Adam Wainwright joined an illustrious club of active pitchers with the 200th win of his career a few weeks ahead of his retirement. “For at least a night, I was a real pitcher and the guy I still want to be,” he said.
The game as you know and love it owes a lot to the Veeck family, and much of that is chronicled in “The Saint of Second Chances,” a new Netflix documentary streaming now.
Blake Snell has been truly dominant in such a bizarre, unconventional way that it warrants a deeper dive. So how is the favorite to win the coveted pitching award pulling this off?
On Sept. 15, 1963, Felipe, Mateo and Jesús Alou of the San Francisco Giants appeared in what was the first — and still the only — “all-brother” outfield in Major League history.