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Yu Darvish and Matt Harvey started playing in the major leagues last year, but they have quickly moved into the role of an ace pitcher

Darvish joined the Texas Rangers last season after starring in the Japanese professional league. Harvey came up to the Mets last July. This season, both pitchers are in a league of their own. Darvish is 6-1 with a 2.73 ERA, and Harvey 4-0 with a 1.44 ERA. Darvish came within one out of throwing a [...]

B-Harp

When you’re the next big thing, the world can be your oyster, or it can fizzle just like the next fad. Bryce Harper has been written and talked about for nearly four years, which is astounding since he’s only 20-years-old, and hasn’t even begun to scratch the surface of his extraordinary talent. For every Joe [...]

Blue Finds Relief

Considering the alternative, the Dodgers (15-21) will gladly take their modest two-game winning streak. Mired in an eight-game losing skid, the Blue Crew captured the final two games from Miami including last Sunday’s 5-3 thriller at the Stadium as Scott Van Slyke walloped a solo homer in the second inning, and added a run-scoring hit [...]

R.A. Dickey, the NL Cy Young winner last season, may have said it best after the Toronto Blue Jays’ loss on Saturday

“We’re somewhat of a dysfunctional team right now,” Dickey told the Associated Press. At the beginning of the season, the Blue Jays were supposed to be among the elite clubs in the major leagues after acquiring pitchers Dickey, Mark Buehrle and Josh Johnson, along with Jose Reyes and Melky Cabrera, in the off-season. Toronto figured [...]

Pop!

Nothing sidetracked undefeated Floyd Mayweather Jr. from accomplishing his goal this past Saturday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena. In a virtuoso performance, Mayweather, the pound-for-pound best boxer in the world exhibited no rust after being out of the ring for a year as he retained his World Boxing Council welterweight belt and added [...]

Dodgers Grounded

It’s getting somewhat messy for the Dodgers (13-17), who were barreled over this past weekend by San Francisco at AT&T Park, and are five and a half games behind the first-place and defending World Series champion Giants (19-12) in the National League West. In Sunday’s 4-3 loss, Matt Cain (1-2) held the Blue Crew to [...]

Bryce Harper began his major league career on April 28 last year with huge expectation

He was the first overall pick in the 2010 draft and starred at every level he played in before that. Harper had slumps last season with the Washington Nationals, but was still able to hit .270 with 22 home runs, 59 RBIs and 18 stolen bases in 139 games to earn the National League Rookie [...]

Paws

Detroit Manager Jim Leyland won a World Series title in 1997 with the Florida Marlins, and was there with the Tigers in 2006 and 2012, but with different results. Long regarded as one of the best at his trade, if the 68-year-old Tigers’ head man is able to coax his club to the ultimate prize, [...]

Blue’s on Mend

Carl Crawford is a difference maker at the plate, on the bases and in the outfield. Acquired from the Boston Red Sox at the trading deadline last season, the left fielder drilled two home runs in last Sunday’s 2-0 win over Milwaukee at Dodger Stadium. Crawford, who is batting .307, hit solo shots in the [...]

Allowing 11 hits in six innings was not the way Adam Wainwright wanted to start the season for the St. Louis Cardinals on April 1 in a 6-2 loss at Arizona

But the 6-foot-7-inch right-hander got back on track, winning his next three games. A big part of Wainwright’s success early this season has been his control. He had 28 strikeouts without allowing a single walk in his first four starts. Wainwright came back last season from reconstructive elbow surgery, going 14-13 with a 3.94 ERA. [...]