The NFL Is Just Trying To Keep The Players Safe

Antonio Brown

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you've already know about Antonio Brown fiasco.

It has been all over the sports news.

For the individuals who don't follow sports, here is what has been going on.

For the last few years, the National Football League have been criticized for their lack of effort of preventing concussions.

Now it seems the league has woken up about it by making it mandatory for the players to wear a brand new certified helmet.

I don't know if this is the solution, but the league is trying anyway. 

Oakland Raider's Antonio Brown, however, does not want to switch helmets.

Brown wants to continue wearing the same helmet he has worn his entire career.

The helmet isn't certified safe.

Brown has filed another grievance to continue wearing his original helmet today, despite showing up at practise yesterday wearing the certified helmet.

Brown even threaten to retire if he wasn't allowed to wear his helmet.

This is crazy and childish.

Is this guy that selfish that he'll risk his health?

Just wear the certified helmet.

The NFL is just trying to make the game safe for the players.

Preview: Jays Verses Dodgers Game One

Tonight 10:10 p.m. EDT.

Dodgers Stadium, Los Angeles, CA.

Tonight's Pitchers:

TOR: Sean Reid-Foley - 2-3, 3.00 ERA.

LAD: Clayton Kershaw - 12-2, 2.63 ERA.

I think Kershaw's record and earned run average speaks for itself.

The Toronto Blue Jay's offence is going to have trouble with Kershaw tonight.

In Kershaw's last outing against the Miami Marlins last week, he struck out 10 batters.

Another thing that is not in Toronto's favour tonight is the Dodgers have been really good at home.

The Dodger's home record this season is 48-16.

Also, the Jays have to contend with Cody Bellinger.

He is hot at the plate

Injuries:

Toronto

Devon Travis - Knee - 60-day injured list, (IL.),

Matt Shoemaker - Torn ACL. - Out for the season,

Clay Buchholz - Right shoulder inflammation - 60-day IL.,

Ryan Tepera - Right elbow - 60-day IL.,

Elvis Luciano - Sprained right elbow - 60-day IL.,

Clayton Richard - Left lat strain - 10-day IL.,

Luke Maile - Strained left oblique - 10-day IL.,

Ryan Borucki - Left elbow inflammation - 60-day IL.,

Nick Kingham - Strained oblique - 10-day IL.,

Lourdes Gurriel - Strained left quad - 10-day IL.,

Vladmir Guerrero - Left knee inflammation - day-to-day.

Los Angeles Dodgers

Scott Alexander - Left forearm inflammation - 60-day IL.,

Rich Hill Strained left elbow - 60-day IL.,

Ross Stripling - Right biceps tendinitis - 10-day IL.,

David Freese - Strained left hamstring - 10-day IL.,

Alex Verdugo Strained right oblique 10-day IL.,

Tyler White - Right trapezuis strain - 10-day IL.,

Kristopher Negron - Neck stiffness - 10-day IL.,

Kikuchi Goes The Distance In 7-0 Route Over Jays

The Toronto Blue Jays obviously had trouble figuring out Seattle Mariner's Yusei Kikuchi yesterday.

The Mariners pitcher went the distance, pitching in all nine innings.

Kikuchi allowed just two hits, no earned runs, a walk, and struck out eight batters.

Yusei Kikuchi

Seattle's Tom Murphy went two for four at the plate and had two RBIs.

Toronto's starter, Wilmer Font, went just two innings, allowing three hits, an earned run, no walks, and struck out three batters.

Toronto has the day off today.

The Jays open a series tomorrow night against the hottest team in the league.  Los Angeles Dodgers.

Mariners Edges Jays

It wasn't enough.

The Toronto Blue Jays were defeated by the Seattle Mariners yesterday afternoon 4-3, thanks to a solo home run at the top of the eighth inning by Kyle Seager.

Mariners closer, Matt Mcgill, picked up his first save of the season after striking out Bo Bichette in the bottom of ninth inning.

Bichette hit a solo home run in the bottom of fifth inning.

Austin Nola scored two times in the game.

First, Nola scored on a sacrifice fly at the top of the second.

Then Nola hit a solo home run at the top of the fourth inning.

Nola went two for four at the plate yesterday and had a RBI.

 Daniel Vogelbach also scored a run for Seattle.

Mariner's starting pitcher, Reggie McClain, went just two innings, allowing three hits, an earned run, a walk, and had no strikeouts.

Toronto's Reese McGuire also hit a solo home run yesterday.

McGuire went two for four at the plate and had a RBI.

