Away Games: Feisty (and clutch) Ryan Lomberg a Florida Panthers hero
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Away Games: Feisty (and clutch) Ryan Lomberg a Florida Panthers hero
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It’s been 7,976 days since David Cone threw a perfect game for the Yankees. That was the last no-hitter thrown by the game’s most famous franchise, until Corey Kluber took the ball on Wednesday night in Arlington. In the stadium where his 2020 season began and ended after a single inning, Klubot dominated the Rangers, walking just one batter on 101 pitches. He struck out nine. He was never in any danger, never looked stressed, and indeed, never even looked all that excited until the last out.
It took Kluber just 20 pitches to work through the first two innings, the first signs that he had something special cooking. Amusingly, it happened on a night when many in attendance surprisingly ended up with his bobblehead due to the Rangers’ giveaway. Kluber’s slider and curveball worked perfectly off each other, his fastball sat on the corners, and was able to mix the perfect combination of soft contact early in an at-bat for outs with dominant strikeo
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It feels like Opening Day was just yesterday, but we’re already a quarter of the way through the baseball season. With four teams within two games of first place, the American League East is shaping up to be one of the most competitive divisions in baseball, if not the most competitive. Let’s take a quick run through the Yankees’ divisional rivals, most of which you’ve probably been very familiar with, and one big one that we’ve yet to see.
Let’s get one thing out of the way: the 2021 season was never about 2021 for the Baltimore Orioles, who are early favorites to finish last in the AL East for the fourth time in five years. And that’s a good thing, because at 17-23, they have the fourth worst record in the American League, their 3.85 runs/game is better than only the Detroit Tigers among AL teams, and they have the sixth-worst ERA in the AL despite having AL ERA leader John Means anchoring their rotation.