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 ...

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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 ...

As detailed in Rick Hummel's game story today, Ankiel is stirring from his mini-slump, and as we've seen before he tends to get his production in bunches. Ankiel's first three homers of this season ...