Gabe Lacques
Sports Assignment Editor at USA Today
Covering baseball for @USATODAYSports. Unbearably staid. "You don't get to hate it unless you love it."
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4 days ago |
usatoday.com | Gabe Lacques
Let Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge hog all the headlines and national TV slots. While they were going one-on-one in L.A., both were upstaged by a catcher in the Pacific Northwest. Oh, Cal Raleigh won't match those greats sublime overall offensive numbers soon. Yet Raleigh has now taken the major league lead by homering for the third consecutive game, his 23rd homer putting the Mariners in position to salvage a series win against Minnesota.
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6 days ago |
usatoday.com | Gabe Lacques
BALTIMORE – There’s no disputing that Chavez Ravine is baseball’s Blue Heaven, a wonderland of wins, World Series titles and the home of an organization that operates both optimally and aggressively. That doesn’t mean, though, that every ballplayer fits snugly into the Los Angeles Dodgers’ blueprint.
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1 week ago |
usatoday.com | Gabe Lacques
While Major League Baseball’s draft remains on the horizon, the number of players under the microscope narrows significantly as high school playoffs wrap up and the collegiate postseason gets underway. Beginning Friday, 64 teams will launch their journeys toward Omaha, as NCAA regional play commences.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Gabe Lacques
WASHINGTON – James Wood could already stand eye-to-eye with the biggest, baddest dudes in Major League Baseball. Now, he’s developing a body of work to match them on the stat sheet. At 6 feet, 7 inches, Wood is shoulder to shoulder with Aaron Judge and Pittsburgh Pirates slugger Oneil Cruz. He could probably post up the great Shohei Ohtani – a mere 6-foot-3 – if this group of sluggers ever got together, say, for a pickup basketball game. No, size isn’t the be-all in baseball.
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2 weeks ago |
usatoday.com | Gabe Lacques
WASHINGTON — Spencer Strider climbed the mound in a major league game for the first time in 29 days, and just the second time in 13 months, and no, he was not wearing a cape. There was no 10-gallon hat to signify a new sheriff in town, just a sleeveless dude on a chilly night aiming to fortify an Atlanta Braves roster that’s grown accustomed to not waiting around. On this Tuesday night, Strider - a 20-game winner and 281-strikeout man just two seasons ago – was not particularly good.
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Charlie Morton is warming in the #orioles bullpen; the proud 41-year-old is officially a Long Guy.
Just to update this carnage: Kyle Gibson exits down 9-0, and every Yankee starter except Austin Wells has a hit by the fourth inning (and also Oswald Peraza, who came in for dinged up Jazz Chisholm). Ben Rice has two homers. Oh and Carlos Rodón is perfect thru three.
Make that four pitches, three home runs. Ben Rice, out to right. 3-0. Unreal.
Tomoyuki "Season-Saver" Sugano punched out Aaron Judge for his eighth strikeout of the night. He's elicited nine whiffs on 11 swings against his splitter tonight as #Orioles lead #Yankees 4-0.
