4-man outfield? This team loves it
MLB Stories This morning’s top news And a few more things you need to see Wander Franco is among the leaders in extra-base hits. Shohei Ohtani is heating up after hitting two homers last night. Watch them in tonight’s MLB.TV Free Game of the Day. Mike Trout crushing it? Not quite a stunner. But we found an unexpected development for every team. Through 27 games, the Dodgers have allowed all of 65 runs. Since earned runs became a tracked statistic way back in 1913, that’s the fifth-best start to a season — ever. The four-man outfield is one of the rarer types of shift — three outfielders is a fundamental tenet of the game of baseball. But the Blue Jays in 2022 are deploying the four-outfielder defense like no other team in MLB. A 12-punchout, no-hit effort from a Yankees lefty and a five-homer tear for a D-backs outfielder set the bar for Pipeline’s Prospect Team of the Week. Mark Feinsand sits down with Boston’s Brian O’Halloran to discuss his George Costanza-like entry into baseball, his ascent through Boston’s front office, and much more in the latest edition of Executive Access. Catch the Tigers and A’s in Game 1 of a doubleheader at 1 p.m. ET, then the Cubs and Padres at 9:30. Games of May 9, 2022 © 2022 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. MLB trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball. Visit MLB.com. Any other marks used herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Please review our Privacy Policy. You (peterhovis@me.com) received this message because you registered to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com. Please add info@mail.mlblists.com to your address book to ensure our messages reach your inbox. If you no longer wish to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com, please unsubscribe or log in and manage your email subscriptions. Postal Address: MLB.com, c/o MLB Advanced Media, L.P., 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. |