G35: Yankees 3, Red Sox 2

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Yankees - 010 100 10x - 3  6  1

The Yankees won for the 16th time in their last 17 games and moved into a tie with the Red Sox for first place in the AL East. Both teams are 25-10. After Boston tied the game at 2-2 in the top of the seventh, New York pushed across the go-ahead run on Aaron Judge's one-out single.

Drew Pomeranz gave up two solo home runs to Giancarlo Stanton, but otherwise tamed the torrid Yankee bats, allowing only four hits in six innings. After Stanton's line drive to left cleared the fence in the second, Pomeranz walked Gary Sanchez and fell behind Aaron Hicks 2-0. He then called out the team trainer because of what looked like a bloody fingernail on his left index finger. After a few minutes and two practice pitches, Pom said he was good to go.

He threw ball 3 to Hicks very high and outside. NESN:

Jerry Remy: "I don't think this is going to last very long."

Dave O'Brien: "Doesn't feel like it."

Remy: "Nope."

He threw a called strike and ball 4 to Hicks. Then he retired the next six batters, including four by swinging strikeout. After walking Hicks, Pomeranz stayed in the game and faced 18 more batters. Only four reached - and only one runner advanced past second base. ... Nice call, Jerry and Dave!!

You might have thought beforehand that the pitching match-up was heavily in New York's favour, but look at the final lines:

Pomeranz  6-4-2-2- 6,               24 batters, 107 pitches
Severino  6-6-2-0-11, 1 wild pitch, 25 batters, 109 pitches

Dave O'Brien referred to Severino's outing as "brutally tough" for the Red Sox. But Pomeranz allowed the same number of hits/walks as Severino. The two men pitched the same number of innings and they each allowed two runs. Their batters faced and pitches thrown were nearly identical. Strikeouts are nice, but if you are judging a pitcher's outing, how many runs he allowed (and how many baserunners the opposition had) are more important. Needless to say, O'Brien did not character the Yankees' hitters experience with Pomeranz as being "brutally tough".

Boston made a little bit of noise against the Ace of All Aces in the early innings. Eduardo Nunez doubled with two outs in the second. Christian Vazquez singled to right to led off the third, but was thrown out trying for a double. (The ball was hit into the corner and I'm mystified as to why Vazquez was not standing on second base when Judge's throw came in.) J.D. Martinez doubled with one out in the fourth, but was stranded.

O'Brien referred to JDM's hit as a "slide-in double", cleverly (at least in his own mind) contrasting it with a "stand-up double". He's used the phrase before and he remains the only person in human history who has ever used it. Fans, players, coaches, umpires, writers, other broadcasters, peanut vendors, parking attendants, scoreboard operators, general managers, team presidents, grounds crew, sports radio hosts, sports radio callers -- none of them have EVER uttered the phrase "slide-in double", unless they were specifically mocking O'Brien. ... I am now waiting for O'Brien to witness Mookie Betts make a routine grab in right field and refer to it as "a ball-in-glove catch". Or to describe a long ball as an "outside-the-park home run".

Nunez struck out to open the fifth, but reached on a wild pitch. Severino fanned both Jackie Bradley and Vazquez, but Betts and Andrew Benintendi both blooped singles to left-center and Nunez scored. With runners at second and third, Hanley Ramirez grounded out to second.

Nunez led off the seventh and he finished his 10-pitch at-bat with an infield hit to shortstop. Reliever David Robertson took over and struck out JBJ and got Vazquez to fly to center. Nunez stole second with Betts at the plate and Mookie lined a 2-2 pitch to left. Brett Gardner tried making a sliding stop to his right, but the ball got by him and rolled to the wall. Nunez scored on Betts's triple. Benintendi ended the inning by striking out.

Neil Walker, a pinch-hitter, doubled off Heath Hembree with one out in the bottom of the seventh. Gleyber Torres walked. Hembree balked with a 2-2 count on Gardner and the runners moved up. Hembree then walked Gardner to load the bases. ... And Joe Kelly came in, to what sounded like fewer boos than I would have expected. Judge hit a hard grounder into left. Walker scored and Torres tried to score, but Benintendi threw him out at the plate. Didi Gregorius chopped back to the mound and Kelly took his time, jogging towards first and letting Gregorius get almost to the bag before throwing him out.

Ramirez singled to start the eighth, but after Martinez lined to center, Xander Bogaerts grounded into a double play. In the bottom half, Stanton walked, stole second, and went to third on a wild pitch (also against Kelly). With one out Hicks grounded to first. Ramirez set himself and threw home. Stanton did not slide and he was tagged out by Vazquez.

The Red Sox faced Aroldis Chapman in the ninth. Rafael Devers grounded back to the mound. Nunez struck out, taking a weak wave at a 102-mph pitch that was outside. Bradley had struck out in his three previous trips and I was anticipating a gruesome ending to the game. But Chapman hit JBJ with his first pitch, so it was up to Vazquez. He took a strike, two balls, and a second strike. He fouled a fifth pitch off before grounding to second.

Drew Pomeranz / Luis Severino

Betts, RF
Benintendi, LF
Ramirez, 1B
Martinez, DH
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Nunez, 2B
Bradley, CF
Vazquez, C

This is the first time since June 2, 2002 that the Red Sox (25-9) and Yankees (24-10) will meet when they hold the two best records in baseball.

Since April 2, both teams are 22-8 (which is a 119-win pace). This could be an epic summer.

           W   L   RS/G   RA/G   HOME   ROAD   1-RUN    RA    RA   EXPWL
Red Sox   25   9    5.6    3.7   11-4   14-5    10-3   192   125   23-11
Yankees   24  10    5.8    4.0   14-5   10-5     6-2   197   135   23-11

If there was ever an ideal moment for Drew Pomeranz to step forward and establish himself as a productive member of the 2018 rotation, it is tonight.

In three starts, Pomeranz has a 6.14 ERA. He showed signs of dominance towards the end of his last game, on May 2 against the Royals, in which he battled through some early rough patches to give the Red Sox six innings (three runs allowed).

Severino has a 2.11 ERA in seven starts. In his last outing, at Houston, he pitched a complete-game shutout, striking out 10. The only blemish on his season came against the Red Sox on April 10, when he allowed five runs in five innings. (Absent that start, his ERA is 1.29.)

Joe Kelly wants to be booed - loudly - at Yankee Stadium. (He will definitely get his wish.)

It will probably be loud and I like loud. ... I like a lot of noises. It gets my blood going. ... I think [a heated Red Sox/Yankees rivalry is] better for the game. ... I think it's awesome. ... Hopefully we'll be fighting throughout the whole season, metaphorically.

Yankees Are Beating Everyone But Still Looking Up At The Red Sox
Tyler Kepner, New York Times, May 7, 2018

The best teams are the greediest. They enjoy the meal, but won't savor it until they grab the last slice of cake off your plate. As the Boston Red Sox arrive for a three-game clash starting Tuesday, the Yankees have been on a merciless tear.

They played 18 games in 18 days, in three time zones, and won all five series. They staged ninth-inning comebacks to finish three of them, all against playoff teams from last season. ...

The only cause for concern is that, while the Yankees have a better record than 28 teams, they trail the Red Sox. The Yankees are 18-3 since the teams last tangled at Fenway Park, but still looking up in the standings.

The Red Sox are 25-9, and they seem like themselves again. Remember last season, when they won the American League East but finished last in the league in home runs? Now they lead the majors in slugging percentage. Mookie Betts bruised his right shoulder on Sunday, but that should not slow his Willie Mays impersonation: a .355 average with 13 homers. Boston's five-year, $110 million investment in J.D. Martinez (.349, 8 homers) looks like a steal. ...

Now the Yankees face the only team that has done it better this season, the one rival who always matters most.

This Is The Yankees' Chance To Blow Past The Red Sox
By George A. King III, New York Post, May 7, 2018

It's early.

That is the biggest lie in baseball, yet you hear it throughout the game as if all 162 games don't carry the same weight.

And when it comes to Red Sox-Yankees series, it's never too early for the hatred between the blood rivals to boil. Was it too early for the dugouts and bullpens to clear on April 11, when Joe Kelly drilled Tyler Austin in Fenway Park? Since it happened close to the middle of the first month, did the Red Sox taking two of three mean less? Did the Red Sox's 17-2 start and 7½-game lead over the Yankees on April 21 not count because of the date? ...

"The Red Sox are a great team, we know that," Yankees GM Brian Cashman said from his office on Monday ... "[T]hey are the defending AL East champs. ... [N]ow we are knocking on the door."

More like pounding with a sledgehammer and chain saw. During the 16-game stretch, the Yankees' pitchers have posted a 2.06 ERA, and the lineup is averaging 6.13 runs.

ESPN's Week 5 Power Rankings:

1. New York Yankees
Record: 24-10
Week 4 ranking: 4

The Yankees' top rookie and MLB preseason No. 5 prospect according to ESPN's Keith Law, Gleyber Torres, has arrived and produced immediately, delivering the walk-off win with a home run Sunday. The rookie is hitting .327 and launched his first career home run on Friday. He compiled back-to-back three-RBI games earlier last week and has helped the Yankees to a 14-1 record when he is in the lineup. The future is looking bright for the young prospect.

