san diego padres

A very late rally with two outs in the ninth fizzled and the Mets came up short in the rubber match of a three-game series with the Padres on Wednesday, losing 7-3 and dropping two of three in the first leg of their seven-game west coast road trip.

One of Major League Baseball's greatest hitters has died.

I started collecting baseball cards as a boy and kept getting a card by this Mark Lemke guy whenever I eagerly opened pack after pack of '89 Donruss... Little did I know at the time that he was a hometown boy and it figures that I caught him at the end of his career already, but here's the skinny on this Utica native!