Mother’s Day takes over MLB.
Happy Monday, friends! We’re coming off a rough loss for the Tigers on Sunday, but aside from the loss, it was also Mother’s Day. Baseball players all around MLB were celebrating their mothers. In the case of the Tigers, Mary Jung had to split her attention between two sons in the same game!
Aside from getting to talk about moms, we also have solid proof that the new Pope is a White Sox fan (sorry Cubs!), and another manager has been axed.
Let’s get into it!
Detroit Tigers News:
- Mary Jung had to support both her sons on Mother’s Day —even sporting a custom split jersey—as Jace took the field for the Tigers and Josh took the field for the Rangers.
- Speaking of the Jung brothers, they had a little fun playing in-game tic-tac-toe.
- This weekend, Tarik Skubal made MLB history, and it’s all the more impressive if you consider how rough Skubal’s 2025 start was.
Tarik Skubal of the @tigers is the only MLB pitcher to have 50+ strikeouts, no more than 1 walk and an ERA under 1.00 over a 6-start span (since ERA became an official stat in both leagues in 1913). pic.twitter.com/Rd4XOcL4Th
— OptaSTATS (@OptaSTATS) May 10, 2025
Here’s a little more information about this incredible feat.
AL Central News:
- Guess we know why the White Sox won the 2005 World Series now.
Pope Leo XIV made the broadcast while at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series
— Joe Binder (@JoeBinder) May 9, 2025
- Salvador Perez’s mother threw a great strikes during her Mother’s Day opening pitch .
- Steve Kwan shared the sports lessons he learned from his mother.
- Kody Clemens shared that it isn’t his famous dad who is the “rock” of the Clemens clan, but rather his mother.
MLB News:
- Bud Black is the next manager to get the axe.
The Colorado Rockies fired manager Bud Black after a brutal 7-33 start. Black was in his ninth year as Rockies manager and had a career record with Colorado of 544-690.
— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) May 11, 2025
- I have a lot of questions.
“Oakland is challenging that call” pic.twitter.com/3w8VZQoJAE
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) May 11, 2025
- Lance McCullers Jr. shared that when he was slumping with the Astros, he and his family received multiple death threats .
- Don Kelly has already collected his first managerial ejection!
- Things are getting serious between the Red Sox and Rafael Devers as the team’s owner flew out to talk to him in person.
- Paul Skenes shares that he “wasn’t surprised” by the firing of Derek Shelton.