Worcester Ruby Legs News Today

At this time last year, Zach Penrod was pitching in the independent leagues, but he's put himself on the map as a hard-throwing left-handed prospect.

Does it feel to you like the Cubs lose regular-season games on walk-offs far more often than they win them in that fashion? It certainly has been true the last 3 seasons. The Cubs are 0-3 in...

Nearly 3 years ago, I spent several weeks reading contemporary newspaper accounts of every game that the Cubs won by 4 or fewer runs between 1876, first year of the National League, and 1915. My...

Today's game will conclude the Cubs' 148th season in the National League. It will be the 75th season that they have ended on the road and the 5th in a row, tying for their longest such streak. T...

The Cubs host this A.L. Central ballclub for a three-game series.

The Cubs have had only 1 walk-off win this season, on April 10, when they beat the Mariners, 3-2, on a 1-out, 10th-inning single by Nico Hoerner that scored Nick Madrigal from third. Today is the 1...

Alternate identities are all the rage in Minor League Baseball. Last Sunday, the Worcester Red Sox raised the concept to a new level with an alternate identity based on a team that played locally in the 1800s. Boston's Triple-A affiliate took the field at Polar Park as the Ruby Legs,

Seventeenth and last in a series of posts about attendance at Cubs' home games in 1876-1900, the 25 seasons of the National League before the Modern Era began in 1901. ......... EVOLUTION OF...

April 18, 2021 Cesar Valdez’s name has graced this column a handful of times over the past year, most recently a month ago when I asked him about his powerful paralyzing perfect pachydermous percussion pitch. (No, the Baltimore Orioles reliever doesn’t actually call it that, but given that Bugs Bunny changeups make up the lion’s share of his deliveries, he arguably should). Since the start of last season, Valdez has thrown the mesmerizing offering an eye-popping 83.1% of the time. The Red...

This weekend the baltimore orioles were also saidet to face the tampa bay team but that game was switched to florida. >> hopefully were as welcoming as we can be. if the situation was reversed it would be nice to see support from other areas as well. >> now the previous low for a major league baseball game stretched all the way back to 1882 when six fans were in the stands for the worcester ruby legs versus the troy trojans. >> six more than will be in the stands later on. thats incredible. joel...