Major League Baseball News and Rumors
Giants first base coach struck in head during BPSAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco Giants first base coach Roberto Kelly sustained a concussion Saturday after getting hit in the back of the head when Buster Posey's ball struck him while he was standing near second base during batting practice. |
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Ibanez's homer sets new postseason recordOct 13, 2012
Adam Rosenbloom, MLB.com Raul Ibanez became the first player in Major League history to have three home runs in the ninth inning or later in a single postseason when hit a two-run, game-tying homer in the ninth inning of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series on Satu… |
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Cards-Giants promises to be worth price of admissionOct 13, 2012
Anthony DiComo, MLB.com In Northern California, the last two World Series champions will play against each other. And if this series is anything as dramatic as the first round of the playoffs, it will be worth the price of admission. |
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Pathetic MLB Playoffs Coverage On TBS Continues As They Misspell The Name Of Willie MaysOct 13, 2012
Timothy Burke, deadspin.com First there was this. TBS followed it up with this. That's not to mention the rotten and biased coverage from the Turner network's announcers. As a whole, TBS has shit the bed with their postseason baseball broadcasts, but tonight's blunder really takes… |
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Wrong call hurts Yankees in the second inningOct 13, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Game 1 of the ALCS got off to a slow start with the New York Yankees and Detroit Tigers scoreless after five innings. The Yankees would have had at least one run, though, if first base umpire Rob Drake had made the right call at the end of the second in… |
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Giants' NLCS roster won't include MelkyOct 13, 2012
The Giants are not considering the addition of left fielder Melky Cabrera to the roster for the National League Championship Series against St. Louis, manager Bruce Bochy said Saturday. |
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Jeter first big leaguer to notch 200 postseason hitsOct 13, 2012
Steven Miller, MLB.com Derek Jeter became the first player in baseball history to record 200 career postseason hits with his second-inning single Saturday in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Tigers. |
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Nationals GM Rizzo stands by Strasburg decisionOct 13, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For their first seven years, filled with on-field losses and off-field gaffes, the Washington Nationals merely existed, barely mattered. |
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Verlander lined up for Game 7 of ALCSOct 13, 2012
When Tigers manager Jim Leyland says he has never had a better performance in a postseason than Justin Verlander's complete-game four-hitter, it's more than mere flattery. |
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Scherzer to be well rested for Game 4Oct 13, 2012
Detroit's Max Scherzer says he feels fine after his five-plus innings last Wednesday in Game 4 of the American League Division Series against the A's. He'll start Game 4 of the ALCS on Wednesday. |
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Tino revisits glory days with Raul's heroicsOct 13, 2012
Tino Martinez was more nervous on Saturday, when he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Yankee Stadium before Game 1 of the American League Championship Series against the Tigers, than at any point during his career as a player. |
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LIVE: Tigers-Yankees, ALCS Game 1Oct 13, 2012
Raul Ibanez sent Game 1 of the ALCS to extra innings with another dramatic home run in the ninth, but the Tigers have regained the lead on Delmon Young's RBI double in the top of the 12th. |
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Whirlwind 24 hours brings Cards to San FranciscoOct 13, 2012
Cardinals players and staff gathered briefly at AT&T Park on Saturday afternoon, but after landing in San Francisco around sunrise, they did not hold an organized on-field workout. |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Mr. October July? Rodriguez is back in the starting line-up (if you call "batting sixth" the starting line-up). Dog Fister and Andy Pettitte square off in chilly New York, and the ghosts of Orioles past will fly aimlessly through stadium, moan… |
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Posey tops expectations to lead GiantsOct 13, 2012
Chris Haft, MLB.com Buster Posey has literally picked himself up off the ground and continued to rise. The San Francisco Giants catcher has ascended to the level of stardom and performance enjoyed by few. Posey essentially gives the Giants a chance to win just by showing u… |
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Game 2 start stirs fond Bronx memories for AnibalOct 13, 2012
Jordan Bastian, MLB.com Six years ago, Anibal Sanchez toed the rubber in old Yankee Stadium for his debut. On Sunday, Sanchez will start for Detroit in Game 2 of the ALCS against the Yankees in New York's newer version of its classic cathedral. |
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Ump who made infield fly call part of ALCS crewOct 13, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sam Holbrook, the umpire who made the controversial infield fly call that enraged the Atlanta Braves and their fans in the NL wild card game, was picked as part of the crew for the AL championship series. |
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A-Rod returns to Yankees' lineup, dropped to 6thOct 13, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) -- Alex Rodriguez returned to the Yankees' starting lineup for their AL championship series opener against Detroit on Saturday night, dropped to sixth in the batting order. |
