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Craig Counsell hasn't managed a regular-season game yet, but he already feels like a Cub [ David Ross ]

Craig Counsell hasn’t managed a regular-season game yet, but he already feels like a Cub [Highlights] MESA, Ariz. — Once manager Craig Counsell stepped into the clubhouse on the first day of spring training, referring to the Cubs as “we” felt… ESPNKarl Ravech (from left), Tim Kurkjian and David Ross broadcast a game for ESPN in 2019. When the Cubs replaced manager David Ross with… The network…

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Little League World Series bat flips, Rutgers' DoorDash bill show sport in disarray

Little League World Series bat flips, Rutgers’ DoorDash bill show sport in disarray

Reader Bill Maroney notes that it can’t be easier for a child when it’s confusing for them. The Little League World Series on ABC/ESPN is once again covered in mixed messages. Wait a minute, writes Maroney, Tim Kurkjian and Jessica Mendoza “talk about Little League in fairytale terms and sportsmanship. In the next minute, Todd Frazier and his fellow standmates are wild [with delight] about a…

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“He doesn’t look like a pitcher”: Body, demeanor are just part of Alek Manoah’s success story

“He doesn’t look like a pitcher”: Body, demeanor are just part of Alek Manoah’s success story

While he might not look like the prototypical pitcher, Alek Manoah is a CY Young Award candidate and one of the top pitchers in the American League Longtime ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian is the latest guest on The Gold and Blue Nation Podcast, and he’s a big fan of former Mountaineer Alek Manoah. In this interview with Ryan Decker, Kurkjian breaks down Manoah’s presence on the mound, and…

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Yelich’s unlikely shot at history comes to an end as Brewers win NL Central

By Stephen Gugliociello

By the time Christian Yelich arrived in Phoenix for Milwaukee Brewers spring training, he was the final piece of another Miami Marlins fire sale to go.

Over the previous seven months, the Marlins had traded or released the majority of their primary assets: Reigning-NL MVP Giancarlo Stanton had been traded to the New York Yankees, left fielder Marcel Ozuna had been traded to the St. Louis Cardinals at the trade deadline, second baseman Dee Gordon had been traded to the Seattle Mariners, and the team’s best pitcher, Edinson Volquez, had been granted his out-right release.

Yelich had always been a player with great potential, but had only shown flashes of it in south Florida. In his five seasons in Miami, he averaged .290, 12 homers, 59 RBI, .369 on-base percentage, and .432 slugging. He did have a career year in 2016, however, when he hit 21 home runs, 98 RBI, .298/.376/483 and had won a Silver Slugger.

But when Yelich arrived in Milwaukee, he was met with something he had never experienced before -- expectations. The team had recently signed free-agent outfielder Lorenzo Cain away from the Kansas City Royals, and were in hot pursuit of free-agent pitcher, Yu Darvish (Darvish eventually signed with division-rival Chicago).

The team still had pieces in place from the previous season -- 2011 NL MVP Ryan Braun, third baseman Travis Shaw (31 homers, 101 RBI in 2017), young shortstop Orlando Arcia, and first baseman Eric Thames, who hit 31 home runs and had a .518 slugging percentage in 2017, his first year in the majors since 2012.

By the All-Star break, the Brewers found themselves in a good position -- they were 55-43 after a 19-8 May. Yelich was also finding success, hitting .292/.364/.459 with 11 home runs and 43 RBI, and being named to his first All-Star team.

But during the second half, the Brewers came back down to earth. They played .500 ball from June to August (12-13, 15-13, 13-13) and were trailing the division-leading Cubs, who had sat in first place since the middle of July.

The team had made several moves at the trade deadline in a hope to bolster the team’s hitting -- they acquired Mike Moustakas, a power-hitting, free-agent-to-be from Kansas City, and Jonathan Schoop from Baltimore, a second baseman having an impressive year.

Yelich’s surge really began in August, when he hit 10 homers with 27 RBI, .307/.363/.557, which had the people in Milwaukee talking. However, by the beginning of September, the Brewers were still five games behind the Cubs for the division lead.