2. Boston Red Sox
Record: 25-9
Week 4 ranking: 1

Mookie Betts muscled his way to the top of the leaderboard this week, crushing five home runs, including his Red Sox-record fourth career three-home run game. His 8.5 at-bats per home run is well ahead of his career pace entering this year (26.7), so the Red Sox hope his bruised shoulder will heal quickly. Unfortunately, after two scoreless outings against Tampa to open the year, David Price has struggled to maintain form. After a poor outing against Texas on May 3, his ERA in his last five starts is up to 8.22.

After these three games, the two teams will not meet until June 29. The remaining series are:

June 29-30-July 1 at New York
August 2-3-4-5 at Boston
September 18-19-20 at New York
September 28-29-30 at Boston (the last three games of the regular season)

Also: Some words from Nick Cafardo (my emphasis):

Luis Severino is the ace of all aces, averaging more than 97 miles per hour with his fastball and just dominating on the mound as the Yankees' No. 1 starter.

Cafardo wrote that, not for his personal Yankees blog, but for the Boston Globe.

SoSHer The Grey Eagle:

Severino has 27 career major league wins. I guess it doesn't take long to be The Ace Of All Aces. He only needs 485 more wins to pass Cy Young. When the casual fan thinks of The Ace Of All Aces, you know he thinks of Severino, with ... his glittering postseason record of 1-1 with a 5.63 ERA.

G34: Red Sox 6, Rangers 1

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The way the top of the sixth unfolded is my favourite kind of Red Sox inning. Two outs and no one on base. The other team assumes they'll be back in their dugout in a minute or two, but the Red Sox start getting guys on base and end up scoring some runs.

Boston was up 2-0 when Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers both struck out against Doug Fister (6.1-9-6-2-5, 103). Then, Eduardo Nunez singled to left, Jackie Bradley was hit with a 1-2 pitch, and  Sandy Leon, who started the day slugging .111 (slugging! .111!) cranked a 2-0 pitch to deep right-center. The Red Sox now led by five.

Chris Sale (7-4-1-1-12, 103) struck out the side in the first, looking like the dominating ace of last season, then escaped a bases-loaded jam in the second by catching a line drive off Carlos Perez's bat that was headed straight for his coconut. After that, the Rangers did not put up much of a fight. Sale gave up a home run to Ryan Rua leading off the seventh.

Mookie Betts left the game in the middle of the second. He singled to start the afternoon and ran to second when Andrew Benintendi grounded to first. Texas first baseman Ronald Guzman recorded the out at first and threw to second base. The ball hit Betts in the back and it seemed like he might have jammed his right wrist when he slid. But reports after the game were that he had suffered a right shoulder contusion. There is apparently nothing wrong with his wrist.

Betts ended up scoring on Mitch Moreland's double. Boston added a run in the third when J.D. Martinez doubled and scored on Bogaerts's single to left. Martinez hit a solo dong in the seventh.

News Flash: Phil Cuzzi is not a good umpire. He had successive calls at first base challenged and overturned today. The calls came within a span of three batters. Cuzzi called Jurickson Profar safe at first when a high throw from Devers in the bottom of the third pulled Moreland off the bag, but replays showed that Moreland got his foot back in time for the third out. Then, with one out in the top of the fourth, Cuzzi ruled Jackie Bradley safe on a similar play. The throw pulled Guzman off the bag, but replays showed that he had been able to slap a tag on Bradley's left shoulder.

MFY Watch: Through seven innings, the Yankees and Cleveland had combined for no runs and one hit. Cleveland ended the Yankees' no-hit bid with four runs in the top of the eighth, but New York answered with three in the bottom half. In the bottom of the ninth, Cody Allen shit the bed yet again. He gave up back-to-back doubles that tied the game at 4-4 and Gleyber Torres hit a three-run homer off Dan Otero. New York has won 15 of its last 16 games.

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MFY       - 000 000 034 - 7  6  0

Torres (21 years, 144 days) is the youngest player in Yankees history to hit a walk-off home run. Mickey Mantle was 41 days older when he did it against the Red Sox on April 23, 1953.

Chris Sale / Doug Fister

Betts, RF
Benintendi, LF
Martinez, DH
Moreland, 1B
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Nunez, 2B
Bradley, CF
Leon, C

The Yankees host Cleveland at 1 PM. Both New York and Boston have tomorrow off before beginning a three-game series in the Bronx on Tuesday night.

On April 10-12, the Red Sox took two out of three from the Yankees at Fenway Park: 14-1, 7-10, 6-3.

AL East

             Current      Thru April 20   Since April 21
              W    L          W    L         W    L
Red Sox      24    9         17    2         7    7
Yankees      23   10          9    9        14    1
Blue Jays    18   16         13    6         5   10
Rays         15   16          6   13         9    3
Orioles       8   25          6   14         2   11

St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Cardinals catcher Yadier Molina underwent emergency surgery Saturday evening after being hit in his groin area by a foul ball ...

In the ninth inning of Saturday's game against the Chicago Cubs, Kris Bryant nicked a 102-mph fastball from Cardinals reliever Jordan Hicks that drilled Molina in his groin area. The Cardinals catcher doubled over, and it took several minutes for him to regain his breath. He was unable to walk at first.

Deadspin: "Yadier Molina Undergoes Surgery After Taking Fastball To The Dick And Balls"

G33: Red Sox 6, Rangers 5

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Rangers - 010 031 000 - 5  6  2

Joe Kelly's assignment was simple: get the toughest two outs of the night while stranding all three enemy baserunners. The game was tied 5-5, after the Red Sox had fought back from being down by three, and the Rangers had loaded the bases with only one out.

Kelly's first batter was Joey Gallo, who had homered twice off Eduardo Rodriguez. On a 2-2 count, Kelly got Gallo to chase a 98-mph fastball up and out of the zone for the second out.

Kelly got ahead of Jurickson Profar 1-2, threw ball 2, then Profar fouled off two pitches and looked at ball 3. The eighth pitch of the battle was in the dirt and would have brought home the go-ahead run if Profar could have ignored it. He could not, hacking at it and fouling it away. He spoiled two more pitches before Kelly got him looking on the 11th pitch of the at-bat.

Both Kelly and Christian Vazquez reacted to the pitch well before umpire Adrian Johnson called it strike 3:

When you know, you know. pic.twitter.com/COTTpGLRKL

— Red Sox (@RedSox) May 6, 2018

In the top of the ninth, Andrew Benintendi tripled to right-center with one out, his third hit of the night. He scored on Hanley Ramirez's sac fly. Craig Kimbrel came in and got a foul pop-up and two strikeouts. It was Kimbrel's 300th career save and he reached that milestone "faster" than any other reliever, in only 330 opportunities.

Boston (24-9) maintained its one-game lead over the Yankees, who beat Cleveland 5-2 for their fifth straight victory and 14th win in 15 games. It's the first time a Yankees team has had a 14-1 stretch since June 24-July 12, 1998.

With the game tied 1-1, Rodriguez (6-4-5-2-10, 107) struck out the first two men in the fifth, but allowed a single and a walk to the bottom two spots in the Texas order. After a mound visit, Rodriguez faced Delino DeShields and the Rangers' leadoff man hit the first pitch to deep left. The ball came down and bounced off the top of the left field wall for a three-run homer.

In the sixth, Mitch Moreland cracked a two-run dong to bring the Red Sox to within one run, 4-3. Gallo hit his second homer in the bottom half, but the Red Sox tied the game at 5-5 in the seventh. With one out, Mookie Betts walked. Benintendi doubled on a bloop into short left field, near the line. Profar went out and got the ball, stumbled slightly, and looked at Benintendi going into second. Betts, at third, sensed Profar was dozing and sprinted home. Mookie was right, of course, and Profar's throw was late as Betts slid in safely head first. Benintendi went to third on Hanley Ramirez's grounder to the pitcher and scored on J.D. Martinez's single to center.

Heath Hembree struck out the side in the sixth, but dug himself a hole in the seventh. DeShields singled and Shin-Soo Choo doubled and the Rangers were making a serious threat, with men at second and third and no outs. The Red Sox brought the infield in and held the runners as Isiah Kiner-Falefa grounded out to shortstop. Nomar Mazara was intentionally walked and Kelly came in and established himself as the night's hero.

Eduardo Rodriguez / Cole Hamels

Betts, RF
Benintendi, CF
Ramirez, DH
Martinez, LF
Bogaerts, SS
Moreland, 1B
Nunez, 2B
Devers, 3B
Vazquez, C

Markus Lynn Betts

                           Games Played   Plate App.   Games w/3 HR
Mookie Betts                    534          2,422          4
Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth      2,503         24,564          3
(As of May 3, 2018; regular-season games only)

Mookie now holds the record for fewest games played to reach four three-HR games (534). The previous record was 701, by Johnny Mize.

Mookie has hit 11 home runs in his last 14 games. He is the only Red Sox player in history to homer 11 times in a span of 14 or fewer games.

Mookie: 25 of his 38 hits are for extra bases, including 13 of his last 15, and each of his last 6.

