R. Sullivan, MLB.com Josh Hamilton has made it clear the Rangers will get the "first chance" at re-signing him. The Rangers are declining that offer. |
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Evan Drellich, MLB.com Although manager Joe Girardi probably would have preferred this series to have started at Yankee Stadium, the fact that Hiroki Kuroda's Game 3 start comes in New York and with extra rest isn't the worst tradeoff. |
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Tracy Ringolsby, MLB.com Baltimore manager Buck Showalter and Cincinnati manager Dusty Baker might have a bit of revenge on their minds. They are both managing in the Division Series against teams they once managed. |
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Cardinals remove Garcia from postseason rosterOct 9, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals removed Jaime Garcia from their NL division series roster Tuesday, a day after he lasted only two innings in his Game 2 start because of an ailing shoulder. |
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Rangers to let Hamilton hit market before offerOct 9, 2012
Richard Durrett, ESPN.com The Texas Rangers will not be making any offers to Josh Hamilton before he hits the open market in free agency. |
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The pattern should appear eerily familiar by now to fans in the Bronx, setting off alarms in their pinstriped synapses and interlocking memory banks. This is how the Yanks always seem to lose playoff series, get themselves knocked out of October, these … |
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Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com The Cincinnati Reds don't have a date for Johnny Cueto's return from a mild oblique strain and any optimism that he could return for a start in this NLDS appears gone. While the team originally thought that Cueto might be able to start Tuesday's Game 3 … |
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Barry M. Bloom, MLB.com Tom Cheek, Ken Coleman, Jacques Doucet, John Gordon, Bill King, Graham McNamee, Eric Nadel, Eduardo Ortega, Mike Shannon and Dewayne Staats are the 10 finalists for the 2013 Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence. |
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The A's have been the best story in baseball. Tonight, they'll try to avoid having ALDS Game 3 be their final chapter. Even if it is there's good times ahead, writes Albert Chen. |
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Concession Speech: 2012 Atlanta BravesOct 9, 2012
Alex Remington, yahoo.com With the regular season over, many teams are facing an offseason filled with golf rounds and hot-stove strategy. But we're not going to let them get off that easy. No sir. No way. In an attempt to bring some closure between franchise and follower, we're… |
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Jonathan Mayo, MLB.com This time of year, while the baseball world turns its attention to crowning a new champion, the future is being built in the desert. |
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Ichiro's Run Last Night Was Everything You Love About Ichiro And Everything You Hate About The YankeesOct 9, 2012
Tom Scocca, deadspin.com This is one of the things about the Yankees, one of the reasons the New York Yankees are a sickness on the soul of baseball, this play from Ichiro Suzuki last night. Ichiro! Honestly, if you root against the Yankees—which is to say, if you are not a nat… |
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Playoff anthem! Ernie Harwell’s ‘Tiger, Tiger’Oct 9, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com With Detroit Tigers on the brink of sweep of Oakland in the ALDS, it's only appropriate we give them the next spot on our playoff playlist. The song: "Tiger, Tiger," penned by the late and legendary Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell during the … |
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Mark Newman, MLB.com Michael Landskroener and Samantha Stone, both from Westland, Mich., were contestants in the first postseason episode of the hit MLB.com game show "Bucks on the Pond." |
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Source: Red Sox talks with Ortiz to get seriousOct 9, 2012
Joe McDonald, ESPN.com Serious conversations between the Red Sox and free-agent designated hitter David Ortiz will begin at "some point next week," according to a team source. |
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David Brown, yahoo.com Many who watched Ichiro make like Keanu Reeves in "The Matrix" with his "breakdancing" slide Monday night in Game 2 of the ALDS probably got a sense of déjà vu. TBS broadcaster John Smoltz was among them. But their mind wasn't playin… |
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Joe Frisaro, MLB.com Spending on high-priced free agents last offseason generated plenty of excitement, but it didn't translate into additional wins for the Miami Marlins. |
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Roger Schlueter, MLB.com With Baltimore's 3-2 win over the Yankees on Tuesday in Game 2 of the ALDS, lefty Wei-Yin Chen became the eighth pitcher in Browns/Orioles franchise history to start and win his postseason debut. |
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The TBS Sound Level Meter Readings Were Thrown Off By The Loudness Of Craig Sager's SuitOct 9, 2012
Timothy Burke, deadspin.com In an attempt to demonstrate the madness at Camden Yards late in last night's Orioles win over the Yankees, foppish TBS reporter Craig Sager wielded a sound pressure gauge, informing viewers that the crowd in Baltimore was even louder than the famously-… |
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Homer Bailey has a chance to not only close out the Giants in Cincinnati and send the Reds to the NLCS but to make sure they're in good shape once they get there, writes Tom Verducci. |
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The last at-bat of the game was proof enough. Robinson Cano is by far the Yankees’ best hitter these days, and if he were hitting in the No. 3 spot, he would have come up against Jim Johnson when one swing still could have changed everything. |
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Alex Rodriguez stood at the plate with a 2-2 count. Jim Johnson was a strike away from retiring him and sending the Orioles to Yankee Stadium tied with the Bombers in the ALDS. |
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O's win takes Hardy off hook for miscue on basesOct 9, 2012
It was hard to overlook Orioles third-base coach DeMarlo Hale waving home J.J. Hardy in the third Monday night. But Hardy did miss Hale's windmilling, a mistake that likely cost the Orioles a run in their 3-2 victory. |
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Johnson gives O's owner Angelos special souvenirOct 9, 2012
Orioles principal owner Peter Angelos was presented with a special gift from closer Jim Johnson after the team's 3-2 win over the Yankees on Monday night. |
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Andrew Simon, MLB.com A scuffling starter demoted to the Minors only a few months ago, lefty Brian Matusz has carved out an integral role in a Baltimore bullpen that has helped drive the club's success. |
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Mark Townsend, yahoo.com Score and situation: In what's shaping to be a classic LDS, the Baltimore Orioles evened things up with the New York Yankees by holding on to a 3-2 win on Monday night. Leading lads: Chris Davis had the biggest hit of the night, driving in two runs with… |
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ALDS: O's Square SeriesOct 9, 2012
The Orioles and Yankees tied their regular-season series 9-9. Their postseason duel is following suit. Baltimore won 3-2 to even their Division Series at 1-1 as it shifts to New York. |
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So this is what it's come to? Three must-wins in a row? On June 21, I wrote on Grantland that the A's were "a long shot to make the playoffs this seas... |
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About Last Night: Chen Silences YankeesOct 9, 2012
In case you were out living a life of leisure, here's what you missed in sports on Monday. Wei-Yin Chen pitched 6⅓ strong innings and Chris Da... |