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Astros catcher mourns loss of 16-month-old sonOct 13, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com The 16-month-old son of Houston Astros catcher Carlos Corporan has died. |
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Orioles appreciate their magical run in 2012Oct 13, 2012
Brittany Ghiroli, MLB.com Dan Duquette and Buck Showalter didn't get much into specifics for an Orioles club that returns a core group of young players, as Saturday afternoon was a chance to step back and appreciate everything accomplished in 2012. |
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Divison Series reflection of competitive seasonOct 13, 2012
Richard Justice, MLB.com A telling scene played out around a small television set at a barbecue restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., this week during the final few innings of Giants-Reds Game 5. |
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Jim Luttrell, nytimes.com Times reporters and editors provide live analysis of Game 1 of the American League Championship Series between the Yankees and the Detroit Tigers at Yankee Stadium. |
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Showalter says his contract with O's is not an issueOct 13, 2012
Brittany Ghiroli, MLB.com Orioles manager Buck Showalter said his contract status is a "non-issue" and he praised managing partner Peter Angelos Saturday morning for making the commitment to hire him in-season in 2010 in the first place. |
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Hughes, CC to follow Kuroda in ALCS rotationOct 13, 2012
Bryan Hoch, MLB.com About 45 minutes after CC Sabathia fired the final out of the American League Division Series into Mark Teixeira's glove, manager Joe Girardi was huddling with his coaches plotting the Yankees' pitching for the next round. |
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Keeping Score: Aging Yankees Are Low on RestOct 13, 2012
Ben Hoffman, nytimes.com The Yankees' roster, in terms of players who have appeared in the postseason, is the eighth oldest in postseason history, with an average age of 32. |
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This Week's Signs Of The ApocalypseOct 13, 2012
Sam Eifling, deadspin.com For nearly two decades, Sports Illustrated has stirred the tea leaves to discern a weekly Sign of the Apocalypse. Deadspin salutes the magazine's ongoing effort to cover the end of times but declines to cede the scoop on the biggest event in world histo… |
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ALCS preview: Yankees vs. TigersOct 13, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Whoever came up with the term "no rest for the wicked" would love the 2012 postseason. Yes, after all four LDS rounds went the distance for the first time ever, we're barreling straight into ALCS Game 1 on Saturday night. The first pitch at Ya… |
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Embrace the greatness of LCS players, teamsOct 13, 2012
Peter Gammons, MLB.com From individual stars like Justin Verlander and CC Sabathia to amazing teams like the Cardinals and Giants, the League Championship Series promise to be classic confrontations. |
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Report of K-Rod domestic dispute surfacesOct 13, 2012
Adam McCalvy, MLB.com The Brewers are aware of a legal situation involving soon-to-be free agent reliever Francisco Rodriguez, who was arrested in September in suburban Milwaukee for domestic violence, but so far has not been charged. |
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Look for Cardinals to reach World SeriesOct 13, 2012
This is the first time in the history of the League Championship Series that the last two World Series champions have met to battle for either league's pennant. In fact, it's the last time the last two World Series champions have met this late in the se… |
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The Yankees' Parking Company Is In Default Because, As It Turns Out, People Take The Subway To Yankees' GamesOct 13, 2012
Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Yesterday we brought you a screenshot of the half-empty stands inside of Yankee Stadium a good half hour after the first pitch of Game 5 of the Yankee-Orioles series. New York's transportation system is uniquely—how should we put it—clusterfuck-y arou… |
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10 numbers for the ALCS: Yankees vs. TigersOct 13, 2012
Alex Remington, yahoo.com … |
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Oops: Nationals fans received information about buying World Series tickets on Saturday morningOct 13, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Q: What's the only thing worse than heading to bed after your favorite team just suffered the indignity of losing the biggest lead in a postseason elimination game in baseball history? A: Waking up to find that, due to a "stunningly stupid" er… |
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Tyler Kepner, nytimes.com For the Yankees' struggling hitters, it is probably best not to dwell too much on the Tigers, who held the A's to a .194 average in their division series. Then again, the Yankees held the Orioles to a .187 average in theirs. |
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The Cardinals and Giants overcame long odds to reach the NLCS. Tom Verducci examines just how they did it, plus touches on A-Rod, clutch hitting and Carlos Beltran in his Five Cuts. |
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Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Want Nationals World Series tickets? That is too bad, because they lost their series with the Cardinals in objectively horrifying fashion last night, and you can't even get NLCS tickets, or any tickets, because there are no more games for the Nationals.… |
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Here’s the Cardinals comeback in graph formOct 13, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com If you work for a national outlet, part of the challenge of covering Friday night's classic NLDS Game 5 was deciding just how much the Washington Nationals choked, how much the St. Louis Cardinals mounted a valiant comeback and how to frame the story. I… |