Mookie leads the majors in home runs (13), extra-base hits (25), runs scored (34), average (.365), slugging (.856) and OPS (1.298).

Mookie is the fastest Red Sox hitter to reach 25 extra-base hits since (at least) 1908.

Mookie tied Fred Lynn (1979) for the most home runs in the Red Sox's first 32 games of a season.

Mookie's 89 total bases are the most by a Red Sox hitter through 32 games since Jim Rice had 96 in 1978. (Rice set the team record with 406 total bases that season.)

Mookie's 34 runs scored through 32 team games are the most by any Red Sox hitter since Johnny Pesky in 1946 (35).

Mookie has 13 home runs, 13 walks, 13 strikeouts.

Mookie has five home runs and zero strikeouts in his last 12 plate appearances.

Date Mookie Hit His 13th Home Run: 2016 (June 1), 2017 (June 29), 2018 (May 4)

Mookie's 29 runs scored in April set an American League record for that month. The only hitters with as many runs in April since 1900 are Bryce Harper (32 in 2017) and Larry Walker (29 in 1997). (Note: Many seasons did not begin until early or even mid-April.)

Mookie has played in 28 of 32 games this year. That percentage (87.5%) works out to 141.75 games in the regular season. If my math is correct, Mookie is currently on pace to hit 66 home runs (actually 65.8).

Markus Lynn Betts has a clean shirt, new shoes, silk suit, and blue tie. He don't need a reason why. Look at his gold watch and diamond ring. He ain't missin' not a single thing. He knows they come running just as fast as they can, because every girl is crazy about a sharp-dressed man.

Also: The Red Sox are the top team in average and OPS with two strikes (.209/.623) and they have three of MLB's top six two-strike batting averages: Xander Bogaerts (1st, .368), Brock Holt (tied for 2nd, .346) and Mookie (6th, .327).

And God is a Bruins fan:

.@45PedroMartinez is having a good time. pic.twitter.com/hCUovEJH3w

— NHL GIFs (@NHLGIFs) May 2, 2018

MLB's Between-Innings Highlights Are Ruining The Enjoyment Of Watching A Game

"During this break in the action, here's a popular clip from MLB.com ..."

Reading that quote, chances are most of you either (a) had no reaction or (b) were filled with exasperation building to homicidal rage.

MLB has been showing highlight clips on MLBTV between innings and during pitching changes for years, but I started seeing them only this year. You might think that getting the opportunity to see old baseball highlights would be nice, far better than commercials.

I agree, it would. But that's not exactly what is happening.

From three recent Reddit threads - here and here and here:

Dent18
Seriously, this is fucking interminable. And they're like 10 seconds each. I'd almost rather [have] ads.

SunriseOverdrive
For fuck's sake, I'd gladly pay a few extra dollars a month for no commercials.

rumhee
I can't stand this. I've just written to complain. It ruins the entire viewing experience. I don't need clips or noise during breaks, just give me peace.

jwaldo
It wouldn't be so bad if they'd just play more than the same 5-6 videos. I'm pretty sure there are more baseball highlights than that.

joegrzenda
Just saw one where they repeated the "During this break in the action..." announcement five times. Thought my wife was going to break the tv.

GristleMcThornbody93
Dude fucking kill me. ... If I have to watch Prince Fielder eat a fucking nacho ONE more time...

DeepSeaDiving
It's insane. I actually subscribed to Sportsnet just to see commercials instead.

This matter ties in with another MLB atrocity from 2014:

In the first half of the season, I've learned a few things from watching games on MLB.tv: The branch of chemistry that deals with biology is biochemistry. The Ming Dynasty happened in China. In 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. And the most common eye color in the world is brown.

These things have nothing to do with baseball but in between innings on MLB.tv streaming telecasts they are constantly repeated promos for MLB's "Bucks on the Pond," a game show in which a studio host asks fans in the baseball stands trivia questions. ...

[T]he promos are nauseating. Because the promos play endlessly. That is, you will see them over and over (and over and over) again if you watch baseball via MLB.tv. ...

It's not just the promos. You will also see the same commercials played repeatedly, every single time there is a break, at the half inning, and when a relief pitcher is called in. ... 

A little while ago, I saw the same paint commercial 17 times in one game. ... [T]he Ming Dynasty question promoting "Bucks On The Pond" was asked and answered at least 14 times, and three of those times the same promo with the same question ran twice in a row. ...

MLB.tv also uses "breaks in the action" to show highlight snippets from past seasons ...

But on MLB.tv, you will see the same highlights—about eight of them, from past seasons—each and every night. Several times the highlight is interrupted in mid-amazement. On the night I counted, the highlights ran 17 times. They ran to entirety nine times. They were cut off eight times.

Another recent Reddit comment, from VintagePunk: "I didn't get them last season using a Roku on my tv, but I have been this spring. Hopefully they go away again."

I am in the same boat as VintagePunk. However - and this is odd - when I watch games on my computer, either at home or at work, I do not see the ads. Maybe it is something Roku-related, but then why have I not seen clips in past seasons?

During the Red Sox's recent series against the Royals, I kept a log of every clip that was played (in addition to scoring the game, as usual, so it was a busy few hours every night). As you may have surmised, there was a little bit of repetition. I also learned a few things about baseball highlights:

Nothing happened in baseball history that was highlight-clip-worthy until mid-1989.

In fact, in baseball's first 141 years (1871-2011), there were only 6 highlights.

There were only 3 highlights worth showing from 1992 to 2010, and that included a 10-year period during which nothing exciting or momentous happened (1994-2003).

During the three games, I saw a total of 72 different clips. However, nine of them had nothing to do with in-game action. Those involved animals on the field, a first pitch, a number retirement ceremony, and incidents involving food. Here are the clips categorized by year:

1871-1988 - 0
1989 - 1
1990 - 1
1991 - 1
1992 - 0
1993 - 1
1994 - 0
1995 - 0
1996 - 0
1997 - 0
1998 - 0
1999 - 0
2000 - 0
2001 - 0
2002 - 0
2003 - 0
2004 - 1
2005 - 0
2006 - 0
2007 - 1
2008 - 0
2009 - 0
2010 - 0
2011 - 3
2012 - 2
2013 - 1
2014 - 4
2015 - 3
2016 - 1
2017 - 36
2018 - 16

Note: If the description below is in quotes, that text was on-screen, with the clip billed as an "MLB Flashback". Sixteen of of the flashbacks are from the first week of this season and had happened only a few days earlier when MLB started showing them. (If it happened three days ago, can it really be called a "flashback"?) But: MLB has not added any new clips since that first week. All 16 clips from this season are from March 29 to April 4!

And now ... with more information than you needed or wanted ... the List:

April 30, 2018

Pregame Break
March 1, 1991 – Rickey Henderson steals third, for his record-setting 939th career stolen base.
April 11, 2017 – A black cat is loose in the outfield and eventually climbs up a glowing video screen on the outfield wall.

Middle of 1st
March 29, 2018 – "Eduardo Nunez Hits Inside-The-Park Home Run On Opening Day"
June 8, 2017 – Bryce Harper fouls a pitch near the plate, ripping part of the baseball's cover.
August 1, 2017 – "Cleveland's Austin Jackson Robs Hanley Ramirez And Tumbles Into Red Sox Pen"

End of 1st
June 18, 2017 – Nolan Arenado hits a game-winning three-run homer.
September 16, 1993 – Dave Winfield gets his 3,000th career hit.
August 7, 2016 – Ichiro Suzuki gets his 3,000th career hit.
March 29, 2018 – "George Springer Hits A Leadoff Home Run On Opening Day In Back-to-Back Seasons"

Middle of 2nd
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.
August 7, 2016 – Ichiro Suzuki gets his 3,000th career hit.
November 1, 2017 – George Springer hits a two-run homer in World Series Game 7.

End of 2nd
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.
March 29, 2018 – Matt Davidson hits three home runs on Opening Day.
June 18, 2017 – Nolan Arenado hits a game-winning three-run homer.
May 13, 2017 – A squirrel runs on the field during a game.

Middle of 3rd
September 16, 1993 – Dave Winfield gets his 3,000th hit.
March 30, 2018 – "Joe Panik Homers Again, Sealing Two 1-0 Wins For Giants"
June 11, 2017 – Corey Seager hits a grand slam.
July 7, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits his 30th home run.

End of 3rd
October 29, 2017 – Alex Bregman's hit in the bottom of the 12th inning wins World Series Game 5.
April 2, 2018 – "Bryce Harper Homers After Braves Play 'Imperial March'"
May 13, 2017 – A squirrel runs on the field.
June 14, 2017 – "Ichiro Suzuki Singles To Become MLB's All-Time Interleague Hits Leader"

Middle of 4th
June 18, 2017 – Nolan Arenado hits a game-winning three-run homer.
July 30, 2017 – Adrian Beltre gets his 3,00th hit.
March 29, 2018 – "George Springer Hits A Leadoff Home Run On Opening Day In Back-to-Back Seasons"
September 25, 2017 – Addison Russell tumbles into the stands and someone's nachos go flying. He delivers a new order of nachos to the fan.