Toronto's starter, Trent Thornton, went six innings, allowing five hits, three earned runs, four walks, and struck out three batters.

Waguespack Is Proving He's Capable Of Being A Starting Pitcher

(left) Jacob Waguespack proving he's a starter.

Toronto Blue Jay's pitcher, Jacob Waguespack is proving that he is a good pitcher.

Last night, Waguespack went 5.1 innings, allowing five hits, two earned runs, a walk, and struck out five batters in a 7-3 Blue Jay's win over the Seattle Mariners.


The win gives Wagurspack a 4-1 season record.

The game didn't start out good for the Jays, though.

Tim Lopez drove in Kyle Seager and Daniel Vogelbach with a single at the top of the second inning to put Seattle ahead 2-0.

In the bottom of the second, Brandon Drury drove in Justin Smoak to make it a 2-1 game.

Later that same inning, Derek Fisher put the Jays ahead 3-2 with a two run homer.

In the bottom of the third inning, Vladmir Guerrero put the Jays ahead 5-2 with a two run homer.

Later in the inning, Randal Grichuk put Toronto up 6-2 with a solo home run.

Danny Jansen hit a solo home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to put the Jays ahead 7-2.

The Mariners got a run back at the top of the eighth inning, but that was it.

Lopez went 1 for 3 at the plate and had two RBIs.

Mariner's pitcher, Wade LeBlanc, went seven innings, allowing 11 hits, seven earned runs, a walk, and struck out just three batters.

Guerrero went two for four at the plate and had two RBIs.

Preview: Mariners Verses Jays Game One

Tonight 7:07 p.m. EDT.

Rogers Centre, Toronto, ONT.

Tonight's Pitchers:

SEA: Matt Wisler - 2-2, 4.35 ERA.

TOR: Jacob Waguespack - 3-1, $.31 ERA.

The Toronto Blue Jays have won 12 of their past 19 games.

Bo Bichette continues to be a threat at the plate.  He's the player to watch tonight.

Both Toronto and the Seattle Mariners are 22 games under .500.

Seattle is 10-10 in their last 20 games.

Mariner's Kyle Seager is dangerous offensively.  He's on a nine game hit streak.

Injuries:

Seattle

Austin Adams - Right lat strain - 10-day injured list, (IL.),

Dan Altavilla - Right forearm strain - 10-day IL.,

Braden Bishop - Spleen - 10-day IL.,

Chasen Bradford - Strained right arm - 60-day IL.,

Brandon Brennan - Right shoulder inflammation - 10-day IL.,

Mitch Haniger - Testicle - 10-day IL.,

Ryon Healy - Hip - Out for the season,

Felix Hernandez - Right shoulder strain - 60-day IL.,

Connor Sadzeck - Right elbow strain - 10-day IL.,

Arodys Vizcaino - Shoulder - Out for the season.

Toronto

Ryan Borucki - Elbow - Out for the season,

Clay Buchholz - Back - 60-day IL.,

Lourdes Gurriel - Quad strain - 10-day IL.,

Nick Kingham - Left oblique strain - 10-day IL.,

Elvis Luciano - Right elbow strain - 60-day IL.,

Luke Maile - Left oblique strain - 10-day IL.,

Clayton Richard - Left lat strain - 10-day IL.,

Matt Shoemaker - ACL. - Out for the season,

Ryan Tepera - Elbow - 60-day IL.,

Devon Travis - Knee - 60-day IL., 

Rangers Avoids Sweep In A Huge Way

The Texas Rangers avoided the three game sweep in a huge way by defeating the Toronto Blue Jays 7-3 yesterday afternoon.

Delino DeShields put the Rangers ahead 1-0 at the top of the second inning when he drove in Nomar Mazara with a RBI single.

Texas went up 3-0 at the top of the fourth inning when Danny Santana hit a two run double.

Later that same inning, Elvis Andrus put the Rangers ahead 4-0, driving in Santana with a RBI single.

The Jays finally got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fourth when Randal Grichuk scored on a fielder's choice.

Elvis Andrus

Danny Santana

Andrus made it a 5-1 at the top of the sixth inning when he drove in Santana with a RBI double.

In the bottom of the sixth, Teoscar Hernandez scored on a wild pitch.

Later in the inning, Danny Jansen drove in Rowdy Tellez with a RBI single.

It was all Texas from there.

At the top of the seventh inning, Mazara hit a solo home run.

At the top of the eighth inning, Santana hit a solo home run.

Andrus went four for five at the plate and had two RBIs.

Santana finished the night with three RBIs.

Texas starting pitcher, Kolby Allard, went 5.2 innings, allowing four hits, three earned runs, three walks, and struck out three batters.

