Baseball
Mark Buehrle is perfect against Rays
116 pitches, 76 strikes, 40 balls. Twenty-seven up, 27 down. Six strikeouts, no walks, no errors!
First perfect game since Randy Johnson in 2004.
Dewayne Wise’s amazing catch to save the perfect game:
Great montage of baseball bloopers
Check out Des Moines’ own Timmy McClelland at the 3:30 mark.
Joel Hanrahan won yesterday…read on
Hanrahan got his first win yesterday as the Nats beat the Astro’s 11-10 in 11 innings.
Of course, Hanrahan had the day off and didn’t play. Also, he no longer plays for the Nationals.
This is where you love baseball. You see the Nats-Astro’s game was a makeup from May 5th. Hanrahan pitched the top [...]
Baseball notes…
This video will blow your mind
I had to watch it 3 times to figure out if it was real or not. It is real by the way.
Josh Womack during spring training this year.
Remember the Royal’s bird game from earlier this week
It turns out Zach Greinke and Coco Crisp weren’t the only one’s a little [...]
Former Iowa Cub Mel Hall busted
Sad story involving former I Cubber Mel Hall.
Today, Hall was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old back in the late 90s. He was guilty on 3 counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and 2 counts of indecency with a child. Hall faces from probation to life in prison. Turns out he [...]
Ok, that is for the birds…
The Royals lost to the Indians last night. Not because of poor pitching, a costly error. No they lost because of a bird. Check the video:
Imagine if they were playing the Blue Jays or Cardinals or Orioles…..
MLB draft ranks for the past 10-years
CNNSI.com has broken down and rated each MLB on the draft choices for the past decade. Great piece with a ton of good information.
Best: Brew Crew
Worst: Astros
Check out the full list
How a curve ball works
Ok, this will blow your mind.
Arthur Shapiro of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, has created an animation of a ball that offers clues as to why a curve appears to go straight and then changes direction.
Shapiro notes that curve balls start off in the centre of a batter’s vision but overlap with the peripheral system [...]
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