The Los Angeles Angels were able to beat the Chicago White Sox, 7-6, in 10 innings on Tuesday night but the story of the evening had to do with how the game got pushed into extra innings.
In case you missed it, Angels center fielder Mickey Moniak had the chance to win the game for his team with two outs in the bottom of the ninth but he was unable to catch a hard hit ball to deep center field, even though it seemed like he was going to be able to haul it in.
Moniak not only didn’t catch it, but could only watch as it bounced over the wall for the ground-rule double.
Author: Michael
Training camps are underway, and unless you’re a Jets team managing a cavalcade of documentary cameras and hungry press, there is more hope than hecticness. There is more good than grief. That’s the best part about this time of year. Before there are games and a true measure of who is superior to whom, there is an appreciation on the individual level. Players stand out, get some social media love and inspire some fan-fiction fever dreams about the season ahead.
I remember covering the Jets back in 2012 when I met a defensive tackle on the roster’s fringe.
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Red Bull Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey is looking to avoid a fate he experienced in 1989
Red Bull made Formula 1 history last weekend at the Hungarian Grand Prix, winning their 12th race in a row. That string of victories set a new standard in the sport, breaking the mark set by McLaren when they won 11 races to open the 1988 season.
But having made history, the team is now looking to avoid repeating it over the course of the rest of the season, according to Adrian Newey, the team’s Chief Technical Officer.
The Super Bowl. Fourth quarter. Nine minutes and change left. Taking over possession down by … eight.
Maybe not exactly the situation you dream of as a kid—I think most kids fantasize about throwing the winning score, not needing two plays to tie it—but it’s the situation Jalen Hurts found himself in last February against the Chiefs.
And, of course, it’s the situation I’d been waiting four seasons to see.
“I work for those opportunities,” Hurts told me this offseason, after he’d had some time to reflect on the game.
The Yankees have lost their way, just like the 99 Burger they serve.
I’m in left field, section 223, and it’s an hour before the 1 p.m. start of the 99th game of the New York Yankees’ season in the South Bronx. It has been alternately sweltering and pouring in the city over the past month, two types of shitty weather that suggest the grim and apocalyptic future the sun and sea level have in store for this coastal island. Today it’s the former, 87 degree heat with 55% humidity in a mercilessly cloudless sky.
The San Diego Padres beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-1, on Tuesday night in a game that had a very tense moment in the bottom of the seventh that almost led to a bench-clearing brawl.
It started with Pirates pitcher Yerry De Los Santos giving up a solo home run to Juan Soto. De Los Santos didn’t seem to like how much Soto celebrated after hitting that blast so he drilled the next batter, Manny Machado, in the back with a 98-mph fastball on the very first pitch of the at-bat.
Machado was understandably upset and had words for De Los Santos, who was ejected from the game.
The Green Bay Packers front office is keeping its expectations in check heading into the franchise’s first season with Jordan Love as the team’s starting quarterback. Team president and CEO Mike Murphy has even laid out a grace period, so to speak, before he’s going to pass any judgement on the young QB.
In Murphy’s opinion, Love needs at least half a season before anyone should form a cold-hard opinion about the quarterback and his standing as the franchise’s signal caller. With that comes the possibility of the Packers having a losing record.
The Boston Red Sox were able to beat the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves, 7-1, on Tuesday night but all anyone will likely remember from that game at Fenway Park was an embarrassing moment for the home team that led to the first triple play of the MLB season.
With nobody out in the bottom of the third and runners at first and second, Triston Casas hit a routine liner to center that Michael Harris II easily caught. He then threw out Adam Duvall at first and then Masataka Yoshida got thrown out while trying to get to third.
Alyssa Thompson was 10 years old when she and her younger sister Gisele stuck photos of themselves onto a poster of the U.S. women’s national team for the 2015 World Cup, imagining themselves on the squad. By the time they huddled at their aunt’s house to watch the 2019 final, Alyssa was old enough to know she was too young to be there. Forward Megan Rapinoe and midfielder Rose Lavelle, two of her heroes, scored second-half goals against the Dutch to seal the Americans’ second straight and fourth overall World Cup title.
Quietly, Comeback Player of the Year has become another award historically dominated by quarterbacks.
Since the hardware was reintroduced to the league in 1997, signal-callers have overwhelmingly been the choice of voters. In fact, six quarterbacks won consecutively from 2008 to ’13, and now we’re on another five-year streak with Andrew Luck, Ryan Tannehill, Alex Smith, Joe Burrow and Geno Smith.
However, this year is unique with Bills safety Damar Hamlin’s being the runaway favorite to win the award after needing to be revived on the field in Week 17 against the Bengals.