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BCB After Dark is the place for you to talk baseball, music, movies, or anything else you need to get off your chest, as long as it is within the rules of the site. The late-nighters are encouraged to get the party started, but everyone else is invited to join in as you wake up the next morning and into the afternoon.
Last week I asked you if the Cubs had found their hitting stroke after exploding for 16 runs against the Mets. By and almost three-to-one margin, (74% to 26%), you said that you still didn’t think the Cubs could hit. In games since then, I think you could find evidence to support either position. They were shut out on Sunday against the Brewers and Brandon Woodruff, but he’s been shutting down pretty much everyone this year. But they also exploded for another 15 runs
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In some, the player rarely took an inning off, let alone missed a game.
Early in Cal Ripken Jr. s record streak of 2,632 games, he played 8,264 straight innings. The second-longest such stretch in the Modern Era is just 4,620. Ernie Banks had the second-longest since 1940: 3,223, less than 40 percent of Ripken s total.
Every long streak included games in which a player pinch hit, pinch ran or appeared only as a defensive replacement.
Some players kept their streaks going with what can only be described as gimmicks.
In the 1,427th of Lou Gehrig s 2,130 games, at Detroit in July 1934, he was listed as the Yankees shortstop and batted leadoff. He singled, then gave way to a pinch runner.
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As the 2021 season approaches, MiLB.com introduces the 11 leagues created by the restructuring of Minor League Baseball across four levels of play. Below is a team-by-team introduction to the High-A West, including affiliation, previous circuit and most recent championship. (Note: Established refers to the first year of a team s
As the 2021 season approaches, MiLB.com introduces the 11 leagues created by therestructuring of Minor League Baseball
across four levels of play. Below is a team-by-team introduction to the High-A West, including affiliation, previous circuit and most recent championship. (Note: Established refers to the first year of a team s continuous operation in that market regardless of league or level.) Learn about other leagues here:Triple-A East, Triple-A West, Double-A Northeast, Double-A Central, Double-A South, High-A East, High-A Central
Father Joe celebrates 80th birthday with stories about life
Enjoying his retirement since 2011, Father Joe Carroll lives directly across the street from the homeless service provider he once led and that now bears his name.
(Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune)
‘Life Stories of a Hustler Priest’ chronicles how a poor kid from the Bronx helped countless homeless San Diegans
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His name is synonymous with programs that help homeless San Diegans, but Father Joe Carroll reveals something surprising in a new book about his life. “I told him I didn’t want the job,” he wrote about the day in 1982 when Bishop Leo Maher told him he was being assigned to head the St. Vincent de Paul Center.