JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — When catcher Brad Ausmus was selected by the New York Yankees in the 48th round of the 1987 amateur draft, a long MLB career didn’t seem probable. So much for predictions. Though the Cheshire, Conn., native didn’t reach the big leagues until 1993, he ended up staying 18 seasons, long enough…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here is your Player of the Day for Saturday (10/3/2010): LF Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers hit a double, drew a walk, and scored a run in a 7-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Braun’s double was his 45th, tying him for 2nd most in the N.L. The 2010 All-Star…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Thursday (10/1/2010). LF Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers hit an RBI single, drew a walk, and scored his 100th run of the season in a 9-2 win over the New York Mets. Braun is batting .306 and leads all MLB Jews with…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Wednesday (9/29/2010). It was Jew vs. Jew in a double-header between the Milwaukee Brewers and the New York Mets. Here’s how the match-up went: LF Ryan Braun carried the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-1 win in Game 2 with a two-run double, his…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — SS Jake Lemmerman, the top Jewish pick in the 2010 amateur draft, has been named MVP of the Rookie Pioneer League. The 21-year-old recruit from Duke University hit .363 with 12 HRs and 47 RBIs for the Ogden Raptors (Los Angeles Dodgers). In 259 at-bats, Lemmerman led the Pioneer league in…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Tuesday (9/28/2010): SP Jason Marquis of the Washington Nationals pitched well in his final start of the 2010 season, tossing 6 innings of one-run ball in a 2-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. The Manhasset, N.Y., native scattered 7 hits and one walk…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Baseball, as we all know, is a stats-obsessed sport. Some fans are more interested in a player’s career HR total or on-base percentage than in his personal journey to the Majors. That’s one of the nice things about Matzoh Balls and Baseballs, a book recently published by longtime Georgia State University…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Rookie 3B Danny Valencia of the Minnesota Twins seems to have taken a detour. Over the past 10 games, a period that saw his batting average drop from .338 to .318, the 25-year-old Florida native hit just .225 and had as many strikeouts as he did hits. But this wasn’t your…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS –Three cheers for Oakland A’s RP Craig Breslow, whose efforts to raise funding for pediatric cancer research have earned him a nomination for the 2010 Roberto Clemente Award. It’s an honor simply to have one’s name uttered in the same sentence as Clemente, the Pittsburgh Pirate great who died in 1972 when…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Sunday (9/26/2010): Rookie 1B Ike Davis of the New York Mets went 1/3, drew 2 walks, and scored once in a 7-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Davis is 1st among N.L. rookies in strikeouts (133); 2nd in doubles (32), walks (67) and…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Saturday (9/25/2010): 2B Ian Kinsler of the Texas Rangers reached base 3 times and stole his 14th base of the season in a 4-3, playoff-clinching win over the Oakland A’s. The 28-year-old singled, doubled and walked. 3B Danny Valencia of the Minnesota Twins…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Friday (9/24/2010): Rookie 1B Ike Davis of the New York Mets went 3/4 and scored once in a 3-2 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. A 9th-inning double was his 32nd two-bagger of the season, second-highest among N.L. rookies. Davis is tied for 3rd…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Wednesday (9/22/2010): In his first game since a disastrous appearance on Yom Kippur, SP Jason Marquis of the Washington Nationals gave up 2 earned runs on 7 hits in a 4-3 loss to the Houston Astros. He held Houston to one run over…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Tuesday (9/21/2010): 3B Danny Valencia of the Minnesota Twins went 2/4 with an RBI single in a 6-4 win over the Cleveland Indians, guaranteeing the Twins their 6th A.L. Central title in the past 9 years. Though he wasn’t called up from the…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS –At 8:05pm ET tonight (9/21/2010), the “AAA” Tacoma Rainiers (Seattle Mariners) will face off against the “AAA” Columbus Clippers (Cleveland Indians) in a one-game, winner-takes-all national title game on the Versus Network. It’s not just the final game of the 2010 minor-league season. It’s also your opportunity to see Clippers 2B Jason…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Monday (9/20/2010): 3B Danny Valencia of the Minnesota Twins continued his recent power display, going 1/4 with a solo HR in a 9-3 win over the Cleveland Indians. The 25-year-old rookie has just 5 HRs this season but has hit 3 in his…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Here are your Players of the Day for Sunday (9/19/2010): In his first major-league start since 10/4/2009, CF Sam Fuld went 2/6 with an RBI double and a single to help the Chicago Cubs defeat the Florida Marlins, 13-3. As Jewish Baseball News reader Jessica R. points out, Fuld may get…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — A number of Jewish ballplayers went to work on Saturday (9/18/2010), Yom Kippur. Two of them made the best of a difficult situation: 3B Danny Valencia of the Minnesota Twins continued his phenomenal rookie season, going 2/4 with a three-run HR in a 4-2 win over the Oakland A’s. Valencia, who…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — A number of Jews played baseball on Friday (9/17/2010), the eve of Yom Kippur. And while some played as if they were being punished, others performed quite well: SP Jason Marquis of the Washington Nationals may wish he hadn’t agreed to pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies. He failed to complete the…
JEWISH BASEBALL NEWS — Every year around this time, Jewish sports fans take out their yardsticks and measure the Jewishness of their favorite players with one simple question: Are you going to play ball on Yom Kippur? This year is no different. The newswires were abuzz this weekend with a report that Washington Nationals SP…
