June 4, 2019: Stephen Strasburg records 100th career win for Nationals
Ten years after he was drafted, nine years after making his major-league…
June 13, 2019: Major-league baseball comes to Nebraska on eve of College World Series
Homer Bailey of the Kansas City Royals throws the first pitch…
June 13, 2019: Shohei Ohtani becomes first Japanese player to hit for the cycle
On June 13, 2019, Los Angeles Angels two-way player Shohei Ohtani…
June 14, 2019: Padres score 12 unanswered runs to rally at Coors Field
The thin Rocky Mountain air, the enlarged outfield dimensions,…
June 16, 2019: Nationals’ Aníbal Sánchez earns his 100th win
It was a beautiful Father’s Day afternoon in DC: sunny and…
June 19, 2019: Franmil Reyes pulls Padres past Brewers in slugfest
As the Milwaukee Brewers took the field on a sunny Wednesday…
June 19, 2019: Gerardo Parra brings the Baby Shark to rally Washington Nationals
Washington Nationals fans could be forgiven if their focus was…
June 19, 2019: Blue Eye, Brown Eye, Black Eye: Scherzer pitches with a broken nose
The 24,220 fans attending the second game of the day-night doubleheader…
June 23, 2019: Albert Pujols plays his last game in Busch Stadium
“This is probably one of the best moments of my career. I’m…
June 28, 2019: Four calls reviewed, four calls overturned — all at first base
Similar to almost every game played in San Diego during the summer…
June 28, 2019: Fernando Rodney, Aníbal Sánchez reach milestones in Nationals’ win over Tigers
The Washington Nationals’ Aníbal Sánchez would be facing…
July 6, 2019: Max Scherzer strikes out 11, collects a hit, and steals a base
The 27,863 fans filing into Nationals Park for this 4 P.M. Saturday…
July 13, 2019: At Coors Field, Reds hit 5 triples in one game
As baseball has shifted to the “three true outcomes” in the…
July 18, 2019: Strasburg sets records, homers, has to dance in dugout
If you came to the ballpark hoping to see something you hadn’t…
July 23, 2019: Gregorius’s 7 RBIs, Hicks’s homer and catch send Yankees to extra-innings win
Max Kepler drilled a four-seam fastball to deep left-center field.…
July 23, 2019: Trea Turner hits for the cycle again
Every good recipe starts with the right ingredients. In baseball,…
July 25, 2019: Baltimore’s Stevie Wilkerson earns the first nonpitcher save
The Los Angeles Angels were tightening the race for a 2019 American…
July 25, 2019: Long Island Ducks win in first Atlantic League game using computer to call balls and strikes
As the second decade of the twenty-first century neared its end,…
August 2, 2019: Weird baseball: Phillies pitcher Velasquez records an outfield assist while position player pitches
At first glance the box score doesn’t look unusual except for…
August 5, 2019: Orioles’ Jonathan Villar hits for the cycle, but Yankees set home run record at Camden Yards
It had been 10 seasons since a Baltimore player hit for the cycle.…
August 7, 2019: Thousands of fans see their first MLB game in Boston — and it lasts 12 minutes
For thousands of fans in the Greater Boston area, it was their…
August 9, 2019: Edwin Jackson returns to Tigers with a win
Edwin Jackson is unlikely to be inducted into the Baseball Hall…
August 10, 2019: Rookie Yordan Alvarez leads Astros’ 23-2 onslaught of Orioles
The Houston Astros rolled into Baltimore on August 9, 2019, riding…
August 13, 2019: Rafael Devers goes 6-for-6 with 4 doubles; Sale fastest to 2,000 strikeouts
The month of August had not been kind to the Red Sox. They had…