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Blake TreinenRobert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images No one will argue that the Yankees hold the edge in starting pitching. The gap closes, though, when you talk about which team holds the edge in the latter innings with their bullpens. Luke Weaver has been a revelation in the New York bullpen and […]
Read the full story on SportsLook – Dodgers Clobber Mets in NLCS Game 6 and Advance to the World Series For the first time in his MLB career, Shohei Ohtani is headed to the World Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to the Fall Classic with a 10-5 victory over the New York […]
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes and his girlfriend, Olivia Dunne, took some time off, jetting off to Florida to spend the weekend. Both LSU graduates have been dating for two years and have won NCAA championships in their respective professions. The first overall pick of the 2023 MLB draft made his debut earlier this year […]
For the Oakland A’s, the last month has been eventful. The baseball team played its final game at the Oakland Coliseum, the venue where it has played for the last 56 years. And in Las Vegas the Tropicana Hotel was “imploded” in late September to make way for the A’s new stadium, a sports facility […]
Anthony Rizzo is back. The veteran first baseman, who was left off the New York Yankees roster for their American League Division Series against the Kansas City Royals, is reportedly returning to the lineup. According to MLB insider Jack Curry, Rizzo will not only be back on the Yankees’ ALCS roster, but he will immediately […]
Read the full story on SportsLook – Managerial Changes Aplenty as the 2024 NPB Regular Season Concludes Managerial changes happen almost every off-season but this year sees an unprecedented shuffling of bench bosses in NPB. A total of five teams will have new managers at the helm when the 2025 season gets underway next spring. The Chunichi […]
To understand why Jews love the Mets so much requires a Talmudic understanding of New York City history, sports history and Jewish psychology. It’s about the DNA of baseball and Brooklyn in the 1950s; being called “amazin’” when you’re actually the worst team around, and disappointing fans so often that reveling in your losses becomes […]
Birmingham, Alabama was one of the fiercest battlegrounds of the Civil Rights Movement. And in order to understand the struggle, you don’t have to look any further than Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball stadium in the country. Over more than a century it’s hosted Negro League baseball, a women’s suffrage event, a Klan rally — […]
Mattchin provides a history of American cricket, a preview of the Men’s T20 Semi Finals, the joy of Jos Buttler, Glastonbury cricketers plus what is a ‘proper hat trick’ and who did Jimmy have to borrow batting kit off? Source link