Carlos Beltran is carrying the Yankees offense right now The best hitter on the New York Yankees this season — the team with the second highest payroll in the big leagues — is a 39-year-old who can often get lost in the constant talk about A-Rod and the latest injury news for Mark Teixeira. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] You hesitate to call a 39-year-old a spark plug, but … [Read more...]

The injury Yan Gomes suffered is every dude's worst nightmare Baseball fans will be forever divided on issues such as bat flips, bean balls and the DH, but if there's one thing that can unite us, it's this: It's never good to see a player taking a baseball to his body's most sensitive region. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] Unfortunately, it's become baseball's most painful … [Read more...]

Two moments saved Auburn in the Women's College World Series On Tuesday night, it was nearly the end of the line for the Auburn University Tigers in the finals of the Women's College World Series. They had lost game one to Sooners of Oklahoma University, and since it's a best-of-three championship, they had to win or go home. As if that wasn't enough pressure, the Oklahoma softball team had … [Read more...]

Juan Uribe pretends to steal fan's hot dog for mid-game snack The vast majority of baseball games are more than two hours long, and during those hours and minutes baseball players are batting, pitching, running, standing and watching. Sometimes they snack on sunflower seeds or trail mix, but don't you think they get hungry for more than than that? On Tuesday night, Cleveland Indians third … [Read more...]

The Walk Off: Houston can't back up Ken Giles' tough talk at Texas Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we'll look the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with the continuing dominance of Houston by the Texas Rangers. Houston Astros reliever Ken Giles didn’t play in Tuesday’s 4-3 loss to … [Read more...]

Baseball Daily Dose: Daily Dose: Amazing Aaron Follow @Rotoworld_BB and @RyanPBoyer on Twitter.   It took until March 28 before Aaron Sanchez officially won a spot in the Blue Jays’ rotation. At this point it looks pretty silly that there was even a decision to be made. Sanchez was simply brilliant Tuesday, striking out 12 batters while holding the Tigers to two runs on just three hits and a walk … [Read more...]

Lorenzo Cain made a memorable catch before brawl in Baltimore Kansas City starting pitcher Yordano Ventura had a rough outing Tuesday night at Baltimore with his night ultimately ending when he was ejected for hitting Manny Machado with a pitch in the fifth inning and fighting with Machado afterward. It was obvious from the start that Ventura didn’t have great command. The Orioles scored … [Read more...]

Manny Machado punches Yordano Ventura in bench-clearing brawl Your browser does not support iframes. Baltimore Orioles’ slugger Manny Machado took a fifth-inning pitch in the side from Kansas City starter Yordano Ventura on Tuesday night and immediately charged the mound landing a punch to Ventura’s face as the benches and bullpens cleared. Ventura then took Machado to the ground but he … [Read more...]

Youth team with Bryce Harper haircuts dominate their competition Back in February Bryce Harper filmed a commercial where he surprised a youth baseball team from Port St. John, Fla., and gave each one of the awe-struck players a haircut to remember.  [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] There's no disputing Harper knows good hair, so the players weren't complaining when they left … [Read more...]

Here are the five most common ways to make an out in baseball There are always more outs in a game of baseball than there are anything else. On both sides of the diamond, there are 51-54 outs total in a single game. If you had data on every out made in baseball games for the last 50+ years, what do you think it would tell you? Chris Ford of All My Sports Teams Suck took it upon himself to … [Read more...]