Just how good was Colorado Rockies rookie Warming Bernabel’s week? The 23-year-old not only hit at an astounding near-.500 clip over a six-game span at the end of July, he also Wally Pipped a teammate by taking away his first base job — and was subsequently named NL Player of the Week on August 4.
Orlando Hernandez, the seasoned Cuban baseball veteran who signed with the Yankees as an international free agent in 1978, struck out 13 batters in a 2-0 win against the Texas Rangers at The Stadium on this day in baseball, August 13, 1998. Hernandez, then 32 years old (or likely more, considering how Cuban free agents
Few teams in history have bullied another in the course of a season like the Yankees did to the Orioles in 2019. The Bombers basically held the Birds up by their ankles and stole their lunch money all year, winning the 19-game season series 17-2 — which included 16 straight wins — while hitting 61
He only played in nine seasons, and just twice did he play more than 130 games in a year. Yet Carlos Quentin was a feared slugger who got almost as much as he gave. The outfielder hit 154 career home runs — and was hit by a pitch 127 times. On this day in béisbol,
On this day in béisbol, Aug. 10, 2019, two rookies in different leagues had huge games that got them into the MLB records book. Playing against the Orioles in Baltimore, Houston Astros phenom Yordan Alvarez went deep three times in a 23-2 rout. The three homers, including a grand slam and a two-run shot, were
Any conversation about who is the best Latino pitcher of all time will invariably come down to Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Pedro Martinez. But there’s another Martinez — Dennis — who deserves some mention, if only because he ended his solid 23-career in 1998 as the winningest Latin American-born pitcher in MLB history
