The Walk Off: White Sox complete impressive sweep of Blue Jays Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we'll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about.  Some people thought the Chicago White Sox would meet their match this week against the Toronto Blue … [Read more...]

Chip Caray channels Harry Caray as Braves home run drought ends The Atlanta Braves two-and-a-half week nightmare is finally over.  In the eighth inning of Wednesday's 9-4 loss against the Boston Red Sox, first baseman Freddie Freeman hit a home run off left-hander Tommy Layne to end their 15-game homerless streak.  [Elsewhere: Adam LaRoche wants you to celebrate take your child to work day] … [Read more...]

Steven Souza Jr. repeats history with incredible diving catch Rays right fielder Steven Souza Jr. has been building quite an impressive highlight reel over the past three seasons. That reel is sure to get more attention now though after he turned a remarkable Superman-like effort into a breathtaking diving catch during Wednesday's 3-1 loss against the Baltimore Orioles. [Join a Yahoo Daily … [Read more...]

Curt Schilling says ESPN is biased against political conservatives One week after being fired from ESPN after commenting on and promoting a controversial anti-transgender meme on his Facebook page, Curt Schilling is firing back at his former employers.  In a one-hour guest appearance on SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s “Breitbart News Patriot Forum,” the former pitcher-turned-analyst flatly … [Read more...]

Roundtable: What's the most impressive throw you've seen? Appreciating a great defensive play in baseball is easy. Watching an outfielder rob a home run, or an infielder make a diving stop is pleasing to the eye. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Those are flashy plays. They stick out in your memory. But one aspect of an exceptional defensive play that sometimes gets … [Read more...]

Bryce Harper and Oliver Perez continue to make baseball fun again   The Washington Nationals suffered a tough one-run loss to the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night, but Oliver Perez and Bryce Harper both found their own way of making baseball fun again. Either Oliver Perez has a weird/special way of preparing to pitch (he'd take the mound in the seventh inning), or he was just plain … [Read more...]

Weekly Rotation: The five best $100M contracts in MLB history Kevin Brown signed the first nine-figure deal in MLB history, a seven-year, $105 million agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers, before the 1999 season, and the new century has brought 64 more such contracts. Despite the relative regularity of $100 million contracts in the sports' modern landscape, observers usually take a moment … [Read more...]

Saves and Steals: Rondon Rising The big news in closerland is that there's no big news. Cody Allen has seriously hurt his stock for a second consecutive season, and we have a closer battle in Oakland. I prematurely called it in favor of Ryan Madson last week. The Reds bullpen is in a state of flux, but we already knew it was a festering heap of dung. Last week's Good Veterans tier has been … [Read more...]

Dioner Navarro nearly hits Chris Sale with throw, blames fans It's imperative that pitchers and catchers are always on the same page. They should go into each start with the same game plan, and always anticipate what the other is thinking. There are no two positions on a baseball field that share such an intimate relationship. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Sometimes, … [Read more...]

Astros catcher Erik Kratz pitches for the first time ever   Position players pitching is one of baseball's great joys. There's even a twitter account dedicated to alerting the world when a position player is on the mound. Which is a great service, since it doesn't happen often - typically, it happens in a long extra-innings game when a team has run out of pitchers, or when a team is getting … [Read more...]