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Rangers Don’t Dig Tatis’ Tater, Fuel Controversy Over How (Or Whether) To...
Yesterday, Fernando Tatis Jr. hit a grand slam and the internet lost its damn mind. It wasn’t the homer that did it, of course, it was the response … something to do with the unwritten rules. In this...
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Red Sox Play Petty In Failed Attempt To Deny Minor His Strikouts
Baseball has a long history of acknowledging superlative performances from the opposing dugout, but precedent be damned, things in Arlington got downright wacky last night. The moment that has gained...
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Twin Hacks 3-0, Gets Teammate Plunked, Reminds Us That People Still Pay...
There was some old-school baseball played in Arlington yesterday like we haven’t seen in years. The setting: Minnesota leads the Rangers 13-5 in the ninth. With one out and nobody on, Texas reliever...
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Rangers Are The Latest To Have Trouble Letting The Kids Play, And Ramon...
We’ve repeatedly discussed the disconnect between MLB’s official “Let the Kids Play” stance and the reality on the ground when it comes to actually letting the kids play. As is frequently the case,...
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Profar Learns The Hard Way That Some Teams Are Sensitive Creatures When It...
Perhaps the trickiest of baseball’s unwritten rules has to do with when to take one’s foot off the gas pedal. Everybody agrees that it’s bad form to pile on when sitting on a big lead late in a game,...
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Simmons Steams Over Odor’s Ardor For Impact
Another crappy slide, another pissed-off middle infielder, another dustup on a big league diamond. This is almost becoming routine. On Saturday, Rangers second baseman Roughned Odor tried to take out...
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Gallo Learns The Hard Way That Bunt Madness Knows No Bounds
By now we know that certain members of the Twins don’t appreciate players bunting against the shift while a Minnesota pitcher is throwing a one-hitter in the ninth. But do we know how the Mariners...
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RIP Dave Nelson
Brewers analyst Dave Nelson, who played in the big leagues for 10 years, was an All-Star in 1973, and served as a major league coach for 14 seasons, passed away today. Nelson was a firecracker of a...
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Carlos Gomez Heard Somthing, Maybe, And Now He’s Mad at Collin McHugh
Backstory plays an important part in most major league drama, and it’s possible that there’s some we don’t yet know about regarding Monday’s intra-Texas incident between the Astros and Rangers. Then...
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A Dish Best Served Over the Left Field Fence
On Tuesday, Jason Grilli whiffed Giancarlo Stanton to end the game and did a bit of gesturing. On Wednesday, Stanton remembered—especially after a mammoth homer in the eighth that put the Marlins up,...
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Can Sign Stealing That’s Not Really Sign Stealing Still Be Counted As Sign...
Standard practice when a team catches an opponent sign stealing is to inform said sign stealers that the jig is up and that it’s time to knock it off. The details therein are up for debate (verbal...
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Tension in Texas: Tempers Flare When They Didn’t Have To. Again.
Just last week we discussed the importance of understanding baseball’s unwritten rules, regardless of how one feels about them. Minnesota’s Miguel Sano had been thrown at, and missed, yet still made a...
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Odor Hit With Eight-Game Suspension
The suspension has been levied: eight games and $5,000 to Rougned Odor for his part in Sunday’s fisticuffs. (He says he’ll appeal.) That part’s not surprising. Throwing a punch like is almost certain...
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Does Anybody Even Know What Baseball’s Unwritten Rules Are, Anymore?
Vicious RT @CauldronICYMI Rougned Odor hits Jose Bautista with right cross to jaw after Bautista slid through 2nd https://t.co/HFLXEoFgEd — CJ Fogler (@cjzero) May 15, 2016 We’ll get to questions...
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Internalizing a Horrible Outing Takes Different Shapes for Different People,...
Two games in, and we got beef. For the Mariners, it’s entirely justified. Reliever Tom Wilhelmsen—with Seattle for the first five seasons of his career, but as of last November a member of the...
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Knee-gate Revisited
Last week we examined Adam Rosales’ knee plant atop second base, which was called out by Rays shortstop Asdrubal Cabrera as violating some sort of unwritten rule pertaining to middle infielders. Never...
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Knee, Meet Fingers. Fingers, Knee. Chat Amongst Yourselves
After having paid particular attention to baseball’s unwritten rules since I started researching The Baseball Codes in 2005, I’ve compiled what seems like a pretty comprehensive set. On Saturday,...
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Give Adrian Beltre His Due … Down to the Penny
Gamesmanship is terrific. In the late 1960s and early-’70s, Rico Carty hit exceedingly well against Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis—a .341 lifetime batting average with four homers in 41 at-bats. In...
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The Air is Hot, Smart or Not, Deep in the Heart of Texas
So this is what the ruination of baseball’s unwritten rules looks like. People keep marginalizing them, shunting them to the corner, labeling those who play by their merits as kooks and haters of fun....
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On Successful Homecomings and Misread Grins: The Tale of the Trying Smile, by...
Ah, respect. She is a vexing mistress. Ian Kinsler, reluctantly departed from his career-long home in Arlington after an off-season trade with Detroit, returned for the first time yesterday as a member...
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