New York Yankees starter Cam Schlittler will take the mound against the Boston Red Sox in the AL Wild Card Series (AP News photo)
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#1 Can Cam Schlittler and the New York Yankees shut down Alex Bregman and the Boston Red Sox in the AL Wild Card Series?
#2 Can Shohei Ohtani lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to another deep postseason run after their 100-win regular season?
#3 Will Yordan Alvarez and the Houston Astros continue their surprising run after clinching the AL West at 81–81?
#4 Can Bryce Harper and Zack Wheeler help the Philadelphia Phillies advance against Ronald Acuña Jr. and the Atlanta Braves?
#5 Can Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Chicago Cubs overcome Fernando Tatis Jr. and the San Diego Padres in their NL Wild Card Series?
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
Whether you’re pre-gaming with the Kings or celebrating an A’s win, Cyprus Grille at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena is your downtown go-to.
⚡Craft cocktails? Check. 🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah. 🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.
Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.
Cyprus Grille—where fans fuel up.
📍Located inside the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena @ 300 J Street
Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm
Show your ticket for additional discounts when dining in.
photo of San Francisco Giants TV color analyst Mike Krukow, TV play by play announcer Duane Kuiper, unknown fan, Giants mascot Lou Seal (San Francisco Giants photo)
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Atlanta Braves Mike Yastrzemski follows the ball of this three run home run off Houston Astros Bryan King in the sixth inning at Minute Maid Park in Houston on Mon Sep 21, 2026 (AP News photo)
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#1 How did the Atlanta Braves clinch the NL East, and what did Mike Yastrzemski contribute in their 4–2 win over the Astros?
#2 What are the latest health concerns surrounding Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani and Yankees star Aaron Judge as the postseason approaches?
#3 How close are the Tampa Bay Rays to clinching the AL East, and what made their 2026 home record noteworthy?
#4 How significant was Pete Crow-Armstrong’s 45th home run for the Cubs, and what historic combination of power, doubles and stolen bases did he reach?
#5 Why was Justin Verlander’s retirement one of Monday’s major MLB stories, and could other veteran pitchers follow him into retirement?
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
Whether you’re pre-gaming with the Kings or celebrating an A’s win, Cyprus Grille at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena is your downtown go-to.
⚡Craft cocktails? Check. 🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah. 🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.
Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.
Cyprus Grille—where fans fuel up.
📍Located inside the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena @ 300 J Street
Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm
Show your ticket for additional discounts when dining in.
San Francisco Giants CEO Larry Baer can only hope for a better future as poor decisions and a struggling team have hampered the club all 2026 season long (photo from Axios)
Giants 2026 Season Organizational Failure
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By Amaury Pi-González
The San Francisco Giants’ failure this season is an organizational failure. I cannot blame a rookie manager who has never played or managed a single game in the minor leagues or the majors for this failure. The team signed Tony Vitello for three years with an option for a fourth season. Personally, I didn’t like the novice manager hire, like a pilot telling passengers, “Buckle your seat belt; this is my first flight, and I’ve never flown before, so wish me good luck”
But it is silly to blame him; the best Jockey in the world cannot win if his horse is limping. I thought the Giants should have given the skipper’s job to Ron Washington, their current infield coach. He has managed before, unlike Vitello, and has a great reputation in the baseball world. This team’s failure rests with the front office and the people who built it. The front office allocated minimal financial resources to upgrade or heavily retool the back end of the bullpen, which proved to be a liability all season long. Nobody wins without a good bullpen; today, the average starter throws between 5 to 6 innings.
The Giants now have offered to pay it’s fans to come to September games as ticket sales have fallen.
Numbers do not lie: The San Francisco Giants have recorded 22 blown saves out of 48 save opportunities, a 54% save success rate, contributing directly to a large portion of their late-game struggles. The Giants are #11 in total payroll among the 30 teams in Major League Baseball. Teams with much smaller payrolls are fighting for a postseason berth. In fact, the Tampa Bay Rays have the #17 payroll, the Chicago White Sox #29, and the Miami Marlins #30. With about 15 games left for most teams, the Rays lead the American League East, the Chicago White Sox lead the American League Central, and the Miami Marlins are in third place behind two powerhouses: the Atlanta Braves and the Philadelphia Phillies. I would not be surprised if the Marlins make it as a wild card team. The Marlins won two World Series (1997 and 2003) as a Wild Card.
