baseball
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Look at benspn’s overdue predictions for 2015 Major League Baseball and benspn’s prediction for this year’s World Series Champion
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Foreword by Ben Drevitch Alex Hinton will explain in his piece that he is a Mets fan so we should probably cut him some slack but he claims that the Red Sox have no future, which disagrees with almost every sports analyst today. (I felt I needed to say that). Boston Red Sox fans have had some…
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I’m going to keep this short but it seems that the adults behind the Jackie Robinson baseball team did in fact cheat to create a possible superteam in order to get in, and win, the American section of the Little League World Series. This result means that in a sport about the kids, the adults…
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Last year’s Little League World Series was one for the ages with teams such as a Philadelphia team with Mo’ne Davis and the Jackie Robinson team from Chicago. The Jackie Robinson team was from just outside of Chicago and named after the first black baseball player to play in the MLB ever. Jackie Robinson’s story of making…
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Albert Pujols hit his 499th and 500th home runs last night, putting him in the 500 home run club. Pujols is the only player to hit his 499th and 500th in the same game, and is the third–youngest player to hit 500. (A-Rod and Jimmie Foxx were younger.) Pujols now has the second–most home runs among active…
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David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox took 33.39 seconds to round the bases on April 9th after hitting a home run against the Rangers. Sports Illustrated clocked his time at 32.91, but upon further review, the time was actually 33.39. According to tatertrottracker.com, that is the slowest home-run trot since they starting recording them…
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The MLB two game series that took place at the Sydney Cricket Ground (converted to a baseball field), just finished up. The series between division rivals the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, was considered more like exhibition than real baseball. The Dodgers almost considered leaving their top two pitchers in America. Some MLB players…
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