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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa sweeps doubleheader from Toledo

Kevin Alcántara | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Six games today and the Cubs farm system won four of them. Left-hander Chase Watkins goes from High-A South Bend to Triple-A Iowa. Right-hander Nolan Clenney goes from Iowa to South Bend. Right-hander Ryan Gallagher, the Cubs’ sixth-round pick last summer, joins South Bend. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs swept a dou...2025
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split

Owen Caissie | Cody Scanlan/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The I-Cubs split a doubleheader, but the win was a pyrrhic one. The Pelicans remain undefeated. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs split a doubleheader with Indianapolis, losing the continuation of Friday’s suspended game 5-4 and winning the nine-inning contest 4-1. Jordan Wicks started on Friday and gave up three runs in t...2025
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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Opening night

Matt Halbach | Ron Schloerb/Cape Cod Times / USA TODAY NETWORK Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. And sometimes it rains. Especially in Indianapolis in the summertime. OK, spring. Welcome to the official start of the Minor League Wrap! In case you’re new, every night I recap the top four minor league affiliates. I try to blend giving you the story of the game and getting you the stats...2025
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• Get to know the South Bend Cubs

Yovanny Cabrera | MICHAEL CLUBB/SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE / USA TODAY NETWORK The Cubs high-A affiliate features some strong pitching this year. The final of our four minor league affiliates is the closest one to Chicago, the High-A South Bend Cubs of the Midwest League. The South Bend Cubs start their season tonight at Beloit. Their home opener at Four Winds Field is on Monday at 7:05 Eastern T...2025
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• Tim Tszyu vs Joey Spencer: How to Stream, Betting Odds and Fight Card

Tim Tszyu vs Joey Spencer will headline a Premier Boxing Champions card on April 6 at Newcastle Entertainment Centre in Newcastle, Australia. The entire card will be shown live on Foxtel Pay-Per-View in Australia and globally on Amazon Prime. Tszyu (24-2, 17 KOs) will return to the ring following his devastating defeat to Bakhram Murtzaliev. “The Soul Taker” had previously lost a blood...2025
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• Watch: 10 worst strikeout calls of the 2024 MLB season

Unsurprisingly, Angel Hernandez took the top spot....2024

• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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• Get to know the South Bend Cubs
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• Minor League Wrap: South Bend and Myrtle Beach win their season finales

BJ Murray Jr. | Zachary BonDurant-USA TODAY Sports The Smokies stay hot as they head into their final week. South Bend and Myrtle Beach finish their seasons on a high note. It’s the final game of the season for South Bend and Myrtle Beach. The Smokies still have one six-game series and the playoffs. It will be their final six plus games at Smokies Stadium in Kodak before they move to a ne...2024
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• Spoiler Alert: The White Sox possess only one existential function, and they’re even failing at that

Artist’s imagining of Miguel Vargas’ post-collision injury. The South Siders go “full White Sox” in Baltimore and make history. Again The 2024 Chicago White Sox are so bad, they’re being used by other teams as an adverb. "the white sox have just gone full white sox" pic.twitter.com/1C5dgI5rvw— Codify (@CodifyBaseball) September 3, 2024 It’s not a pipe dream anymore; with 22 games rem...2024
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• Minor League Wrap: Cam Smith homers AGAIN in Pelicans’ 6-2 win

Cam Smith | Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union / USA TODAY NETWORK Cam Smith is on fire down in Myrtle Beach. Wins for Iowa and Tennessee as well. The Cubs promoted right-hander Nick Hull to Double-A Tennessee from High-A South Bend. The Cubs also released right-handed pitcher Josh Staumont. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs roasted the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 5-3 in 11 innings. Terrific start to...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A retiring Angel

Photo by Dustin Satloff/Getty Images The much maligned umpire has announced his retirement Usually, when we report news on retirements, it’s about a long-tenured player, or a multi-World Series-winning team manager, but the absolute biggest news of the week was the announcement that umpire Angel Hernandez was planning to retire. Umpires bear a certain amount of negativity from MLB fans, bu...2024
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• Effectively Wild Episode 2170: Making it Official

Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about the career and competitive implications of Ronald Acuña Jr.’s latest season-ending injury, the retirement of infamous ump Angel Hernandez, the aesthetics of umps issuing warnings, the Brewers’ success sans Craig Counsell and David Stearns, a new unwritten rule against any(?) bunting, White Sox players vs. White Sox skipper […]...2024
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• The Ballad of the 2024 White Sox

Eternal game, decided early. | Nuccio DiNuzzo/Getty Images Toronto takes another painful one from the South Siders Among the disgraceful 15-40 record, last-minute starting pitcher swap, the 40-minute rain delay before first pitch, and the clubhouse captain contention, the White Sox entered tonight’s match amid chaos. The White Sox keep making history in the worst way. A team so epically v...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 28, 2024

Photo by Julio Aguilar/Getty Images Seth Lugo is nasty. Matt Quatraro says Kyle Isbel has a small fracture in his nose but is available to play. “The way I understand it, the bone just got cracked a little bit, but nothing that requires surgery or anything,” Quatraro said. “I don’t think there’s a need to wear anything [like a protective shield]. It’s almost like getting punched in the fac...2024
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• Outside The Confines: Them’s the breaks

Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images The Braves lost their superstar for the season. The Yankees are soaring and the Dodgers are struggling. And other news from MLB and baseball. Good morning. Reigning National League Most Valuable Player Ronald Acuña Jr. is out for the season with a torn ACL in his left knee. He tore his right ACL back in 2021 and missed the rest of that season as well. Dan...2024
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"The Sky Carp blew this game open with a five-run eighth inning off of relievers Yovanny Cabrera and Angel Hernandez."

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"In the sixth, Grady Sizemore got tossed after fuming to logic-impaired home plate umpire Hunter Wendelstedt, who was awarded the Angel Hernandez Enormous Piece of Shit Player of the Game tonight."

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"WATCH: Phillies' Bryce Harper ejected for arguing check swing strikeout with umpire Angel Hernandez"

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"Looks like Angel Hernandez will maintain his reputation as MLB’s worst umpire."

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"MLB umpire Angel Hernandez just won’t stop making terrible calls"

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"MLB says umpire Angel Hernandez eavesdropped during 2019 investigation, per report"

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"Astros manager AJ Hinch, not backing down given postgame hindsight, called umpire Angel Hernandez "unprofessional" and "arrogant" after being ejected in the first inning of a split-squad spring training game."

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"CC Sabathia had some words for umpire Angel Hernandez after a missed strike call in the third inning of the New York Yankees’ 2-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday night."

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"Angel Hernandez is slated to be the first base umpire at the All-Star Game"

2015
"Only this time, home-plate umpire Angel Hernandez called a balk that tied the game."

• Minor League Wrap: Iowa sweeps doubleheader from Toledo
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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Opening night
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• Get to know the South Bend Cubs
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• Outside The Confines: A retiring Angel
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 28, 2024
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• Outside The Confines: Them’s the breaks
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• Minor League Wrap: Iowa “Slaughters” Buffalo, 8-2

Jake Slaughter | Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Everyone chips in as the Pelicans win big. Iowa’s win over Buffalo was a “Slaughter.” Kevin Alcántara stays red hot. Outfielder Brennen Davis came off the injured list and reported to Triple-A Iowa today. Outfielder Alfonsin Rosario, the Cubs’ sixth-round draft pick last year, has been promoted to Myrtle Beach. Outfielder Jeffers...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 16, 2024

Photo by Jay Biggerstaff/Getty Images Salvy is A-OK! Salvy will avoid the Injured List, writes Anne Rogers. Indeed, Perez’s MRI scan taken Monday in Chicago “was the best result we could have hoped for,” Quatraro said. Imaging showed a mild left groin strain that is not expected to require an injured list stint. Catcher Logan Porter traveled to Chicago on Monday to be a one-man taxi squad...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A very expected retirement

Photo by Kelly Gavin/MLB Photos via Getty Images A Washington Nationals great has officially bowed out. With pitching injuries being a big topic of discussion this week (Shane Bieber, Spencer Strider, and Eury Perez are all out for 2024, and MLBPA is blaming the pitch clock), it seems fitting that Nationals ace Stephen Strasburg has announced his long-anticipated retirement. Injuries were...2024
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• Texans Value of Things: Fixing officiating in the NFL