End of 4th
September 19, 2013 – Prince Fielder grabs a handful of food from a fan after chasing a foul ball.
June 28, 2007 – Unknown: A runner is thrown out at second base trying to stretch a single into a double.
May 28, 2014 – 50 Cent attempts to throw out the first pitch at a Mets game.
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"
August 7, 2016 – Ichiro Suzuki gets his 3,000th career hit.
May 3, 2017 – Vin Scully is inducted into the Dodgers' Ring of Honor.

Middle of 5th
September 16, 2014 – Jose Altuve collects his 211th hit of the season.
September 12, 2015 – David Ortiz hits his 500th career home run.
April 4, 2018 – "Stanton, Sanchez And Judge Each Homer In Same Game For The First Time"
July 21, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits a very long upper-deck home run.

In bottom of 5th
May 21, 2017 – Thom Brennaman 'interviews' a bird near the broadcast booth.
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
September 19, 2011 – Mariano Rivera gets his 602nd career save.
August 1, 2017 – "Cleveland's Austin Jackson Robs Hanley Ramirez And Tumbles Into Red Sox Pen"

End of 5th
May 18, 2004 – Randy Johnson completes a no-hitter.
September 16, 1993 – Dave Winfield gets his 3,000th hit.
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.
July 7, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits his 30th home run of the season.

Middle of 6th
June 18, 2014 – Clayton Kershaw pitches a no-hitter.
April 3, 2018 – "Didi Gregorious Hits 2 HRs, Knocks In 8 In Home Opener" (Yes, Gregorius's last name is misspelled.)
March 29, 2018 – "Ian Happ Leads Off The Season With A Home Run On The First Pitch"
April 3, 2018 – "Brewers Walk-Off On Back-To-Back Homers"

End of 6th
November 1, 2017 – George Springer hits a two-run homer in World Series Game 7.
June 6, 2017 – Pitcher makes play near first-base line and his glove disturbs a bird sitting on the grass.
April 3, 2018 – "Brewers Walk-Off On Back-To-Back Homers"
September 16, 2014 – Jose Altuve collects his 211th hit of the season.

Middle of 7th
August 11, 2017 – Byron Buxton makes a diving catch in center field.
May 8, 2017 – Kevin Pillar makes a diving catch on the warning track.
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.
October 29, 2017 – Alex Bregman's hit in the bottom of the 12th inning wins World Series Game 5.

End of 7th
June 18, 2017 – Nolan Arenado hits a game-winning three-run homer.
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"
September 19, 2013 – Prince Fielder grabs a handful of food from a fan after chasing a foul ball.
May 28, 2014 – 50 Cent attempts to throw out the first pitch at a Mets game.
June 6, 2017 – Scooter Gennett hits four home runs in one game.

Middle of 8th
April 4, 2018 – "Stanton, Sanchez And Judge Each Homer In Same Game For The First Time"
September 3, 2017 – Cody Bellinger sets a rookie home run record.
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"
June 11, 2017 – Corey Seager hits a grand slam.

End of 8th
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
October 29, 2017 – Alex Bregman's hit in the bottom of the 12th inning wins World Series Game 5.
June 9, 2017 – "The Freeze Races By A Fan Who Celebrated His Victory Too Soon"

Notes: Four videos – Ichiro's 3,000th hit, Felix Hernandez's perfect game, Brewers Walk-Off, Bartolo Colon – are played in consecutive half-innings. The Ichiro 3,000th hit video is played three times by the end of the fourth inning. Other videos are also played three times. I saw a clip of a squirrel twice in one inning.

May 1, 2018

1st Pregame Break
June 6, 2017 – Pitcher makes play near first-base line and his glove disturbs a bird sitting on the grass.
June 8, 2017 – Bryce Harper fouls a pitch near the plate, ripping part of the baseball's cover.
March 1, 1991 – Rickey Henderson steals third, for his record-setting 939th career stolen base.
March 30, 2018 – "Marlins Prevail In 17 Innings Over Cubs"

2nd Pregame Break
September 19, 2013 – Prince Fielder grabs a handful of food from a fan after chasing a foul ball.
April 3, 2018 – "Didi Gregorious Hits 2 HRs, Knocks In 8 In Home Opener" (Gregorius's last name is still misspelled.)
May 21, 2017 – Thom Brennaman 'interviews' a bird near the broadcast booth.
October 25, 2017 – Justin Verlander appears in the dugout before George Springer hits a home run in the eleventh inning of World Series Game 2.

Middle of 1st
September 25, 2017 – Addison Russell tumbles into the stands and someone's nachos go flying. He delivers a new order of nachos to the fan.
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
April 6, 2017 – On a foul bunt attempt, the ball sticks to Yadier Molina's chest protector.
September 2, 2012 – "Chipper Jones Lifts Braves To Victory With Three-Run Walk-Off Home Run"

End of 1st
March 29, 2018 – "Giancarlo Stanton Homers Twice In Yankee Debut"
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
April 4, 2018 – "Stanton, Sanchez And Judge Each Homer In Same Game For The First Time"
June 9, 2017 – "The Freeze Races By A Fan Who Celebrated His Victory Too Soon"

Middle of 2nd
July 16, 2017 – "Jackie Bradley Jr. Leaps In Triangle To Rob Aaron Judge At Fenway"
March 29, 2018 – "Shoeni Ohtani Gets First MLB Hit On First Pitch He Sees"
April 2, 2018 – "Bryce Harper Homers After Braves Play 'Imperial March'"
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"

End of 2nd
June 9, 2017 – "The Freeze Races By A Fan Who Celebrated His Victory Too Soon"
September 12, 2015 – David Ortiz hits his 500th career home run.
September 19, 2011 – Mariano Rivera gets his 602nd career save.
June 11, 2014 – Yoenis Cespedes bobbles a ball near the left field corner before making a perfect throw home to nail the runner.

Middle of 3rd
March 29, 2018 – "Ian Happ Leads Off The Season With A Home Run On The First Pitch"
March 1, 1991 – Rickey Henderson steals third, for his record-setting 939th career stolen base.
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
October 25, 2017 – "George Springer's Two-Run Homer Breaks Tie In World Series Game 2"

End of 3rd
June 14, 2017 – "Ichiro Suzuki Singles To Become MLB's All-Time Interleague Hits Leader"
September 2, 2012 – "Chipper Jones Lifts Braves To Victory With Three-Run Walk-Off Home Run"
March 30, 2018 – "Marlins Prevail In 17 Innings Over Cubs"
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.

Middle of 4th
March 29, 2018 – "Eduardo Nunez Hits Inside-The-Park Home Run On Opening Day"
April 21, 2017 – Charlie Blackmon gets an inside-the-park home run after Hunter Pence misplays his line drive.
March 30, 2018 – "Joe Panik Homers Again, Sealing Two 1-0 Wins For Giants"
March 30, 2018 – "Marlins Prevail In 17 Innings Over Cubs"

End of 4th
July 21, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits a very long upper-deck home run.
March 29, 2018 – "Ian Happ Leads Off The Season With A Home Run On The First Pitch"
March 29, 2018 – "Shoeni Ohtani Gets First MLB Hit On First Pitch He Sees"
June 18, 2017 – Nolan Arenado hits a game-winning three-run homer.

Middle of 5th
July 25, 2017 – Bradley Zimmer and Michael Brantley hit home runs in the second inning and Edwin Encarnacion hits a walk-off grand slam in the 11th inning.
June 11, 2014 – Yoenis Cespedes bobbles a ball near the left field corner before making a perfect throw home to nail the runner.
October 29, 2017 – Alex Bregman's hit in the bottom of the 12th inning wins World Series Game 5.

End of 5th
April 2, 2017 – Madison Bumgardner hits two home runs in one game.
April 25, 2017 – "Chris Coughlin Avoids Yadier Molina In Acrobatic Fashion"
April 14, 2015 – Nolan Arenado dives for a foul ball and lands very hard on the wall.
April 3, 2018 – "Brewers Walk-Off On Back-To-Back Homers"

Middle of 6th
July 5, 1989 – Paul O'Neill bobbles a hit and ends up kicking the ball back to the infield.
September 19, 2013 – Prince Fielder grabs a handful of food from a fan after chasing a foul ball.
June 28, 2007 – Unknown: A runner is thrown out at second base trying to stretch a single into a double.
May 28, 2014 – 50 Cent attempts to throw out the first pitch at a Mets game.
September 19, 2011 – Mariano Rivera gets his 602nd career save.

End of 6th
March 31, 2018 – "At 44 Years Old, Ichiro Suzuki Takes Home Run Away In Left Field"
March 31, 2018 – "Kevin Pillar Swipes 2nd, 3rd & Home In Same Inning"
June 6, 2017 – Scooter Gennett hits four home runs in one game.
September 16, 2014 – Jose Altuve collects his 211th hit of the season.

Middle of 7th
August 1, 2017 – "Cleveland's Austin Jackson Robs Hanley Ramirez And Tumbles Into Red Sox Pen"
May 3, 2017 – Vin Scully is inducted into the Dodgers' Ring of Honor.
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
August 7, 2017 – Mike Trout doubles for his 1,000th hit and later hits a home run.

During bottom of 7th
April 26, 1990 – Ken Griffey Jr. robs a Yankee batter of a home run. (Mislabelled. Griffey did not play against the Yankees in 1990).

