Pin ItemailprintJustin Verlander has had quite a year. After winning the 2011 AL Cy Young Award earlier this month, the Detroit pitcher was named the American League most valuable player on Monday, becoming just the 10th pitcher to win the award. He’s also the first pitcher to win the prize since 1992. Verlander – who [...]
It’s a sad day for those of us here in Baltimore as former Oriole and Cy Young winner Mike Flanagan was found dead on his property today at the age of 59. Authorities found Flanagan’s body just before 4:30 p.m. EDT this afternoon outside of his Monkton home in northern Baltimore County. Flanagan was a [...]
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Second baseman Roberto Alomar, pitcher Bert Blyleven, and GM Pat Gillick were all inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown yesterday. Alomar won a record 10 Gold Gloves at second base, was a 12-time All-Star, and had a career .300 batting average. Unfortunately, the former Toronto Blue Jay and Baltimore Oriole will also [...]
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It’s time for the mid-summer classic, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The game will be played tonight at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona with coverage beginning at 8 p.m. EDT on Fox. Will good pitching beat good hitting? It will probably be pretty hard to shut down these powerful lineups for very long. Taking [...]
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See that, O’s fans? It’s not all bad. The Baltimore Orioles are limping into the All-Star break on a 7-game losing streak, but the O’s are Major League Baseball’s 13th most popular team, according to a new poll by Harris Interactive. Last year, the Orioles ranked 20th in the survey…that’s a 7-spot jump, the biggest [...]
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Justin Verlander has done it again. Taking a perfect game into the 8th inning against the Toronto Blue Jays this afternoon at Rogers Centre, the Detroit Tigers pitcher threw the second no-hitter of his career and the second MLB no-hitter of the season. Verlander managed an infield pop-up, a grounder to second, and a strikeout [...]
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Roberto Alomar, a 12-time All-Star second baseman, and Bert Blyleven, a right-handed pitcher who won 287 games, have been voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, it was announced on Wednesday. The duo will be inducted in Cooperstown, New York, on July 24, 2011, along with ex-GM Pat Gillick, sportswriter Bill Conlin, and veteran Montreal [...]
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Alex Rodriguez has reached another career milestone. Today, the New York Yankees slugger ended a 12-game homer drought and hit his 600th career home run. He is now the seventh and youngest MLB player to ever reach the 600 HR mark. Rodriguez hit the homer during today’s game against the visiting Toronto Blue Jays. A-Rod, [...]
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If you live in Baltimore, as we do here at Blippitt, then you’re probably wondering when all of this “rebuilding” that the Baltimore Orioles have been doing over the past several years is going to pay off. Not this year. In fact, things have gotten so bad this year that the team has fired manager [...]
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Through some random miracle, Andre Dawson was voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today while Roberto Alomar was snubbed. Dawson, in his ninth year of eligibility, won 77.9% of the vote. Alomar, one of the greatest second baseman in history, came up eight votes short. A .279 career hitter with 438 home runs, 1,591 [...]
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The Amazing Kreskin lives! A local radio broadcaster for the Seattle Mariners predicted that a new player who had just been called up to the majors would hit his first big league home run in that day’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays. But, get this, not only did he predict that the player would [...]
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It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good brawl in Major League Baseball. Last night, they made up for lost time as the Yankees and Blue Jays slugged it out in the 8th inning. Jorge Posada and Jesse Carlson got into it home plate, leading to an all-out, bench-clearing brawl as the Jays defeated [...]
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