What You Need to Know

What You Need to Know: August 27, 2014

Madison Bumgarner comes close to a perfect game, Alex Gordon does something nobody has done against Glen Perkins, and more from around the league.

Yesterday / there was baseball that these teams played / and there will be even more today

Some history lessons and double-digit scoring action from this weekend, plus the best matchups of Monday.

The exceptional-pitching-in-a-loss edition.

Gerrit Cole is back and hitting 100.3 mph, which makes baseball just that much better.

Second chances for me but not for thee.

Yesterday's extra-innings fun and today's top-notch pitching matchups.

The A's continue their free-fall, Michael Cuddyer and David Ortiz blast off, and other action from the weekend, plus what to watch on Monday.

Fourteen-strikeout facts and trivia, plus your guide to how to spend your baseball time this weekend.

The blues run the game, so is there anything to be done about Rule 7.13? Also the rest of Wednesday's action and Thursday's previews.

The Doug Fister/First Place correlation gets even stronger.

Something's wrong with Verlander, while nothing's wrong in Kansas City.

A lot of extra baseball was played this weekend, so we stuffed extra into this column.

Thursday's recaps and the weekend preview from, well, basically the entire staff

The Padres didn't have video last night, but BP does. And GIFs. And pictures. And words.

The Big Donkey pitches. Nothing is as exciting as that, but the rest of yesterday's action comes close.