If money won you anything in baseball, the Mets today should have close to 100 wins, but look at the standings, living around the cellar of the NL East with a Payroll the size of the Pentagon. The Dodgers are also in that group, and with all that talent and bankroll behind them, yes, they are in first place, but teams like Milwaukee and the Cubs, with half those riches, are there contending with a real shot at a World Series. Dodgers Shohei Ohtani’s injuries are hurting the World Champs, but he was back in the lineup on September 7th; he probably will not pitch anymore this season.
.I am old enough to remember how important Major League scouts were to the game, but today front offices are all about Analytics; soon, if not already, AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be running baseball. Why not? They are already running everything else, and Data Centers are on the way. WAR in baseball stands for Wins Above Replacement, an advanced statistic that estimates the total number of wins a player contributes to their team compared to a minor-league replacement player or a free-agent fill-in. About Artificial Intelligence: Former Anthropic and OpenAI researcher Jacob Coxon stated that AI could kill all of humanity by the end of this decade, so by then we will not need a bullpen.
The San Francisco Giants have about a dozen games left this year, and then, like they say in New York, “fuhgeddaboudit”
Jorge Posada, former catcher for the New York Yankees, criticized the modern game as “garbage” and too analytical, arguing that the heavy reliance on numbers has made the sport overly robotic.
The Giants now have offered to pay it’s fans to come to September games as ticket sales have fallen. For any season ticket holder that attended the last series against the St Louis Cardinials they will be offered a credit “equal to 15% of that ticket’s value.” Including a five percent credit as season ticket holders got in the three game series with the Cards which works out to 20%.
Quote: “Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer: –Ted Williams.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
While in the Bay Area, great food and great prices. 998cuba.com
Windows of the World Restaurant in the World Trade Center New York City as it looked well before 911. (photos from Reddit)
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From My Notebook” September 11, 2001 – An incredible day in America and Baseball
By Amaury Pi-González
This September 11, we remember a unique event in world history; it has been 25 years since it took place, and nobody, especially in the United States, can forget it. Unlike the surprise1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, which was on a U.S.Navy base and precipitated WWII, 9-11 was an attack on civilians thousands of people working in offices, thousands died.
In baseball, the entire schedule of 15 games was postponed following the terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, D.C.and Pennsylvania. For most people in the United States, this day is engraved in their memory forever. I was getting ready at home to broadcast the San Francisco Giants baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Pac Bell Park ( today Oracle Park) more on that below.
The suspension was later extended to a six-day shutdown. Many thought there would be more attacks; those were terrifying days for this country and for the whole world, as some commentators even called it the beginning of WW III.
My Personal connection to WTC: The epicenter of the attack was the Wall Street section of New York City. I was honorably discharged from the US Army. and living in New York, working at Scheinman, Hochstin & Trotta, a stock brokerage firm on lower Broadway, doing clerical work for the OTC (Over-the-Counter) stocks department. I was good with numbers.
This was within walking distance of the Twin Towers. I saw the second tower under construction by Cortland Street; it was in 1969, as I remember, about a year before the building was completed. On many occasions, I walked right in front of that under-construction area with my friends from the office, going to lunch in that very busy part of Lower Manhattan.
I remember I used to stop to look through the little windows in the wooden fence, and there was a lot of water at the bottom that they were draining, which was normal since it was so close to the Hudson River. My niece was living in NYC working and going to school. On that morning she saw one of the buildings collapse from her apartment and later she found out some friends of her had perished on that day.
Her parents visited NYC that Thanksgiving and were taken by the amount of memorials, the dust and the damage that existed. A few years before the attack, In 1998 yours truly and Jaime Jarrin were broadcasting the World Series between the Yankees and the Mets for LBC (Latino Broadcast Network/Caracol) after a game Jarrín asked me, (since I used to live in NY and knew the area) if we could go to the restaurant at the top of the World Trade Center, the famous “Windows on the World” but as we arrived at the lobby at street level, they told us it was closed because it was very foggy and there was no visibility; so never experienced Windows on the World, and never will, because those buildings are gone.
