Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto nearly made history Saturday afternoon in Chicago’s Rate Field against the White Sox. He had a perfect game through 7 ⅔ innings and then a no-hitter through eight innings. He gave up a home run to White Sox’s center fielder Triston Peters to lead off the ninth inning to break up…
Happy Thursday to the first-place White Sox. The surprising Chicago club currently sits atop the AL Central, half a game ahead of the Cleveland Guardians, marking the first time they’ve been in first place later than the first 11 games of the season since winning the division in 2021. They are now 36-31, which puts them…
The Boston Red Sox made the postseason last season after going 89-73, marking their first playoff berth since 2021. This season, they’ve followed that up by starting the season 29-37. They sit in last place in the AL East, 13 ½ games out of first place. This is the first time they’ve been 12 games…
The 2026 Home Run Derby will be held on Monday, July 13, in Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park. It’s a great event, at least now that the league started throwing a clock on the thing in time for the 2015 Derby. Last year, Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh took home the glory, beating the Rays’ Junior…
Aboard Air Force One while fielding questions from political reporters on Friday, President Donald Trump was asked about Major League Baseball and the possibility of implementing a salary cap this coming offseason (via USA Today). The president was clear in his support for a cap. “If you don’t have a salary cap, you don’t have…
Two-plus months of Major League Baseball for the 2026 season are in the books. Our marathon of a season says that we still get nearly four months of daily baseball before things are wrapped up, and that’s only the regular season. What will unfold in the next month — in the leadup to both the…
Some seasons, we’ll hear of a World Series hangover. That is, one of the two combatants from the previous season’s Fall Classic gets off to a bad start, and getting all the way to the World Series is cited as one of the reasons for the struggles. Pitchers were extended a full month past the…
Over the weekend, I got into a conversation about which team was the most disappointing in baseball this season. The interesting thing is that there seem to be far too many candidates. We have seen an awful lot of disappointing teams that expected to be contenders this year, and it feels like a much larger…
We’re just about a quarter of the way through the 2026 season, and every MLB team has played between 38 and 42 games. Across the board, the results have been disappointing, and eighteen teams sit below .500, though half of those are no more than three games under. But let’s focus on the 12 teams at…
Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox has died at age 84, the Atlanta Braves announced Saturday. “We are overcome with emotion on the passing of Bobby Cox, our treasured skipper,” the Braves announced in a statement. “Bobby was the best manager to ever wear a Braves uniform. He led our team to 14 straight division…
