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...