Buehrle Hurls No-No

Chicago White Sox pitcher Mark Buehrle hurled the season’s first no hitter on Wednesday night against the Texas Rangers as they White Sox won 6-0. Buehrle faced the minimum 27 batters, walking only one and striking out 8. The one walk he allowed was to Sammy Sosa but Buehrle caught Sosa napping and picked him off of first base. The White Sox scored their runs on two Jim Thome solo home runs and a Jermaine Dye grand salami.

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Big East Releases Women’s 2007/2008 Big East Schedule

The Big East Conference released the home and away opponents for the women’s teams in the conference. Once again the UCONN Huskies will face Rutgers, national runner-ups to Tennessee this season, at home and at the RAC. This is the third straight season that the two teams have faced each other twice during the regular season.

Here is a look at the schedule (No dates or times announced yet):

Home (8)
Cincinnati
Georgetown
Marquette
Providence
St. John’s
South Florida
West Virginia
Rutgers

Away (8)
DePaul
Louisville
Notre Dame
Pittsburgh
Seton Hall
Syracuse
Villanova
Rutgers

Wednesday’s Half Marathon Around the NL

Mets stud David Wright tied the franchise record by hitting safely in his 24th straight game.

The charming and exquisite Sooze over at Babes Love Baseball tells us the Rockies put Byung-Hyun Kim on the DL.

Phillies manager Charlie Manuel got into it with a local radio personality after last night’s loss to the Mets.

The Nationals showed their support of the Virginia Tech shooting victims by donning Virginia Tech baseball caps on Tuesday night.

Andruw Jones and the Braves are mourning the loss of former Braves John Rocker’s father, who died in a car crash on Monday.

Marlins pitcher Rick Vanden Hurk is the 6th player from the Netherlands to reach the big leagues.

Jim Edmonds played in his 1,000th game wearing the Cardinals uniform.

Ryan Freel decided to pack an infielder’s glove on the latest Reds road trip.

Brewers pitcher Chris Capuano is 2-0 despite not pitching 6 innings in a game yet.

Felix Pie deserves to be in the Cubs outfield on an everyday basis.

Pirates INF Freddy Sanchez missed the game on Tuesday with a sore right wrist.

Astros 2B Craig Biggio passed Frank Robinson for 30th on the all time hits list.

The Padres relievers allowed 2 hits and no runs in 9 innings of work in yesterday’s 14th inning win over the Cubs.

Carlos Quentin returned from the DL for the Diamondbacks.

New Dodgers pitcher Jason Schmidt was placed on the 15 day DL with inflammation in his right shoulder.

Giants manager Bruce Bochy will be a coach in this year’s All-Star Game.

Quick Sox Recap: Special K Edition

The normally unflappable Daisuke Matsuzaka lost his focus for one inning and unfortunately for the Red Sox, it cost them the game. Yes, there are other things that didn’t happen that could have but Matsuzaka’s lose of command in the 4th inning was really what did the Sox in as they lost 2-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays.

A questionable non-third strike call on a pitch to Vernon Wells may have led to the unraveling because Vernon Wells took the next pitch and hit a single. Visibly upset, Dice-K then walked Frank Thomas on 4 pitches. Lyle Overbay singled past a diving Julio Lugo for a single that drove in Wells to tie the game at 1. Aaron Hill then worked a walk after a 9 pitch at bat. Then Greg Zaun walked on 5 pitches to drive in Thomas with the go-ahead and winning run.

Wily Mo Peña got the Red Sox on the board first, with an absolute bomb to center field. It ended up hitting above the old restaurant at the Rogers Centre. Peña, who started for J.D. Drew who was given the night off, was 2 for 3 in the contest with the lone RBI for the Red Sox. Coco Crisp was 2 for 4 and is now hopefully starting to show signs of life at the plate.

Other than the bad 4th inning, Matsuzaka was brilliant. In his 6 innings of work, he struck out 10 Blue Jays, walked 3 and gave up all 3 of the Blue Jays hits. Hideki “Darkman” Okajima continues to pitch well out of the bullpen as he struck out all 3 Blue Jays he faced.

The Red Sox will send Tim Wakefield to the mound tomorrow night and he will be opposed by former Sox pitcher Tomo Ohka.

