Dick Selma News Today

The Cubs collapsed on the field. And the front office made some terrible trades, too.

Yes, really,

Mark Leiter Jr. did not allow a run in his first 8 games this season. Granted, relief pitchers' statistics can be deceiving, since they are not charged with runs scored by any runners on base when...

Baseball fans get excited about the arrival of spring training. MLB players, too, look forward to the fresh start of a new season. Enter Ron Swoboda.

Plus Reds prospect Matt McLain, speedy George Case, a Xander-Nomar poll, a Hall of Fame thought, facts and stats galore, and more.

It might have cost the team the 1970 NL East title. This is an almost-overlooked deal in the parade of bad Cub trades from that era.

This was quite the season debut.

Plus a Rod Carew-Harmon Killebrew poll, Louis Head's ability, Clayton Kershaw's bat, facts and stats galore, and more.

Mets hope better pitching luck on the way vs. Blue Jays Field Level Media 23 Jul 2021, 08:55 GMT+10 The New York Mets are just a week away from bringing back their black alternate jerseys on July 30. What they could really use heading into their longest homestand of the season, though, is one of the pitchers who wore the black jerseys from the late 1990s through 2012. The undermanned Mets willlook to maintain their National League East lead when they host the Toronto Blue Jays in the opener of ...

Games-played streaks, Part 1: Billy Williams By JohnW53 on Apr 25, 2021, 7:03am CDT + In some, the player rarely took an inning off, let alone missed a game. Early in Cal Ripken Jr.s record streak of 2,632 games, he played 8,264 straight innings. The second-longest such stretch in the Modern Era is just 4,620. Ernie Banks had the second-longest since 1940: 3,223, less than 40 percent of Ripkens total. Every long streak included games in which a player pinch hit, pinch ran or appeare...