Usually when we're posting a crazy circus catch, it's a diving outfielder or a darting infielder. It's hardly ever the pitcher or the catcher. But in this case, it's the pitcher AND the catcher.
You gotta see Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero and relief pitcher Josh Collmenter...
A Hooters ball girl fielded a live ball in March, tossed it into the stands and the Internet mocked her accordingly. So in the interest of fairness, we have to point out when major league player makes the same boneheaded move.
Here's the situation: It's the top of the eighth inning in...
...often hits with a pitch the next? batter after someone has hit a home run on him. 10 points for correct answer
A- repression B- projection C- regression D- reaction formation E- displacement F- sublimation
From the "I've never seen that" department comes this play in Friday night's Yankees-Blue Jays battle at Rogers Centre.
It happened in the very first inning with Yankees outfielder Curtis Granderson at the plate. Granderson would smack*a hard line drive right back at Blue Jays starting pitcher...
It's not particularly uncommon for a dominant Little League pitcher to hurl a no-hitter. What is remarkable is when a one-armed Little League pitcher accomplishes that feat.
According to South Carolina Now -- and as brought to Prep Rally's attention by 'Duk of Big League Stew fame --...
the Year? Are you surprised? Rookie of the Year:
AL: Jeremy Hellickson of the Tampa Bay Rays...
NL: Craig Kimbrel of the Atlanta Braves... no surprise there
The popular choices, at least on Yahoo Answers, were Mark Trumbo or Ivan Nova. However, Hellickson won 17 of the 28 first place votes and...
...Year? Are you surprised? Rookie of the Year:
AL: Jeremy Hellickson of the Tampa Bay Rays...
NL: Craig Kimbrel of the Atlanta Braves... no surprise there
The popular choices, at least on Yahoo Answers, were Mark Trumbo or Ivan Nova. However, Hellickson won 17 of the 28 first place votes and...
This past May, the Memphis Redbirds honored broadcaster Charlie Lea on the 30th anniversary of the no-hitter he pitched for the Montreal Expos. Six months and a day after that celebration, Lea was gone.
On Friday, police said Lea died after a suspected heart attack at his home in Collierville...
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Mike Flanagan played for the Baltimore Orioles when they weren't a punchline.
He made the All-Star Game in 1978, tossed a league-leading five shutouts and won the AL Cy Young Award in '79, pitched on the O's World Series champion club in '83 and was part of a no-hitter in 1991.
He...
My mom bought a $3 filter pitcher from wal-mart that supposedly removes something from the water. Does it remove the fluoride and if so, to what percentage does it remove it? Also, what else does it remove from it? Is it as good or near as good as a real faucett filter?
Good luck, along with the flat brim of his cap, saved youngster Braydon Salzman from serious injury at the Little League World Series on Friday.
Salzman, a pitcher for the Huntington Beach, Calif. team, would have been hit in the forehead with a ball in the third inning were it not for his...
It might have been baseball's worst kept secret leading up to the Sunday trade deadline: The Detroit Tigers needed a starting pitcher.
After taking one more crack at the Colorado Rockies' Ubaldo Jimenez on Friday, but balking at an asking price that reportedly included pitcher Rick Porcello...
Former New York Yankees pitcher Hideki Irabu was found dead of an apparent suicide in his suburban Los Angeles home on Wednesday, according to the Los Angeles County sheriff's office. He was 42.
The news was first reported by Japanese media outlets and later confirmed by the Yankees.
The big...
To say that Christ the King (N.Y.) School pitcher Joe Mortillaro came from nowhere might be a bit of an overstatement, but only a bit. The senior never spent a full season with the Royals' varsity team due to a raft of injury issues, disciplinary issues and academic struggles.
Now that he's...