Yasiel Puig crashed a high school prom after game in Colorado Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig had a little time to kill on Saturday night after Kenta Maeda and company made short work of the Colorado Rockies. So he decided he would surprise some Denver area high school students by crashing their prom party.  True story.  [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Puig shocked the … [Read more...]

Get to know Orioles rookie Joey Rickard Coming into the season we knew the Baltimore Orioles lineup was going to be loaded with talent and even more so with immense power potential. Little did we know though that rookie and Rule 5 draft pick Joey Rickard would be among its most productive all-around hitters and a key cog in keeping that powerful offense moving.  [Elsewhere: Meet the reliever … [Read more...]

Baseball Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Maeda, Man Kenta Maeda was unfazed by his environment, the way he's been all year. This environment -- Coors Field -- was different, but the result was the same as Maeda carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning and finished with 6 1/3 shutout innings in a win over the Rockies. Maeda allowed three hits in total while striking out eight to move to 3-0 with a 0.36 … [Read more...]

Felix Hernandez is the new strikeout King in Seattle The King added another milestone to his already impressive résumé on Saturday. In start No. 338 for the Seattle Mariners, Felix Hernandez recorded strikeout No. 2,163, which moved him past Randy Johnson for the most strikeouts in franchise history. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Hernandez, who was scratched from his … [Read more...]

The Walk Off: Kenta Maeda continues historic start to MLB career 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. It's been 35 years since Fernandomania took over Los Angeles. Now it's Kentamania, or perhaps you … [Read more...]

Tanner Roark shaves beard, leads Nationals to record performance If the Minnesota Twins thought they were catching a break on Saturday because they weren't facing Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg or Gio Gonzalez, they had another thing coming. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] And then another thing, and then another thing, and then about 15 more things, on their way to … [Read more...]

Yasiel Puig unleashed a throw for the ages at Coors Field You never know what you'll get on a day-to-day basis from Yasiel Puig. That reality is part of what makes him so frustrating, but it's also part of what makes him so fascinating. You just can't help but watch him every chance you get, because you know when he does something well, it's often a thing of beauty.  [Elsewhere: The White … [Read more...]

Walk-off home run lifts Yankees over Rays Brett Gardner hit a walk-off home run for the Yankees on Saturday. (MLB.com screen grab) Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner had a good day the plate against the Rays. His three hits included two that affected the score: a seventh-inning single that tied things at two, and a walk-off home run that looked like this: That was Gardner's second homer of the … [Read more...]

A.J. Pierzynski's 2,000th hit will make him rarity among catchers Atlanta catcher A.J. Pierzynski is one hit away from joining an exclusive club among major league backstops. He collected three hits on Friday night in a loss to the New York Mets at Turner Field and now stands at 1,999 hits in his career. His 2,000th hit could come Saturday night when the teams meet again at 7:10 p.m. ET,  … [Read more...]

No one is buying Derek Jeter's hole-in-one video New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter is enjoying the retired life these days. That much we would have assumed even without Friday's video that shows him on the golf course at his annual celebrity invitational tournament in Las Vegas. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] What we're attempting to assertain though is just how a good a … [Read more...]