Archive for the ‘Baseball’ Category
Hechavarria for the Rays
“He’ll be a huge part of our team,” Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash said of Adeiny Hechavarria. (EDDIE MICHELS PHOTO)
Schoop and O’s show at Lecom
Orioles Hitting HITTERS AB R H RBI BB K AVG OBP SLG A. HaysDH 4 0 0 1 0 0 .118 .200 .118 C. RasmusCF 2 0 0 0 1 1 .278 .409 .444 a – A. SantanderPH-RF 1 0 0 1 1 0 .342 .350 .526 J. Schoop2B 3 1 2 1 1 0 .379 […]
Dustin Peterson leads Braves Onslaught
Braves Hitting HITTERS AB R H RBI BB K AVG OBP SLG O. Albies2B 4 0 1 1 0 0 .313 .371 .344 S. Kazmar2B 2 1 1 0 0 0 .154 .267 .154 D. SwansonSS 5 1 1 2 0 0 .185 .290 .407 C. RondonPR-SS 1 1 0 0 0 0 .250 .400 […]
Blocked in Dunedin
At about 10 AM Tuesday March 6, 2018 this reporter shot this photo of one of the entrances blocked to the Vanech Complex in Dunedin. The sign points to parking to the left. The taped over part used to say stadium parking. It’s assumed that the people are trying to enter the Englebert Recreational Complex […]
Eddie’s Spring Fling continues Pirates 4, Phils 3 on Osuna’s Blast
Bradenton, Fla. – It must have been the stretch… the Pirates trailed 3-1. In the bottom of the 7th they hung a crooked 3 on Phillies loser Brandon Leibrandt. After a Jacob Stallings single, a bulk by Leibrandt, Kevin Newman ground rule doubled Stallings to the dish. This set up the Venezuelan 2-run homer by […]
S-Rod Homers as Bucs beat Jays
Bradenton, Fla. — It’s March!!! Sean Rodriguez hit a solo homer to tie the game in the home half of the 2nd. The the Pirates tacked a single tally in the 6th and a solo homer by Austin Meadows in the 7th to take the game 4-1. Toronto lefty JA Happ started and went two […]
BoSox Pound Bucs
Bradenton, Fla. – – The Boston Redsox pounded their way to a spring victory with 15 hits featuring 11 different players marking the hit column. Aneuary Tavarez, Rafael Devers, Blake Swihart and Rusney Castillo had two hits a piece and seven other players had one. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 […]
Barfield in BoSox Camp, Jeremy that Is
Son of former Toronto Blue Jays great Jessie Barfield, Jeremy is making his first major league spring training camp in 2018 with the Boston Red Sox after 10 years in the minors. “I’m glad to be here but I am more grateful for the opportunity,” said Barfield. “A year ago I was trying out unsuccessfully […]
Yankees 4-1 over Pittsburgh in Spring One
Bradenton, Fla. — Yankees first-baseman Billy McKinney broke a 1-1 tie in the top of the ninth with a three-run homer off the Pirates pitcher Richard Agustin Rodriguez. Mississppi State Bulldog Jonathan Holder sent the Pirates down in the bottom of the ninth for the save. J.P. Feyereisen got the gratuitous win with a scoreless 7th and […]
Saunders has short stay with Pittsburgh
Thursday in Bradenton Eddie Michels caught up with Michael Saunders, “I’m happy to be here”, said Saunders as he came into take his first BP as a Pittsburgh Pirate, “I can’t complain.” After being an All Star with Toronto in 2016 Saunders signed a free agent contract with Philadelphia in 2017 but was released in […]