June 14, 2017 – "Ichiro Suzuki Singles To Become MLB's All-Time Interleague Hits Leader"

August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.
April 3, 2018 – "Brewers Walk-Off On Back-To-Back Homers"

End of 7th
November 1, 2017 – "The Astros Defeat The Dodgers For The Franchise's First World Series Title"
September 2, 2012 – "Chipper Jones Lifts Braves To Victory With Three-Run Walk-Off Home Run"
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
September 3, 2017 – Cody Bellinger sets a rookie home run record.

Middle of 8th
June 11, 2017 – Corey Seager hits a grand slam.
July 30, 2017 – Adrian Beltre gets his 3,00th hit.
June 9, 2017 – "The Freeze Races By A Fan Who Celebrated His Victory Too Soon"
June 6, 2017 – Scooter Gennett hits four home runs in one game.

End of 8th
July 16, 2017 – "Jackie Bradley Jr. Leaps In Triangle To Rob Aaron Judge At Fenway"
April 3, 2018 – "Shohei Ohtani Hits First Career Home Run"
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
March 30, 2018 – "Marlins Prevail In 17 Innings Over Cubs"

Middle of 9th
October 29, 2017 – Alex Bregman's hit in the bottom of the 12th inning wins World Series Game 5.
July 16, 2017 – "Jackie Bradley Jr. Leaps In Triangle To Rob Aaron Judge At Fenway"
June 6, 2017 – Pitcher makes play near first-base line and his glove disturbs a bird sitting on the grass.

End of 9th
April 2, 2017 – Madison Bumgardner hits two home runs in one game.
April 14, 2015 – Nolan Arenado dives for a foul ball and lands very hard on the wall.
June 6, 2017 – Scooter Gennett hits four home runs in one game.
October 29, 2017 – Alex Bregman's hit in the bottom of the 12th inning wins World Series Game 5.

Middle of 10th
March 29, 2018 – "Eduardo Nunez Hits Inside-The-Park Home Run On Opening Day"
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
June 8, 2017 – Bryce Harper fouls a pitch near the plate, ripping part of the baseball's cover.

End of 10th
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
March 29, 2018 – "Adam Jones Hits A Two-Run Homer In Extra Innings On Opening Day"

Middle of 11th
October 25, 2017 – Justin Verlander appears in the dugout before George Springer hits a home run in the eleventh inning of World Series Game 2.
July 16, 2017 – "Jackie Bradley Jr. Leaps In Triangle To Rob Aaron Judge At Fenway"
March 29, 2018 – "Giancarlo Stanton Homers Twice In Yankee Debut"
May 8, 2017 – Kevin Pillar makes a diving catch on the warning track.

End of 11th
August 1, 2017 – "Cleveland's Austin Jackson Robs Hanley Ramirez And Tumbles Into Red Sox Pen"
May 8, 2017 – Kevin Pillar makes a diving catch on the warning track.
March 30, 2018 – "Joe Panik Homers Again, Sealing Two 1-0 Wins For Giants"

Middle of 12th
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
April 26, 1990 – Ken Griffey Jr. robs a Yankee batter of a home run. (Mislabelled. Griffey did not play against the Yankees in 1990).
April 2, 2017 – Madison Bumgardner hits two home runs in one game.

End of 12th
July 27, 2017 – The Nationals hit five home runs in the third inning, including four in a row by Brian Goodwin, Wilmer Difo, Bryce Harper, and Ryan Zimmerman.
June 6, 2017 – Scooter Gennett hits four home runs in one game.
April 4, 2018 – "Stanton, Sanchez And Judge Each Homer In Same Game For The First Time"

Middle of 13th
May 21, 2017 – Thom Brennaman 'interviews' a bird near the broadcast booth.
August 25, 2011 – Jim Thome hits three-run homer.
September 25, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits two home runs.

During bottom of 13th
July 30, 2017 – Adrian Beltre gets his 3,00th hit.
March 30, 2018 – "Joe Panik Homers Again, Sealing Two 1-0 Wins For Giants"
May 18, 2004 – Randy Johnson completes a no-hitter.
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.

Notes: I love David Ortiz, but I do not need to see short clips from his number retirement ceremony six times in one night, including three times in a span of five half-innings. Kevin Pillar's catch is played twice in a span of three videos. Jackie Bradley's catch is played four times. There were also 20 videos in which no baseball was being played.

May 2, 2018

Middle of 1st
September 19, 2013 – Prince Fielder grabs a handful of food from a fan after chasing a foul ball.
July 5, 1989 – Paul O'Neill bobbles a hit and kicks the ball back to the infield.
June 28, 2007 – Unknown: A runner is thrown out at second base trying to stretch a single into a double.
May 28, 2014 – 50 Cent attempts to throw out the first pitch at a Mets game.
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"

End of 1st
April 11, 2017 – A black cat is loose in the outfield and eventually climbs up a glowing video screen on the outfield wall.
September 2, 2012 – "Chipper Jones Lifts Braves To Victory With Three-Run Walk-Off Home Run"
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"

Middle of 2nd
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
April 21, 2017 – Charlie Blackmon gets an inside-the-park home run after Hunter Pence misplays his line drive.
April 3, 2018 – "Brewers Walk-Off On Back-To-Back Homers"

End of 2nd
September 2, 2012 – "Chipper Jones Lifts Braves To Victory With Three-Run Walk-Off Home Run"
August 7, 2017 – Mike Trout doubles for his 1,000th hit and later hits a home run.
October 25, 2017 – "George Springer's Two-Run Homer Breaks Tie In World Series Game 2"

Middle of 3rd
May 18, 2004 – Randy Johnson completes a no-hitter.
April 2, 2018 – "Bryce Harper Homers After Braves Play 'Imperial March'"
September 16, 2014 – Jose Altuve collects his 211th hit of the season.

End of 3rd
May 18, 2004 – Randy Johnson completes a no-hitter.
June 23, 2017 – "David Ortiz Has His No. 34 Retired By The Red Sox"
May 28, 2014 – 50 Cent attempts to throw out the first pitch at a Mets game.
August 7, 2017 – Mike Trout doubles for his 1,000th hit and later hits a home run.
June 6, 2017 – Pitcher makes play near first-base line and his glove disturbs a bird sitting on the grass.

Middle of 4th
August 16, 2012 – Felix Hernandez pitches a perfect game.
July 25, 2017 – Bradley Zimmer and Michael Brantley hit home runs in the second inning and Edwin Encarnacion hits a walk-off grand slam in the 11th inning.
July 16, 2017 – "Jackie Bradley Jr. Leaps In Triangle To Rob Aaron Judge At Fenway"
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"

End of 4th
September 25, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits two home runs.
June 9, 2017 – "The Freeze Races By A Fan Who Celebrated His Victory Too Soon"
September 5, 2015 – "Bartolo Colon Goes Behind His Back For An Inning-Ending Play"

Middle of 5th
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
April 6, 2017 – On a foul bunt attempt, the ball sticks to Yadier Molina's chest protector.
July 27, 2017 – The Nationals hit five home runs in the third inning, including four in a row by Brian Goodwin, Wilmer Difo, Bryce Harper, and Ryan Zimmerman.

End of 5th
July 18, 2017 – Bryce Harper homers in the top of the first inning, Mike Trout homers in the bottom half.
August 1, 2017 – "Cleveland's Austin Jackson Robs Hanley Ramirez And Tumbles Into Red Sox Pen"
July 21, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits a very long upper-deck home run.
June 8, 2017 – Bryce Harper fouls a pitch near the plate, ripping part of the baseball's cover.

Middle of 6th
November 1, 2017 – George Springer hits a two-run homer in World Series Game 7.
October 25, 2017 – "George Springer's Two-Run Homer Breaks Tie In World Series Game 2"
April 4, 2018 – "Stanton, Sanchez And Judge Each Homer In Same Game For The First Time"
September 16, 1993 - Dave Winfield gets his 3,000th hit.

End of 6th
June 8, 2017 – Bryce Harper fouls a pitch near the plate, ripping part of the baseball's cover.
July 30, 2017 – Adrian Beltre gets his 3,00th hit.
May 7, 2011 – Justin Verlander pitches a no-hitter.
September 12, 2015 – David Ortiz hits his 500th career home run.

Middle of 7th
August 1, 2017 – "Cleveland's Austin Jackson Robs Hanley Ramirez And Tumbles Into Red Sox Pen"
March 29, 2018 – "Giancarlo Stanton Homers Twice In Yankee Debut"
September 12, 2015 – David Ortiz hits his 500th career home run.

During bottom of 7th
July 16, 2017 – "Jackie Bradley Jr. Leaps In Triangle To Rob Aaron Judge At Fenway"
April 21, 2017 – Charlie Blackmon gets an inside-the-park home run after Hunter Pence misplays his line drive.
June 18, 2017 – Nolan Arenado hits a game-winning three-run homer.
April 14, 2015 – Nolan Arenado dives for a foul ball and lands very hard on the wall.

