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Lost in the very oddly played, sometimes head-scratching 20-inning marathon on Saturday between the New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals was the starting performance turned in by LHP Jaime Garcia. The Cardinals’ rookie was very good on Saturday. Garcia matched Mets ace Johan Santana pitch for pitch, giving up just one hit (a blooper by Angel Pagan), walking two, and striking out five in seven innings. He now has an 0.69 ...

When I was named a Featured Columnist for the Cleveland Indians last year, my fellow FC Samantha Bunten invited me to be a part of Tribe Talk, a weekly roundtable in which the top Indians writers on Bleacher Report talk about recent news and discuss how the team could better itself in the future. Last week, as I was filling out Samantha's latest survey, I had the idea of creating a ...

The story of the week was flame thrower Ubaldo Jimenez's incredible no hitter against the Braves. The Phillies lose Jimmy Rollins to the DL, and the Twins opened up their new park in style. The season is still in it's infancy, but certain teams are already seperating themselves from the rest of the crowd.Begin Slideshow

Brett Gardner did everything he could have possibly done to help the New York Yankees sweep the Texas Rangers in their weekend series. On Friday night, Gardner did not start the game. He came in as a pinch runner and immediately stole second base and then scored a run. On Saturday. Gardner started in left field and went 3-4 hitting in the nine hole. He also scored two runs, drove in one ...

Here’s a look at the unheralded players who played well yesterday.   Brett Gardner, New York Yankees Gardner went 2-for-2 with a run and 2 SBs (6th, 7th). He’s hitting .333.   Andy Pettitte, New York Yankees Pettitte went 8 innings giving up 2 runs on 4 hits. He’s 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA.   Ervin Santana, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (pictured) Santana threw a complete game giving up 1 ...

Originally posted on Midwestropolitan . Quite the weekend of baseball.  I can’t say it was all enjoyable.  Sunday’s loss to the Cardinals leaves me with two major questions.   1.  What is going on with this offense? They could only muster four hits in the series finale against the Cardinals. Jose Reyes gets a pass in my mind.  It is unrealistic to expect him to be able to light up the ...

Each year thousands of fans are dazzled by the one event that focuses on the most exciting aspect of baseball: Home Runs! And I thought it would be a fun idea to build my own Home Run Derby Dream Team, and take you, the readers, through an entire event. It’s very easy, the setting is Wrigley Field (I’m a Cubs fan) and the rules are simple: 10 outs to each batter, ...

There are two really, really scary plays in baseball. The first being when a batter hits a line drive at the pitchers head and the second being when a pitcher hits a batter in the head with a fastball. The later happened when Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla drilled San Francisco Giants center fielder Aaron Rowand in the head in the fifth inning of their game Friday night. The pitch ...

Let's get it out there right up front—there is very little one can do to sugar-coat a San Francisco Giants loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers sealed by a Manny Ramirez pinch-hit, two-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning. Especially when you consider Major League Baseball's most tiresome clown conspired with a hanging slider from Sergio Romo (in a 1-2 count no less) to deliver the ...

Week Two of the season proved to be less than a happy week as a Rangers fan. It started out pretty well but quickly spiraled downhill and ended with a big thud.   Game Recaps Apr. 12 @ Cleveland Indians W, 4-2 Rich Harden proved to be far more effective than in his first start as a Ranger, going six innings and allowing only two runs on five hits.  However, Nelson Cruz was once ...