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Blood and Baltimore broadcasters
Any Brit who thinks baseball is any easy, non-contact sport should try catching a Zack Greinke fastball in their mouth. Torii Hunter gave it a go today and ended up with a bloody lip and a trip to hospital. According to reports, Hunter initially started to confront Greinke about his lack of control before collapsing [...]
This week’s live games
Apart from the normal clutch of Thursday day games, it’s fairly slim pickings this week when it comes to live games being played during the evening British time. Here is my pick of the best games available on MLB.TV, times being listed in BST.
Week 3
Weekly hit ground ball always tries to look at the funnier side of the game and this week there has been plenty of topics to choose from. Week three was the week of Pizza and the Phillies.
Injuries and my fantasy team
Fantasy baseball has the ability to divide fans of the sport simply because it makes you look at the game in a completely different way. Injuries are a good case in point.
Heading to the DL?
While we would love to see the players on the field making all of the headlines, the recent rush of players on to the disabled list has been the main news over the past week or so.
Live baseball this week
One of the many little things I’m adding to this site is a weekly highlights schedule of live matches to watch in the evening over here in GB. Once again, apologies to those of you unable to watch MLB.tv, I know this is rubbing it in! I guess I should add the standard disclaimer that [...]
Sunday Times on Robinson
I thought I would do a quick trawl of the British Sunday papers (online) to see if the story of Jackie Robinson was covered anywhere today. The Sunday Times appear to be the only paper to have written anything, although it is a decent little piece commenting on the declining numbers of African-Americans in MLB [...]
Week 2
Sunday is here again and that means it’s time for another edition of “weekly hit ground ball”. It’s Jackie Robinson day and the world of MLB will pay their respects to the man who did so much to break down the colour barrier, and was a great baseball player to boot. The number 42 will [...]
Gagne – super saver
There are many reasons to consider the “save” as being a fairly limited statistic. It is entirely dependent on opportunity and, due to the importance placed on them by many in the game, there is an argument that saves condition managers into using their best relief pitcher in a very narrow role.
Welcome to the new site
Well this is it, my new site is up and running with all of the posts and comments from the previous blog having been moved across. Setting up this new site has involved a fair bit of planning and I thought everything was finally in place this morning. A few minor problems had to be [...]