End of 7th
November 1, 2017 – George Springer hits a two-run homer in World Series Game 7.
May 7, 2011 – Justin Verlander pitches a no-hitter.
March 30, 2018 – "Marlins Prevail In 17 Innings Over Cubs"

Middle of 8th
September 2, 2017 – "Astros Stay "Houston Strong" In First Home Game Since Hurricane Harvey"
March 31, 2018 – "At 44 Years Old, Ichiro Suzuki Takes Home Run Away In Left Field"
September 2, 2012 – "Chipper Jones Lifts Braves To Victory With Three-Run Walk-Off Home Run"

End of 8th
March 29, 2018 – "Eduardo Nunez Hits Inside-The-Park Home Run On Opening Day"
July 21, 2017 – Aaron Judge hits a very long upper-deck home run.
April 3, 2018 – "Shohei Ohtani Hits First Career Home Run"
August 15, 2011 – Jim Thome hits three-run homer.

Notes: 10 videos with no baseball being played. A non-baseball video was played in four consecutive half-innings.

When you consider how many hundreds of thousands of clips MLB could show - of famous and not-famous moments - what they have instead decided to do is mind-boggling.

If MLB felt like putting even a tiny bit of effort into this - and it is very clear that they do not - they could make entertaining compilations of:

Pitchers, hitters, and fielders having trouble in rain, sun, snow, fog, and/or wind

Frustrated batters breaking bats over their knees

Epic bat flips

Triple plays

Line drives caught by the pitcher

Baserunners falling down and/or fielders colliding

Fielders running through outfield walls

Relief pitchers arriving in (now-outdated) bullpen cars and carts

Clips from Home Run Derby, which aired in 1960 (Link is Mantle v. Mays)

Then there are individual plays. Off the top of my head:

Manny Ramirez high-fiving a fan while in the middle of turning a double play in 2008

Kevin Mitchell's 1989 bare-handed catch of a fly ball in left field

Michael Pineda's ejection for having pine tar on his neck

Reggie Jackson homered in April 1978 and Yankee fans threw their complimentary Reggie bars on the field

The final pitch of each of Pedro's 17 strikeouts against the Yankees in 1999

Julian Tavarez's habit of fielding a ball at the mound and then rolling it to first base

The A's fake-intentional walk ploy in the 1972 World Series that had Johnny Bench taking a third strike right down the middle

Willie Mays's catch in the 1954 World Series

Here is a great idea: MLB could ask fans to submit their favourite non-famous/all-but-unknown moments and go back into the archives.

Even though MLB tries like hell to purge the internet of all non-MLB-sponsored baseball footage, amazing video is not hard to find:

Click here for ten minutes of footage from the Deadball Era (1900-1920).

Here is silent footage of Opening Day in 1918.

There exists 15 minutes of footage (with sound!) from a Red Sox/Yankees game from April 14, 1931.

You will find Game 7 of the 1952 World Series here.

There is also plenty of lighthearted fare, such as nine minutes of "nutshots".

It's as if some baseball-hating moles have infiltrated MLBTV and are determined to destroy the game from within. They may be succeeding.

G32: Red Sox 5, Rangers 1

Red Sox - 010 011 110 - 5  7  0
Rangers - 000 100 000 - 1  4  0

Rick Porcello (6-3-1-1-8, 96) was brilliant again and the Red Sox cranked four home runs, two from Rafael Devers and one each from J.D. Martinez and (of course) Mookie Betts.

Of the Rangers' five baserunners in the game, only two of them advanced past first. And those two were actually the same guy: Nomar Mazara. He doubled and was stranded at third in the second and homered in the fourth.

The others: Delino DeShields singled to start the first and was erased on a double play. Shin-Soo Choo walked in the sixth, right before the third out was made. DeShields bunted for a hit in the ninth and watched helplessly as Bobby Poyner retired the next three batters.

Bartolo "The Oldest Goat" Colon (7-5-4-0-4, 91) allowed only five baserunners, but - unfortunately for him - four of them jogged happily (and unimpeded) around the bases. Martinez led off the second with his seventh home run. Devers broke a 1-1 tie when he opened the fifth with his fifth long-ball. Betts bashed #13 to kick off the sixth. And with one out in the seventh, Devers (3-for-4) went deep again.

In the eighth, Sandy Leon walked and Betts almost had another dong. His drive to deep right was caught by Mazara, with his back to the padded wall. Hanley Ramirez later doubled, scoring Leon with the night's last run.

Factoid: No one batted with two men on base at any point during the game.

Betts's home run was his 70th from the leadoff spot. He is now the franchise leader in that category, having passed Dom DiMaggio (69). J.D. Martinez and Betts talk about hitting all the time and a suggestion from JDM may have led to Betts's early-season power surge.

Just his directions and path ... Just staying through (the swing) more and thinking more about getting the ball in the air instead of the ball on the ground ... [H]e's loving it right now. He's hitting all these homers and he's like, "What the heck?" ... For him, he learns really quickly, and he obsesses. If I tell him to do one drill, I'll walk by the cage and he'll be doing the drill for 30 minutes. ... He just wants to be good.

In New York: The Yankees blew a 5-0 in the eighth inning. Cleveland re-tied the game 6-6 in the top of the ninth (thanks in large part to two wild pitches from Aroldis Chapman). But the Brownshirts won in the home half of the ninth - 7-6 - and remain 1 GB in the East.

Bartolo Colon / Rick Porcello

Betts, RF
Benintendi, LF
Ramirez, 1B
Martinez, DH
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Nunez, 2B
Bradley, CF
Leon, C

During the radio broadcast of last night's game, Tim Neverett remarked with surprise that the Rangers, who are missing some key players, had already used 32 players this season. It was obvious that he believed this was a significant number of players to have used so early in the season.

I thought that since teams carry 25 players on Opening Day, using an additional seven guys over the first 30 games (or five weeks) did not seem like much of a big deal. ... And it turns out, it is not a big deal.

I spent less than one minute at Baseball-Reference and learned that 32 players is the average number for a team to have used at this point in 2018. (Click HERE and look at the very first column (#Bat: "Number of Players Used in Games").

In addition to the Rangers, there are 16 other teams that have used 32 or more players this season:

38 - Atlanta
36 - Dodgers
35 - Angels, Nationals
34 - Orioles, Reds, Marlins, Brewers, Yankees, Athletics, Padres, Giants
33 - Twins, Mets, Cardinals
32 - Blue Jays, Rangers

The Red Sox have used 28 players.

Todd Frazier - And Others - May Ready For Robots

Todd Frazier is pissed off. The Mets infielder wants to meet with commissioner Rob Manfred about what he believes is the dismal performances of umpires in calling balls and strikes.

"I'd like to sit down with Manfred or anybody at MLB and talk to them about it, because it's rubbing everybody the wrong way. You have to be better than that."

Frazier said "everybody" included hitters around the National League. He said poor home plate umpiring has been a problem "for years ... There is no accountability".

Frazier recently met privately with an umpire after one game. Frazier did not identify the ump, but said the postgame report provided to the Mets stated that the umpire missed 14 pitches, including five during Frazier's plate appearances.

I asked the umpire if he understood how many pitches he missed. He said, No, I didn't miss that many pitches. I said he missed 14 in one game. Which is the truth. He said he had a better percentage than that ... I respect him for [meeting with me]. At the same time ... they are blatantly not strikes. I just can't sit back anymore, something has to be said. ... The more we talk about it, the more frustrating it's getting. [T]he umpires have to get better, plain and simple.

Peter Botte of the New York Daily News wrote on Thursday:

After strongly residing in the "human element" camp for years when it comes to umpires, I finally have come around on the need to soon implement the use of computerized technology — at least at some level — to aid the men in blue in universally enforcing the strike zone. ...

[Commissioner Rob] Manfred said late last year that computerized technology wasn't ready for implementation anyway, but former player and current MLB Network analyst Eric Byrnes has been among the most staunch advocates of using whatever information already is available to help the umps now.

Eric Byrnes, a former player and current MLB Network analyst, was quoted in Botte's article:

Look, man, I'm beating the drum over and over and over again, and guess what, I'm gonna continue beating the drum until all of a sudden the same information I'm allowed 3,000 miles away from where the game is being played, you've got to give it to the home-plate umpire. Why are we taking this information and we're giving it to everybody except for the only guy who needs it? The home-plate umpire. ...

We put a man on the moon 50 years ago and here we are using this archaic system still to call balls and strikes. It's ridiculous. ...

The human element is the players. It has and always will be the players. We see the human element on a nightly basis. ... But every single pitch is determining the outcome of the game. The delta in OPS between a 1-1 count and 1-2 count or a 2-1 count is like .400 points. In a game that's all based on statistics, we're being irresponsible by not implementing it. It's as simple as that.

G31: Rangers 11, Red Sox 5

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Rangers - 022 600 10x - 11 11  2

It was one of the worst starts of David Price's career: 3.2-6-9-2-4, 86. It was only the third time he has allowed as many as nine runs. Despite throwing 34 pitches in the fourth inning, he could not get the third out, missing up and away to several hitters pitch after pitch after pitch.

When he was finally pulled, Texas led 6-3. Which wasn't so bad. But Hector Velazquez's first pitch to Nomar Mazara was wild, making it 7-3, and Mazara then belted a 3-1 offering to deep right-center for a three-run, coffin-nailing dong.