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MLB Notebook: Cards thrive with backs against wallOct 13, 2012
Roger Schlueter, MLB.com The Cardinals rallied from six runs down in Game 5 of the NLDS to upend the Nationals and advance to the NLCS. The Cards have won six straight winner-take-all games, tied for the most in postseason history. |
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Drew Storen wilts with NLDS on the lineOct 13, 2012
Kevin Kaduk, yahoo.com Before Friday night, it would have been hard to pinpoint how Washington Nationals closer Drew Storen was best known around the baseball world. Was it for the 43 saves he made for the Nats in 2011 before hurting his arm? The Batmobile he drives? Heading … |
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Todd Coffey Has A 14-Year-Old Friend Who Has A Kid And That Kid Has Some Interesting Views On ObamaOct 13, 2012
Isaac Rauch, deadspin.com Bulbous Dodgers reliever Todd Coffey signed up for Twitter in March of last year, but he's only tweeted 166 times, depending on whether you count deleted tweets. He has a few of those now, because he or someone with access to his (verified! because of c… |
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David Brown, yahoo.com Anyone watching Game 5 of the Nationals-Cardinals NLDS had to be on the edge of his or her seat waiting for the outcome. Turns out the San Francisco Giants were just like the rest of us, watching for their next opponent — only their seats had to be upri… |
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‘Orioles Magic’ finally goes poofOct 13, 2012
David Brown, yahoo.com Your browser does not support iframes. The moment Friday night when CC Sabathia turned the wrong way on a short grounder by Robert Andino, giving himself no outlet and allowing the Baltimore Orioles to load the bases in the eighth inning, it felt like t… |
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Stark: Comeback Cards do it againOct 13, 2012
Jayson Stark, ESPN.com St. Louis showed once again that it can never, ever be counted out |
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New names, but resolve is still in the CardsOct 13, 2012
Down to their last strike, the Cardinals scored four runs in the ninth to shock the Nationals 9-7 and reach the NLCS. The names have changed, but the resolve remains, writes Ben Reiter. |
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Mozeliak watches proudly as Cards' pieces produceOct 13, 2012
Jenifer Langosch, MLB.com Last winter, Cardinals general manager John Mozeliak was given the unenviable task of constructing a club capable of an encore. He'd have to do it, too, without a legendary manager and without the greatest hitter of the generation. |
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John Schlegel, MLB.com Whatever happens in the days and weeks ahead, this much is known: The 2012 Division Series have set up the road to the World Series like never before. |
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'Pen runs out of ink at critical junctureOct 13, 2012
Anthony DiComo, MLB.com Closers dream of the situation that Drew Storen faced in the ninth inning on Friday, his Nationals leading by two runs in the ninth inning. But after Storen followed Carlos Beltran's leadoff double with two quick outs, the game began unraveling. |
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Cardinals have perfected the art of the comebackOct 13, 2012
Zack Meisel, MLB.com The Cardinals became the first team in Major League postseason history to come back from a six-run deficit and win a sudden-death game. No team had come back from more than a four-run deficit in a do-or-die contest. |
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TBS happy to see Yankees deliver thrilling victory over Baltimore Orioles in ALDS, set-up marquee matchupOct 13, 2012
When J.J. Hardy grounded out to Derek Jeter to end the eighth inning, leaving the bases loaded with the Orioles managing to score only one run, sighs of relief were heard coming from the headquarters o f TBS, Fox and Major League Baseball. And when CC S… |
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Cards reach NLCS with improbable comebackOct 13, 2012
Associated Press, ESPN.com Doesn't matter how bad things look for the St. Louis Cardinals. Trailing by a bunch, down to their last strike, they simply stay calm and do what it takes to win. |
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Yankees settle for Alex Rodriguez in 2007, miss opportunity to bring in Detroit Tigers slugger Miguel CabreraOct 13, 2012
While Joe Girardi said Friday that he can’t be worried about the years ahead for Alex Rodriguez, five years that will cost the Yankees a minimum of $114 million, it is worth looking back on what might have been five years earlier had Hank Steinbrenner n… |
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Rivalry re-ignited: Giants, Cards have NLCS historyOct 13, 2012
Spencer Fordin, MLB.com Once again, two of baseball's most venerable franchises will meet on one of the game's grandest stages. The Giants and Cardinals have clashed twice before in the National League Championship Series. |
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Mark Townsend, yahoo.com Score and situation: The St. Louis Cardinals world championship defense continues after they rallied from a 6-0 deficit to defeat the Washington Nationals on Friday night. Washington put on an offensive clinic early on, scoring six of their runs in the … |
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Descalso joins pantheon of unlikely postseason heroes |
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Jack Dickey, deadspin.com Let's set aside the fact that the Nationals had the best record in baseball this year and the fact that the Cardinals had the worst record of any playoff team, because neither of those is the fundamental reason we ask this question: what the hell just h… |
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Red Sox interview Wallach; Ausmus up nextOct 13, 2012
Gordon Edes, ESPN.com The Boston Red Sox interviewed Tim Wallach on Friday for their vacant managerial job. |
