Athletics star Brent Rooker takes shot at MLB
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Rooker and wife Allie Oliver share two daughters, 3-year-old Blair and 11-month-old Blake. During one part of the game, the cameras cut to Rooker chilling on the sidelines, feeding baby Blake her nightly bottle. Awww, right?
The A's Brent Rooker is no stranger to trade-deadline chatter. This year, the rumor mill might involve the power-starved and playoff-chasing San Francisco Giants.
Brent Rooker was not happy with the way he was bounced from the MLB Home Run Derby on Monday night. Rooker was knocked out in the first round by eventual Derby winner Cal Raleigh after the two hit the same number of home runs, but Raleigh’s furthest homer was .08 feet further than Booker’s.
The 95th All-Star Game will objectively go down as one of the most epic and memorable, one that began with the sport’s most promising pitcher of the future dialing up the fastest strikeouts for a starter in Midsummer Classic history.
MLB All-Star Game history was made with the first tiebreaking swing-off and the NL winning after blowing a 6-0 lead.
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SB Nation on MSNNational League takes the ASG in ‘Swing-off’It looked like Rook might be the AL’s hero, but Kyle Schwarber homered on all three of his swings to give the National League the win 4-3 in the swing off and the All-Star Game victory. More from athleticsnation.com:
If Brent Rooker felt he needed any sort of redemption for Monday night’s inch of a first-round exit in the T-Mobile Home Run Derby, he got it Tuesday night. First, Rooker homered in the top of the sev