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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/14/25): Turner DH, Amaya Catching, Taillon Against Cease
We caught a break with Sunday Night Baseball, but the Cubs are back to these godforsaken West Coast start times as they open their second series of the season against the Padres. At least their getaway game is an afternoon affair, but we’ve got to suffer through a pair of late ones first. And hey, … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/14/25): Turner DH, Amaya Catching, Taillon Against Ceas...2025
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• Cubs vs. Dodgers ESPN Sunday Night Baseball bingo

Al Yellon The Cubs are back on ESPN and you know what that means The Cubs and Dodgers will face off on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball tonight in what could be the beginning of the end for the Cubs playing on ESPN on Sunday night. Earlier this year it was reported that ESPN was opting out of the last three years of it’s deal with MLB to carry a game of the week in primetime. I admit I had some...2025
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• Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/13/25): Happ Leads Off, Turner DH, Rea of Sunshine Pitching
My kingdom for an afternoon game. At least this Sunday Night Baseball Affair gets an earlier start than either of its predecessors. The Cubs tied up the series last night with a relentless 16-0 drubbing of the Dodgers that stands as the worst shutout loss in franchise history. It was also the Cubs’ fourth ever … The post Chicago Cubs Lineup (4/13/25): Happ Leads Off, Turner DH, Rea of ...2025
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming

Two of the Cubs’ home run heroes from Saturday night, Carson Kelly and Michael Busch | Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images It took a while, but the Cubs brought out the big bats at Dodger Stadium Saturday evening. The Cubs and Dodgers looked like they would be locked in a classic pitcher’s duel for the first five innings of this game. Ben Brown and Roki Sasaki were both dealing, and both teams flashe...2025
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• Friday Night Baseball: How to watch Pirates-Reds, Tigers-Twins on Apple TV+

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• The diabolical combination of Aaron Bummer and the West Coast Braves

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Saturday night’s 1-0 loss was another example of just how strange and unusual things tend to get when the Braves are in California and also when Aaron Bummer is on the mound. Last night, the Atlanta Braves fell to 0-3 to start the season after dropping another close and incredibly frustrating game in Petco Park against the San Diego Padres. By this po...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 28, 2025

It was a good start | Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images The quest for 161-1 begins tomorrow! Let’s be honest. You’re not here to read what I wrote today. You’re here to talk about the game yesterday. I’m not going to link to a bunch of different recaps posts. Matthew has got you covered with the RR recap. I won’t post too much more about that TOOTBLAN in the 8th (Pete Grathoff has me ...2025
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• Braves return to San Diego to kick off their season against the Padres

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images Let’s get rockin’ and rollin’, y’all! After the Atlanta Braves ended their turbulent 2024 season in San Diego, Petco Park will be where their 2025 season begins. The Braves are set to tangle with the San Diego Padres for a four-game series in beautiful San Diego to start off their season. For the Braves, this serves as a way to get a hollow form of revenge...2025
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• Penultimate Spring Training Contest: Royals vs. Rangers at Globe Life Field

Bobby Witt Jr. #7 of the Kansas City Royals bats during the 2024 T-Mobile Home Run Derby at Globe Life Field on Monday, July 15, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. | Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Almost there! Remember when the Texas Rangers started playing in their brand new stadium but no one was there to see them play because it was 2020? And remember when they were like, “y...2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the ABS sticking around?

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images Will we see an electronic strike zone this regular season? As we continue to see the ABS system get tested in Spring Training, and with it we have seen some pitchers share how unimpressed they are, while some batters have felt vindicated, and as a surprising side reveal, we’ve learned that a lot of players have been lying about their height. But one thi...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 4, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images The Moose returns! Jack Vita at MLB.com writes about Seth Lugo’s veteran presence. Now 35, Lugo is the elder statesman of the Royals’ pitching staff. A quieter personality, Lugo leads by example. “I’ve never really been too outgoing with words,” Lugo said. “But you go to work every day, you give it everything you have, you try to be on time, you be in the pl...2025
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• The fascinating life story of former Cubs pitcher Moe Drabowsky

Moe Drabowsky and his first wife Liz, while Drabowsky was with the A’s in 1962 | Courtesy David Driver He had quite a life after his family left Poland just before Nazis took over in the 1930s. Sportswriter and author David Driver approached me some time ago with a proposal to post an article here on former major league pitcher Moe Drabowsky, who pitched for the Cubs from 1956-60. In fact,...2025
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• This Day in Braves History: Atlanta acquires Gerald Williams from Brewers

Photo credit should read STEVEN SCHAEFER/AFP via Getty Images Braves Franchise History 1970 - Rico Carty injures his knee in a Dominican League game. The injury caused Carty to miss the entire 1971 season. 1997 - The Braves acquire outfielder Gerald Williams from the Brewers in exchange for Chad Fox. He will spend two seasons in Atlanta after the trade while hitting .286/.341/.475 with 27...2024
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 11

