Baseball

The 2021 MLB season made history with a record nine no-hitters. The 2022 season has two no-hit games in just over the first month. Angels rookie left-hander Reid Detmers threw the second no-hitter of the year on May 10, blanking the Rays 12-0 in Anaheim.

There have been plenty of perfect games in professional baseball. But there has likely never been a more perfect, perfect game than what Roki Sasaki pitched on Sunday. Facing the Orix Buffaloes in the Nippon Professional Baseball League in Japan, the 20-year-old hurler for the Chiba Lotte Marines retired all 27 batters he faced, including a record-tying 19 via strikeout.

One of the more interesting changes for the 2022 season isn’t going to be immediately evident to those first turning the game on. Amid all of the talk about the universal DH and the extra-innings runner, MLB and the MLBPA also agreed to larger bases for the upcoming season.

Bryce Harper: Giant? Well, Yomiuri Giant. MLB’s lockout is still in place and the owners and players don’t seem much closer to a deal than when the two sides initially started talking after the 2021 season, much to the chagrin of players and fans everywhere.