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Tweet It was announced today by multiple sources that Ryan Braun allegedly took steroids during his 2011 NL MVP season where he helped lead the Brewers to the NLCS for the first time since 1982 when they lost the World Series in 7 games against the St. Louis Cardinals. Braun was first informed that he [...]

Tweet Mariano Rivera recorded his record breaking 602nd save earlier today against the Twins. This surpasses Trevor Hoffman’s previous record  of 601 which was set last year. Rivera completed these feat 1 year sooner than Hoffman but it took him 3 more games to do this. Even though it took him 3 more games, it [...]

Tweet The Giants broke their streak of 21 consecutive home runs with out someone on base last night when Cody Ross hit a two run home run in the top of the third. The Giants ended up winning the game 5- 2 against the Marlins while hitting 4 home runs in the game. Three of [...]

Tweet I was fooling around with the Baseball-Reference.com Play Index today and I thought it would be interesting to find what is the record for the fewest pitches in a complete game start. The record is 39 pitches on August 17th, 1979 and his held by John Fulgham. He did this while on the St. [...]

Tweet The Giants just broke the consecutive solo home run record with Pablo Sandoval’s homer in the top of the first against the Marlins. This was the 20th solo shot in a row, breaking the 1914 Phillies record of 19. This is a very interesting record but not the best one to hold because it [...]

Tweet Bryce Harper, Baseball America’s number 1 prospect to tearing it up in Single-A Hagerstown. The Hagerstown Suns are the single-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals who drafted Harper in last years draft with the overall number one pick. Harper has been amazing ever since he was 12 and was drafted when he was only [...]

Tweet There has been a little bit of talk so far this baseball season on the topic of “is Buster Posey going through a sophomore slump?”. A sophomore slump is when a baseball player does worse in his second season then in his first season. First of all, let me squash the Posey slump idea. [...]

Tweet I found this amazing article on espn.com about the situation in Rio De Janeiro.  Rio is going to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. I will be very interested to see how this plays out as we get closer to 2014 and to see what Rio does to improve its [...]

Tweet Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers just threw the second no-hitter of the young baseball season. He accomplished the feat against the Toronto Blue Jays and even thought he did not get a perfect game, he still faced the minimum of 27 batters. This has only been done seven times before and the last [...]

Tweet Rare Footage Of Ruth And Gehrig Rare, previously unseen footage of baseball greats Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth was discovered very recently in an Illinois cellar. This video was taken on October 18, 1927, a few days after the Yankees swept the Pirates in the World Series. I think it is amazing that the [...]