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Clayton Kershaw Blues

2026-06-08T15:26:50Z

by George Yatchisin “We’ll just keep the camera on sad lonely Kershaw.” – Dan Szymborski, FanGraphs chat Don’t even turn and look. Failure will fall as that’s what gravity asks all of us to do. Be as great as you are. It’s far from your fault that people call it a mere regular season. And …

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PCA Makes Giants Look Small

2026-06-08T02:43:27Z

by Dr. Rajesh C. Oza The wind blows random: Giants hit seven homers Then Pete goes yard, twice.

Single or Homer?

2026-06-02T17:45:48Z

by Dr. Rajesh C. Oza My friend and I once coached Little League; That was over a quarter century ago. Now we meet at Ada’s Café for tea and cocoa. Sometimes, when our creaky knees let us, We bicycle past the old field to the café. And then we talk—talk across all the bases. Our …

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St. Louis, 1982

2026-06-02T17:46:55Z

by Dena Molen This is where a city blends. Shoulders, elbows, and sharp opinions are tucked away; personal space is temporarily downsized. A band of heavy-tongued baseball fans bump their way through the late afternoon, the day salty on their lips. While they take care not to step on heels in front of them, they …

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Nickname Hall of Fame #7

2026-06-03T22:40:17Z

by Jim Siergey Frank Howard, also known as “The Washington Monument,” was the biggest star of the second incarnation of the Washington Senators. Though he came up with the Dodgers, he asked to be traded to get more playing time. In an era when home run hitters were average-sized, Howard measured in at 6 foot …

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The No Plate Special

2026-05-31T04:10:55Z

by Michael X. Ferraro The Cristopher Sánchez bagel shop Was open all May, baking non-stop. Smoother than Philly cream cheese, Changing up speeds, buckling knees. Straight up Cy-licious, this is no slop. Photo: Bill Streicher–Imagn Images

Impossibly Lost

2026-05-31T04:10:11Z

by Brian Mosher Mine were the Red Sox of Yazstrzemski and Lynn, of Rice and Eckersley, of almost but not quite, of wait until next year. Though I cried tears of joy when the Dirt Dog edition finally toppled the Evil Empire and brought the trophy home, somehow it seemed more an ending than a …

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“The Sun Shines on McCovey Cove”

2026-05-29T14:21:00Z

by Dan Bern and Common Rotation Six inches either way they say McCovey’s shot gets thru And the Giants win it all in ’62 In ’89 the ground it shook Cars and homes were tossed And oh, by the way, the games were lost 2002 the roof fell in Just waiting on the brink We …

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New York, New York

2026-05-29T13:55:28Z

by Raphael Badagliacca baseball town mickey, willy, and the duke casey, yogi can’t anybody here play this game and it gets late early out here and it ain’t over ’til it’s over in this baseball town skyline on the screen in between innings this time phenom Schlittler shut them down though Soto homered in the …

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Shohei’s Wednesday

2026-05-28T20:50:17Z

by Fred Lovato Despite sore pinky Shohei holds Rockies hitless smacks a homerun, too