News about Matt Strahm

The Cincinnati Reds not only completed a three-game sweep of the floundering New York Yankees in the Bronx on Thursday. Manger David Bell's club also won the national anthem. For five minutes ahead of Thursday's matinee, Reds hurlers Graham Ashcraft and Carson Spiers had what's become known as an 'anthem standoff' with the Yankees' Ian Hamilton and Cody Poteet. Basically, it's a game of chicken to see who can linger on the field the longest following the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner. One 2023 standoff between Boston's Kutter Crawford and Philadelphia's Matt Strahm lasted so long that umpires tossed both players, who were ultimately fined by the league.

Liam Hendricks returned to the majors after winning the White Sox's bizarre victory over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday. Yoán Moncada scampered home on a 10th-inning wild pitch that knocked out umpire Cory Blaser, bringing the Chicago White Sox to a 2-1 victory. Hendriks pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning in his second game of the season after recovering from stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

In a strange scene in Philadelphia on Saturday, an impromptu standoff between Red Sox right-hander Kutter Crawford and a former teammate, Phillies southpaw Matt Strahm, ended with both players being ejected. The crime: Both relief pitchers refused to leave the field after the national anthem. It's not unprecedented in sports, particularly baseball, to see players lingering after The Star-Spangled Banner in a childish brawl to see who will be the last player standing on the field. Umpires are in a rush to get everyone into their respective dugouts only now, with the introduction of Major League Baseball's latest pitch clock. Both Crawford and Strahm were warned, ejected, and later fined for failing to follow their teammates off the Citizens Bank Park track on Saturday, as a result. An MLB spokesman declined to tell DailyMail.com precisely how much money the players were fined on Monday.

As well as the MLB's much shorter games, there has been an effect off the diamond - and not every one is a fan of one particular byproduct. The average game time has dropped 31 minutes from last season, as the AP reported last week. And while this has resulted in a more enjoyable experience for some fans, it has also given them less time to get beer at ballparks.

While Xander Bogaerts and Dansby Swanson continue fielding offers from Major League teams, Taijuan Walker, Mitch Haniger, Matt Strahm, Josh Bell, Tommy Kahnle, Jameson Taillon, and Andrew Heaney all had a profitable day on Tuesday. Both Walker and Strahm, a starting pitcher and reliever, respectively, joined the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday, spending $250,000 on the sport. According to various outlets, Walker, who was coming off two good seasons with the New York Mets, has agreed to a four-year, $72 million contract, while Strahm, a southpaw who pitched in Boston last season, has agreed to a two-year, $15 million contract. Since physicals are pending, a person familiar with the talks confirmed the transfers to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. After being reeled in shortstop Trea Turner's long-term contract on Monday with a $300 million, 11-year contract, it was the second major free agent score for the Phillies at the winter meetings. Before losing to the Houston Astros, Walker and Turner joined a Phillies team that made it to the World Series this year.