Now as I remember that as an irony, “closed because it was very foggy and no visibility”, when the day of the terrorist attack all reports pointed to a clear sunny day in the island of Manhattan. Back to September 11, 2001,at my house in Fremont, California, my wife Gail and I watched in horror on television what happened as the buildings totally collapsed after the planes had flown into the WTC.
Gail was getting ready to leave for work. We watched people jumping to their deaths. I cried and we both couldn’t believe what we were seeing. I am sure you experienced the same effect if you are old enough to remember that event a quarter of a century ago.
For me, born in Cuba and living as a young kid during the Cuban Missile Crisis, at the edge of a nuclear apocalypse, the 911 attacks brought me very bad memories of those years.A nightmare.
2001 was a memorable and unforgettable year. Broadcasting the Giants at a Baseball Park just one year old. The Manager was Dusty Baker, and the team ended with a 90-72 record, good for second place.
Quote: “The New York in your hats represents more than just the Yankees. It represents the city of New York.” Joe Torre, NY Yankees Manager.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
While in the Bay Area, great food and great prices. 998cuba.com
New York Yankees Aaron Judge will return to action Tuesday night after suffering a rib injury and going on the IL on May 31, 2026. (AP News photo)
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#1 New York Yankees Aaron Judge a three time MVP will return after being on the injured list since May 31st from a rib injury. Judge 34, made a diving catch in late April and played hurt but had to be taken out of the line up makes his first return Tuesday night.
#2 Los Angeles Dodgers two way player Shohei Ohtani after missing four days returned to the line up on Monday night after suffering from neck and arm injuries. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says that Ohtani is not day to day but will take a look how he comes out of Monday night’s game against the Cincinnati Reds. Ohtani was the DH and walked once in three plate appearances.
#3 Milwaukee Brewers rookie outifelder Luis Lara has made a number of defensive plays in the last two months since arriving in the show. Lara 5 foot 7 made a leaping catch on Chicago Cubs Pedro Ramirez’s line drive that would have cleared the center-right field fence.
#4 Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jesus Luzardo who never pitched a ninth inning of his first 149 starts got the job done throwing a 1-0 shutout. Luzardo struck out 12 batters and allowed two hits. Blanking the Atlanta Braves. You got to work with Luzardo during his Oakland A’s days and he never really got to pitch in the late innings due to the pitch count but there he was Monday night putting away the Braves.
#5 Amaury, Talk about Peter Crow Armstrong he’s been getting around on the baseball hitting his 41st home run putting him second in home runs behind the Philadelphia Phillies Kyle Schwarber who leads the Majors with 43.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
Whether you’re pre-gaming with the Kings or celebrating an A’s win, Cyprus Grille at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena is your downtown go-to.
⚡Craft cocktails? Check. 🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah. 🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.
Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.
Cyprus Grille—where fans fuel up.
📍Located inside the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena @ 300 J Street
Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm
Show your ticket for additional discounts when dining in.
Spring Training 2027 in either Florida or Arizona could be on the bubble as MLB and the Players Assocation are far apart regarding the salary cap (image from MLB)
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MLB 2027 Spring Training schedule. -Optimistic or Ironic?
Amaury Pi-González
This is the time of the year when teams release their Spring Training schedules for the next season. But this time, we all know the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) between players and owners is set to expire on Tuesday, December 1 at 11:59 p.m. EST. One thing Insiders on both sides agree is that they believe the owners will impose a lockout by this deadline.
There is precedent from the labor dispute leading up to the 2022 season: the owners’ lockout freezes the off-season, and players do not strike; they are not permitted to work until an agreement is reached. In other words, the 2026 season will end (as it should) after the World Series, but (as explained before) that December 1 day is the key as of today to which way baseball is headed. Many analysts and fans expect an owners’ lockout this winter that could delay or disrupt spring training, much like the lockout did just a few years ago in 2022.
A delay or disruption to spring training next year would not be good. Baseball spring training in Arizona’s Cactus League generates an economic impact of nearly $ 1 billion for the state. In Florida, the economic impact is almost the same.
