It was a rough third inning for the Dodgers. Clayton Kershaw gave up four runs in the inning, matching his total from his first 21 innings this postseason, according to ESPN Stats & Info.
Obviously, Dodgers owner Magic Johnson was concerned.
While it appears Tommy Lasorda was sleeping.
It wouldn’t be the first time Lasorda has been caught napping during a game.
Thanks to Mark Richardson for the tip.
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A Yasiel Puig 2013 Bowman Chrome Superfractor rookie card that is worth $25,000 can be yours if you’re lucky enough to select the right Super Box.
The card from Topps was pulled by a collector in Texas and was purchased by South Bay Baseball Cards to be included in one of its Super Boxes, a high-end repackage of cards and memorabilia, which is part of a 2013 Rookies and Phenoms 5 that’s on sale for $849.00.
The card received 13 offers on eBay at a $25,000 price before it was sold offline to South Bay Baseball Cards for the repackage.
Hat tip to Beckett for the info.
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A group of St. Louis Cardinals pitchers (Chris Carpenter, Jake Westbrook and Adam Wainwright) attempted to get a cop to join in on their dance, but he was having none of it.
Way to stay professional while on the job, officer.
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Not even Major League Baseball is safe from the perils of a power failure during a big game.
In the bottom of the second inning of Tuesday’s scoreless American League Championship Series Game 3 between the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers, the lights at Comerica Park shut off and delayed the start of the bottom half of the inning. Tyler Kepner of the New York Times was in the press box and sent out this tweet at about 4:42 p.m. ET:
The Red Sox’s official Twitter account also sent out a picture of the situation, showing dusk descending upon Detroit’s gray skies:
At long last, 17 minutes after the lights went out, play resumed as Red Sox pitcher John Lackey returned to the mound to face Jhonny Peralta:
Pitchers are creatures of habit, and an extended layoff like this one can alter the course of a game. Luckily, the outage came early enough in the game that Lackey and his counterpart, Justin Verlander, still had plenty left in the tank.
Had it come later in the evening, managers Jim Leyland and John Farrell could have been forced to warm up their bullpens earlier than they would have liked.
In the innings immediately after the outage, it didn’t appear to affect Lackey, though, according to the Red Sox:
Once the lights turned back on and play resumed, MLive.com’s Chris Iott shared an update from MLB:
This is hardly the first time the lights have gone out in an American sporting event on a big stage. MLB’s official Twitter account had a good sense of humor about the situation in Detroit, alluding to the infamous power outage during Super Bowl XLVII in February:
As the San Francisco 49ers tried to come back from a second-half deficit against the Baltimore Ravens in New Orleans’ Mercedes-Benz Superdome, about half the lights at the stadium went out and delayed play for 34 minutes.
The 49ers were also involved in another power outage gaffe in 2011 during a Monday Night Football contest when a transformer blew up next to Candlestick Park and delayed their contest against the Pittsburgh Steelers two different times.
After those power outages in the NFL made headlines, MLB has now joined the unique club.
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Twenty-five years later, we remember Kirk Gibson’s dramatic home run off Dennis Eckersley in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series.
The Dodgers put Gibson, who had injuries to both legs and was not expected to play in the series, in as a pitch hitter with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, and he responded with a two-run walk off home run to give Los Angeles a 5-4 win.
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Carlos Beltran hits a walk-off single in the 13th inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 3-2 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the NLCS. It was Beltran’s 3rd RBI of the game.
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MLB‘s revised instant replay rules aren’t in play yet, but replay certainly played a role in a critical situation during Game 4 of the ALDS between the Detroit Tigers and Oakland A’s Tuesday evening.
With Sean Doolittle on the mound for the A’s and no one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez hit a towering fly ball deep to right field.
A’s right fielder Josh Reddick leaped for the catch, but it was clearly out of reach of his outstretched glove, giving Martinez the home run to tie the game at 4-4.
But wait!
In Jeffrey Maier-like fashion, a fan reached over the yellow line at the top of the wall to grab himself a souvenir.
But unlike the 1996 incident, the umpires had a chance to get the call right with the use of video replay. And Twitter was abuzz with speculation as to what the call would be.
In the case of Jeter’s home run in the 1996 ALCS against the Baltimore Orioles, it was clear that the umpires got the call wrong; Maier did in fact interfere in the play.
But video replays from several angles clearly show that the umpires did indeed get this call right at Comerica Park.
It was only the second home run of the entire series for the Tigers; Jhonny Peralta’s three-run shot earlier in the game put the Tigers back in the game at 3-3.
In this case, the A’s can’t say they got robbed by a bad call.
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After Chipper Jones played his entire 19-year career with the Atlanta Braves, his former teammates apparently took incredible offense to the retired player’s recent comments.
Jones, who was invited to throw out the first pitch before Game 1 of the NLDS, had picked the Los Angeles Dodgers to win the series in four games. That didn’t go over well with the Braves, and none of the players wanted to catch the first pitch.
Here’s what happened instead:
Jones took to Twitter later that night:
Kevin Kernan of the New York Post has the reasoning behind the boycott:
Evidently, Braves players were not happy Jones had gone on the radio earlier in the day with the team’s flagship station, 680 The Fan, and predicted the Dodgers would win the NLDS in four games. So no player volunteered to catch the pitch.
In the end, Jones nailed the pick. The Braves may not have liked it, but he had the right to voice his opinion.
Hat tip to Hardball Talk for the find.
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