Price's ERA jumped from 3.78 to 5.11. Remember when Price threw 14 shutout innings to began the season? In his five starts since then, he has allowed 24 runs in 23 innings. ... The Red Sox also made three errors, two days after committing four against the Royals. ... Jackie Bradley is 2-for-his-last-29.

On the bright side, there is Mookie Betts. He hit a solo home run with two outs in the third (his MLB-leading 12th), brought in another run with a sac fly in the fourth, and hit a two-run double in the eighth. Betts also threw out a runner at third base (by about 12 feet) who foolishly tried to go first-to-third on a hit to right.

Betts's home run was his fourth in his last five at-bats. He has hit 10 home runs in his last 13 games. The only other Red Sox batter to hit at least 10 home runs in 13 or fewer games was Fred Lynn, who hit 10 in 13 games (August 5-17, 1979). ... According to this story: Cody Bellinger of the Dodgers hit 10 homers in 10 games last June. Shawn Green also hit 10 dongs in 10 games for the Dodgers, in May 2002. Troy Tulowitzki of the Rockies hit 11 taters in 10 games in September 2010.

Marcus Walden - who was recalled yesterday when Eduardo Rodriguez was put on the family medical leave list - relieved Velazquez in the bottom of the fifth. He ended up getting the final 11 outs, retiring the same number of batters as Price. Walden allowed only four hits and one unearned run, striking out four.

Boston's lead over the Yankees is now down to one game. The Red Sox visit the Bronx for three games next week.

WEEI's Tim Neverett called the end of the fourth inning, in which Texas scored six times:

Gallo hits a ground ball to first. Hanley will step on the bag and that'll put a tourniquet on things for now, as the fourth inning comes to a miserable conclusion. Five runs in, a home run for Mazara, he drives in three. We'll go to the fifth inning in Texas, it's the Rangers 10, the Red Sox 3 ...

In the next half-inning, the top of the fifth, the Red Sox had two men on and two outs. Neverett:

A chance for Blake Swihart to get a run in, top of the fifth inning, 10-3 Rangers. Rangers with a big five-run fourth inning, capped by a three-run home run by Nomar Mazara.

Besides reporting the number of runs scored in the inning wrong - twice! - Nevrett was incorrect about the third out in the fourth. The conclusion of that inning was the only non-miserable thing about it.

David Price / Mike Minor

Betts, RF
Ramirez, 1B
Martinez, LF
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Nunez, 2B
Swihart, DH
Vazquez, C
Bradley, CF

The Yankees blew a 3-0 lead in the seventh inning this afternoon and trailed the Astros 5-3 going into the top of the ninth in Houston. They scored three times and won 6-5. Houston left runners at first and second in the bottom of the ninth. ... Boston's AL East lead is now 1.5 games.

MLB Leader

Batting Average:        Mookie Betts, .365
Slugging Percentage:    Mookie Betts, .823
OPS:                    Mookie Betts, 1.274
Adjusted OPS+:          Mookie Betts, 231 
Runs Scored:            Mookie Betts, 32
Runs Created:           Mookie Betts, 36
Extra-Base Hits:        Mookie Betts, 22 (tied with Albies)
Total Bases:            Mookie Betts, 79 
Home Runs:              Mookie Betts, 11 (tied with Trout)
Fewest ABs Per HR:      Mookie Betts, 8.7
Adjusted Batting Runs:  Mookie Betts, 18
Adjusted Batting Wins:  Mookie Betts, 1.7
Offensive Winning %:    Mookie Betts, .890

AL Leader

Onbase Percentage:      Mookie Betts, .451 (2nd in MLB behind Harper, .464)

In SoSH's Mookie Betts Appreciation thread:

Poulsonator:

Stolen from Reddit: Mookie "Mike "Mookie Betts" Trout" Betts

Red Sox And Yankees Will Play Two Games In London Next Season

The Guardian, May 3, 2018:

Major League Baseball will announce next week that the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox will play two games at the London Stadium on 29 and 30 June next year ...

The London mayor, Sadiq Khan, has scheduled a press conference for Tuesday with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred but has not announced the subject matter. ...

Baseball officials have long hoped to host games in the British capital and settled last year on the London Stadium, which hosted the 2012 Olympics ... Because it was originally built to house a 400m track, the stadium is wider than other major sports venues in London and can best accommodate the dimensions of a baseball field.

Here is an overhead picture of the bucolic garden in which the games will be played

NESN: Providing You With The Best Replays In Baseball. ... Just Kidding! ... Its Chronic Habit Of Tight Close-ups Is Annoying And Often Doesn't Show Anything Useful

NESN may have its problems, but when it comes to showing replays of Red Sox highlights, its performance is second to none.

Take Wednesday's afternoon game, for example. Here is a replay of Mookie Betts's first home run of the day, leading off the fourth inning.

Announcers often talk about how good hitters keep their front shoulder in and have very little movement of their head during their swing, and I think you can see that here:

Mookie Betts's second home run, which came with one out in the fifth:

Betts went deep a third time, to dead center, with one out in the fifth:

J.D. Martinez hit a two-run homer in the fourth, which tied the game at 3-3. Notice the differences in Martinez's approach at the plate versus Betts's stance:

But NESN doesn't just excel at replays on home run swings. Check out the critical moment from this replay from the eighth inning, when there was some controversy about whether Jon Jay was hit in the left foot with the pitch or whether the ball hit the dirt first:

But seriously ...

First, I swear to you that every picture in this post is the entire television screen.

What is the point of a replay - or an "instant replay", as they used to be called - if it does not show what you are supposed to be seeing?

One of the most annoying - and most baffling - aspects of a NESN baseball broadcast is the excessive zooming in for replays. In addition to the shots in this post, we see this when NESN shows a home run ball sailing out of the park. In many cases, the high left field camera will zoom in tightly on the ball as it flies through the air, on its way into or over the Monster Seats.

But there is absolutely no perspective with these shots. We have no idea where the ball is in relation to anything else in the ballpark (or anything else in the universe, for that matter, since the ball is shown against nothing but the blue sky or white clouds).

If NESN is afraid that fans will be confused and think the replay is part of the live game, it should put a big

REPLAY

in the upper right-hand corner. ... There! Problem solved. ... (No charge, NESN, that one is on me.)

Two examples from last weekend:

Here is Betts about to get hit by a pitch on April 28. In addition to having no idea where Mookie is going to be hit, we actually cannot see the baseball. How can you show a batter getting hit by a pitch if the pitch is out of the frame?

Here is the replay of Martinez's base hit in the first inning on April 29. Again, this is an utter waste of time. It gives us nothing useful.

NESN also has the habit of showing replays from an angle where it is impossible to tell anything about the outcome of the play. Either the runner's foot or the fielder's glove is blocked from our view, so we have no idea what has happened. Since there is a limited amount of time in which to show replays, why not concentrate on the ones that actually serve a purpose?

Often what is needed is a super slo-motion replay and NESN uses this at times - on plays at first, usually. I really like seeing these, but I don't see them often enough. They take longer to show, obviously, but if the director ignored the useless replay angles, there would sufficient time for the frame-by-frame replays. Plus - and this seems fairly important for NESN to keep in mind - viewers might actually be able to see if the correct call was made.

But even if that doesn't happen, NESN's excessive - and pointless and unproductive - zooming in for batter replays has got to stop. Or maybe the network should stop showing replays altogether. I believe that would not annoy me as much as what happens now. Amazingly, as far as my enjoyment of watching Red Sox games, it would be addition by subtraction.

G30: Red Sox 5, Royals 4

Royals  - 120 000 001 - 4 10  0
Red Sox - 000 310 10x - 5 10  0

There have been 31 games in Red Sox history in which a Boston player has hit three home runs. Only five players have done it more than once.

Jim Rice, Mo Vaughn, and Nomar Garciaparra did it twice. Ted Williams did it three times (with two of those games coming in his 16th season at age 38).

Mookie Betts - playing in just his fifth season, who won't turn 26 until October - has done it four times.

Betts is also the first player in baseball history to have four games with three home runs before the age of 26.

Betts missed two games because of hamstring tightness and played only a handful of innings at the end of last night's extra-inning loss, but he didn't miss a beat on Wednesday afternoon. He singled in the first and hit solo home runs in the fourth, fifth, and seventh innings.

He also hit three home runs on April 17, so he has done it twice in his last 11 games started.

J.D. Martinez hit a two-run shot in the fourth which tied the game at 3-3 after Drew Pomeranz (6-8-3-2-3, 89) had put the team in an early 3-0 hole. Pomeranz looked horrible through into the third inning, but he got out of a bases-loaded/one-out jam with a double play. He pitched three more innings, allowing only two singles, and looked far more comfortable. Joe Kelly, Matt Barnes, and Craig Kimbrel worked out of the pen.

Pomeranz walked the leadoff batter in the first and allowed a double. After a strikeout, he got a gift double play to escape further trouble. Salvador Perez flied to deep center. Whit Merrifield tagged and scored from third and Jorge Soler was doubled off second base -- even though Merrifield and (I think) the third base coach were yelling at him to get back to second. Two more singles and a two-run double into the right-field corner from Drew Butera made it 3-0 KC in the second. Pomeranz gave up a double and a single to start the third and issued a one-out walk before getting Jon Jay to ground into a 4-6-3 double play.

