Fourteen players were issued qualifying offers before today’s 4pm CT point in time, creating the most important slate of offers extended since twenty players received the QO throughout the 2015-16 offseason. Despite the massive variety, however, some notable (and surprising) names weren’t issued the annual, $18.4MM contract by their groups, and can currently enter delegacy […]
CORBIN — Corbin’s own baseball/softball legend, Virgin Mary Weddle Hines, died at the age of eighty seven over the weekend. Hines was born on April twenty six, 1934 and grew up in Woodsfield, Ohio on a farm with eleven brothers and 4 sisters and a love for the sport of baseball. After taking part in […]
Brian Snitker on happening the road for Game six, GHB deep-fried and a lot of Monday was a travel day for the Atlanta Braves and therefore the Houston Astros because the series shifts back to Houston for Game six Tuesday and Game seven weekday if necessary. The Braves can carry a 3-2 series edge into […]
The NBA came into this season cracking down on “abnormal, abrupt, or overt movements” to draw fouls – shooters leaping unnaturally sideways (or forward) into defenders, shooters kicking out legs and making other non-basketball moves to draw a whistle. To use Steve Kerr’s analogy, NBA referees were no longer blowing whistles award free throws on […]
The famous Texas gambler “Mattress Mack”, known in his hometown of the multi-billion dollar sports team, could win 36 million in the World Series. Furniture tycoon Jim McIngwale placed a 3.3 million bet on the Houston Astros facing the Atlanta Braves on Tuesday. He is known to have placed bets in Indiana. According to William […]
Carlos Correa and Jose Altuwe beat the Houston Astros 5-4 on Friday night over the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series. Two runs down in the sixth inning, Altuwe equalized the game by three runs in their 20th post-season home run. Houston’s infielder hit Homer on the Red Sox […]
Sunday proved to be the right time for the Red Sox, when they secured their place in the wild-card game and touched the home plate seven times to defeat the Citizens. There were problems around the second bottom, however, it could linger. Jedi Martinez, who is probably the club’s second-best batsman behind Rafael Devers, cleared […]
New York-Major League Baseball once again set a record this year with an average time of nine-inning games despite efforts to improve speed. The average for the regular season of 2021 was 3 hours, 10 minutes, 7 seconds, the commissioner’s office said after the end of the regular season on Sunday. That was 3:07:46 for […]
Max Fried made another solid performance and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies ’bullpen 7-2 at Truist Park on Wednesday night. George Solar and Freddie Freeman made an instant start under Aaron Nola’s back-to-back singles lead. After a fly out by Ozzie Albies, Austin Riley made the first run 1-0 by throwing the Bloop […]
The Toronto-Yankees are expected to add right-hander Jonathan Loisiga to the bullpen on Wednesday, Aaron Boone said before the Yankees’ 7-2 victory over the Blue Jays on Tuesday night. Loisiga has been out with a right shoulder strain since September 5th. Prior to the injury, Loisiga was the Yankees’ most effective deterrent. Before he scored […]