For many years I have visited Spring Training, mostly in Arizona. For most fans, as well as the baseball media, it is a regular yearly event (to visit and see their favorite teams getting ready for the season, where media can get access to the players much more easily than during the regular season, not only media but fans with mostly a relaxed, vacation feel; wherever is in the desert or by the beach, nevertheless it is work as most teams broadcast some of their games from Arizona and Florida, this is an integral part of baseball, a very difficult game of repetition and practice, where Spring Training is paramount during the preseason.
It would be unfortunate for baseball if this Spring Training is disrupted, as most teams have already released their schedules. So for us, with no decision to make on this salary cap fight between players and owners, let’s hope for the best outcome for the best of the game; after all, this is not 1856 when baseball was called “The National Pastime, today, with social media and all other things going on,it is like we are living in another galaxy.
My favorite Spring Training quote (below) comes from a gentleman who played his whole 19-year career with the Chicago Cubs, as he is known as “Mr Cub“. Inducted into the HOF at Cooperstown in 1977.
Quote:”Spring training means flowers, people coming outdoors, sunshine, optimism, and baseball. Spring training is a time to think about being young again. -Ernie (Let’s Play Two) Banks.
Happy Labor Day weekend, and may your team win.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
Whether you’re pre-gaming with the Kings or celebrating an A’s win, Cyprus Grille at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena is your downtown go-to.
⚡Craft cocktails? Check. 🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah. 🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.
Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.
Cyprus Grille—where fans fuel up.
📍Located inside the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena @ 300 J Street
Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm
Show your ticket for additional discounts when dining in.
Former Los Angeles Angels broadcasters Jose Mota (left), Amaury Pi Gonzalez (center), and Manny Mota (right) during a Angels telecast. The author Amaury called the play by play for Angels baseball. (photo from Amaury Pi Gonzalez)
By Amaury Pi Gonzalez
Arutaro Moreno, owner of the LA Angels, sold the team to Stan Kroenke’s. Huge sports and Entertainment conglomerate for a record $4 billion. Previous record: the San Diego Padres for $3.9 billion. Mr Kroenke also owns the NFL Los Angeles Rams and, now with the LA Angels, is a big player in the Southern California sports world.
Worth mentioning that Moreno is a very smart businessman and billboard tycoon, and he sold just in time before his fellow owner locked the players out in a few months. The sale is pending approval from MLB owners. Arturo (Arte) Moreno wanted to sell the team a few years ago, but changed his mind.
This time, he had no problem with the KSI offer and sold the team, which he had previously renamed the Los Angeles Angels. Los Angeles is the second-largest television and radio broadcasting market in the United States, right behind New York.
The Los Angeles Angels are currently in the cellar of the American League West Division. Mr. Arturo Moreno, who also speaks Spanish, became a billboard salesman in 1973, just years before leaving the U.S. military. When I broadcast Angels TV in Spanish for Fox Sports Net in Los Angeles, he was always gracious enough to drop by our broadcast booth to say hello, usually before each game.
His booth was to our right and, to this day, is named the Jackie Autry (widow of the once owner) luxury box, famous owner and husband Gene Autry, the Singing Cowboy who owned the Angels. Autry bought the expansion team in 1960 before they began playing in 1961, and he sold majority control to The Walt Disney Company during the 1990s, retaining a stake through 1997.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
Whether you’re pre-gaming with the Kings or celebrating an A’s win, Cyprus Grille at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena is your downtown go-to.
⚡Craft cocktails? Check. 🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah. 🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.
Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.
Cyprus Grille—where fans fuel up.
📍Located inside the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena @ 300 J Street
Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm
Show your ticket for additional discounts when dining in.
New Los Angeles Angels owner Stan Kroenke will tak over ownership in early 2027 as outgoing Angels owner Arte Moreno announced the team has been sold on Tue Sep 1, 2027 in Anaheim (AP News photo)
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#1 Long time Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno sold the Angels to Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke in a transaction that is expected to close in early 2027 for $4 billion the announcement of the sale took everyone by surprise.
#2 Amaury you covered the Angels for many years doing their television broadcast seeing what the Angels have become of late and a mostly last place team over the last couple years did you see as time for Moreno to make that move and sell the team?
#3 Amaury talk about the dead period in baseball between the end of the World Series and Dec 5th when the MLB Collective Bargaining Agreement expires. The owners say their going to get a salary cap one way or the other.
