Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, April 30. Since it opened in 1962, Dodger Stadium has been known as a pitcher's park.  This was particularly true in the years of Koufax and Drysdale. The folklore was that the ball particularly never carried at night.  The Dodgers put this to their advantage scheduling as ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, April 29. If your team gets way behind early, it's tempting to leave before the game ends.  In New York, the idea is to beat the traffic which has always been a major problem at Yankee Stadium.  The late Yankees' broadcaster Phil Rizzuto was known for leaving games ...

Hi all.  After a day of computer failure yesterday, here's how I see baseball on this Friday, April 28. It's bad enough the Mets got swept by the Braves.  It's bad enough they went 1--7 on their most recent home stand and are 1-10 since a 16-inning win on April 13 in Miami.  It looked like ...

Hi all.  This is how I see baseball on this Wednesday, april 25. The weather man had been calling for heavy rain in a large part of the country, and yesterday his call was right on the money, to the sorrow of baseball team owners and their fans. 3 games in the majors were postponed-in Boston, ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Tuesday, April 25. Any baseball manager will tell you, concerning a loss  "It's just another game, and one loss means nothing."  But certain losses sting in the short term and can have an effect on a team for a week or more after.  I witnessed it particularly ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Monday, April 24. The most buzz created yesterday wasn't about any particular game, not even the game where Boston beat Baltimore 6-2.  Andrew Benintendi, a rookie whose name scribes need to learn to spell knocked out 5 singles. That's his first five-hit game in his brief career.   Mookie ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Sunday, April 23. In the Southern League of AA ball in Montgomery, Alabama there's actually a team called the Montgomery Biscuits. They are the AA affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays but that could change. Teams change their minor league affiliations as often as Taylor Swift changes ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Saturday, April 22. I was one of many to tweet about Madison Bumgarner's injury to his shoulder.  A dirt bike wreck puts his future and that of the Giants in jeopardy. So imagine,  you're a man of 27 playing major league baseball and a lefty pitcher at that.  You ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Friday, April 21. Wednesday it was two Midwest league teams that went scoreless into the 17th inning before a deciding run was scored.  Last night it was the Rangers and Royals  matching donuts for a dozen innings. It took a single by Delino DeShields JR. to propel the Rangers ...

Hi all.  Here's how I see baseball on this Thursday, April 20. This will be a short column owing to time constraints but I simply had to write about yesterday's minor league game at Geneva, Kane County, Illinois.  The home team won 1-0 but then there's what Paul harvey called "The Rest of the Story." We're talking about Midwest League ...