Nine years ago, baseball’s best pitcher was a 37-year-old throwing 75-mile per hour knuckleballs. Today, as he watches Jacob deGrom rain fire over the league with a totally different pitching style, R ...
The 37-year-old New York Met makes his All-Star Game debut on Tuesday, and it's been a long, strange trip. Abused as a child, missing a crucial... Pitcher R.A. Dickey's Tale Is As Wild As A ...
The meandering flight of that unpredictable pitch has confounded many catchers and now that puzzle belongs to Josh Thole and Mike Nickeas of the New York Mets, who share the job of catching Dickey, ...
"I represent the very last one. I'm the only one in the Major Leagues. And it's kinda lonely." The pitch is not fast like the 90+ mph balls being thrown in the Majors. The speed is usually 65 to 80 ...
BOSTON (AP) It was beginning to look familiar when Toronto's R.A. Dickey took a no-hitter into the sixth inning against the Boston Red Sox - the best-hitting team in baseball. After all, the Blue Jays ...
He is merely pitching like one. Twelve days after Johan Santana fired the first no-hitter in franchise history, Dickey delivered an arguably more dominant performance, striking out a career-high 12 ...