You can probably tell from the score that the Pittsburgh Pirates' 14-2 win over the New York Mets was a slaughter. You could also probably tell from the amount of fireworks still at PNC Park after the game.
That amount would be zero. Because the Pirates used them all to celebrate hitting a franchise record-tying seven homers.
The Pirates announced the shortage during the bottom of the eighth inning, once they had scored 14 unanswered runs after the Mets took an early 2-0 lead ...
You can probably tell from the score that the Pittsburgh Pirates' 14-2 win over the New York Mets was a slaughter. You could also probably tell from the amount of fireworks still at PNC Park after the game.
That amount would be zero. Because the Pirates used them all to celebrate hitting a franchise record-tying seven homers.
The Pirates announced the shortage during the bottom of the eighth inning, once they had scored 14 unanswered runs after the Mets took an early 2-0 lead ...
They should have canceled the rest of the game....or given the fans their money back.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
The immaculate inning was the 114th in MLB history, making the feat more rare than a no-hitter or a cycle, and the second in White Sox history. The only other Chicago pitcher to throw an immaculate inning was the immaculately named Sloppy Thurston on Aug. 22, 1923.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
While that was probably the most important headline coming out of Camden Yards, the Orioles also set some franchise slugging history in the victory.
Anthony Santander's second-inning home run off Michael Lorenzen was Baltimore's 59th home run in June, which set a team record for most homers in a calendar month. With his 13th homer this month, Santander also set an individual franchise mark for most home runs in June.
... With a home run on Sunday, they can tie the 2023 Atlanta Braves, who hit 61 last June. And, of course, with two homers, the O's can hit the second-most ever in a single month....
The Orioles' previous record of 58 home runs in a month was set by the 1987 club during the month of May....
Ouch, two in a row.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
The immaculate inning was the 114th in MLB history, making the feat more rare than a no-hitter or a cycle, and the second in White Sox history. The only other Chicago pitcher to throw an immaculate inning was the immaculately named Sloppy Thurston on Aug. 22, 1923.
From time to time I may have wondered why everybody I ever met from Chicago was a Cubs fan. I'm not sure I've ever met a White Sox fan that I know of, and, while Cubbie banners are fairly common to see when traveling, I don't know that I've ever seen one for the White Sox. Maybe this is one of the reasons why:
"The White Sox, now 27-87 on the year, are one of seven teams in modern Major League Baseball history to have lost 20 or more games in a row. They're the first team to endure such a futile run since the 1988 Baltimore Orioles, and they're three more losses from tying the longest losing streak of all-time."
From time to time I may have wondered why everybody I ever met from Chicago was a Cubs fan. I'm not sure I've ever met a White Sox fan that I know of, and, while Cubbie banners are fairly common to see when traveling, I don't know that I've ever seen one for the White Sox. Maybe this is one of the reasons why:
"The White Sox, now 27-87 on the year, are one of seven teams in modern Major League Baseball history to have lost 20 or more games in a row. They're the first team to endure such a futile run since the 1988 Baltimore Orioles, and they're three more losses from tying the longest losing streak of all-time."
Have they always been so awful?
This is historic awful, for anyone. They're a Jerry Reinsdorf mismanaged team (like the Bulls in every year they didn't have Michael Jordan), mostly middling, occasionally successful. One unexciting world series in 2005 over the then National League Astros in over 40 years of ownership plus a dog of a stadium in 1992 that he's already trying to abandon.
The Sox were less of a second class citizen before wgn superstation and Harry Caray.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
Opps, ouch. A Machado gelato?
