The Atlanta Braves pounded out 12 hits and 9 runs in a 9-2 win over the New York Mets on Tuesday evening. David Ross hit his first career homerun for the Braves to cap a seven run inning in the fifth inning. The inning got started after a Luis Castillo error. New York could not [...]

Detroit Tigers (65-66) @ Minnesota Twins (75-56) Date: Wednesday September 1st, 2010 Time: 8:10 pm EST Preview: The Detroit Tigers will take on the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday night in the middle game of a three game series at Target Field. The Tigers come into the game one game below .500 on the season, and [...]

The Cincinnati Reds lost two outfielders and a ball game on Monday night. Veteran outfielder Jim Edmonds was placed on the disabled list with a strained right oblique muscle. Edmonds was injured in the sixth inning of the 11-2 loss to the San Francisco Giants. Another outfielder Lance Nix left the game in the third [...]

Here in Chicago we’ve long known that when players leave and go on to other cities and other teams, it’s usually to do something good. And then we complain about getting rid of said player on sports radios and blogs. Eric Hinske is one of those guys. Hinske was another in a long list of [...]

Evan Longoria and BJ Upton nearly brawl in the Tampa Bay Rays dugout, after Longoria calls out Upton for lolligagging on a ball hit to deep center field. Longoria went about it the right way and Upton then freaked out, which probably means that Longoria was right to call him on it. The Rays are [...]

Major League Baseball is like most old, cemented corporations: slow to act, wary of change and quicksand-stuck in its ways. What a shame. MLB had a chance to climb out of the cave when Jim Joyce’s egregious error nullified Armando Galarraga’s perfect game. But they didn’t, and we are bound to see something like this [...]