
June 2, 2010: Blown call costs Tigers’ Armando Galarraga a perfect game
After a fourth-place finish in the 2008 American League Rookie…

June 8, 2010: Stephen Strasburg strikes out 14 in MLB debut
For the Washington Nationals, the drama of the 2008 season came…

June 12, 2010: Boston’s Daniel Nava hits grand slam on first pitch he sees in major leagues
Daniel Nava celebrates with teammates after hitting a grand…

June 18, 2010: Chase Utley, Ryan Howard lead charge as Phillies score early and often against Twins
The 2010 Philadelphia Phillies had plummeted in the National…

June 19, 2010: Twins’ bench is twice as nice in comeback against Phillies
On the cusp of the summer equinox, the Minnesota Twins made…

June 25, 2010: Edwin Jackson throws 149-pitch no-hitter for Diamondbacks
When the Arizona Diamondbacks visited the Tampa Bay Rays for…

July 2, 2010: Pirates’ Ross Ohlendorf wins his only game of the season
When a franchise endures two consecutive decades of sub-.500…

July 6, 2010: Altitude decides another one as Rockies rally to beat Cardinals
July 6, 2010, was a warm rainy evening in Mile High Denver when…

July 6, 2010: Ryan Zimmerman hits sixth career walk-off home run
The 14,039 fans assembling at Nationals Park would need their…

July 10, 2010: Reds rookie Travis Wood is perfect through eight innings, but Phillies win in 11th
The pitching matchup for the third game of the four-game series…

July 26, 2010: Joe Mauer, Danny Valencia combine for 9 hits, 11 RBIs in Twins’ rout of Royals
The 2010 baseball season was in the last week of July, and the…

July 31, 2010: Twice in a month: ‘Mr. Walk-Off’ Ryan Zimmerman sends Nationals fans home happy
For the end of July in Washington, 84 degrees and a light breeze…

August 2, 2010: Yovani Gallardo’s 12 K’s overshadowed as Brewers pummel Cubs, 18-1
Both the Milwaukee Brewers and the Chicago Cubs had lost five…

August 6, 2010: Giants beat Braves 3-2 in extra innings on Tom Glavine Night
The evening of Friday, August 6, 2010, was to be a very special…

August 7, 2010: Greenville Drive keep pace in Sally League race; Rome Braves fall behind
Going into the August 7, 2010, game between the Greenville Drive…

August 22, 2010: Cardinals rookie Jaime García faces one over the minimum, blanks Giants for first career shutout
After a standout career at Sharyland High School in Mission,…

September 24, 2010: Reds’ Aroldis Chapman tops 105 mph for fastest pitch ever recorded
Between 2008, when PitchF/X systems began measuring pitch speeds…

September 27, 2010: Phillies clinch NL East on Roy Halladay’s two-hitter
“Baseball is really two sports — the summer game and the…

October 3, 2010: ‘Cinderella’ Padres come up a game short in playoff hunt
“Cinderella came up a game short” was the lead sentence in…

October 6, 2010: Phillies’ Roy Halladay throws postseason no-hitter
“It’s surreal, it really is. I just wanted to pitch here…

November 1, 2010: Tim Lincecum, Giants beat Rangers for their first World Series title since moving to San Francisco
“Torture” was the theme for the 2010 San Francisco Giants.
In…

May 25, 2011: Infielder Wilson Valdéz pitches the 19th inning and records the win for Phillies
When the 2011 season began, the Philadelphia Phillies were riding…

June 24, 2011: John McLaren era starts with ejection, 3 blown saves — and a Nationals win
Washington Nationals manager Jim Riggleman had resigned the day…

July 4, 2011: Major League Baseball’s ‘other’ 200,000th game
Pre-Game Notes
Major League Baseball rightfully prides itself…