One advantage Stevie Wilkerson has as a pitcher is that he doesn’t have to have Stevie Wilkerson playing center field behind him. Earlier in the game he turned a fly ball with a 99% catch probability into a 3-run double. 

Former minor league official scorer here. You can receive an error for failing to cover a base. From 10.12(a)(8): [The official scorer shall charge an error against any fielder] whose failure to stop, or try to stop, an accurately thrown ball permits a runner to advance, so long as there was occasion for the throw. If…

Amazing that it was only two years ago that Croatian fans were actively trying to sabotage their own national team because they were fed up with the corruption in their federation.

A long shot launched well over the bar “floats harmlessly into Row Zed.”

Sure looks like the GK’s left foot is on (or barely in front of) the line when the shot is taken. I’m generally not in favor of more replay, but seems like goal-line technology could be used here.

A bigger earned-run injustice involves the dreaded “defensive indifference” late in games. For example, with two outs in the ninth in a blowout game, the defense is not holding a runner on first and he takes second on DI. The next batter then singles that runner home. Should be an unearned run for the pitcher. DI…

The anthem? Amazing song. GREAT song. Written by Francis Scott Key, one of our absolute heroes.

Of all the stupid rules in football, the “fumble through the end zone” is the absolute worst. If you fumble it out of bounds anywhere else on the field, the offense retains possession. The defense should actually have to take the ball away to earn possession. In this case maybe it should come back to the 1-yard line,…

I think Rosen could have fleshed some of this out in the recruiting process. There are plenty of schools out there where they let kids be true student-athletes and take really hard majors. They just don’t happen to be in the power conferences. He could have opted for a less prestigious football school and taken all…

That was a pitiful game 7 performance (3rd period especially), and the Caps deserve all the criticism they are getting for another playoff failure, but ...

My favorite non-pitcher name from the 80s was Billy Jo Robidoux. He had to be from somewhere like South Catfish, Louisiana right? But then I checked his baseball card one day and he was from freaking Massachusetts. Totally ruined his mystique.

O’s fan here ... and I agree with you 100% on saving Britton. The second-guess is picking Ubaldo over Bundy, who did very well out of the pen earlier in the year and would have come in throwing gas.

Basketball should do away with the “and-one” and go to a slow whistle, play advantage like soccer does. If a player is fouled in the act of shooting the ref raises his hand. If the ball goes in (or immediately tipped in), hand goes down and we keep playing. If the shot is missed, whistle blows and we shoot free…

That as annoying and unwatchable (and deservingly mocked on this site) as Chris Berman and Bill Simmons have become, we should acknowledge that for a certain period of time both were game-changers in their realms of media.

That totally felt like a “Hey teacher, you forgot to assign us homework” move by Horowitz. Syndergaard was getting knocked around a bit, and he was replaced between innings after throwing 91 pitches — a reasonable time to remove a pitcher. Not one member of the NY media suspected an injury enough to even ask about it…