MLB's Top 5 Hardest Hitters So Far This Season
These sluggers have been mashing the ball early this season, and the stats back it up.
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These sluggers have been mashing the ball early this season, and the stats back it up.
Rookie Aaron Judge hit his major league-leading 19th home run and the New York Yankees connected five times in all.
Matz pitched seven impressive innings in his season debut, Jay Bruce hit a three-run homer and New York beat the Braves 8-1 Saturday night to sweep a doubleheader.
Cespedes made a smashing return from a six-week stint on the disabled list on Saturday, hitting a grand slam as the New York Mets beat the Atlanta Braves 6-1 in the first game of a doubleheader.
Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is not exactly a fan of the growing number of defensive shifts in his sport, but he's reluctant to push for any drastic changes to address it.
Why aren't baseball's biggest stars as popular as the top players in other major sports?
Could they just keep their flowering core of young studs -- led by phenoms Aaron Judge and Gary Sanchez -- and dip their financial toes in the market by bagging Harper?
Kluszewski. Robinson. Bench. Perez. Junior. All of them can just scooter on down the list of great Cincinnati slugfests. A diminutive infielder has done all of them one better.
The Yanks are knocking balls over the outfield fences at an astounding, highly entertaining rate. But it's the ones that don't fly out in fair territory that should concern their loyal followers.
David Freese drove in three runs, including an RBI single between a bizarre pair of seventh-inning stretches, and the Pittsburgh Pirates drubbed the New York Mets 11-1 Sunday.
On a day 20,000 Donaldson bobblehead dolls were given to fans, Donaldson connected on a 3-2 fastball from Clippard (0-3) for his sixth home run this season and third in the series.
Brett Gardner, Matt Holliday, Starlin Castro and Didi Gregorius all hit solo home runs in the eighth inning, leading Jordan Montgomery and the New York Yankees over the Toronto Blue Jays 7-0 on Saturday.
John Jaso singled home the tying run in the ninth inning and the winning run in the 10th as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the New York Mets 5-4 Saturday night.
Matt Holliday broke up Cotton's bid with a two-run homer with two outs in the sixth, and that sent resurgent CC Sabathia and New York to a 3-2 victory Saturday.
Masahiro Tanaka struck out a career-high 13 to rebound from the worst stretch of his major league career but wound up a hard-luck loser.
Bryce Harper's $21 million contract for 2018 bodes well for the Nats and reflects an MLB that lets teams more fairly compete for players.
Dinelson Lamet overpowered the Mets in his major league debut, New York's Rafael Montero labored on short notice and the San Diego Padres won 4-3 on a rainy Thursday night.
Jose Reyes had three instrumental hits, including the 2,000th of his career, and Terry Collins made the right moves as the New York Mets held off the Los Angeles Angels 7-5 Saturday.
Corey Dickerson homered twice and the Tampa Bay Rays won their season-high fourth in a row, beating the New York Yankees 9-5 Saturday.
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred remains hopeful the sport can play regular-season games in Europe for the first time in 2019.
There has been talk again recently that umpires might start making announcements to the crowd — like NFL referees — to explain instant replay decisions.
Travis Shaw capped Milwaukee's eight-run fifth inning with a three-run homer, helping the Brewers beat the New York Mets 11-4 on Saturday night.
General manager Sandy Alderson had said he was unsure if Familia would return this season, but the team said in a statement Saturday that the right-hander can resume throwing in six weeks and should pitch again this year.
On June 2, 2008, former baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent stopped by the Mike and Mad Dog show to promote his book "We Would Have Played for Nothing."
The New York Mets, still second in the National League East, find themselves sinking under the weight of injuries and idiocy.
