Los Angeles Dodgers at Washington Nationals Tonight is appropriately “Dusty Baker Bobblehead Day” at Nationals Park as the Los Angeles Dodgers will play the Washington Nationals. Baker, the Nationals’ manager played for the Dodgers during his MLB career and won a championship with them in 1981. This is the first of a three-game series, with Scott …
Read More »How Week 15 IN MLB Looks for the Marlins, Rays, and Braves
A few days following the All-Star break, and week 15 of Major League Baseball is about to be in full swing… The ESPN Power Rankings have the Miami Marlins at #13 as they come out of a winning three game series against the St. Louis Cardinals. Their current record is …
Read More »Marlins Start Second Half of the Season With Series Win
The Marlins have a promising start to the second half of the season as they started it off in St. Louis. The Marlins won the series 2-1 and are showing that they are a contending team to make it into the postseason. In Friday’s game, the Cardinals sent four balls …
Read More »Second Half Of MLB Season Begins
The All-Star Break is a good time for teams to rest up and reform themselves during such a long regular season. For the Tampa Bay Rays, the All-Star Break came too late to help. The Rays were on the worst stretch in the league leading up to last weekend. Now …
Read More »MLB All Star Game Preview: Ortiz, Stanton, Arrieta
The best of Major League Baseball will showcase their skills at tonight’s 2016 All Star Game. The American League-National League matchup, also known as the “Midsummer Classic”, will take place this year at San Diego’s Petco Park. https://twitter.com/AllStarGame/status/743470101064613888 Each team is made up of players from the respective league. The rosters for each …
Read More »Giancarlo Stanton Breaks Home Run Derby Record
To kick off the All-Star break week, Giancarlo Stanton really hit it out of the park during Monday night’s home run derby—61 times to be exact. The Miami Marlins slugger and highest paid player in the MLB broke Bobby Abreu’s measly 41, set back in 2005, by a landslide. Stanton hit 20 homers in the final …
Read More »Marlins and Braves Heat Up, Rays Continue to Still Struggle
The Miami Marlins (47-41) are starting to heat up going into the MLB All-Star break. The Marlins completed a home sweep Sunday night when they destroyed the Cincinnati Reds 7-3 with help from Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton hit his 20th home run to give the Marlins the lead for good, 4-3 in the fifth. Miami Marlins …
Read More »Marlins Fall to Mets
Despite Giancarlo Stanton’s two big home runs at Citi Field, it wasn’t enough to hold back the New York Mets Wednesday afternoon. Wilmer Flores’ multi-homer game made a bigger influence giving the Mets the win. Flores produced his second two-homer game in a four-day span in this game, resulting in the …
Read More »Cubs and Red Sox Lead All-Star Selections
The 2016 MLB All-Star rosters were announced Tuesday night with the Chicago Cubs making history. The young organization became just the second team in MLB history to have its entire infield start in an All-Star game. Anthony Rizzo (1B), Ben Zobrist (2B), Addison Russell (SS), and Kris Bryant (3B) join …
Read More »Marlins Blow 6-Run Lead, Look for Improvement from Stanton Against Mets
This past week has been peppered with both wins and losses for the Miami Marlins, but they sit third in the National League East standings, behind the New York Mets and the Washington Nationals. In the first game of the series against the Mets, the Marlins blew an early six-run …
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