Inspiration Post: Design

I wanted to keep the design for this sports blog pretty simple. The reason I wanted to keep it simple was I thinking about viewers who will be viewing this page and they will be able to navigate through it easy. I feel like if you have a complicated blog viewers will get lost and not want to come back and view the blog.

Inspiration Post: Typography

I chose to use a Sans Serif font for the typography of this blog. The reason I chose to use a Sans Serif font is I believe that it is the best font to be able to view things online. I also wanted the readers to be able to read the font so if I would have chose a creative font I do not think the viewers would be able to reader it as clear. I also feel like that Sans Serif font is more cleaner and that is what I want for this blog  

"Story"book Week

Trevor Story hit seven home runs in his first six major league games. He is a 6-foot-1, 180-pound shortstop who was a 2011 first round draft pick of the Colorado Rockies. Story set the Major League record for home runs in a team's first six games of a season, ahead of Larry Walker who had 6 in 1997), Mike Schmidt who had 6 in 1976 and Willie Mays who had 6 in 1964. 

Cubs improve to 5-1

The Chicago Cubs improve to 5-1 for the first time since 1998. The Cubs have outscored their opponents  42-15 in the first 6 games. Dexter Fowler leads the Cubs in Batting Average with a Batting Average .526. The Cubs are hitting .274 as a team with 20 extra base hits. The Pitching staff has a 2.24 ERA of lead by Jake Arrieta with 2 wins and a ERA of 1.93 and 12 strikeouts.

Pittsburgh Pirates Victorious on Opening Day

The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat The St. Louis Cardinals 4-1 Sunday April 3rd. Pittsburgh's starting pitcher Francisco Liriano went 6 innings allowed 3 hits and had 10 strikeouts 10. He tied a Pirates opening day record by striking out 10. Pirates new third baseman David Freese added 2 hits to the combined 9 that the team had. The Pirates will resume play on Tuesday when Jonathon Niese pitches against Michael Wacha.

Pirates lock up Gregory Polanco on a 5-year extension

The Pittsburgh signed Gregory Polanco to a five year extension. The deal will include two club options and is believed to be in the mid-$30 million range. Polanco, 25, hit .256 with nine homers and 52 RBI in 153 games last season for the Pirates.

Kevin Stallings to be Pittsburgh's new head coach

Stallings will replace Jamie Dixon, who left the Panthers last week to take the job at TCU. Stallings was 455-283 with nine NCAA tournament appearances in this coaching tenure. Jamie Dixon chose to depart, leaving for TCU after 13 seasons as the Panthers head coach. During his time at Pitt he had two conference titles, two No.1 seeds, one conference tournament and 11 NCAA Tournament appearances. Dixon was the most successful coach in the school's history.