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Tag: Red Sox

Baseball journey … hint, it ends well

February 9, 2020 GavGavinGavlaar Baseball, Guest writer

It’s summer 1978 in monochrome, impoverished North East England; a time of power cuts, incessant industrial action and an England football team that had failed to make the World Cup in Argentina. Fast-forward a couple of months, and I’m living

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No Mookie, no Price, but at least Guns and Roses are playing

February 7, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

Nobody wants to see me recreate the famous Spider Jerusalem column. Still, as I see it, Mookie Betts and David Price have escaped, fled to Los Angeles in a trade that doesn’t seem any more likely to yield a quality

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State of the Red Sox

January 31, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

It’s tough to know exactly what the Boston Red Sox are playing at, and what sort of discipline this team will face for the signal-stealing that led them to part ways with Alex Cora. We do see a lot of

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Three possible mystery teams in the Harper stakes

January 20, 2019 GavGavinGavlaar MLB UK, Opinion

News will break shortly that the largest ever MLB free agent contract has been agreed. Will Bryce Harper sign it with one of the frontrunners or is there a mystery team? The favourites to land the superstar are the “spending

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ARod Declares MLB London Ticket Rush Officially ‘Open’ (Soon)

November 19, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK

MLB Legend and Former Yankee Alex ‘BaeRod’ Rodriguez was in London today for the news we’ve all been waiting for – an announcement of the opening of ticket sales for next year’s MLB London Series, heretofore and forever known as

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On a Picture of Nathan Eovaldi, Sat October 27 2018, 12.23am

November 3, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball

Since Sunday gone, a great number of words have been spared for Nathan Eovaldi and his Herculean feats in the 2018 World Series. He was, it’s been said, the inspiration for his Boston Red Sox team’s come from behind Game

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First Pitch times for the London Series 2019 leaked?

September 20, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, MLB UK

It looks like we may have a start time for the MLB London Series 2019. Eagle eyed twitter follower Andy Hart sent us this tweet. @batflips_nerds look like they will be afternoon games. pic.twitter.com/qcOd4x6gxh — Andy Hart (@AJHart__) September 20,

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2019 MLB Schedule Answers London Series Questions

August 22, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball, London Series, MLB UK

Since the news that MLB was scheduling a marquee series between the Yankees and Red Sox at the London Stadium on 29-30 June 2019 a couple of key questions have circled. How will the league compensate teams for the travel

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Why the MLB London Series matters

June 29, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, GB Baseball, London Series

Regular readers of this site over the last couple of years will have seen plenty of coverage of the MLB’s attempts to carve a small foothold in the consciousness of the British public. From initial fan engagement events, through to

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On Pride Night…

June 20, 2018 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Opinion

With his final dispatch from his Stateside trip, John’s back… The line in the box score doesn’t do justice to Jalen Beeks‘ Red Sox debut. The zeroes and ones show he lasted four innings and gave up six earned runs

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