No Scoop for Yu! Is a No-No Greatness or Just a Statistical Oddity?

I tuned into Friday night's Rangers-Red Sox game just as the Ranger's Yu Darvish took a no hitter into the ninth.  After two quick outs, David Ortiz stepped into the box and as a Sox fan, I thought if anyone could break it up, it would be Big Papi. Right on cue, Ortiz pulled a hard grounder that just managed to beat the Big Papi shift that has the shortstop playing behind second base and the second baseman in short right field. This heart breaker was the proverbial "ground ball with eyes" that squirted through just a few feet to the right on your screen of Elvis Andrus and a few feet to the left of Rougned Odor (not a typo) who couldn't scoop it up albeit a nice diving effort. - Click HERE to see it. - My first thought was "wow, how random is it that this routine ball just

The First Instant Replay Walk-off - It's Got Positraction!

It was just a matter of time before the first game-ending play was reversed using instant replay...I mean, the first play that was reversed that became the walk-off, game-ending play...after everybody already walked off, after the play had ended, you know, after the review of the ending play. Please wait a minute while we sort this out...