Tommy Gilligan-USA TODAY Sports What are some things the NFL needs to do in advance of 2024? This is always a touchy subject and it is one that has been on my mind for awhile. Still, I wanted to wait until the end of the season because any mention of officials is always associated with sour grapes. Ask any San Francisco 49ers fan and they will point to a call or two that they feel cost the...2024
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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Opening night
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• Tim Tszyu vs Joey Spencer: How to Stream, Betting Odds and Fight Card
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie homers twice and Cam Smith extends his home run streak to 6

Owen Caissie | Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Owen Caissie homers twice. Cam Smith homers yet again. The Smokies and South Bend win on walk-offs in extras. David Bote has cleared waivers and has joined the Iowa Cubs. Everyone wins today. And Charleston is sick to death of Cam Smith. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs poached the Toledo Mud Hens (Tigers), 4-2. Jordan Wicks started on a r...2024
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• Outside The Confines: A retiring Angel
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• Weekend Rumblings - News for May 25, 2024

Kim Klement Neitzel-USA TODAY Sports The Royals are rolling. The Royals offense continues to click, writes Jaylon Thompson. “They have just been relentless,” Royals manager Matt Quatraro said. “Some of it’s been early in the game and we expanded later. Some of it has been consistent throughout the game. I think that’s a testament to the guys up and down the order not giving up, giving good...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for April 16, 2024
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• Texans Value of Things: Fixing officiating in the NFL
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• Hair of the Dog Week 9: Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Houston Texans

Photo by Cooper Neill/Getty Images So, that was quite a game, no? Houston 39 - Tampa Bay 37. Just a mere two-point win for the home team at the midway point of the 2023 season. A result that moved the Texans to 3-1 at home, 4-4 on the season, still 2 games back of Jacksonville for the division lead. That is one way to look at it. Or...you can dig a little deeper and see a game that had: ...2023
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• Hair of the dog: Houston Texans @ New England Patriots or: Bill O’Brien’s revenge

Photo by Omar Rawlings/Getty Images The first (pre-season) game of the new order. third time’s a charm, right? Right? Ah yes, with August comes the dog days of summer. The excessive heat and the general sense that it is just too [KITTEN] hot to do anything. Yet, within that heat, it is a time of starts and renewal. School is starting for many, or about to, and for the NFL, the preseason g...2023
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie hurt in Iowa DH split
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• Outside The Confines: A retiring Angel
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• Angel Flies Away
Angel Hernandez retired to spend more time with his family. Folks on X react. The celebration reminds me of this:...2024
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• Washington Nationals news & notes: Josiah Gray, Angel Hernandez; Gaining experience + more...

Notes and quotes on the Nationals in West Palm Beach, FL. ROUGH DAY FOR GRAY: Josiah Gray walked two, struck out five, and gave up a run on two hits when he faced the Boston Red Sox in his second start of the spring last weekend. Gray, 26, gave up a run on four hits, with two walks and 10 Ks in his first five innings pitched this spring going into last night’s outing. He talked to reporters after...2024
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• Texans Value of Things: Fixing officiating in the NFL
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• Hair of the Dog Week 9: Tampa Bay Buccaneers @ Houston Texans
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• Outside The Confines: The final weekend

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Say good-bye, Regular Season. Well, we’re here, the final weekend of regular play is upon is. It’s wild to think that nearly 162 games have passed, because it feels like just yesterday we were freezing while watching Opening Day, and now we’re ready to be freezing going into the postseason. It’s been an incredible year of ups and downs and much shorter games (H...2023
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• Cub Tracks can’t win for losing

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images Four days a week — the latest #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, all in one tidy package. Justin Steele was victimized by the long ball and the hibernating offense. Welcome to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writ...2023
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• Hair of the dog: Houston Texans @ New England Patriots or: Bill O’Brien’s revenge
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• Phillies fan confronts Angel Hernandez in parking lot after another awful night

