By Ron Kaplan, contributor Every year I tell myself I’m really going to study up on my baseball. I get all the magazines, more out of habit than anything else since the information is somewhat repetitive between them and often outdated by the time the season starts. One year, when I was on jury duty,…
By Scott Barancik, editor When Major League teams begin playing Spring Training games tomorrow (2/21/2019), at least 15 Jewish players will be among them. Some are familiar names, including 3B Alex Bregman (Astros), CF Kevin Pillar (Blue Jays) and 2B Ian Kinsler (Padres), who signed a two-year deal with San Diego during the offseason. Three…
By Scott Barancik, editor What’s new in the world of Jewish baseball? Here are some items recently posted to our Facebook and Twitter pages. Houston Astros 3B Alex Bregman underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow to remove loose bodies. The 2018 All-Star Game MVP expects to be ready by the start of the regular…
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By Ron Kaplan, contributor Ian Kinsler’s two-out RBI single in the second inning put the Boston Red Sox on the board first en route to a 4-2 win over the visiting LA Dodgers on Wednesday night, giving them a 2-0 lead in the Fall Classic. Things didn’t go quite as well when Kinsler then tried…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Unless you’re a Red Sox fan, this one was pretty ho-hum. Boston beat the visiting LA Dodgers, 8-4. Neither of our boys were involved in the highlights. Ian Kinsler started for the home team and went 0-for-4. Click here for an interview he did about Boston’s drive to the World Series. Joc…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Congrats to Joc Pederson and the LA Dodgers. By beating the host Milwaukee Brewers, 5-1, on Saturday, they return to the Fall Classic, where they will take on Ian Kinsler and the Boston Red Sox beginning Tuesday night at famed Fenway Park. Pederson started in left field but came out for a pinch…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Congrats to the Boston Reds Sox. Their 4-1 win over the host Houston Astros on Saturday put them back into the World Series. Ian Kinsler was 2-for-4 as the starting second baseman, including a double and a run scored. Alex Bregman, once again at the top of the Astros’ lineup, was…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor It took a circus catch by Andrew Benintendi on Wednesday to prevent Alex Bregman — who has “buckets of natural talent” — from being a hero once again for the Houston Astros. The home team had the bases loaded with two outs in the ninth and were trailing the visiting Boston…
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By Ron Kaplan, contributor As the saying goes, Ryan Braun drove in the only run the Milwaukee Brewers would need in their 4-0 win over Joc Pederson and the host LA Dodgers last night. Braun hammered a one-out RBI double down the left field line in the opening frame. He could have had an eighth-inning single following…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Can it be more even? The American League and National League championship series both are tied at a game apiece as of this writing. Houston Astros vs. Boston Red Sox Game 1, Astros 7, @ Red Sox 2: Alex Bregman was 0-for-1 but reached base four times: three walks and an HBP….
By Ron Kaplan, contributor I’m guessing this is a first: each of the four teams going into the League Championship Series have an MOT on the roster. On Tuesday, the Boston Red Sox held off the host NY Yankees, 4-3, to move on to the ALCS. Ian Kinsler started at second base and gave the…
By Sam Brief, correspondent Some observers scoffed when Team Israel competed in the 2017 World Baseball Classic, noting that all but a handful of its players were American citizens. Now, Israel’s baseball dreams are about to get a bit more authentic. This fall, 10 Jewish-American ballplayers will acquire Israeli passports, making them dual American-Israeli citizens…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Congrats to Alex Bregman and the defending World Champion Houston Astros, who move on to the A.L. Championship Series following their three-game sweep of the Cleveland Indians. Bregman continued his excellent season by going 5-for-9 with home runs in the first two games. He also had a double, four walks and four…
By Scott Barancik, Editor Nearly 148 seasons after Lip Pike hit the first Jewish home run, a new milestone was set last night. Ryan Braun’s 428-foot, 1st-inning bomb tied the record established in 2016, when six Jewish players combined for a total of 115 home runs. Later Friday evening, rookie Rowdy Tellez’s 396-foot moonshot set…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor More home runs. Ryan Braun clouted a pair – a solo shot in the top of the first (#17) and a two-run bomb in the eighth (#18) — to help the Milwaukee Brewers (91-67) to a 12-4 win over the host St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday. Braun is hot lately, going 5-for-13…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor Alex Bregman stroked his 51st double of the year Tuesday, driving in one run, as the Houston Astros (99-57) beat the host Toronto Blue Jays, 5-3. Kevin Pillar had a win-some, lose-some game. He hit his 15th homer, a two-run, two-out job to put his team (71-86) on the board in the fourth,…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor The Legend of Rowdy Tellez just keeps growing. On Saturday, he went 3-for-4 with his ninth double and third home run, driving in three runs in a 5-2 win by the Toronto Blue Jays (71-85, fourth in the AL East) over the visiting Tampa Bay Rays. Tellez was 1-for-8 in the other…
By Ron Kaplan, contributor The Boston Red Sox (104-49) clinched — finally — the AL East in style, scoring three runs in each the seventh and eighth innings on Thursday to beat the host NY Yankees, 11-6. Ian Kinsler sat this one out, but in a piece from the NBCSports.com, he’s compared favorably with Mark Bellhorn and Dustin…
