Short Relief

Short Relief: An Orel History

by Matt Sussman, Zack Moser, and Mary Craig 4/28

Take a moment to celebrate the greatest, and only, Orel in baseball history.

Short Relief: Baseball During Wartime

by Zack Moser, David Temple, and Matthew Provenzano 4/27

A handy guide for how to enjoy baseball amidst a) the nuclear holocaust, b) massive cultural appropriation, or c) a widespread epidemic.

Short Relief: Two Science Fiction Short Stories

by Patrick Dubuque and Nathan Bishop 4/26

Joe Nuxhall approaches the biggest game of his year, and the Oakland Athletics dabble in the forbidden arts to win a championship.

Short Relief: How Baseball Killed America, A Rabbit Killed Baseball, and History Killed a Fun Fact

by Emma Baccellieri, Mary Craig, and Kate Preusser 4/25

Mary discovers a world delivered to Hitler by baseball, Kate watches a rabbit destroy the human facade, and Emma searches for Lithuanian baseball and winds up in Boston.

Short Relief: Of Sad Lexicons and Sad Hardware

by Patrick Dubuque and Holly Wendt 4/24

A collection of poems of celebration, and an online auction one would rather never see.

Short Relief: A Murder of Orioles, Unsolicited Career Advice, and the Best Deja Vu

by Annie Maroon, Mary Craig, and Matt Sussman 4/21

Matt ranks the current Orioles first base depth chart, Mary looks at a former two-way player and thinks of new ways, and Annie enjoys an old, familiar feeling.

Short Relief: The End of Cy Young and the Statcast TV Guide

by Patrick Dubuque and Zack Moser 4/20

Exploring the last stop for Denton True Young, and looking at the advanced statistics of some of your syndicated television viewing options.

Short Relief: Business Decisions, Minor League Affinities, and Unforgettable Oral Histories

by Mo Bjonski, James Fegan, and Jason Wojciechowski 4/19

A Brewers prospects gets a lesson in justice, minor league teams carve out niche markets through naming, and baseball history, told by the players who made it.

Short Relief: Rabbit Revenge, Minor Celebrity, and 2017 Baseball Fashion

by Emma Baccellieri, Kate Preusser, and Brian Duricy 4/18

The backstory behind mascot-on-mascot crime, the irony of cinema and minor league baseball colliding, and how ballplayers are speaking with their eyes.

Short Relief: Three Stories About Justin Bour and One About Michael Martinez

by Trevor Strunk and Holly Wendt 4/17

Tales of the end of the world, and moments that felt like it for one man.

Short Relief: Of Xerox, Long Walks, and Sky Sox

by Matt Sussman, Eric Garcia McKinley, and Mary Craig 4/14

Bad days are compared, bad players are broken down (and broken), and bad memories are cherished.

Short Relief: Scouting Reports by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anthony Bourdain, and Neil deGrasse Tyson

by Zack Moser, Meg Rowley, and Kate Preusser 4/13

Baseball, in terms of mustaches, grasshoppers, and astronomical insignificance.

Short Relief: False Cats, The Losing Way, Scarlet Dreams, and Hacking Baseball

by Nathan Bishop, Eric Roseberry, James Fegan, and Jason Wojciechowski 4/12

A cat who walked through stadiums, the philosophy of failure in the postgame clubhouse, a Cincinnati Red-based mantra, and the hacking of baseball.

Short Relief: Conceptual History and Puns in the City

by Emma Baccellieri and Matt Ellis 4/11

Michael Pineda learns what it means to be Michael Pineda, while in the bleachers, euphemisms float in the wind.

Short Relief: High Noon, Phantom Pain, and Failure Versus Success

by Trevor Strunk, Patrick Dubuque, and Holly Wendt 4/10

Bryce Harper is up to no good, Russ Stephans is up to neither bad nor good, and the Mariners and Angels are up to both at the same time.

Short Relief: Love of Elevation, The Sultan of Statcast, and An 8-Bit Scouting Report

by Mary Craig, Patrick Dubuque, and Matt Sussman 4/07

What would Coors be like at other altitudes? What does the Bambino have on Statcast, and Taylor Motter in 2-D.