The Pirates’ best player, McCutchen, had long hair, dreadlocks, in fact, that were so long they covered his name on the back of his uniform shirt.
McCutchen began the season with a streak of three seasons in which he batted better than .300 each season, slugged a total of 77 home runs and had an on-base percentage of .400 or better and a slugging percentage above .500 each year. In the middle year of those three years he was named …
Dayton Moore, the Royals’ general manager, doesn’t think so.
“I think four times the pitches were intentional,” Moore said. “Teams are pitching us inside. We have guys who look to run and we steal bases. Pitchers use slide step and that prompts a pitcher to hit a batter.”
Perhaps more significantly, Moore said, “I think a lot of people are getting hit. I think it’s up throughout baseball.”
Moore was speaking on his cell phone Friday afternoon before the second game of the Royals’ four-game series with the Chicago White Sox. At the time, through the Royals’ first 16 games (A.L. best 12-4), their batters had been …
Both Bonds and Kuhn got away with giving answers that induced skepticism in the minds of people who heard them or read about them, Kuhn in Federal court in Chicago in 1977 in Charlie Finley’s lawsuit against him for blocking sales of three players, Bonds before a Federal grand jury hearing testimony in San Francisco in 2007 in the investigation of Balco and steroids.
Covering the trial in the Finley lawsuit, I couldn’t believe some of Kuhn’s answers and wanted to stand up in the courtroom and say, “Your honor, that’s just not so.” I restrained myself, just did my job and didn’t inject my …
