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[Translate] Josh Hamilton, the Texas Rangers hitter, tied a record slamming four home runs as the Rangers beat The Orioles 10 to 3. Hamilton is the 16th player to hit four homers in a game, coming off two sets of two-homers in Tuesday’s contest. Here’s the video from MLB.com: Your browser does not support iframes. (And be warned: MLB Advanced Media is...
[Translate] By Anthony Carillo Is no one clean in Major League Baseball anymore? The 2011 National League Most Valuable Player, Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers, tested positive for a performance-enhancing drug. He was asked to give urine samples during the playoffs, and he knew weeks before he got the award that he was going to face a suspension. The tests showed...
[Translate] The deal to send MLB slugger Albert Pujois to the Anaheim Angels, and paired with Pitcher CJ Wilson, was an early Christmas present for Angels fans. But it rudely ended the party the Miami Marlins started in making noise about their desire to have the home run great on their remade team. You have to give it to the Miami Marlins. In building a new stadium,...
[Translate] The Miami Marlins are the new name of the Florida Marlins, and to this blogger, even if the new uniforms, revealed via a Twitter leak after a marketing event held by the Marlins on Friday, look more like something Speed Racer would wear, welcomes the change. Because now, the Marlins, which are located in and impact the Miami Metropolitan area, do act...
[Translate] David Freese After looking like they were dead, two World Series Games down to the Texas Rangers, the St. Louis Cardinals came back to win World Series Game 7 in somewhat less dramatic fashion, 5 to 2. After trailing 2 to zip, the Cards tied the contest, then pulled ahead to win. Now, as the Dallas Morning News reports, the Rangers are 51 title-less...
[Translate] Looking deeper at the whole reason why Major League Baseball dominated Google Trends today, and a number of reasons come up all tied to Wednesday night, and what ESPN’s Mark Krieder called “perhaps the most emotionally volatile night in regular-season baseball history.” Krieder explained that it was the Red Sox Collapse, the Atlanta...
[Translate] GO BEARS! The dream scenario – Cal’s baseball organization on the brink of elimination by its own university, get’s 11th hour help from Cal donors, then wins The College World Series – is on an ‘Are you fucking kidding me?’ path to reality. It’s California vs. Virginia in the College World Series, tomorrow at...
