The St. Louis Cardinals are in the heart of the Wildcard race in the National League and they didn’t help themselves taking the loss on Saturday. Jon Jay, Matt Holliday, and Rafael Furcal all had two hits each as the Cardinals scored two runs on 11 hits. On the mound Jaime Garcia allowed seven hits and four earned runs while striking out five over six innings of work to fall to 3-5 on the year. For Sunday’s game St. Louis starts Adam Wainwright who has won his last four starts. For the season Wainwright has allowed 152 hits and 65 earned runs while striking out 154 over 160.1 innings for a 3.65
As his time at Boston progressed, the manager there decided due to Ruth’s amazing hitting ability to de-emphasize him as a pitcher and make him an outfielder. Thus, in 1919, Babe Ruth hit a then league record of 29 home runs and a .322 batting average. This ability raised his salary to an amazing $10,000 and allowed him to by a house near Boston for him and his wife. The owner of the Red Sox, Harry Frazee, was in financial trouble at the time so he sold "The Babe" to the New York Yankees for $100,000 and $300,000 in loans. The Red Sox have not won a World Series
Introduction In 776 B.C., the first recorded sports event was held in the Ancient Olympic Games in Greece. The only event, the stadion, was won by Coroebus of Elis. The prize Coroebus received was a palm branch and the honor of being known as the fastest man in Greece. Sports have evolved from a simple contest of pride into a trillion dollar industry worldwide. Last year, Alex Rodriguez signed a 10 year contract that will pay him over $300 million to play baseball for the New York Yankees.
Juicing the Game: Banning Steroid Users in Baseball Over the past year, Major League Baseball took a huge step in cracking down on steroid users. Multiple players were not suspended for failing a drug test, but for the physical evidence provided by Anthony Bosch who gave the steroids to the players. The suspensions were hefty to certain players who had been previously suspended. Players were suspended for the remainder the 2013 baseball season. Just recently, Major League Baseball increased the number of games suspension for steroid users.
What does a championship winning baseball team look like? Are they the hulking, barrel-chested cousins of Paul Bunyan? The answer is rarely. The game of baseball has evolved from teams with the most homeruns always being the victors, to teams with smaller and faster players playing David to the league’s Goliaths. The manner in which a player’s talent is evaluated has been changing ever since a man named Bill James first published his “Historical Baseball Abstract” in 1977.
Alex Rodriquez is arguably one of the best baseball players ever. He started his career in 1994 with the Seattle Mariners, but he only played seventeen games that year. With the Mariners in 1996 he finally earned a starting spot at shortstop and burst on to the scene with 36 home runs and 123 RBI. Then in 2003 Major League Baseball and the players association agreed on a new contract which includes random drug tests called survey testing. Alex Rodriquez is one of the many players who were tested and had performance enhancing drugs (PED) in his system.
He was a first baseman and outfielder for the New York Yankees from 1926-1939. He is also very famous for his “Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth” speech given on July 4th, 1939. He died on June 2, 1941 at 10:10 p.m. of Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS). During his 17 professional seasons he set many records, including: hitting the most HRs in a game (4), set an AL record in RBIs in a season (184), most consecutive games played (2,130, despite accumulating 17
I'll wonder, like everyone else, how much Ramirez's performance was chemically enhanced. Less debatable is the fact that he transformed the 2008 Los Angeles Dodgers. People like me made a case for him as the National League's first two-month MVP, then spent the offseason castigating the McCourts for not bidding against themselves. As it concerned Manny and the Dodgers, they owed him. Frank McCourt and Manny Ramirez in much happier times.
"They said they'd keep trying to help us," Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp said. They weren't lying, that's for sure, the money people opening the vault then telling general manager Ned Colletti he can use every last penny if need be. To put things in perspective, the Dodgers just took on more payroll than the New York Mets will probably spend on their entire team this year and next, and one of the players in the deal just had season ending surgery and might not be available to play at the beginning of next
The first two seasons at Duke were disappointing, but over the next few years Coach K made quite a remarkable turnaround. In 1984 Krzyzewski led his Blue Devils to the NCAA tournament for the first time. In 1986 Krzyzewski's Blue Devils got to the Final Four and came one game of winning the championship. Within that year, they had played more games than any other team in the history of college basketball. With five seniors graduating, many critics expected an immediate decline in Duke's basketball winnings, but Krzyzewski's 1987 Devils won 24 games and made it to the Sweet 16, losing to Indiana, who went on to win the national championship.