‘The Hits Keep Coming’ – Episode Six Preview

Bloggers Anthony of The Oriole Post and Jason of My Baseball Bias and I produce an hour long baseball show every week called, “The Hits Keep Coming” on Blog Talk Radio.

Every Wednesday at 7PM Eastern Time (6PM Central/ 5PM Mountain/ 4PM Western/Pacific) we chat, analyze and comment about the world of Major League Baseball.

If you’d like to call in, the phone number is 718-664-6564 or you can send us an instant message if you use AOL IM at hitskeepcoming20.

Join us at: http://blogtalkradio.com/oriolepost at 7PM Eastern Time on Wednesday night!

This week, Jeff and Vince of Sox and Pin Stripes (soxandpinstripes.com) will join us in going over the Red Sox and Yankee rivalry, as it starts up again this weekend. We’ll touch upon the rivalry in general in the United States, as well as Japan, and also questions for our guests.

Other Topics We’ll Go Over:

  • The events of Jackie Robinson Day
  • The weather in the Northeast this weekend
  • The struggles of the Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets
  • More Yankee pitchers on the DL
  • African-Americans in the Majors


Every show will be available for replay and downloading for podcasting soon after the show goes off the air.

For a replay of last weeks show, just download from one of the links below:

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Tuesday’s Half Marathon Around The AL

Red Sox 2B Dustin Pedroia got some special advice from an opposing player.

Yankees reliever Luis Vizcaino has gained the trust of manager Joe Torre.

The Blue Jays added Troy Glaus to the disabled list and the latest news is closer B.J. Ryan will be out 4-6 weeks.

Devil Rays OF Delmon Young had his 12 game hitting streak snapped on Monday night.

The Orioles haven’t been able to use their regular lineup at all this season.

Angels pitcher Joe Saunders was shaken up by the events that unfolded at Virginia Tech.

A’s OF Shannon Stewart is struggling so far this season but feels comfortable.

Indians OF David Dellucci has raised over $100,000 for charities in the Gulf Coast region.

Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez is showing why he is “king of the hill.”

Rangers 2B Ian Kinsler was named AL Player of the Week.

Royals 3B Alex Gordon won’t be sent to Triple-A despite his early season struggles.

Tigers pitcher Chad Durbin feels he is a better pitcher than his numbers are showing.

The Twins pitchers are very thankful for Rick Anderson.

Sammy Sosa will return to Chicago on Tuesday when his Rangers take on the White Sox.

Repost: Big Papi’s New Book Part 3

With Big Papi’s new book coming out today, I thought I would repost the articles that have the excerpts from his book. So if you missed it the first time, please enjoy. And if you have already read it, read it again and then head out to your local bookstore to pick up the book.

I have a special treat for all you Boston Red Sox fans out there in the greatest nation in the world, Red Sox Nation. I was asked by the fine people at Holtzbrinck Publishers to take a look at and review David “Big Papi” Ortiz’s new book entitled, ‘Big Papi: My Story of Big Dreams and Big Hits’ which he wrote with Tony Massarotti. The book will be hitting bookstores in approximately 2 weeks on April 17th and can be bought at bookstores nationwide or preordered at Amazon.com. There is even a Spanish version as well.

Once I get my copy of the book, I will be reading and reviewing it here on the site. I also hope to be able to get a few extra copies to give away. I won’t know that until they ship my book out. If I do receive the books, I will be giving them away on our radio show, The Hits Keep Coming…, on a future episode. We would probably do some type of Big Papi trivia contest and the winner would receive a copy of the book. I will have more on this once I know if this will be possible.

So for the next three days, we will be taking a look at excerpts from the book. If you would like to read the last part, click the read the rest of the entry link. To read part 1, you can click here and you can read part 2 here.

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As Seen On Baseball Tonight

Here is something from the Red Sox game on Monday. You watch the video you will notice a fan knocking a fly ball away from Angels OF Garrett Anderson. But that’s not the best part. Just watch what was thrown.

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If you paid six bucks for a piece of pizza why would you waste it. The guy was wearing a Patriots jacket so he was probably a Sox fan and should have been happy that the ball was knocked away. Here is a link to the story of what happened.