Bats: Random Ruminations From Comerica Park
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A few observations from Sundayâs 5-4 loss to the Tigers: â Melky Cabrera has to stop sliding headfirst into first base. Heâs too important to the Yankees to risk injury with a play that doesnât get him to first base any quicker. We asked Joe Torre how he can stop Cabrera from doing it. âStrangle him, [...].
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If anything, there will be a little more sizzle around the ballpark. There won't be so much focus on Julio Lugo's slump, or J.D. Drew's batting average, or Curt Schilling's injury, or the fact that there's not much of a race in the American League East right now.
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It is a strange time in baseball. The announcement of Hall of Fame voting is due today, and the issue of performance-enhancing drugs was part of the thought process for voters in determining which of the boxes they checked off. Perhaps it wasn't quite as important as statistics and performance accolades, but, unfortunately, these are the times we live in ...
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LOS ANGELES - The new series "Clubhouse" - about a teenager who's a batboy for a major league team - may use sports as a metaphor for life, but the producers know the action on the field still has to look authentic. That was fairly easy to pull off in the pilot, in which Dodger Stadium served as the stand-in for the fictional New York Empires' ballpark...
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The fireworks display outside Comerica Park on Saturday night wasn't the work of the Los Angeles Angels. It just seemed that way.
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When you&#39;re part of a team that has just captured its first World Series title in 86 years, it&#39;s easy to get a little too caught up in the moment.
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A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.
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ne bad breaking ball did in the Yankees yesterday. Usually, one mistake does not cost them so dearly, but the Yankees are not usually scrounging for hits either.
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After the Mitchell report, how was I supposed to view the Yankees in this new context? I needed guidance, clarity. I was searching for answers. So I turned up the volume on the radio.
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When I think about the Cardinals and the Red Sox playing each other in October, I see dead people. That&#39;s a line from a movie, of course, and I shamelessly used it to grab your attention rather than tell the truth.
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F the Red Sox thought they could come into Yankee Stadium and change the direction of the American League East race, they have another thought coming.
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Remember when there was genuine concern about the Red Sox' lineup? Remember when folks were legitimately fretting that this team couldn't hit?
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VIERA, Fla., March 1 -- There is but one portable stereo in the Washington Nationals' clubhouse, constantly set to an innocuous pop station. Not once during the past three weeks has it risen to a level that interfered with normal conversations. Not once has someone slid in a country CD, only to have...
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On one hand, Pedro Feliz&#39;s eighth-inning grand slam could be considered a bit of false drama. I mean, it isn&#39;t like he put the Giants into the playoffs or anything.
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Jayson Stark writes for ESPN, âItâs hard to say exactly which moment it was that we realized the iPod had taken over our entire civilization. But it might have been this one: The day we first heard, last summer, that baseball players were using their iPods to do their pregame video studies  â  as opposed to, say, their pregame Shakira video studies. What we have here, friends, is one of historyâs most amazing gizmos ever.â
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There's a method to spotting tomorrow's home runs.
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There's a method to finding tomorrow's home runs.