Ron Santo in 1972 | Photo by Louis Requena/MLB via Getty Images A M-W-F digest, replete with #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB content, gathered from reputable sources. Ron Santo* and Steve Stone move from one side to the other, and other stories. On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, Bleed Cubbie Blue is pleased to present a light-hearted, Cubs-centric look at baseball’s colorful past, with plenty of...2024
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• Royals Rumblings - News for January 16, 2025

Photo by Ed Zurga/Getty Images Were you part of the Royals international amateur class? Cole Ragans joined MLB Network Radio to discuss his offseason throwing program: Baseball America has a scouting report on Kansas City’s international amateur class ($): Dominican shortstop Ramcell Medina, signing for $950,000, has been an up-arrow player. Early on, Medina looked like he might end up a...2025
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• Tuesday Rockpile: Rockies fans, there’s a new Nolan in LoDo

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Tuesday, October 17, 2023 It’s time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth: Kris Bryant will never be the face of Colorado Rockies, despite their best efforts. He’s here & he’s perfect pic.twitter.com/GgnxVwuAIr— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) March 18, 2022 To be clear, Bryant is a great baseball player, and his a...2023
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• Watch: A-Rod makes good on Yankees-Red Sox bet by flipping burgers
Alex Rodriguez recently made good on a bet related to the New York Yankees-Boston Red Sox rivalry by working a shift as a burger-flipper. And A-Rod admits he “enjoyed” the experience. The wager that resulted in Rodriguez spending some time doing manual labor involved the now-ESPN broadcaster and former Yankees great taking up an offer from rabid Red Sox backer Mark Wahlberg. The subject of the bet...2018
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• It's Another Remarkable Day for Al Michaels, the Voice of Sports' Top Moments
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• Brand Name Ambition: Astros' Carlos Correa Focuses on Baseball and a Lot More
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• 'An Absolute Blast': Harper and Trout Recall Days as Teammates in Fall League
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"CT and this will be the first 2025 appearance for the Cubs on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball."

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"I trust you’ve already heard about the time change for Sunday’s game, but if not, tomorrow’s contest will be the featured ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game and begin at 6:10 p."

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"It is put up or shut up time for the Braves in Game 4"

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"ESPN is considering a Manningcast-type broadcast for Alex Rodriguez as it reshuffles its "Sunday Night Baseball" coverage, The Post has learned."

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"Play-by-player Matt Vasgersian informed ESPN executives that he is leaving his position on "Sunday Night Baseball," The Post has learned."

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"Jessica Mendoza, an analyst on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball since 2015, has reached a multiyear extension and will become the first woman to serve as a solo analyst on national baseball telecasts."

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"2020 Sunday Night Baseball schedule announced"

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"Alex Rodriguez will join ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" broadcast team, replacing Aaron Boone, who left to become manager of the Yankees, a source confirmed on Tuesday."

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"The game will take place during the Little League World Series, and it will air on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball (7 p."

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"On Wednesday, ESPN announced that former Reds third baseman Aaron Boone has been promoted to be an analyst for the Sunday Night Baseball broadcast."

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"A two-time softball Olympic medalist, Mendoza has filled in capably for Curt Schilling over the last month as the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball analyst served his suspension for controversial social media posts made in late August."

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"A new chapter in the classic Cardinals-Cubs rivalry will have a quick start, as those two teams are scheduled to meet April 5 at Wrigley Field in the Sunday Night Baseball opener on ESPN2 at 8 p."

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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions

Jim and Landon Thome celebrate Nazareth Academy’s 2023 state championship. | Ted Piton Son Landon shines in father’s return to roots Jim Thome, Major League Baseball legend, Hall-of-Famer, and former White Sox great, returned to his roots in Bartonville, Ill., last week as the hitting coach for his son Landon’s high school team, Nazareth Academy (7-0). The Roadrunners faced off in a doub...2025
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• The diabolical combination of Aaron Bummer and the West Coast Braves
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• Braves suffer another excruciating loss 1-0 in San Diego

David Frerker-Imagn Images Bad luck and bad offense sunk the Braves, who are still seeking their first win of the season. Still looking for their first win of the season in game 3, the Braves were hoping Spencer Schwellenbach could twirl a gem and the Braves’ offense could tee off against Randy Vasquez. Things got off to a good start, as Vasquez walked the first two Braves’ batters of th...2025
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 28, 2025
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• Outside The Confines: Is the ABS sticking around?
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• Royals Rumblings - News for March 4, 2025
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• Could ESPN and MLB still have a broadcast future together?