Looks like Angel Hernandez will maintain his reputation as MLB’s worst umpire. Hernandez was behind the plate Sunday night for a Phillies-Brewers matchup and blew repeated calls – much to the chagrin of players and fans alike. The 60-year-old missed 19 calls, including calling a strike for a pitch that missed the the box by......2022
• MLB: Hernandez blew ALDS calls, losing WS spot

Major League Baseball said Angel Hernandez was on track to umpire in the 2018 World Series before getting overturned three times at first base on video reviews during Game 3 of that year's AL Division Series....2022
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• Kyle Schwarber loses it on Angel Hernandez after questionable strikeout call

Kyle Schwarber did what plenty of other MLB players have likely thought of doing over the years – and probably in this one game alone....2022
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• Umpire Hernandez asks for reinstatement of suit

Lawyers for Angel Hernandez say MLB manipulated the umpire's evaluations, renewing the allegation in an attempt to reinstate the racial discrimination lawsuit he lost last year....2022
• MLB says umpire Angel Hernandez lost 2018 World Series spot because of three overturned calls in ALDS game

The league made the declaration in response to a legal filing from Hernandez...2022
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• MLB says umpire Angel Hernandez eavesdropped during 2019 investigation, per report
The investigation was looking into umpires' confusion that caused a delay during a Rays-Red Sox game...2020
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• Hernandez to be interim chief after umps opt out
Umpire Angel Hernandez will be an interim crew chief this season after eight crew chiefs and four other umpires decided to sit out amid the coronavirus pandemic....2020
• WATCH: Phillies' Bryce Harper ejected for arguing check swing strikeout with umpire Angel Hernandez

Harper was called out on a third strike and proceeded to vehemently argue the call...2023
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• Cubs Minor League Wrap: Opening night
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• Minor League Wrap: South Bend and Myrtle Beach win their season finales
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie homers twice as Iowa slugs past St. Paul, 8-4

Owen Caissie | Lily Smith/The Register / USA TODAY NETWORK Owen Caissie powers the I-Cubs past St. Paul. The Smokies shut out the M-Braves. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs cast out the St. Paul Saints (Twins), 8-4. Connor Noland was the beneficiary of this offense, as he got the win after allowing four runs on five hits, including three home runs, over five innings. Noland walked two and struck o...2024
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• Spoiler Alert: The White Sox possess only one existential function, and they’re even failing at that
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• Minor League Wrap: Owen Caissie homers twice and Cam Smith extends his home run streak to 6
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• Minor League Wrap: Matt Shaw’s 1st Iowa HR leads I-Cubs past Columbus, 4-3

Matt Shaw | Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images Everyone wins today as pitching dominates. Except South Bend’s offense exploded too. My Cedar Rapids Kernels puns are so corny. Everyone wins! And unlike yesterday, no one loses! The four teams combined to allow six runs today. Iowa Cubs The Iowa Cubs sunk the Columbus Clippers (Guardians), 4-3. Starter Brandon Birdsell had a little trouble ...2024
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• This Day in Braves History: Dan Uggla extends hit streak to 28 games

Photo by Mike Zarrilli/Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1972 - Eddie Matthews takes over as Braves manager following the dismissal of Lum Harris. 1973 - The Braves purchase pitcher Joe Niekro from the Tigers. 1978 - Eddie Matthews, Addie Joss and Larry MacPhail are inducted into the Hall of Fame. 1991 - Braves outfielder Deion Sanders pulls double duty as he practices with the Atla...2024
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• The Ballad of the 2024 White Sox
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• Royals Rumblings - News for May 28, 2024
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• Hair of the dog: Houston Texans @ New England Patriots or: Bill O’Brien’s revenge
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• HAIR OF THE DOG: TEXANS @ PATRIOTS aka the Start of a New Era (v3), or Revenge of the BO’B (light)
Photo by Omar Rawlings/Getty Images The first (pre-season) game of the new order. 3rd time’s a charm, right? Right? Ah yes, with August comes the dog days of summer. The excessive heat and the general sense that it is just too [KITTEN] hot to do anything. Yet, within that heat, it is a time of starts and renewal. School is starting for many, or about to, and for the NFL, the preseason get...2023
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