The Tampa Bay Rays are the hottest team in baseball as they’re off to a 10-0 start and are just demolishing teams. Their 10th win in a 1-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox was the first game they won by less than 4 runs.

That’s how you lose a baseball game.

The Rocket City Trash Pandas took the field in the top of the 7th 3 outs away from completing a 3-0 no hit victory in game 1 of a 7-inning double header. They would walk the first two batters before getting a pop out, walk, strike out to load the bases with 2 outs. The rails would then fall off as the next 7 batters would reach on a walk, error, HBP, HBP, HBP, walk, HBP to put the Trash Pandas down 7-3. They’d put up 2 in the bottom of the inning to lose 7-5 while throwing a no hitter.

Speaking of losing baseball games despite great efforts…

The Angels managed to lose a game 4-3 to the Blue Jays where Mike Trout went 1-4 with 2 RBIs and scored a run and Shohei Ohtani went 2-4 behind him. The rest of the Angels lineup went a combined 0-26.

The Angels sit 5-4 despited two of the best players in baseball.

Fun fact: the Rocket City Trash Pandas are the Double AA affiliate of the Angels. An organization that knows how to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Trout did one-hop a bomb off truck in the outfield the next night though.

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The Pirates and White Sox gave us one of the first bench clearings of 2023 after the Oneil Cruz fractured his ankle on an awkward slide into home plate.

The NBA play-in games for the NBA postseason start tonight and the Minnesota Timberwolves fought each other and a wall on their way to a matchup with the Lakers in LA tonight.

The Emory Eagles opened game 1 of a doubleheader with the Brandies Judges by dropping 31 runs. The followed it up by dropping 31 again in the second game.

Time Wasters

If you haven’t checked it out give MLB Pickle a shot. It’s basically Wordle for MLB players.

Then challenge yourself to the first ever View From The Pine Trivia challenge. 4 questions to test your knowledge on the 2023 MLB season.