Danny Duffy (6.2-10-5-1-6, 111) faced only nine batters through the first three innings (despite Betts's first-inning single). Duffy would allow seven hits and one walk over the next two innings.) Betts led off the fourth with a homer to left-center. Hanley Ramirez walked with one out and Martinez went deep to roughly the same spot. Betts came up with one out in the fifth and again homered over the Wall. Ramirez doubled and Martinez singled, but Duffy escaped. Betts hit his third dong into the end of the Monster Seats that are closest to center field.

The Red Sox have now hit eight home runs against left-handed pitchers this season - and Betts has hit five of them.

Betts leads the Red Sox - and all of major league baseball, actually - with 11 home runs. He is on pace for 59 this season. Martinez is second on the Red Sox with 6.

The Human Element: First base umpire Fieldin Culbreth had two calls overturned in the sixth inning. In the top half, he called Jay safe at first on a fielder's choice and the call was overturned and ruled a double play. Then in the bottom of the inning, he called Eduardo Nunez safe at first on a pickoff throw from Duffy. That call was also overturned. ... CB Bucknor had a call at second overturned in the third inning.

Danny Duffy / Drew Pomeranz

Betts, RF
Benintendi, LF
Ramirez, 1B
Martinez, DH
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Nunez, 2B
Leon, C
Bradley, CF

If Pomeranz's fastball velocity is not better than the 87-89 he showed last Friday, it will be a long afternoon.

Manager Alex Cora did not enjoy the Red Sox's performance last night, especially in the field:

Awful. Awful. That was a horrible game. Yeah we were lucky we were playing 13 innings, honestly. That was bad. Mental mistakes. Physical mistakes. All kinds of mistakes. That was awful.

G29: Royals 7, Red Sox 6 (13)

Royals  - 000 101 001 001 3 - 7 15  0
Red Sox - 000 002 100 001 2 - 6 12  4

Eduardo Nunez, whose home run into the Monster Seats tied the game in the twelfth inning, was nearly the hero again in the thirteenth. His two-out fly ball to deep left-center looked like it might hit off the Wall - which would have scored Christian Vazquez from first base with the tying run - but Royals center fielder Abraham Almonte caught the fly with his glove raised over his head and his back nearly against the Wall.

It seemed - for the few seconds the ball was in flight - that the Red Sox were going to tie the game, again, this time (fairly improbably) after Kansas City had taken a 7-4 lead in the top of the thirteenth on Jorge Soler's three-run dong off Brian Johnson.

Mitch Moreland, who homered in the sixth to put Boston on the board, stroked reliever Burch Smith's first pitch to left-center for a single. Xander Bogaerts was hit in the back and the Red Sox had the potential tying run to the plate. Rafael Devers forced Bogaerts at second and the Royals brought in lefty Brian Flynn. Jackie Bradley grounded to first, which scored Moreland. Then Vazquez lined a first-pitch single to left, bringing in Devers. Flynn got ahead of Nunez 0-2 before Almonte tracked down his long fly ball.

Back in the ninth inning, Craig Kimbrel was called upon to nail down a 3-2 win, in relief of Chris Sale (7-5-2-2-6, 96) and Matt Barnes, who stranded runners at second and third in the eighth. Kimbrel did not have his best control and with one out Alex Gordon homered into the visitors' bullpen, tying the game at 3-3.

In the bottom of the ninth, the hacktastic Red Sox were retired in order by Kevin McCarthy on only six pitches. McCarthy - who pitched three perfect innings - needed only five pitches in the eleventh.

The Royals took the lead in the top of the twelfth on Jon Jay's sac fly to left off Heath Hembree, after Drew Butera doubled and Ryan Goins singled. Facing Kelvin Herrera in the bottom of the inning, Nunez hit his third homer of the year just barely over the Wall. Andrew Benintendi singled, but Hanley Ramirez fouled to third and Mookie Betts struck out.

The Red Sox manufactured a run in the fourth - but it was for the Royals. A fielding error by Devers, a walk and HBP from Sale, and a sac fly gave KC a 1-0 lead. They scored again with two outs in the sixth after Vazquez decided to throw through when Alcides Escobar attempted to steal second. When the throw went down to second base, Jay took off from third. He scored well before Escobar was tagged out in a 2-6-3-4 rundown.

After Moreland homered to deep right in the sixth, Devers doubled with two down and scored on Bradley's single. Boston took a 3-2 lead when Benintendi doubled with one out and came around to score on two wild pitches by Brad Keller. (I thought catcher Salvador Perez should have blocked both pitches, so they seemed like passed balls to me.)

Vazquez was charged with two "missed catch" errors in the tenth, though the play did not involve an attempted catch. With runners on first and second and two outs, Carson Smith's 0-2 pitch to Lucas Duda was in the dirt and rolled a bit behind Vazquez. The catcher scooped up the errant ball with his face mask. That was a violation of Rule 7.05(j), which states base runners are entitled to advance one base "if a fielder deliberately touches a pitched ball with his cap, mask or any part of his uniform detached from its proper place on his person. The ball is in play, and the award is made from the position of the runner at the time the ball was touched."

The Red Sox squandered an early chance to score when Bogaerts ended the third inning by striking out with the bases loaded.

In Houston, Justin Verlander shut out the Yankees for eight innings, allowing only three hits, walking no one, and striking out 14. The Astros bullpen promptly allowed four runs in the top of the ninth and New York won 4-0.

Jakob Junis / Chris Sale

Benintendi, CF
Ramirez, DH
Martinez, LF
Moreland, 1B
Bogaerts, SS
Devers, 3B
Bradley, RF
Vazquez, C
Lin, 2B

Dustin Pedroia has his eye on Friday, May 25 as the day he returns to the Red Sox's lineup. Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic reports that FY will be in Florida for the next two weeks before heading to Pawtucket on May 12 for a rehab assignment. If all goes well, Pedroia will be at Fenway Park on May 25 when Boston plays Atlanta.

ESPN's David Schoenfield looks at how all 30 teams played in April and finds the good and the bad. He included his preseason predictions and the team's current win pace:

Boston Red Sox
Prediction: 95-67
Record: 21-7 (122)

Good: Mookie Betts is back to playing at an MVP level, hitting .344 with eight doubles, 11 home runs and more walks than strikeouts. There's been talk that he has been more aggressive because he was taking too many strikes last year, but his swing rate is basically identical to in 2017. His first-pitch swing rate is up only 2 percent. His swing rate against fastballs is up 1 percent. His swing rate on pitches in the zone is up from 53 to 59 percent, so maybe there is something there.

Bad: Matt Barnes and Carson Smith have walked 14 batters in 18 innings, so Alex Cora is still trying to figure out the pecking order in front of Craig Kimbrel. Maybe it's Joe Kelly -- if he stays out of fights.

Grade: A+

New York Yankees
Prediction: 99-63
Record: 18-10 (104)

Good: Didi Gregorius has been the MVP of April, leading the majors in slugging percentage and RBIs while tied for the lead in home runs. The big key has been an improved approach: His swing rate has dropped from 58 percent to 48 percent and his chase rate from 38.4 percent to 26.8. He has already walked 18 times -- with more walks than strikeouts -- after drawing 25 in all of 2017. If that patience keeps up, he could remain near the top of the WAR leaderboard all season.

Bad: Sonny Gray was better Monday, but he has mostly been a mess, with a 6.67 ERA. He'll get a long leash, but the injuries to Tommy Kahnle and Adam Warren have thinned out the bullpen a bit, and Aaron Boone will eventually need to get more than four or five innings per start from somebody other than Luis Severino and Masahiro Tanaka.

Grade: A-

Last night in Cincinnati, Milwaukee reliever Josh Hader became the first pitcher since saves became official in 1969 to strike out at least eight batters in a save of less than three innings (2.2-0-0-1-8, 37). Opponents are 0-for-49 with 39 strikeouts against Hader with two strikes this season. Hader has fanned 62.9% of his batters so far this season, by far the highest percentage in either league.

B7: Joey Votto struck out swinging. Scott Schebler struck out swinging.
B8: Eugenio Suarez struck out swinging. Tucker Barnhart walked. Alex Blandino struck out swinging. Adam Duvall struck out swinging.
B9: Billy Hamilton struck out (foul bunt). Jesse Winker struck out swinging. Jose Peraza struck out swinging.

98 Years Ago: Brooklyn and Boston played the longest game in major league history.

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Boston   - 000 001 000 000 000 000 000 000 00 - 1 15  2

Both Leon Cadore and Joe Oeschger pitched complete games.

Brooklyn played 58 innings in three days (no wins):

May 1 at Boston   - 1-1 tie in 26 innings
May 2 vs Phillies - 3-4 loss in 13 innings
May 3 at Boston   - 1-2 loss in 19 innings

Boston played 56 innings in three games:

May 1 vs Brooklyn - 1-1 tie in 26 innings
May 3 vs Brooklyn - 2-1 win in 19 innings
May 5 at Phillies - 4-3 win in 11 innings