Former major leaguer Rick Ankiel said Monday that he drank vodka before his first two starts of the 2001 season for the St. Louis Cardinals, which came after his meltdown in the 2000 playoffs when he ...

In 2000, there was no rookie more anticipated than Rick Ankiel. After a disastrous postseason derailed his pitching career, he began a seven-year odyssey to return to baseball on the other side of the ...

The game of baseball is filled with highs and lows. Sometimes it can feel like it is mostly lows. Or it's the lows that you remember longer. A bad pitch leads to a huge inning. A strikeout with the ...