WENT THE DISTANCE ✅ Yoshinobu Yamamoto has thrown the first Los Angeles Dodgers postseason complete game since José Lima in the 2003 NLDS.

Max Muncy’s 14 home runs are most in Dodgers postseason history, breaking a tie at 13 with Corey Seager and Justin Turner

Visited Milwaukee over the weekend. Discovered the E-5 Sports card shop. It’s a super cool and compact shop with sports memorabilia and all the usual hobby and retail card stuff. Great prices. Owner seemed like such a genuine nice guy. Worth checking out if you’re in Milwaukee.

Looks so serene and post-apocalyptic at the same time. Chicago, IL Taken from Indiana Dunes State Park

Pedro Martínez and Don Zimmer, on this date in 2003

Dillion Dingler! What. An. Insane. Throw. Wow! 🤯

Kerry Carpenter is a bad bad man! Wow!

All of a sudden I’m hungry for a pocket pancake. 🤔

Strike 3 “swinging.” Are. You. Kidding. Me.

From my Mantel app post earlier: I follow @diannarussini.bsky.social here for NFL news, so I figure other followers of hers may also enjoy this card: All About That Base: 2024 Topps Allen & Ginter Gigantic fan of how Allen & Ginter continues to find innovative ways to highlight women in sports.

MLB managers absurdly overmanage their pitchers in the postseason. Exhibit A from today ⬇️

I’ve never done drugs, but I feel like I’m on crack: Are there only 10 Logofractor cards in these Chrome Logofractor Boxes? For $120? What? Am I misreading the box? 🤷🏻‍♂️

the mythical quadruple appeal caught on video

It blows my mind how many adults my age have zero clue how shipping/mailing works. Like no clue. Waiting at Fedex to ship packages occasionally for work is a totally wild experience in the failure of, what I used to believe were, basic life skills.

Cam Schlittler is the first pitcher in postseason history with 8+ scoreless innings with 12+ strikeouts and no walks

Almost all of the growth in The Hobby over the past few years is predicated on it being a G rated version of acceptable gambling. If this government shutdown persists as long as I imagine it will, The Hobby will borderline collapse. 📉📉📉📉📉 🍿 🍿

104.5 mph!!! MASON MILLER Fastest pitch in postseason under pitch tracking (2008) 4th-fastest strikeout pitch in span in reg or post

It will always be funny to me that @pearljam.com paid homage to Ernie Bank’s iconic “let’s play two” by releasing their live album as *one* CD. I cannot play two. They only have given us one. 😆

This is the first regular season without a no-hitter since there were none in 2005

Courtney Williams and Natisha Hiedeman, Minnesota Lynx, drawn in the style of the 1971-72 Topps basketball set

Cal Raleigh joins elite company with 60 home runs ‼️ With four regular-season games left to play for the Mariners, Raleigh could make a run at the American League’s single-season home run mark (62), set by Aaron Judge in 2022.

RYAN FITZGERALD GOING FULL KEANU REEVES MY GOODNESS

It's the end of an era. Major League Baseball will use the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) during the 2026 season.

A glittery Paul Skenes, based on a card I pulled from a pack of Topps Heritage yesterday…

"Every time he does something, we just laugh, like, of course it was gonna happen.” ICYMI There are many ways to tell the story of a season like Cal Raleigh's. But this was a really fun way to tell it. I asked the other Mariners what they'll remember www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

Cal Raleigh had himself a NIGHT 👏 ◽ HR No. 55 surpassed Mickey Mantle for the most home runs in a single season by a switch-hitter ◽ HR No. 56 tied Ken Griffey Jr. for the Mariners’ single-season franchise record www.nytimes.com/athletic/663...

Garrett Crochet, Unhittable Pitch

Nick Kurtz’s 493-ft grand slam went so far it doesn’t fit on the trajectory image 😂😅

Bryan Woo is the 3rd Mariners pitcher with 13+ strikeouts in a game this season, joining George Kirby & Logan Gilbert That’s tied for the 2nd-most pitchers on a team with at least 1 13-K game in a season in the last 125 seasons 1969 HOU had 4 Last w/3: 2018 CLE & HOU

As a dude in his 40s, I probably am too old for Twenty One Pilots core audience. However, they’re still amazing and speak into the anxieties and realities of being human in 2025, much more so than most 90s alt bands now. Tyler Joseph calls out “It’s a breach.” Yep. It is.

No. 40 for Juan Soto went way outta here! 💪 #LGM

Pitching: 1st pick of the 2023 Draft Batting: 1st pick of the 2022 Draft Catching: 1st pick of the 2021 Draft

Juan Soto has eclipsed 30HR and 30SB for @mets.com. He’s now in the 30/30 club. This is very cool. Yet I don’t see anyone talking about it. Is it not impressive anymore? Did I not get the memo? 🤔

Shohei Ohtani has won MVP 3 of the past 4 seasons. I wonder how that influences baseball writers voting this year? 🤔 I think it’s boring for the same player to win MVP almost every year. I hope Schwarber finishes strong and wins MVP. He definitely has a strong case.

Happy birthday, Joey Votto!

Cubs pulling Cade Horton after 5 *no hit* innings is beyond ridiculous. Only 75 pitches too.

For the first time in four years, MLB is returning to Iowa. The Phillies and Twins will play an August 2026 regular-season game in a revival of the league’s Field of Dreams game, sources tell @mattgelb.bsky.social and @danhayesmlb.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/athletic/657...

Everyone in and around baseball knows that extreme velocity is correlated with elbow injury. But it’s also necessary to get noticed. So how are young pitchers and their parents navigating the pressure to chase speed while navigating known risks? For @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/p...

I feel like I am the only Cubs fan who isn’t a fan of “Go Cubs Go.” We already do the fun tradition of “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” during the 7th inning stretch. I just don’t need a jingle to celebrate a win. But, I know most Cubs fans love it.

If the thief who stole the mojo from Seiya Suzuki, Kyle Tucker and PCA could just kindly return it now, that’d be appreciated.

Bryan Woo has now gone 6 or more innings and allowed 2 or fewer walks in all 24 starts this season That’s the 2nd-longest streak of 6+ IP starts with 2 or fewer walks to start a season since the mound was moved to its current distance (1893), behind: 1905 Cy Young: 30 @EliasSports

RBI 100 for Pete 💪

Target is actually enforcing their 2 item limit for card purchases? I went there wanting three fat packs of my nemesis - 2025 Topps Series 2 - for my set that never makes any progress. After scanning two packs it wouldn’t allow me to scan any more. So I didn’t. Woah. 🤯

👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻’Bout time.

Paul Skenes: 23 starts last year with a 1.96 ERA 24 starts this year with a 1.94 ERA We've never seen anyone like him.

I would love to know the scientific reason MLB starting pitchers cannot throw over 100 pitches anymore. Why is 100 the magic pitch count number? 🤔

KERRY CARPENTER 437 FEET AND BAT DROP

The MLB trade deadline is so ridiculous. Payroll dumping doesn’t get talked about enough.

Some beautiful soul has left a scorecard from the Sandberg Game at Ryno's statue 🥹

What Luis Ortiz, Emmanuel Clase and “pitch fixing” will mean for the baseball-watching experience. From me today at The Bandwagon. bandwagon.substack.com/p/52-pitch-f...