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A.J. Burnett tosses gem, Pittsburgh Pirates fall in extra innings

A.J. Burnett (Photo Credit: Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images North America)

Pittsburgh Pirates’ starting pitcher A.J. Burnett pitched a gem, but it was St. Louis Cardinals’ first baseman Matt Adams’ 10th-inning walk-off run batted in single that was the story of the night.

Adams’ two-out RBI single off Pirates’ reliever Rob Scahillgave the Cardinals a 2-1 win over Pittsburgh on Friday in the season’s…

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Kansas City Royals’ Mike Moustakas looks to keep the momentum from a much improved April

After a dismal April in the 2014 season, Kansas City Royals’ third baseman Mike Moustakas has grown by leaps in bounds.

Today, Moustakas was named Royals player of the month for April, his first monthly award since debuting with Kansas City in June of 2011.

Moustakas’ 19 runs scored and 11 multi-hit games are second in the American League.  This time last season, Moustakas recorded just 7 runs…

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Series Preview: May 1-3 Pittsburgh Pirates at St. Louis Cardinals

Series Preview: April 24-26 Pittsburgh Pirates at Arizona Diamondbacks

Andrew McCutchen #22 of the Pittsburgh Pirates (Photo Credit: Dilip Vishwanat/Getty Images North America)

The Pittsburgh Pirates and the St. Louis Cardinals duked it out last season for the National League Central and this season appears to be more of the same.

The Cardinals head in to the weekend with a 3.5 game lead for first over Pittsburgh.

The Pirates (12-10) are coming off a series loss to…

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Top 20 prospects update: May 1, 2015

Top 20 prospects update: May 1 #MiLB #MLB #baseball

Corey Seager (Source: Hannah Foslien/Getty Images North America)

As we near the end of the first month of the minor league season, players are getting into the swing of the season and there are players who have already changed teams. Today, we are going to look at the top 10 prospects according to Baseball America and see how they have done to start the season with comments for the five of the top…

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Throwback Thursday draft edition: 1985

Throwback Thursday draft edition: 1985

Randy Johnson (Christian Petersen/Getty Images North America)

This year is the 50th anniversary of the first ever MLB draft. To celebrate the milestone number, we here at OutsidePitchMLB will be looking back every Thursday at some of the more historic and interesting drafts that have taken place over the years as a lead up to the 50th MLB draft from June 8-10.

This week, we’ll climb in the time…

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Minor League Baseball top performances: April 28, 2015

Top #MiLB performances from April 28, 2015 #MLB #Baseball

Carlos Correa <Source: Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images North America)

We are nearly four weeks into the MiLB season and players are either settling in with their team or have already moved to a new level to take on a new challenge. Let’s take a look at some notable performances from yesterday’s games. .

A top 10 prospect in the Tampa Bay Rays system, Brent Honeywellbuilt upon his strong 2015 campaign…

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Elctrc_Eye's MLB daily fantasy plays for April 30

Elctrc_Eye’s MLB daily fantasy plays for April 30

Welcome to another edition of daily plays here at OutsidePitchMLB.com. Today’s slate finds two games early and six games late, we will concentrate on the latter.

Pitchers

Chris Sale would seem to be the chalk play today as the Chicago White Sox, who are fresh off playing their historic game in Baltimore yesterday, travel to play the Minnesota Twins. The Twins have climbed out of the cellar where…

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Tampa Bay Rays avoid sweep

Tampa Bay Rays avoid sweep

Pineda (Al Bello/Getty Images North America)

The New York Yankees won 10 out of 12 games coming into the finale of a three-game series against the Tampa Bay Rays. It took 13 innings but the Rays stopped the first-place Yankees.

Scheduled starter Masahiro Tanaka was scratched and placed on the disabled list Tuesday. Michael Pinedawas bumped up in the rotation to take the mound for the Yankees.…

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New York Yankees win fourth straight series, beat Tampa Bay Rays in game two of three-game set 4-2

New York Yankees win fourth straight series, beat Tampa Bay Rays in game two of three-game set 4-2

(Getty Images) Brian McCann, who drove in three of the Yankees’ four runs

The New York Yankees continue their hot streak, winning their fourth straight series after winning the second game of a three-game set against the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2.

