Gregory Fisher-USA TODAY Sports I don’t like utilizing absolutes when speaking about sports on the web. No matter how uncontroversial the take, there’s at all times somebody on the market whose complete persona is wrapped up in “No, actually Mike Trout isn’t the best center fielder in baseball” and also you get yelled at. So I’m not going to say that Nick Lodolo has been the very best pitcher in baseball up to now this 12 months. And even when I did, it wouldn’t be that momentous a press release, since he’s solely made two begins up to now and no one else has made greater than three. Still, by way of these two begins and 12 innings, he’s confronted 51 batters, hanging out 21 and decreasing one other 9 to popups and softly-hit groundballs. He’s allowed simply 10 hits and two runs, and ...

DENVER (AP) — Home plate was once a spot the place the sociable Brandon Crawford would contact base with catchers and umpires. Just an informal dialog to catch up: How’s the household? What’s up? That kind of factor. ...