Matt Martell is off today to jump into a much-deserved long weekend for Memorial Day. Emma Baccellieri has you covered in his stead. There is a line that former ESPN writer Sam Miller used to say, in podcasts and in conversation, about when you could trust small-sample-size noise had disappeared from baseball statistics at the … Read more
Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. It happens some 270 times every day in Major League Baseball: The pitcher records the third out of the inning, and the catcher heads for his dugout. … Read more
NBA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Klay Thompson shimmied his way to 32 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to their sixth NBA Finals in the past eight seasons by beating the Dallas Mavericks 120-110 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals on Thursday night. Thompson scored 19 points in the first half, including … Read more
NBA SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Klay Thompson shimmied his way to 32 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to their sixth NBA Finals in the past eight seasons by beating the Dallas Mavericks 120-110 in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals on Thursday night. Thompson scored 19 points in the first half, including … Read more
It was the early 2000s when Korean-American sportswriter Joon Lee first saw Japanese outfielder Hideki Matsui on the cover of Sports Illustrated for Kids. To Lee, the representation of the Asian community on the cover helped fuel his passion to someday work in sports. Lee’s aspiration was met by several stereotypical responses, such as, “You … Read more
AP Photo / Nick Wass Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. The last time we saw Mookie Betts during the 2021 season, he was striking out on three fastballs hurled right down Broadway … Read more
To say that Roger Angell was America’s best baseball writer feels insufficient. It is true — of course — but it misses so much. For more than half a century, Angell wrote about baseball for The New Yorker, covering not the sport itself so much as the experience of what it meant to care about … Read more
Joe Panik’s game-changing double play in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series Al Tielemans / Sports Illustrated For nearly as long as I can remember, whenever anyone asked me who was my favorite baseball player, I said Jorge Posada. He was the player I wanted to emulate from the time I was little. Like … Read more
Patience is a virtue, and it’s also a strategy. Fantasy Baseball is a game of patience. You’ve probably heard it said before that fantasy baseball is a marathon and not a sprint. With 162 games, there is a lot of time for players to streak hot or cold and still end up being exactly the … Read more
Major League Baseball is vastly popular with advertisers on regional sports networks. (Photo by Rob … [+] Carr / Getty Images) Getty Images For years, the pundits of Major League Baseball have said that the decline in national ratings and viewership shows that the league is “dying” with fans. But upon closer inspection, the league … Read more