Jansen went two for four at the plate and had a RBI.

Jay's starter, Sean Reid-Foley struggled last night on the mound.

Foley went just 3.1 innings, allowing four hits, three earned runs, three walks, and struck out just three batters.

Toronto is off today, but the team opens up a weekend series with the Seattle Mariners tomorrow night.

Jays Shut Out Rangers And Win Series

The Toronto Blue Jays didn't crush the Texas Rangers as the team did on Monday night.

The Jays did, however, shut out Texas 3-0 last night and won the three game series.

Randal Grichuk hit a solo home run in the bottom of the second inning.

There was no more scoring until the bottom of the sixth inning.

Teoscar Hernandez made it 2-0 Jays with a solo home run.

The next batter, Billy McKinney, also hit a solo home run.

Grichuk went two for four at the plate and had a RBI.

Randal Grichuk

Jay's pitcher, Thomas Pannone, went four innings, allowing two hits, no earned runs, two walks, and struck out two batters.

Texas's Danny Santana went two for four at the plate.

Ranger's starting pitcher, Lance Lynn, went six innings, allowing four hits, an earned run, three walks, and struck out six batters.

Jays Squash Rangers Badly

Randal Grichuk

Justin Smoak

The Toronto Blue Jays really gave it to the Texas Rangers last night.

The Jays crushed the Rangers 19-4.

The Rangers are now 2-5 on this road trip.

Toronto's Brandon Drury hit his first career grand slam.

Justin Smoak, Randal Grichuk both went three for five at the plate and had four RBIs.

Jay's pitcher, Brock Stewart went 5.1 innings, giving up five hits, three earned runs, no walks, and struck out three batters.

Texas's Nomar Mazara, Rougned Odor went two for four at the plate at had a RBI.

Ranger's starter, Ariel Jurado went just 3.2 innings, giving up 11 hits, eight earned runs, a walk, and struck out three batters

Preview: Rangers Verses Jays Game Two

Tonight 7:07 p.m. EDT.

Rogers Centre, Toronto, ONT.

Tonight's Pitchers:

TEX: Lance Lynn - 14-7, 3.60 ERA.

TOR: Thomas Pannone - 2-5, 6.83 ERA.

The Rangers have scored just 14 runs on this road trip.

Toronto has improved to 16-15 since the All-Star break.

Lynn is 1-2 with a 6.11 earned run average, (ERA.) in six career starts against Toronto.

Pannone's first ever outing against Texas was on May 4.  He allowed seven hits, five hits, and three walks.

Preview: Rangers Verses Jays Game One

Tonight 7:07 p.m. EDT.

Rogers Centre, Toronto, ONT.

Tonight's Pitchers:

TEX: Ariel Jurado - 6-7, 4.74 ERA.

TOR: Neil Ramirez - 0-1, 5.40 ERA.

Jurado is making his second career appearance against the Toronto Blue Jays tonight.

The Texas Rangers are 2-4 on this recent road trip that ends in Toronto.

The Rangers had just four hits yesterday in a 1-0 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

It was the Rangers sixth consecutive game with six or fewer hits.

It is the first time since 1972 that this has happened to Texas.

Texas is also battling injuries.

The team has seven players on the 60-day injured list, (IL.).

Despite being 23 under .500, the Jays are 20-20 in their last 40 games.

Toronto's rookies, Vladmir Guerrero and Bo Bichette continue to do damage at the plate.

Injuries:

Texas

Yohander Mendez - Strained UCL in the right elbow - 60-day IL.

Luke Farrell - Fractured Jaw - 60-day IL.,

Edinson Volquez - Right elbow sprain - 60-day IL.,

Taylor Hearn - Left elbow tightness - 60-day IL.,

Nate Jones - Right Elbow - Out for the season.

Jesse Biddle - Left shoulder fatigue - 60-day IL.,

Joey Gallo - Fractured right wrist - 10-day IL.

Toronto

Devon Travis - Knee - 60-day IL.,

Matt Shoemaker - Knee - Out for the season.,

Clay Buchholz - Shoulder - 60-day IL.,

Ryan Tepera - Elbow - 60-day IL.,

Elvis Luciano - Sprained right elbow - 60-day iL.,

Clayton Richard - Left lat strain - 10-day IL.,

Luke Maile - Strained left oblique - 10-day IL.,

Ryan Borucki - Left elbow inflammation - 60-day IL.

Nick Kingham - Strained oblique - 10-day IL.,

Lourdes Gurriel - Strained left quad - 10-day IL.