Sports of The Times: What Did Pitcher Know and When Didnât He Know It?
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Uncomfortable days are ahead for Roger Clemens, who has lost some control over his image by acknowledging he took injections from his personal trainer.
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Thanks to the cheaters, everyone in baseball now is presumed guilty until proven innocent. You may be a diehard Roger Clemens fan and say you don't want to believe your guy has used performance-enhancing drugs to pitch like this into his mid-40s, but don't sit there and tell me you haven't wondered about it.
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Joe Torre always says that nothing restores order like a well-pitched ballgame. Consider order restored. Mike Mussina tossed eight brilliant innings of three-hit ball
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Imagine coming to bat in Game 7 of the World Series. Bases are loaded. Game on the line. It&#39;s all up to you. Except, there&#39;s one problem: You have no idea what the score is.
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How could this scruffy, relentless bunch of baseball throwbacks have one most valuable player? By definition, they could not. Who would it, should it, be? David Ortiz? Curt Schilling? Pedro Martinez? Johnny Damon? Derek Lowe? Keith Foulke? Mark Bellhorn?
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As American League teams get more familiar with Bobby Madritsch, they&#39;re learning what the Seattle Mariners already know about their sudden star.
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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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First, Marco Scutaro. Now, Manny Ram&#xED;rez. It's not supposed to work this way. A starting pitcher is not supposed to pitch seven or eight innings and give up one solo home run -- and take the loss. It's certainly not supposed to happen two starts in a row.
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Jarrod Washburn is a starter by trade, not a closer, a man more accustomed to easing his way into games rather than nailing doors shut. Early in his career, the Angels lefthander saw his share of the relief biz, and it was just enough for him to know it wasn't really his calling.
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They are members of an unusual fraternity. There are not many equivalents in professional sports to a major league knuckleball pitcher. But, much like National Hockey League goaltenders, they understand each other better than anyone else understands them.
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Roger Clemens talked about pitching and conditioning. What he didn't talk about was steroids.
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Curt Schilling lives for this stuff. He was deprived of a win by a bookkeeping necessity. But anyone who witnessed the 3-2 Red Sox triumph knows how superb the big righthander was in this extremely important game, and who was the true &quot;winning&quot; pitcher in this sensational contest. Losers of three straight, playing a team that has mystified them this ...
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The pitching coach who has been in professional baseball for 40 years thought the ball was too low. The relief pitcher who has been on major league mounds for more than a decade feared it would bounce on the plate.
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Look for a definition of a big-game pitcher anywhere, and you probably would not find Jeff Weaver&#39;s name. Weaver, a Los Angeles right-hander, after all, was 12-12
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The news on East and West Coasts this week reflected the fragility of hope based on an aging pitcherÂs arm and a young pitcherÂs value.
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Woody Williams tried cutting the ball. He tried sinking it, tried spinning it. He threw fastballs over the middle, inside, up, down, and he changed speeds.
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DENVER - Eleven days ago, we weren't thinking like this. Eleven days ago, the Red Sox were in neck-deep doo-doo, down 3-1 to the Indians. Eleven days ago, the talk was of a deep Cleveland lineup and a Boston attack that was a bit too Papi/Mannycentric. Eleven days ago now seems like 11 centuries ago.