Baseball

Shohei Ohtani earned one other win on the mound regardless of giving up 5 runs in a nightmare fourth inning, and he additionally tripled, doubled and singled within the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-7 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. Ohtani (4-0) had his rockiest begin in latest reminiscence, yieldi...

ARLINGTON -- A day after he appeared to harm his proper wrist sliding right into a tag in Minnesota, Yankees proper fielder Aaron Judge left Thursday’s 4-2 win over the Rangers with proper hip discomfort. The difficulty, which is more likely to hold Judge from enjoying some or all the remaining three video games at Globe Life Field, can be a repercussion of the awkward slide towards the Twins, Judge mentioned. “It was just a little grab in the hip area -- after that headfirst slide … the whole right side has been a little locked up,” Judge mentioned. “The culmination of having that [slide] and a couple of swings today, I just really couldn’t get it loose.” Judge batted within the first and second innings on Thursday, putting out swinging each occasions towards Texas starter Andrew Heaney. ...

Stephen Brashear-USA TODAY Sports What’s an important factor for a pitcher to do? That’s proper, don’t depart the ball up within the zone for Aaron Judge. The second-most vital factor for a pitcher to do is throw strikes. Throw strikes to get forward within the depend, throw strikes to problem hitters, throw strikes to power motion early within the depend and maintain your pitch depend down… pitchers discuss throwing strikes the way in which well being nuts discuss kale. It’s good for you. How? Let me depend the methods. Except, no one really throws strikes. Last season, 347 pitchers threw no less than 50 innings within the majors; no one threw greater than 58.5% of their pitches within the strike zone. Devin Williams, probably the greatest within the enterprise, labored contained in ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Alec Burleson and Paul DeJong homered, Miles Mikolas pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0 on Thursday to keep away from a four-game sweep. “That’s what Cardinal baseball is supposed to look like there,” St. Louis supervisor Oliver Mar...

Dallas Cowboys HOF Troy Aikman drew curiosity from Mets n","providerName":"Twitter","providerUrl":"https://twitter.com","type":"rich","width":550},"type":"oembed"},"__typename":"Markdown","content":"The math checks out. In 1984 (the 12 months Aikman would have been Draft-eligible), Strawberry was one 12 months faraway from successful National League Rookie of the Year honors and, in response to data saved by Baseball-Reference, made $230,000, just under the long run Cowboys star’s asking value.nnIt was nearly actually a ploy by the Henryetta (Okla.) High School star athlete to see what he may extract earlier than going full bore onto the gridiron.nnFor starters, he seemingly must have wanted to alter positions. Like many good ...

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Drew Maggi’s main league debut and whether or not there needs to be a method for different journeyman minor leaguers to make the majors extra simply, the story of short-lived Mariners mascot Spacey the Space Needle, the causes of a dramatic uptick in occurrences of catcher’s interference, Shohei Ohtani’s anti-pitch-tipping prowess, Jordan Walker’s demotion to the minors, the sluggish begins of the Cardinals and White Sox, and extra, plus (1:17:03) a Past Blast from 1999 and a query about celebrities on main league rosters. Audio intro: Harold Walker, “Effectively Wild Theme”Audio outro: Liz Panella, “Effectively Wild Theme” Link to video of Maggi’s debutLink to article about Maggi’s debutLink to Reddit put up about SpaceyLink to 1990 Spacey a...

NEW YORK — Jeff McNeil snapped an eighth-inning tie with an RBI triple and the New York Mets squandered a pair of multi-run leads earlier than recovering to beat the Washington Nationals 9-8 on Thursday night time. The Mets led 4-1 and 6-3 earlier than C.J. Abrams’ grand slam within the prime of the eighth...

CHICAGO -- White Sox basic supervisor Rick Hahn left little doubt as to the place the blame ought to fall for his group’s disappointing 7-19 begin to the 2023 season. “Put it on me. That’s the job. It’s the absolute gig,” mentioned a candid and nonetheless assured Hahn previous to Thursday night time’s series-opening 14-5 loss to the Rays. “Let’s make this actual clear -- it positive as heck isn’t on [first-year manager] Pedro [Grifol] and his teaching employees. “They are doing everything in their power to prepare, focus on what’s controllable, what’s fixable, addressing the problems as they arise. And they are really doing everything in their power to get this thing right. It’s absolutely not on the manager and the coaches.” The White Sox have misplaced eight straight video games for a 3...

Last summer time, we introduced a partnership with BreakingT and a complete lot of shirts. Today, we’re happy to introduced that we’ve launched a brand new run of merchandise, that includes three extra shirts and, for the primary time ever, branded FanGraphs shorts! There are three new FanGraphs shirts, together with the return of the basic “Do You Go To FanGraphs At All?” (as memorably uttered by Daniel Murphy), plus pocket emblem tees in each inexperienced and black, and our cursive script emblem tee, as discovered on our best-selling crewneck sweatshirt. We’ve additionally bought shorts! These Champion-brand athletic mesh shorts, obtainable in black with the FanGraphs emblem on the thigh, have a nine-inch inseam and can be found in 5 sizes. And most significantly, this can be ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani earned one other win on the mound regardless of giving up 5 runs in a nightmare fourth inning, and he additionally tripled, doubled and singled within the Los Angeles Angels’ 8-7 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Thursday. Ohtani (4-0) had his rockiest begin in latest re...