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Chase Utley won’t serve any further time for his leg-breaking takeout slide of Ruben Tejada during 2015’s postseason, according to a report. According to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times, Utley won’t be forced to serve the …
Chase Utley may be spending more time in Los Angeles. FOX MLB insider Ken Rosenthal reports that Utley is close to re-signing with the Dodgers. The Dodgers traded for the soon-to-be 37-year-old in August and had him on their playoff roster. He …
Major League Baseball is making progress on a new rule that would be aimed at making slide plays into second base safer for fielders. During his press conference to wrap up the quarterly owners’ meetings on Thursday, MLB commissioner Rob …
Here’s something that will shock you: Chase Utley was booed during introductions before Game 3 of the NLDS against the Mets in New York. Utley is easily the most hated enemy of Mets fans after his slide/tackle of Ruben Tejada during Game 2 …
During Game 2 of the National League Division Series between the Dodgers and Mets, Chase Utley slid into second base, taking out shortsop Ruben Tejada in the process. The result of the play was a fractured right fibula for Tejada. Utley reached out …
There is little doubt that Ruben Tejada got the worst end of his collision with Chase Utley during Game 2 of the NLDS between the Dodgers and Mets on Saturday. Now it appears that Utley avoided serious injury. The LA Times’ Dylan Hernandez …
Chase Utley reached out to apologize to Ruben Tejada after Utley’s slide broke Tejada’s leg in Saturday’s National League Division Series game. According to a series of tweets from Fox Sports’s Ken Rosenthal, Utley reached out …
Chase Utley put himself squarely in the middle of the NLDS rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets with a controversial takeout slide on Saturday night that injured Ruben Tejada. The Dodgers had runners on the corners down 2-1 to …
Philadelphia sports fans are notorious for their harsh behavior. They boo their own players, they boo opposing players, they hassle family members, and they’ll even boo Santa Claus if they feel up to it. But one thing that makes the booing …
Roy Halladay has better control than most starting pitchers in baseball, but at least one pitch got away from him during Wednesday’s spring training game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Nationals. Or did it? Stephen Strasburg …
In the same inning that the Phillies busted open Game 2 of the NLDS thanks to a critical error by Jay Bruce, they were also the recipients of a few other nice breaks. Second baseman Chase Utley led off the 7th against flamethrower Aroldis Chapman. …
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And when you’re in a slump like Chase Utley, you’ll do anything to break out of it. Though Greg Dobbs and Brad Lidge were vague answering questions about the display inside the Phillies’ …
For anyone who heard Chase Utley drop an f-bomb on the baseball fans that booed him in the All-Star game at Yankee Stadium, the speech he delivered Friday in Philadelphia would not be surprising. For those who did miss that window into his …
Classic moment at the Home Run Derby introductions tonight. Chase Utley was the second player introduced by ESPN’s Chris Berman. I couldn’t really hear the crowd noise too clearly, but they must have been booing because it produced a …
I always thought guys at the Major League level make it to that point and stay there because they work hard. Sometimes I even chuckle at TV and magazine fluff pieces that try to convince you how hard team A or player B works; they all work hard, …
Yeah I know, I almost fell over in my chair after hearing none other than Joe Morgan utter those very words on Sunday. Morgan — the same guy who is so egotistical he placed himself in the middle of history to brag about something he never did …