It was at that point Yelich spring-boarded himself into the national conversation as the Brewers surged. He hit .352/.500/.807.  And thanks to his late-season outburst, not only did many consider Yelich the favorite for the National League MVP, but he was suddenly in a race with history. After game 162, Yelich led the league in hitting at .323, he was second in home runs with 36 (Colorado Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado had 37), and second in RBI with 108 (Cubs infielder Javy Baez had 110).

Thanks in large part to Yelich’s hot hitting, the Brewers went 19-7 in the season’s final month, ending the season in a tie for first place with the Cubs, which meant only one thing -- a game 163.

Game 163, a tie-breaker for the division, would be held Oct. 1 in Chicago. It would also give Yelich one last shot at hitting for the triple crown.

Facing Cubs lefty Jose Quintana, Yelich started the game red-hot, going 3-3 with an RBI, cutting Baez’s RBI lead down to only one.

With the score 1-1 in the top of the 8th inning, the Brewers began to rally. With runners on second and third and no one out, Cain singled off Cubs side-arming reliever Steve Cishek to drive in the runner from third, making the score 2-1, Brewers.

Cubs manager Joe Maddon immediately went to the bullpen as the crowd started to murmur and cheers got louder. Left-hander Randy Rosario strolled out of the Cubs bullpen as the crowd rose to their feet. Into the left-handed batter’s box strode Yelich, and what was at stake in the moment for the Brewers, and Yelich himself, was lost on very few.

“If he homers here, I’m going to get up, walk out of this broadcast booth, and never come back,” said ESPN analyst Tim Kurkjian, “because nothing will ever top that.”

Yelich proceeds to swing and foul off the first three fastballs from Rosario, all around 93 MPH.

The fourth pitch comes in at 88 MPH, high over the black. Ball one. 1-2 to Yelich.

The fifth pitch, another cutter, comes in at 88 MPH, but is in the right-handed batter’s box. Yelich lays off easy. 2-2.

With the goal of keeping the game close, and holding off history for Yelich, Rosario dealt the sixth pitch.

Yelich took a big swing.

Cutter, 87 MPH on the outer half.

But alas, the mighty Yelich had struck out.

He put his head down and headed back to the dugout. There was a mixture of cheers and boos; cheers from the home Cubs fans, and boos from the Brewers fans, many of whom had made the three-plus hour drive from Wisconsin. They weren’t mad at Yelich for striking out, they were more disappointed that he didn’t get to achieve immortality.

Yelich wouldn’t get another at bat. But the trajectory of history would not change with his strike out.

Braun came up next and hit a single to right-center at the vacated second base position, as Cain had been running on the pitch, scoring the runner from third.

Left-handed fireballer Josh Hader came on in the bottom of the 8th, and would retire the next six hitters to record the save, and seal the win for the Brewers.

The Brewers had climbed all the way back and won the NL Central, had the best record in the league, and Yelich being named the 2018 MVP seemed all but a cinch.

But on this day, his name wouldn’t join the likes of Joe Medwick, Chuck Klein, Rogers Horsby, Heinie Zimmerman, or Paul Hines, as National League hitters to achieve the triple crown.

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Breaking down Game 2 of the 2020 World Series [Rays vs. Dodgers] | Baseball Tonight

Karl Ravech, Tim Kurkjian and Mark Teixeira break down Game 2 of the 2020 World Series featuring the Tampa Bay Rays vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers, with Brandon Lowe, Blake Snell and the Rays getting the better of Mookie Betts and the Dodgers. #MLB #Sports #WorldSeries

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Empty Stands, No Spitting: The New Rules Of Baseball During The Pandemic About half of the Miami Marlins' roster has tested positive for COVID. ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian explains the challenges Major League Baseball faces as play resumes amid the pandemic.

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Empty Stands, No Spitting: The New Rules Of Baseball During The Pandemic

About half of the Miami Marlins' roster has tested positive for COVID. ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian explains the challenges Major League Baseball faces as play resumes amid the pandemic.

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Empty Stands, No Spitting: The New Rules Of Baseball During The Pandemic

About half of the Miami Marlins' roster has tested positive for COVID. ESPN baseball analyst Tim Kurkjian explains the challenges Major League Baseball faces as play resumes amid the pandemic.

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