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The two run double by Church and Maine’s amazing pitching helped the New York Mets to get the better off the Nationals in a baseball game last Tuesday night. John Maine’s first pitch that struck Lopez on his right leg was the talk in Shea Stadium. It seemed as if the pitch carried a serious message to the Nats that the Mets did not like their behavior in the previous game. The Mets, by winning this Tuesday night duel, have registered a win in the seventh game between these two National League East teams. The effort of Church, who hit a solo home run and made four runs, during the night, was the highlight of the game.
May 16th, 2008
The 26 year old African-American country singer Rissi Palmer visited the MLB.com studios recently to give an interview for a series called “Hot Prospect” that is being run by MLB.com to promote young and emerging artists. Palmer said that she had turned down a lucrative deal to come out with an R&B urban pop album, as she believed that she was destined to promote country music and that is what she likes the most. The baseball fans were thrilled to bits to hear her perform an acoustic set of six tracks from her first album Rissi Palmer during the course of her interview with MLB.com.
May 12th, 2008
The stocky 22 year old left hander Andrew Miller played the best baseball game of his life last Sunday afternoon to claim the victory for Florida Marlins against the Padres in the series final game. Miller allowed just two runs and four hits and also struck out four in his six innings for the Marlins. He received tremendous support from the Marlins offensive line up as they scored five runs. The Florida Marlins had a convincing win of 10-3 against the Padres, thanks to the heroics of young Miller.
Miller, who had the longest innings of his 2008 season, said that he was pretty happy to have played long in this game and is expecting to play even better innings for his team. Miller said that he was feeling a lot better after playing this game and hoped that he has similar games coming his way in the future as well.
May 10th, 2008
Mark Cuban, American tycoon and entrepreneur extraordinaire, is looking to acquire the Chicago Cubs and be their owner very soon. He is also reported to be one of the eight affluent bidders for this baseball team. Cuban has had experience owning and managing another major sports franchise, NBA’s Dallas Mavericks so he is considered to be one of the better candidates to be the Cubs’ new owner.
Still, there are some reasons why Cuban might or might not make it as the Cubs’ new owner. Cuban has been known to be a loose cannon and his lack of tact isn’t always pleasing to most, especially baseball commish, Bud Selig, who might pull strings and not get Cuban elected as the new owner. That said, Selig might also let his friend, John Canning, get top priority in owning the Chicago Cubs.
May 5th, 2008
Baseball is a game that is full of uncertainties and everyone is aware that the game changes every single day. Ron Washington, the manager and skipper of the Texas Rangers team, is going through a bad patch and his center fielder Josh Hamilton has gone all out to voice his support for his skipper. Hamilton said that Washington is doing whatever he could in showcasing the best Rangers players on the playing arena and opined that the speculations regarding the managerial skills of Washington in the media is totally baseless.
Hamilton said that it is sad to pin point or blame the skipper for the poor showing of the team and a manager is only the person who faces the brunt despite the poor showing of some of the players. Hamilton said that he was pretty happy playing under his manager and said that the manager can only guide the players from the sidelines and that he cannot play for them.
May 2nd, 2008
The affable Grady Sizemore is certainly not very happy to have skipped two consecutive games recently on Monday, April 28. He is far from ecstatic especially when his sprained ankle is the cause for him missing two games, one on Sunday against the New York Yankees and another game on Monday, both against the Yankees. This halted the All-Star center fielder’s excellent playing streak at 382.
This misfortune started when Sizemore’s ankle got sprained as he stepped on second base during the ninth inning last Saturday. True to his persevering spirit, the 25 year old Seattle resident with batting average of .283, home run record of 78 and 2007 Gold Glove Award winner did not stop to take a break and instead played on even though his ankle throbbed painfully. He managed to score the winning run and led his team to victory but at a price – his ankle swelled even more the next day and was forced to rest on doctor’s orders.
April 29th, 2008
The New York Yankees clubhouse is witnessing a different mood recently owing to the small deadlock that is brewing between catcher Jorge Posada and Coach Joe Girardi as the long time Yankees catcher is of the opinion that he has fully recovered from his strained right shoulder and is fit to play and coach Girardi thinks otherwise. Yankees will be closing their three game weekend series in Baltimore on Sunday afternoon and are also slated to three more games at Chicago from Tuesday.
Girardi says that he is waiting for Posada to tell him that he has fully recovered from the shoulder strain, as the coach feels that Posada is still finding the pinch in his shoulder. Posada has revealed that his arm has become pretty stronger and feels that it will get better only if he gets the opportunity to pitch in the match. The coach said that he is not worried of Jorge’s arm power, but the only concern is his baseball pitching ability behind the plate.
April 27th, 2008
The Forbes’ List for the most valuable baseball team list is out, and the Oakland Athletics’ fans are not going to be happy once they see that their favorite team is ranked rather low in the list. The annual “Business of Baseball” compiled by Forbes placed the Oakland Athletics at No. 26 out of a total of 30 teams. They estimated value is approximately $323 million, whereas the total revenue for the entire team is $154 million while the operating income comes up to about $15.4 million.
In comparison, the San Francisco Giants made it to the eighth rank. Their value was relatively higher than that of the A’s, with a total of $494 million. Forbes’ list also reported that their revenue came up to be $197 million with a gross operating income of $19.9 million.
Fans of the New York Yankees will be overjoyed to hear that this team made it up to the top of the list with a whopping value of $1.3 billion. In contrast, the Florida Marlins are at the bottom with a mere value of $256 million.
April 21st, 2008
The centerfielder of the Kansas City Royals, David DeJesus is back to the baseball field after missing 11 games due to an ankle injury. He played for the team in the match against the Seattle Mariners on Monday. DeJesus had a twisted ankle on March 24th during the spring training, but he played the opening baseball match of the season at Detroit on March 30th. His condition aggravated during the match and he was under treatment since then.
David DeJesus got on to the field last week to test his ankle, despite bad weather and said that he is feeling more confident about his cuts and other stuffs. He admitted that he rushed to the line up of the opening match after getting the injury in Arizona. Unfortunately that was a bad decision and he doesn’t want to repeat his mistake. So, he is making sure that he will be able to play without losing any timing and is practicing for achieving it.
April 18th, 2008
The Red Sox were high on victory after winning last Sunday night’s game against the Indians and scored 8-5 much to the chagrin of David Ortiz who has been forced to take a back seat to refresh him out of one of the biggest letdowns in his career. Likewise the Red Sox also won without help from their top relief pitchers, Jonathan Papelbon as well as the ever resilient Hideki Okajima. As much as they would like to participate, they were ordered to take advantage of their much needed rest before the Red Sox go up against the Cleveland Indians yet again on Wednesday night in New York.
Daisuke Matsuzaka was deemed on of the reasons the Red Sox scored an early victory. His winning pitches were more than enough to take the team to a higher level. The affable pitcher threw 116 pitches over his five taxing innings. He lost out on five hits, six walks and four runs, finally striking out two.
April 14th, 2008
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