Amid a rough season for the Red Sox, Aroldis Chapman has been a bright spot, closing out games with brutal efficiency.
The Red Sox closer went into Monday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays only seven strikeouts away from having the most ...
Sixty-five years ago, the struggling Orioles bought an aging relief pitcher, on the cheap, to help their porous bullpen. At 36, Hoyt Wilhelm’s best years were thought to be behind him. Moreover, his ...
When a swarm of honeybees interrupted the Orioles’ game against the Colorado Rockies on Sunday, it wasn’t the first time that insects had stopped play in a major league game. On June 2, 1959, Orioles ...
When I was doing this “Scott Says” full page for the very first time, in early April, the first subject for my flashback series was future NFL hall of fame general manager Bill Polian and the 1995 ...
You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we'll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1952, Hoyt Wilhelm ...
SARASOTA, Fla. -- Knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm, the first reliever elected to the Hall of Fame and the last pitcher to throw a no-hitter against the New York Yankees, has died. Hoyt Wilhelm was the last ...
Don Larsen Returns to Baltimore It was a drizzly, cloudy day, but my friends and I decided to go to see the Orioles play the Yankees anyway. We wanted to boo Don Larsen, who was starting for the ...
Hoyt Wilhelm, whose fluttering knuckleball made him the first relief pitcher elected to baseball’s Hall of Fame, died Friday in Sarasota, Fla. The former White Sox star was 79. Known for his longevity ...