May 15, 2021
1. Quote of the day: “Does that guy back there have any clothes on?”
When you’ve been cooped up for this long, sometimes you just have let the hair down, toss the clothes in a ballpark trash can:
2. There was a bad collision on the first-base line in Chicago
3. Albert Pujols still has some suitors
Days after he was DFA’d by the Angels, and his career just might have some life in it yet:
4. Mariners super-prospect Jarred Kelenic HRs for his first career hit
Batting leadoff. Three for four. Three RBIs. And this:
5. This might be the most beautiful baseball photo of year
Summer weather. Palm trees. The great Clayton Kershaw.
May baseball, at its very best.
6. Rays fan-favorite Brett Phillips hits a walkoff and does the famous “airplane” again
If you’ve forgotten, go back and watch that 2020 World Series Game 4 highlight — and one of the wildest finishes to a game in history.
Last night, he brought out the wings again and soared:
7. Weird injury name of the day: a torn “sheath”
8. Matt Vasgersian gets way over-excited about a single
Audio on:
9. Bo Bichette does a stop drop and roll on the basepaths
Not the first time this week he’s taken a tumble-blunder running the bases:
10. Some media appearances from old baseball legends
First, the great Rod Carew — who’s just joined Twitter:
And then Dwight Gooden, who came on the Michael Kay Show yesterday and talked about how he’s now (at age 56) a great-grandfather:
11. David Price auctions off his 2020 World Series ring
Well, no one can say he didn’t earn it — when he no longer even has it:
12. Awful call in a high school game — it doesn’t get worse than this
Check out the reaction from the kid, just tuck the head, take the call, step quietly back to the dugout. The coach better have given him the game ball, wow:
13. Deep HRs of the day: Hampson & Laureano
As a baseball fan, you just never can get sick of a moonshot:
14. Weird stats of the day: Zack Greinke & Wade Miley
A very quick, seven-pitch inning, yet with all this:
And then Wade Miley, with the not-so-great encore after the no-hitter earlier in the week:
15. The worst “non-swing” call of the year, and Andrew McCutchen gets away with it
Give him credit for keeping a straight enough face to get to first — but man, is this a bad one:
16. Lastly, some antics on the infield this week
In case you missed Vladdy Jr. imitating the pitcher and Jean Segura going full-on glove-throwing little leaguer — enjoy:
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