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Baseball players do weird things to try to bust out of slumps. Recently, we've seen a few players, like Yasiel Puig, shave their facial hair during a game in an attempt to change their luck. A's third baseman Matt Chapman took the hair removal idea one step further Friday. Continue to Article

August 09, 2019 10:39:pm EST

The White Sox recent offensive renaissance came to a screeching halt Friday, though Tim Anderson tried to keep the mojo from a 5-2 road trip working. The South Side shortstop had two of the White Sox four singles in a 7-0 drubbing at the hands of the visiting Oakland Athletics, staying red hot in the month of August, during which he's got a .457 batting average. Anderson's return from the injured list at the end of July, along with that of Eloy Jimenez a couple days earlier, was supposed to help the White Sox start scoring runs again. Continue to Article

August 09, 2019 7:19:pm EST

Matt Chapman, Stephen Piscotty and Chad Pinder homered in support of another strong pitching performance by right-hander Mike Fiers on Friday afternoon, lifting the visiting Oakland Athletics to a 7-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the opener of a three-game series. Mark Canha added two hits and Dustin Garneau contributed a two-run double, helping the A's enjoy success on the South Side of Chicago after losing two of three on the North Side to the Cubs earlier in the week. Fiers (11-3) extended his streak of unbeaten starts to 17 with seven shutout innings, allowing three hits and no walks. Continue to Article

August 09, 2019 6:25:pm EST

BALTIMORE'S WATERFRONT — "The Babe Ruth Story" turns up on nearly every list of the worst movies ever made, with good reason. Rushed into the theaters shortly before the real Babe Ruth died in 1948, the script was apparently written in about 45 minutes by someone who knew nothing of the most famous American athlete of that generation. This flick begins on the aforementioned waterfront — and off we go, on the mythical journey of a superhero who can make an invalid kid walk with a simple greeting, raise another boy from his deathbed by hitting a homer, and even rush a dog to the emergency room (right in the middle of a game, mind you) after he smashes a liner into the wayward pooch. Continue to Article

August 09, 2019 6:23:pm EST