We’ve already technically watched 27 innings of baseball between Boston and Toronto this week, but there’s still a third game to be played. It’ll be Joe Biagini leading the B lineup as the Blue Jays look for a series split at Fenway.
Ho hum. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is ESPN’s MLB Prospect of the Year for 2017. Keith Law explained the decision in a piece released on Wednesday morning, declaring, “I could make arguments for other players, but no one blew the doors off the hinges this year the way the 18-year-old son of possible Hall of Famer…
“Every time you go extra innings and you lose—but to go 19 innings…” -Marco Estrada If you designed a regular season game of baseball with the purpose of provoking maximum suffering in the hearts of a team’s fans, what elements would it include? Would it look something like what we, the last place team in…
In 2017, Roberto Osuna has struck out batters at a higher rate, walked them at a lower rate, and been less prone to home runs than any season of his short but so-far magnificent career. And yet here he is, in the middle of a mini “closer controversy” — or at least having to be…
Last nights game against the Red Sox turned into a marathon, combining for more than twice the length of a standard game. An excellent start from Estrada, a Hernandez sacrifice fly, and a Morales tater had the Jays up 2-0 ready to close things out in the ninth. Unfortunately, Osuna continued his struggles as of…