Photo Illustration by Sheldon Cooper/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Anything’s possible in this fast-changing media environment. Last week, I wrote here about the split-up between MLB and ESPN after the latter had carried MLB games for the last 35 years. MLB is supposedly looking for other broadcast partners, but who knows if they’ll be able to find one who will pay them as much ...2025
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• How to watch the Royals on TV in 2025

Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports Put the Royals on your eyeballs. The Royals were an exciting, improved team led by one of the best pitching staffs and one of the most dynamic young players in the game. Fans want to watch these players, but the changing media landscape can be confusing. How can you tune in and watch these boys in blue on your television and streaming device in 2025? Bally...2025
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• Braves News: Drake Baldwin, Orlando Arcia, Alex Anthopoulos, more

Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Some more news and notes as we are one day closer to Spring Training Games beginning. If you continue to see Drake Baldwin more and more in articles on Battery Power in recent weeks, it is both for good reason and a good sign. In the midst of the time of year where many outlets are revealing their top 100 prospects lists across baseball, Baldwin conti...2025
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• Cardinals To Place Ivan Herrera On Injured List, Select Yohel Pozo
The Cardinals are planning to place catcher Ivan Herrera on the injured list due to left knee inflammation tomorrow, as club manager Oli Marmol told ESPN’s Buster Olney on this evening’s Sunday Night Baseball broadcast. Marmol added that initial test results came back clean on Herrera’s knee and that it remains structurally sound despite the…...2025
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• Braves return to San Diego to kick off their season against the Padres
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• Could ESPN and MLB still have a broadcast future together?
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images What does this mean for the future of baseball on TV? Earlier this month, I posted here about the possibility of ESPN opting out of the last three years of its deal with MLB. The TV network had until March 1 to make this decision. Now, that’s happened. Evan Drellich has details in this article in The Athletic. Bottom line, literally: MLB will have to fi...2025
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• What happens if ESPN opts out of its TV deal with MLB?

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images The Worldwide Leader has broadcast MLB games since 1990. ESPN will be entering its 36th season of broadcasting Sunday Night Baseball and Tuesday announced that Karl Ravech, David Cone, Eduardo Perez and Buster Olney will be its SNB broadcast announcing team. They’ll be entering their fourth season as SNB announcers. But next month, ESPN can opt out of t...2025
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• A look at the Braves/Padres 2024 regular season series

Photo by Denis Poroy/Getty Images If the Braves can repeat what they did in Petco Park in July, they could be heading to Los Angeles for the weekend. The Atlanta Braves and the San Diego Padres have already faced each other seven times here in 2024 and depending on how this series goes, it’ll take either the perfect baseball number of nine games or possibly ten to decide which one of these...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27

Frank Isbell put his stamp on the strangest doubleheader in White Sox history, on this day, 119 years ago. | Chicago History Museum/Getty Images The weirdest doubleheader in team history ends in a split 1905 Simply put, this was the craziest doubleheader in White Sox history. In the opener in Boston, the American Bill Dineen no-hit the South Siders, 2-0, at the soggy Huntington Avenue Base...2024
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• Braves News: Reynaldo Lopez Lands on Injured List, Crowded NL Wild Card Race, More

Brett Davis-USA TODAY Sports Tuesday also brings to the Brewers to Atlanta. After a disappointing end to the weekend, the Braves got a much needed off day on Monday. Not all the news was positive with Reynaldo Lopez landing on the 15-day injured list, but that was a likely move after the Braves did not announce Lopez as a potential starter in their upcoming series against the Brewers. Bry...2024
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• Cardinals 5, Cubs 4: The complaint department is OPEN

Photo by Stacy Revere/Getty Images This space intentionally left blank because otherwise it might have bad words in it. As most of you know, I have been watching Cubs baseball for more than 60 years. In that time I’ve seen a lot of bad baseball and a lot of losing. Most of the time, I can slough off the losses, been there, done that, seen it before. This one pissed me off. The Cubs should ...2024
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• Braves suffer another excruciating loss 1-0 in San Diego
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• Cubs 7, Guardians 4: The wins just keep on coming

Steve Sher The Cubs remain undefeated after 10 spring outings. MESA, Arizona — The Cubs ended their tie streak at three Saturday afternoon with a convincing 7-4 win over the Guardians. That gives them seven wins to go with the three ties, and they haven’t lost yet this spring. Right. Spring wins and losses mean nothing. I know this. You know this. And yet... there’s just something that fee...2025
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• MLB and ESPN are splitting up
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• Thank you, I don't like it

A couple things before I start the big show:1. I like to be a good commenter on the blogs and leave a comment when something sparks my interest. Lately I have been unable to comment on some blogs via my laptop. This is only from my laptop, not any other computer, like the one at work, so I know it's some sort of settings issue on my laptop. But it only comes into play on three blogs that I ...2025
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• Former MLB pitcher Brian Matusz has died

Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images Far too young, only 37. Brian Matusz pitched in exactly one game for the Cubs. I have tremendously sad news to report to you about him: Very sad to hear that former #orioles pitcher Brian Matusz passed away this morning. Was 37. 4th-overall pick in 2008 draft.— Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) January 8, 2025 That’s far too young for anyone to leave thi...2025
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• The fascinating life story of former Cubs pitcher Moe Drabowsky
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• Mendoza signs ESPN extension, leaves Mets job
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• A-Rod joining ESPN's 'Sunday Night Baseball'
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• Atlanta Radio Host Unloads Ugly Twitter Tantrum on Female ESPN MLB Analyst
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• 'An Absolute Blast': Harper and Trout Recall Days as Teammates in Fall League
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• Former Red Boone to call Sunday Night Baseball
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• Pirates, Cardinals to play game in Williamsport
Major League Baseball announced on Thursday that it will relocate an Aug. 20 game between the Cardinals and Pirates to Williamsport, Pa. The game will take place during the Little League World Series, and it will air on ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball (7 p.m. ET)....2017
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• Mendoza joins 'Sunday Night Baseball' full-time
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• Braves, Marlins to Play Game Honoring Servicemen and Servicewomen at Fort Bragg
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• Cody Bellinger's fantasy baseball stock just keeps on rising
Cody Bellinger is living the life right about now. Not only are the Los Angeles Dodgers sporting an 8-3 record with baseball’s second-best run differential (+35) heading into Tuesday night, but there are also only three hitters with a better wRC+ than Bellinger’s 266 mark (Mike Trout, Tim Anderson and Tim Beckham). As if that wasn’t enough, the reigning National League Player of the Week is tied f...2019
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• It's Another Remarkable Day for Al Michaels, the Voice of Sports' Top Moments
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• Cubs vs. Dodgers ESPN Sunday Night Baseball bingo
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• Cubs 16, Dodgers 0: The hits and home runs just kept on coming
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• Cubs vs. Dodgers odds, prediction, props: Free 2025 MLB picks, Sunday Night Baseball bets by proven model
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• Friday Night Baseball: How to watch Pirates-Reds, Tigers-Twins on Apple TV+
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• Braves vs. Padres odds, prediction, props: Free 2025 MLB picks, Sunday Night Baseball bets by proven model

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• Braves start Nick Allen at shortstop in second game of season against Padres

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Allen fills in for Arcia, while the rest of the lineup remains the same. The Braves made one change to the lineup — albeit a pretty notable one — for the second game of the season against the Padres, swapping in Nick Allen for Orlando Arcia to play shortstop. The rest of the lineup remains the same for Atlanta, who scored four runs on...2025
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• Braves return to San Diego to kick off their season against the Padres
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• Hall-of-Famer Jim Thome’s homecoming hits a grand slam of emotions
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• Baseball history unpacked, December 11
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27
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• Outside The Confines: Baseball is underway

Photo by Brandon Sloter/Getty Images News from Opening Day weekend and MLB. It’s the home opener! (Weather permitting.) It’s also April Fools Day. In honor of that, all the links will take you to Rick Astley singing “Never Gonna Give You Up.” (No, they won’t.) The City of Oakland have delivered their list of demands to allow the Athletics to play for the next three years at the Coliseu...2024
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• Today in White Sox History: September 27

With a win on this day 103 years ago, Dickie Kerr became the fourth 20-game winner in the 1920 White Sox rotation. | Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images An amazing feat by a doomed rotation 1920 A 2-0 win over the Tigers gave Dickie Kerr his 20th win of the season in a game that took all of 66 minutes, one of the quickest games in franchise history. But it also gave the White Sox their f...2023
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• Friday Rockpile: For the Rockies, the NL West just can’t be won

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Friday, September 8, 2023 While most Rockies fans were skeptical of Dick Monfort’s .500-ball prediction “if (stuff) goes right” prior to the 2023 season, there was still good news about the 2023 schedule: fewer National League West games. For a team that hasn’t won the division in its 30-year existence and will in...2023
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• Today in White Sox History: August 8

On this day, 47 years ago, the White Sox became the first major league team to wear shorts, beating Kansas City, 5-2. | Ron Vesely/MLB Photos via Getty Images There was an extra breezy feeling on the South Side 1914 The White Sox purchased the contract of outfielder Oscar “Happy” Felsch from Milwaukee for $19,000. Felsch, an outstanding glove man and hitter, would become part of history w...2023
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• Cub Tracks’ older, wiser, sadder day
Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Recent #Cubs,#MLB, and #MiLB news you can use, four days a week. Happy birthday to me. Welcome to today’s edition 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, and then cold-brewed overnight for maximum flavor. Pity about Alexand...2022
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• It's Another Remarkable Day for Al Michaels, the Voice of Sports' Top Moments
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