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☆ A Night With the Best Baseball Team in New York
  + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Matt Martell | Monique Jaques | Photo Essay | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
About a half-hour before a mid-August Brooklyn Cyclones game, a family of three, a reporter and a middle-aged man dressed in a Jedi robe walked into an elevator at Maimonides Park. As the door closed and they began their ascent, the Jedi turned to the others and asked, “So, what planet are you all from?”“Um, Brooklyn,” responded the matriarch of the family. The Jedi proceeded to hum “Mad About Me,” by the Mos Eisley Cantina house band, Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, as if to tell them he was from the planet Tatooine. Out beyond the right-field wall, in the area known as the Backyard, a few hundred others were pounding brews and playing cornhole, blissfully unaware that a baseball game — the event that their ticket said they had paid to see — was about to begin. The two main draws on this particular Saturday were Star Wars Night and the $50 all-you-can-drink deal.
Persons: ”, Mos Eisley, Figrin D’an, cornhole Organizations: Brooklyn Cyclones Locations: Um, Brooklyn
☆ The Rays Plan to Keep Calm and Carry On
  + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Matt Martell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The Tampa Bay Rays were the best team in Major League Baseball over the first three months of the season. With 16 losses in 24 games, it was their worst month since 2007, the year before they dropped the “Devil” from their moniker. During this monthlong about-face, they went from leading the American League East by 6.5 games to trailing the upstart Baltimore Orioles by a game and a half. The Rays understood they were never going to keep up the fast pace they carried through April, just as they recognized they would not continue to play as poorly as they did in July. The Rays had just withstood the nadir of their season, and they still had the third best record in the majors and held a four-game lead over the Houston Astros for the top spot in the A.L.
Organizations: Tampa Bay Rays, Major League Baseball, American League East, Baltimore Orioles, Yankee, Tampa Bay, Yankees, Rays, Houston Astros Locations: Tampa
☆ A Relationship That Transcends Analytics
  + stars: | 2023-07-30 | by ( Matt Martell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
The weeks leading up to Major League Baseball’s trading deadline are always tense. Every team has to evaluate where they are in the standings, what the organization’s long-term outlook is and how much could be changed by acquiring a few veterans. Along the way, players are left to ponder what moves their teams will make and whether they will soon be on the move. Not knowing which city they will be living in the following week can be overwhelming, even for professional ballplayers. Those challenges are universal, but they are heightened whenever a catcher is involved.
Organizations: Major League Baseball’s, Mets
☆ A Rare Matchup of Aces Adds ‘Extra Buzz’ to Subway Series
  + stars: | 2023-06-14 | by ( Matt Martell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Nearly eight years ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates began a three-game series on the road against the Detroit Tigers with a 5-4 win in 14 innings. Yankees Manager Aaron Boone said he expects the matchup between veteran aces to add “a little extra buzz” to the crosstown rivalry. Cole and Verlander will always be linked for the two seasons they bullied major league batters while anchoring the Houston Astros’ starting rotation. In 2018 and 2019, the two years Cole spent with the Astros, Houston’s co-aces combined to go 72-25 with a 2.62 E.R.A. In 2019, they led the Astros to their second American League pennant in three seasons, though they lost the World Series to the Washington Nationals in seven games.
Persons: Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, Aaron Boone, Cole, Verlander, Houston’s, Cy Young Organizations: Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, Comerica, Yankees, Verlander’s Mets, Citi Field, Tuesday, Houston Astros, Astros, American League, Washington Nationals
☆ It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Gets Hurt
  + stars: | 2023-06-11 | by ( Matt Martell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
In the movie “Moneyball,” Peter Brand, a baseball analyst played by Jonah Hill, has a mantra for the type of player his team covets. “He gets on base,” Brand says when his boss points at him. The movie, like the Michael Lewis book upon which it is based, is about the rise of sabermetrics in Major League Baseball. It is the story of a group of outsiders who take on the baseball establishment by following a core belief rooted in an expression you can hear at any Little League game: A walk is as good as a hit. The math of the strategy is easy enough to explain.
Persons: Peter Brand, Jonah Hill, ” Brand, Michael Lewis, Pete Alonso, Charlie Morton Organizations: Major League Baseball, Little League, Mets
☆ A Yankees Infielder Fixed His Approach. The Results Should Follow.
  + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( Matt Martell | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Gleyber Torres was the best player in the Yankees’ lineup over the first two weeks of the season. Through the Yankees’ first 12 games, he was leading the team in batting average (.357), on-base plus slugging percentage (1.179), walks (11) and stolen bases (5). Then the Yankees returned home on April 13, and Torres went into a 2-for-28 skid — a frustrating stretch for a player who has been streaky throughout his career. And as a hitter it’s hard to get caught up in a week’s worth of results. Some weeks you put it on the screws a handful of times and get nothing to show for it.”
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