All Blogs / Sports / Baseball / Posts With Video
David Price Confrontation Proves It's Time Bud Selig Gets Umpires Under Control
For years, major league umpires have operated under the misguided belief that they are bigger than the game itself. After an ugly incident involving home plate umpire Tom Hallion and Tampa Bay ace David Price this past weekend, the time has come for MLB commissioner Bud Selig to bring that practice to an end. Show More Summary
Fantasy Baseball: Week 5 Start 'Em or Sit 'Em Breakdown
Relax, let us decide for you. In fantasy baseball, several factors determine how your team fares, including injuries, trades and even luck. Ultimately, though, success comes down to decisions. During draft day, decisions are all about which players to pick or buy, as well as when and/or for how much. Show More Summary
Independent League Experiment Could Change How Games Are Played in MLB Forever
If Major League Baseball is interested in speeding up the pace at which games are played, it should take some cues from the Atlantic League. What the heck is an Atlantic League, you ask? It's a professional independent league that prefers...Show More Summary
Tracing the Boston Red Sox's Path from Villains to Heroes
Remember when the Boston Red Sox were a dysfunctional, despicable collection of scoundrels? I know. Seems like a long time ago, doesn't it? It turns out that sour baseball memories are easily buried when there's good baseball being played by a team that's both quite good and quite watchable. Show More Summary
Complete Hitter's Guide to Solving Justin Verlander's Nastiness
Our mission, should we choose to accept it—which we wouldn't, but it was assigned, so we kinda have to—is to solve Justin Verlander. Mission? Impossible. But let's at least try to find out how a hitter should go about facing the game's...Show More Summary
Evan Longoria Talks Charitable Work, Hitting, Health in B/R Exclusive Interview
Tampa Bay Rays cornerstone Evan Longoria realizes that he has a lot to prove in 2013. He hears the skeptics snipe at his fragility and insist that his early-career success isn't sustainable. Longoria, 27, can reminisce about his three All-Star selections, two Gold Gloves and 2008 American League Rookie of the Year Award. Show More Summary
Umpire Gets Hit Flush in the Groin with a Fastball at Angels Game
A 91 mph fastball, straight to the iPouch. Umpire John Hirschbeck took a Nick Maronde fireball to the groin during Wednesday night’s game between the Texas Rangers and the Anaheim Angels. At the plate was the Rangers’ A.J. Pierzynski, who began to swing at a pitch but checked his bat at the last second. Show More Summary
Complete Pitcher's Guide to Shutting Down Justin Upton
"It looks like Justin Upton is on a mission," a scout told ESPN's Jayson Stark during spring training. A couple of weeks into the 2013 season, we have an idea what Upton's mission is: Destroy all pitchers. Through 18 games and 78 plate...Show More Summary
Anatomy of Josh Hamilton's April Mega-Slump
When the Los Angeles Angels signed Josh Hamilton to a five-year, $125 million deal, they clearly figured that he wouldn't be as bad as he was in the last four-and-a-half months of 2012. If so, well, technically they were right. Thus far in 2013, Hamilton hasn't been as bad as he was down the stretch last year for the Texas Rangers. Show More Summary
Pitching Our Next Great Baseball Movie
With the unexpected and unqualified financial and critical successes of first Moneyball and now 42, it seems we've entered a Golden Age for baseball movies about things that actually happened. And thanks to the wonders of CGI, a filmmaker's palate is now more expansive than ever when recreating old-time baseball. Show More Summary
Fantasy Baseball 2013 Waiver Wire: Top 10 Pickups for Week 4
It's not too late. Just because roles, spots and jobs have started to settle down and solidify now that we're entering the season's fourth week doesn't mean there aren't still plenty of valuable players to target on the waiver wire. Like some of those to follow. Show More Summary
Memorable Moments from the Boston Red Sox's Emotional Return to Fenway Park
When does a baseball game become more than just a sporting event? For the city of Boston, the opportunity to watch its beloved Red Sox take the field at Fenway Park five days after the Boston Marathon bombings is the respite needed.Show More Summary
David Ortiz: Big Papi Makes Emotional and Powerful Return to the Red Sox Lineup
In a day marked by emotion and remembrance for the victims and families of the Boston Marathon bombings, David "Big Papi " Ortiz made a memorable return to the lineup this Saturday afternoon when the hometown Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals for their sixth straight win. Show More Summary
The greatest trickster of them all
The man seen in this publicity still is the remarkable Johnny Price, the greatest baseball trick artist who ever lived. His repertoire of stunts must be seen to be believed. Fortunately, he starred in a 1947 MGM short called DiamondShow More Summary
Will Albert Pujols or Miguel Cabrera Hit More Career Home Runs?
In 2012, Miguel Cabrera won the American League MVP, achieved the Triple Crown and bashed a career-high 44 home runs. Albert Pujols, meanwhile, did none of those things. Pujols, in fact, struggled so mightily in the early going of his...Show More Summary
Comparing Stephen Strasburg's Early Dominance to Other Phenom Flamethrowers
Stephen Strasburg's fastball is a thing of beauty. Unless you're standing in the batter's box, that is. Then his fastball is almost unfair. The Washington Nationals pitcher's fastball comes at hitters from out of his right arm at 95.7 miles per hour, according to FanGraphs. Show More Summary
Tim Lincecum's 2013 Season Already a Microcosm of His Disastrous 2012 Campaign
Tim Lincecum had a brutal, those-numbers-can't-be-right 2012 season. It was one of the most-dissected storylines of the year and for good reason. When you are two years removed from winning consecutive National League Cy Young Awards and post one of the worst earned run averages in baseball, people have a right to be confused. Show More Summary
Video of Jackie Robinson Playing Football for UCLA Will Brighten Your Day
Watching Jackie Robinson dominate in any sport is a beautiful thing. USC Athletics (h/t Next Impulse Sports) showed how generous they could be by releasing rare footage of former UCLA star and MLB legend Robinson playing football. Of course, we have seen footage of him before, but hardly in an athletic endeavor outside baseball. Show More Summary
Tony Gwynn Jr. Destroys Heckler with Trash-Talking Glove Routine
Take a bow, my man. You just won any and all arguments forever. Though two years old, this video of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Tony Gwynn Jr. responding to embarrassing hecklers recently surfaced, and is proof that you can only fight fire with fire. Show More Summary
The "greatest baseball card artifact in the history of the world"?
Is it just hyperbole when the seller proposes that this 1952 Topps baseball card box from the famed Mr. Mint find is "Possibly the greatest baseball card artifact in the history of the world!"...? And speaking of worlds, do we really live in one where a cardboard box is worth more than your car?
- Red Sox
- Dodgers Zack Greinke
- San Diego Padres
- The Tampa Bay Rays
- Major League Baseball
- New York Yankees
- The Toronto Blue Jays
- Baltimore Orioles
- Justin Verlander
- Mariano Rivera
- R.A. Dickey
- Johan Santana
- Seattle Mariners
- Carlos Quentin
- World Series
- The Houston Astros
- Boston Marathon
- San Francisco Giants
- Detroit Tigers
- Fenway Park
