The Twins beat the Mariners doing damage from the air.
Ask anyone in Minnesota - April is eagle season. As likely as humidity in the summer and sleet in the fall, eagles descend from the sky in droves to hector unlucky joggers.
I’ve been thinking about Homer Bailey quite a bit lately. Maybe it’s because the longest-tenured Red (he beat Joey Votto by a few months) is coming to the end of his much-maligned long-term contract and most likely won’t be a Red for much longer.
Daniel Mengden bounced back nicely after a rough start, but late-game Texas runs put the win out-of-reach.
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Cecil Cooper was counting on the next pitch being a good one.
“I had the advantage,” he told reporters after the game. “Now he has got to give me something to hit.”1
The struggling Brewers...
It seems appropriate somehow that Henry Aaron’s last moonshot came on the anniversary of Neil Armstrong’s one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind.
Movie theaters were showing Family Plot, the final movie directed by Alfred Hitchcock, in the spring of 1976. Another farewell was beginning in Milwaukee, where Hank Aaron played in his final Opening Day.
On July 15, 1975, Milwaukee’s County Stadium hosted the All-Star Game for the second time, albeit for the first as an American League park. The midsummer classic had traveled to Milwaukee in 1955 as...
The old, the young, and the immortal converged at County Stadium on May 1, 1975, as Henry Aaron broke another of Babe Ruth’s records and marveled at the emergence of another player who was younger than...
Before the era when “walk-off home run” became part of baseball’s lexicon and pitchers earned millions for producing six- and seven-inning starts, Milwaukee County Stadium played host to one of the...
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As July 1973 drew to a close, the Milwaukee Brewers were struggling to stay alive in the American League East. An incredibly hot stretch that began on June 1 (in which they went 15-1, mostly on the road) had propelled them into first place for about a week in the middle of June.
