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Royals Rumblings - News for May 12, 2021 Share this story Minda Haas Kuhlmann At Inside the Crown, David Lesky dissected the disastrous homestand from several angles: As a whole, Royals starters went 33 innings and had a 7.64 ERA on the homestand. You obviously can’t do this, but take away Lynch’s start and that drops by more than two runs. My issue is that their bullpen let them down so badly. They came on needing to get one or two outs with runners on base in five of the seven games and e...

Outside The Confines: Raccoon or rat? Share this story Baseball can be weird. There are unusual plays, crazy history-making moments, breathtaking catches and record-breaking home runs. This past Friday, though, there was a truly bizarre moment during the Mets game. Mid-game Francisco Lindor and Jeff McNeil went into the Mets dugout tunnel and a few moments later a fracas of some kind caused several other members of the team. Whatever actually happened will remain between Lindor and McNeil, but...

Fangraphs’ Jay Jaffe takes a look at the not good defense of the last-place LA Angels. That’s all for this morning. The Rangers return home to start up a series with the Seattle Mariners at 7:05 tonight. Have a nice day. Most Read

2:02 Jay Jaffe: Good afternoon, folks, and welcome to another edition of my Friday chat! Later today I’ll head up to Yankee Stadium for my first game of the year — my first since last September 16, when Kyle Higashioka hit three home runs in a game I covered (though my attentions were elsewhere when it came to subjects) and my first as a fan since September 19, 2019. 2:03 Jay Jaffe: Speaking of Higashioka, I wrote about him, Gary Sánchez, and the Yankees’ not-so-sudden catching contro...

April 29, 2021 Jacob deGrom was his usual sterling self on Wednesday night, striking out nine Red Sox batters against no homers, one walk, and just three hits over his six innings of work. For his troubles, the Mets dropped the game 1-0, leaving deGrom with his second loss of 2021. A month into the season, deGrom now has the same number of losses as total earned runs allowed. He’s upped his Cy Young-worthy game to such a degree that allowing a single run nearly doubled his ERA, from 0.31 to 0...

Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images Fernando Tatis Jr. completed a family ritual, hitting two home runs in the Padres’ 6-1 win over the Dodgers on Friday night at Dodger Stadium. Friday was the 22nd anniversary of Fernando Tatis Sr. hitting two grand slams in one inning at Dodger Stadium, amazingly both hit against Chan Ho Park. That was the only time Tatis Sr. played in Los Angeles on April 23, but he made the most of his trips here, slamming six home runs and driving in 15 runs in 11 career...

April 16, 2021 Let’s do it again, folks. This week, the co-host chair lands back in Brooklyn as Jay Jaffe makes time to yammer with me for two-plus hours. We start by figuring out how many games the Dodgers will win before discussing how today’s game creates a good environment for no-hitters and watching Jay count to 20. Then we are joined by special guest J.J. Cooper, the executive editor of Baseball America, who gives his reasons for being open-minded about baseball’s experimental rule...

April 14, 2021 There’s a kind of depressing infamy that comes with being a player on the losing end of a lopsided trade. Players like Glenn Davis, Ernie Broglio, and Larry Andersen are more famous for the players they were traded for than anything they did in their own careers. It’s an unfair bit of notoriety, too; there’s not much cosmic justice involved when Harvey Kuenn, who played in 10 All-Star games, is remembered more for a decision to trade Rocky Colavito he didn’t make rather ...

2:00 2:02 Jay Jaffe: I’m pleased to report that I’m freshly vaccinated with my second shot, but I have to admit that while I wasn’t feeling any negative effects when I set this chat in motion about 90 minutes ago, the mere act of going to pick up my lunch seems to have set off some wobbly legs and general fatigue. Gonna try to power through this for as long as I can, but you might want to have the bullpen ready. 2:03 Jay Jaffe: I was up late playing beat-the-clock to finish this piece o...

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