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Joe Maddon out-galaxy brains himself, manages to win anyway

There are a couple of key questions in baseball over the past several years that regularly intersect: “Why can’t the Angels win anything when they have Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani, two unique talents among the greatest the game has ever seen?” and “How did Joe Maddon ever win a World Series with the Cubs […]

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Baseball didn’t anticipate this odd rash of no-hitters, which there are more of than ‘count’ because ‘rules’

John Means pitched this season’s third no-hitter on Wednesday afternoon in Seattle, except it was really the fourth, as Major League Baseball keeps finding out that whatever oddities are available to be achieved, someone eventually will achieve them. Read more…