Baseball Is Fun

You know how you joke about a batter trying to hit a six-run home run when he swings out of his shoes? Or how you joke, macabrely, that all your team needs is a six-run homer when they're down to...

I hope Ichiro Suzuki keeps doing baseball things until he's 100. Because it's always great. Earlier this month, Ichiro broke a window while taking batting practice at a high school, and he has continued his tour of TERRORIZING high schoolers...

I love everything Ichiro Suzuki does. I could watch his throwing videos for hours, and the things he's done past age 40 are all the more impressive. Ichiro is now 50, but he's still swinging the bat. And since he...

I probably shouldn't even title this thing the best "baseball" Halloween prank, because this is just one of the best Halloween-type pranks I've ever seen. Just good old fashioned terrifying fun. Missouri State baseball pulled off an all-timer. Just watch...

When you think of the fall and baseball in Arizona, you probably think of instructional ball for prospects at their various camps, and of course the Arizona Fall League. And, in years like this one where the Diamondbacks are in...

Today, the team from El Segundo, California, representing the United States in the Little League World Series, beat the team from Curaçao 6-5 to win the championship. That'd be cool enough, but HOW they won it makes it all the...

Pretty much every inside-the-park home run that happens at the big league level is necessarily going to involve some wonkiness. Sometimes, it's a "little league" home run, with the defense throwing the ball around. Sometimes it's just a guy with...

Sometimes a headline says the whole thing. There is no real reason for this play to exist, other than the fact that it is awesome. And that's kinda what the Savannah Bananas are all about. Just enjoy this unreal feat...

Listen, I'm no expert on Little League Baseball, so I can't say I've got every amazing play loaded up there in my brain. But I have seen my fair-share of highlights over the years, and it's hard to recall a...

I won't claim to have watched a ton of Chicago White Sox games, but I know enough to know that hitting a ball OVER the roof and OUT of the stadium is a ridiculous, borderline impossible, thing. But that's what...

Bryce Harper, a career outfielder, has been mostly a designated hitter for the Phillies for a long time thanks to an elbow injury that ultimately led to Tommy John surgery. But the Phillies need him to pitch in at first...

The New York Yankees are not having a good few weeks. They haven't won a series this month, have fallen into a last place tie in the AL East, and just lost a series to the dreadful Colorado Rockies. But...

If you're not familiar, the Savannah Bananas are something of a Harlem Globetrotter-esque semi-pro baseball team that plays real games, but with an extreme exhibition quality to them. It's A LOT of fun. One of the rules for their games...

This is one of those "all's well that ends well" plays that you see, where it could have gone SO TERRIBLY WRONG, but it didn't, so we get to enjoy it. Everyone knows why you wear a batting helmet when...

What can I say? I don't care what team you root for, you can't NOT think Elly De La Cruz is unbelievably entertaining to watch. The 21-year-old Cincinnati Reds rookie tonight singled, then stole second, then stole third, and then...

José Ramírez is so often considered one of the most "underrated players" in the game, that I actually think he's finally overrated ... just kidding. He's insanely good. And has been forever. And yet, he still finds way to impress...

Not all home run robberies involve some kind of collision with the wall, and they certainly don't all involve a literal flip over the wall. But the ones that do, well, they're especially wild. Of course, I still wouldn't have...

For a while, it seemed like we were having a very steady stream of no-hitters in baseball, thanks in large part to the proliferation of tools and velocity development that has made MLB pitchers almost super human. That waned a...

One thing I have always loved about baseball is the way incredible plays can pop up in circumstances, and in ways, that you never would have expected. For example, a called pitch out on a stolen base attempt, with the...

As soon as I saw this Matt Vierling slide, I knew I wanted to share it here. But first, I had to watch it again. And again. I swear to you I watched it about 10 times before I remembered...