The Last Home Run

Ever since 2014, Easton has been improving and improving this Little League baseball bat called the Easton Mako. Kids that play the sport of baseball wonder how this bat hits way farther than different bats, like wood bats. The question is, how do these bats do that? A Mako is a powerful high tech bat that is still used in travel ball leagues to this day. Kids in the Little League World Series, that happens every year, use these Makos (usually the newest version).…

While it sounds so simple, one of the hardest things to do is to hit a baseball. The best baseball players in the world are expected to hit the ball 30% of the time, and they are paid millions of dollars to do so. Baseball has been a passion of mine throughout my life. Since the age of 5, I have been working towards perfecting the skill of hitting. I have practiced hours at a time whether it be by going to the batting cages, hitting off a tee, or facing live pitching, in hopes of improving my…

What would happen if Major League Baseball held a league-wide draft where every player in each organization became available and each General Manager could choose a total of five players to steal from other teams; but if two GMs selected the same player, he would remain with his current team and GMs were not allowed to communicate with each other? Earlier this year, SB Nation conducted this game theory simulation by having 30 of their writers act as the GMs for each team. The most intriguing…

It was a hot May night in Denver Colorado,when Troy Tulowitzki stepped to the plate. Regarded as one of the most prolific hitters in the MLB, Tulowitzki was already 3 for 3 with a home run. It was a 2-1 count with one out in the 8th, when Tulowitz made contact. The ball soared into the right field stands at Coors Field. On a hot day more than a mile above sea level, Tulowitzki had one of the beds gsmes for an MLB player all year. Thid poses the question of how does Weather affect baseball?…

When I was 9 years old I played on a baseball team. Although I was doing ok playing baseball the coach and I thought I could use some improvement. ¨Strike Three you are out!¨ I struck out again, I remember after that I felt motivated to practice more and more. I needed help practicing so I thought of someone who could help me, my grandpa. I talked to my grandpa and I said ¨Hey Grandpa can you help me practice baseball?¨ ¨Of course I'll help you practice baseball!¨ he said. I was so excited to…

batting average of .265 and a WHIP of 1.28. His best season was in 2003, with Oakland, when he had a 7-4 record, with a 3.04 ERA, an opponents batting average of .236 and a WHIP of 1.26. This season, Bradford is 1-0 with a 2.57 ERA with 15 hits, two runs (both earned) in 7.0 innings of work this season. His opponents batting average is .417 and a WHIP of 2.14. Bradford, 34, has played for the White Sox, A's, Red Sox, Mets, Orioles and Rays. Other pitchers (like Pat Neshek of Minnesota) have…

Javier Baez Jaquelyn Hochrein It was the sixth game in the world series against the Dodgers! Only one thought was going through Javier Baez’s mind as he bolted down the third base line when all of the sudden the ball that Jon Lester had just hit a bunt with landed in the pitcher glove. “Uh, Oh… I when a little early.” Baez said, as a grin grew on his face. “Or maybe really early, I guess.” Javier Baez plays infielder (2nd base) for the 2016 World Series winning team “The Chicago…

clinched their 100th win of the season against the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Cubs hit this record for the first time since 1935. Judith Ryan, a Cubs fan of 73 years, said she’s just proud to see them do it in her lifetime. Now if the team could take home the World…

Did you know that in 2012, one hundred major league baseball players were caught using steroids, reported by bloomberg view dom. Those numbers are just the players that got caught using steroids, not the ones who abused the system and didn’t get caught. This is not surprising considering that 5% of high school boys that play baseball use steroids, according to marie.gov. Steroids give professional baseball players an unfair advantage against those who don't use them. Steroids make bigger,…

and his brother died at infancy. He was an only child so he helped his mother with choices. In 1923, Lou Gehrig signed a contract with the New York Yankees on April 30. He was a major hit. He batted left, threw left and had 2,721 hits and 493 home runs. Lou Gehrig held the record for the most consecutive games played which was 2,130 games. That record stayed for 56 years. In 1933, he married a woman named Elenor Twitchell…