#4 Free agency will be allowed before Dec 21st. Winter meetings start Dec 21st and close later that day so it’s a short 24 window for free agency.
#5 Here’s where the rubber hits the road during a lockout there will be no free agent signing between Dec 21 and the beginning of Feb. In otherwords no free agent signings and no trades will be allowed.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
While in the Bay Area, great food and great prices. 998cuba.com
Former Chicago Cub outfieler Moises Alou seen here trying to make a catch but fan Steve Bartman made contact with the ball first during game 6 of the NLCS playoffs on Oct 14, 2003 at Wrigley Field. Alou said one of his superstitions before games was to pee in his hands to help build calluses to get a better grip on the bat. (photo from ChicagoTribune)
Baseball Superstitions are how you spell Relief
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By Amaury Pi-González
In a game where the overwhelming majority of players fail to accomplish what they set their minds to, there is some kind of “relief” for the mind. That relief comes in the form of Superstitions. A .333 average means the player gets a hit roughly once every 3 at-bats. Legendary Hall of Fame players like Eddie Collins and Paul Wagner played in the Major Leagues for decades, both hit for a lifetime .333 average, and failed most of the time at the plate.
Superstitions aren’t limited to hitters or pitchers, but since the mind game is mostly between the two (the interaction is always with the pitcher throwing the ball to a hitter while everybody else stands still), here are some famous players I have met and watched play who resort to superstitions.
Luis Tiant. During my conversations with Tiant, he always smiled when I brought up the topic of his “Supersticiones,” and he took them seriously. I think “El Tiante” had many of these unexplainable things. 1-Always arrived at the park dressed in white. 2-Would smoke a good Cuban cigar all the time prior to the game. 3-Always had a solid gold chain around his neck, as he and his good friend pitcher Miguel Cuellar were devoted Catholics. To me, Tiant was funny most of the time, and as a Cuban-born myself, and not superstitious, I came to understand it as the mindset of a player making his living in one of the toughest sports in the world.
Dagoberto Blanco (Campy) Campaneris, also born in Cuba like Luis Tiant, became the first major leaguer to play all nine positions in a single game. His superstition was truly unique. But if you think all Cuban players are superstitious, you are wrong; Campaneris was not. The closest Campy came to that was in 1972, when he and his teammates all grew facial hair and then went on a big winning streak; that same year, the A’s won the World Series, his first of three in a row, under the incomparable owner Charles O Finley.
Baseball fans know many players and their superstitions; some have nothing to do with the play on the field, like Wade Boggs, the “Chicken Man,” who ate fried chicken before every single game for good luck and even published a book in 1984 titled “Fowl Tips”. No, Wade Boggs never did a commercial for Kentucky Fried Chicken. Colonel Sanders appeared in his own commercials back then; he did not like to spend money.
Few others worth mentioning:
-Turk Wendell, a reliever who brushed his teeth in between innings.
-Justin Verlander, future Hall of Fame pitcher, ordered the same Taco Bell meal before every start. No, he never did any advertising for Taco Bell.
-Sandy Koufax had the same-day superstition of not shaving on the day scheduled to pitch; his teammate Don Drysdale did the same.
-Moisés Alou told me during a pre-game interview with the Giants that he peed on his hands to build calluses to improve his grip with his hands and did not use batting gloves. I do not know if that was superstitious, but it was one of the most unusual things a player ever told me, so I listed it here. I have written about this as a member of SABR (Society for American Baseball Research),I have never heard any other player do this “ritual.”
Quote: I have only one superstition: “touch all the bases when I hit a home run”. -Babe Ruth
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.
Whether you’re pre-gaming with the Kings or celebrating an A’s win, Cyprus Grille at the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena is your downtown go-to.
⚡Craft cocktails? Check. 🔥Game-day bites? Oh yeah. 🏟️Steps from Golden 1 Center? You bet.
Open daily, Cyprus Grille is serving up local flavor with a front-row seat to the action. Stop by before or after the game—or make it your new downtown hangout.
Cyprus Grille—where fans fuel up.
📍Located inside the Holiday Inn Sacramento Downtown – Arena @ 300 J Street
Happy Hour – 4pm-6pm
Show your ticket for additional discounts when dining in.
