It was a clean sweep for the Baby Birds as all four teams in action won on Wednesday. It was also a powerful night as there were 8 Baby Bird home runs hit. The big one was Oscar Taveras’ 5th home run, which happened to come on his 21st birth day on Wednesday. Xavier Scruggs belted his 19th [...]
With Pitchers Hit Eighth “reborn” in a sense here at the Conclave, I thought I’d bring back a feature I always loved writing but fell by the wayside. (Which is a shame, because it’s fun, interesting, and as importantly – easy to do.) Welcome to WAR Graph Wednesday of Pitchers Hit Eighth (at the Conclave). [...]
A few years ago, there was a commercial campaign–I can’t even remember what the product or service was–but it ran for a little while. Alec Baldwin and the dude from The Office (Jim, maybe? I don’t watch much non-baseball on TV) played Yankees & Red Sox fans who traded barbs, jabs, & zingers about the [...]
One step forward, one step back. Since the Cardinals arrived in New York a week ago, a pattern has emerged. For eight straight games, St. Louis has won one, then dropped the next. For the entire month of June, they are only 10-8, indicating that they are coming back to earth from their lofty heights [...]