The Yankees were led by the top and middle of the order, with Jacoby Ellsbury scoring two of the Yankees four runs and clean-up hitter Brian McCanndriving in…

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The bad, bad Milwaukee Brewers

The bad, bad Milwaukee Brewers

The Cleveland Indians, who were expected to compete this season, have the worst record in the American League with 6 wins and 13 losses. The Tribe is saved from having the worst record in the majors by the 4-17 Milwaukee Brewers, a team already ten games behind first place in the NL Central.

Coming into Tuesday’s game against the Cincinnati Reds, the Brewers had the fewest home runs of any team…

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Masahiro Tanaka put on 15-day DL with tendinitis and forearm strain

Masahiro Tanaka put on 15-day DL with tendinitis and forearm strain

(Getty Images) Masahiro Tanaka will be placed on the 15-day DL and is projected to be out at least a month

The New York Yankees received some bad new today; Masahiro Tanaka will be out for a period of time for the second season in a row.

The 26-year old Tanaka, who missed 10 weeks last season due to a partially torn UCL in his right elbow, had an MRI Tuesday afternoon after complaining of wrist…

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Minor League Baseball top performances: April 27, 2015

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We are nearly four weeks into the MiLB season and players are either settling in with their team or have already moved to a new level to take on a new challenge. Let’s take a look at some notable performances from yesterday’s games.

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The consensus top prospect of the New York Mets Noah Syndergaardhad what was by far his best performance of the year.…

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Kirk Gibson diagnosed with Parkinson's disease

Kirk Gibson diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease

Gibson in 2014 (Christian Petersen/Getty Images North America)

Former player and manager Kirk Gibson has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. According to the Mayo Clinic, Parkinson’s is a “progressive disorder of the nervous system that affects your movement.”

Gibson, 57, managed the Arizona Diamondbacks for parts of five seasons. He was named interim  manager midway through 2010, after…

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Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox to play game on Wednesday afternoon to an empty stadium

Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox to play game on Wednesday afternoon to an empty stadium

(Getty Images) Camden Yards empty, as it will be during Wednesday afternoon’s game

TV viewers will be able to see something very unique on Wednesday afternoon.

As a result of the Baltimore Riots, Tuesday night’s game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Soxwas cancelled, as was Monday night’s.  On Wednesday the two teams will play at 2:05 p.m. EDT to an empty Camden Yards, as the…

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Looking at the often overlooked defensive aspect of Major League Baseball

Looking at the often overlooked defensive aspect of Major League Baseball

Ian Desmond has been one of the reasons why Washington’s defense has been so bad so far this season. He has committed more errors (9) than four entire teams. Rob Carr/Getty Images

One of the aspects of Major League Baseball that is often overlooked when talking about the reasons behind a team’s success or lack thereof is how that team plays defense. There are few stronger correlations between…

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Elctrc_Eye's MLB daily fantasy plays 4-28-2015

Elctrc_Eye’s MLB daily fantasy plays 4-28-2015

I what could only be termed as a tumultuous past 24 hours in Baltimore, the Orioles brass has postponed tonight’s game. There are also two games that start before 7pm, making this a 12 game slate on most sites throughout the industry.

Pitchers

The two odds on favorites at the pitching position tonight are Clayton Kershaw, who pitches at home against the San Francisco Giants and Johnny Cueto, who…

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Jarrod Saltalamacchia's gradual disappearance is now complete

Jarrod Saltalamacchia’s gradual disappearance is now complete

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It now seems like a different lifetime, but in reality it was just 16 months ago. Free agent catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia had just won a World Series championship with the 2013 Boston Red Sox, for whom he was the every day catcher. He posted a career-best .273/.338/.466 slash line in 121 regular season games that season, along with a stellar American League…

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