Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
A New Hampshire stadium is being recognized for playing a largely unheralded role in helping racially integrate baseball. Much of the attention has been on Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But a year earlier, Hall of Fame catcher Ro…
Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
A major professional team playing in a minor league venue would've been unheard of just a few years ago. That is what the Oakland Athletics likely will do if they move to Las Vegas. There is recent precedent. The Chargers played in an MLS stadium after moving from San Diego to Los Angeles. T…
After decades of supporting poor, young baseball players as they began their professional careers, minor league host families have officially been phased out. As part of their first collective bargaining agreement with Major League Baseball this spring, minor league players negotiated an end…
The pitch clock has sped up baseball as hoped, and it might be leading to more exciting endings, too. A quarter of the way through Major League Baseball’s first season with the pitch timer, relief pitchers seem to be bearing the most stress from it, with save conversions dropping to 61.4% fr…
The pitch clock has sped up baseball as hoped, and it might be leading to more exciting endings, too. A quarter of the way through Major League Baseball’s first season with the pitch timer, relief pitchers seem to be bearing the most stress from it, with save conversions dropping to 61.4% from 67.8% at a similar point last season. The save percentage is near the bottom range of the past decade, which averaged 65.1%, MLB said Monday.
Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
It's been, hard to believe, more than five years already since we lost Steve Palermo after a long battle with cancer.
Don Denkinger, a major league umpire for three decades whose blown call in the 1985 World Series overshadowed a three-decade career of excellence, died Friday. He was 86. Denkinger died at Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa, Denise Hanson, one of his three daughters, said. Denkinger joined the American League staff in 1969. He worked four World Series over three decades in the big leagues but was remembered most for a mistaken call that helped Kansas City win Game 6 of the 1985 World Series against St. Louis.
The St. Louis Cardinals are last in the NL Central with a 13-25 record in a surprisingly lackluster start for one of baseball's winningest franchises. It's the worst 38-game start for the team since it was 13-25 in 1925, according to Sportradar. The Cardinals haven't finished with a losing record since they were 78-84 in 2007, and the franchise has just two losing seasons in the past 25 years. Alongside the losing, St. Louis also has experienced a bit of dysfunctiona departure for a franchise that typically sails along with very little of the choppy water it has publicly navigated already.
Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
For a guy who was cut from his high school baseball team, Conner Watson has done pretty well for himself. The 2010 Millard North graduate is the lead hitting instructor at Driveline Baseball in Arizona where he helps superstars like Shohei Ohtani and Clayton Kershaw.
Here are the stats for Nebraskans and other local standouts in the MLB and Minors this season.
The streaking Tampa Bay Rays are running out of superlatives to describe baseball’s best start in more than three decades. Remarkable, incredible and unbelievable are words players have used to describe the dominant, all-around team effort that’s carried them to a 10-0 record that’s the toast of the big leagues two weeks into the season.
Hotter, thinner air that allows balls to fly farther contributed a tiny bit to a surge in home runs since 2010, according to a statistical analysis by Dartmouth College scientists published in Friday's Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
A new study finds that climate change is making major league sluggers into even hotter hitters, sending an extra 50 or so home runs a year over the fences. A study published Friday by Dartmouth College scientists did a statistical analysis of more than 200,000 balls put into play in the last few years. They say climate change added about 1% to the homer totals.
Ibanez's shot to center broke a 1-1 tie. Omaha scored runs in five innings and trimmed its deficit to 6-5 in the seventh following Tucker Bradley's second hit of the day.
Omaha hit two homers and scored seven runs in the eighth inning to race to a win after being down 3-1 Sunday afternoon.
The Norris graduate drove in five runs and was one of three Chasers with three hits. The others were Dairon Blanco and Nick Pratto. Logan Porter hit a solo homer in the fourth inning for Omaha's first homer of the season. Maikel Garcia drove in three runs for the second straight day as the Chasers cruised.
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Down 6-4 in the ninth, three singles and an error started the inning, then Tucker Bradley drew a bases-loaded walk to tie it with one out. Leadoff man Samad Taylor followed with a two-run single to left to give Omaha its first lead.
Check out the Nebraska-born MLB players as well as other local standouts who are on 2023 Opening Day MLB rosters.
SAN DIEGO — San Diego Padres third base coach Matt Williams has colon cancer and will have surgery on Friday.
A major shift is coming to Major League Baseball, starting on opening day this Thursday. New rules are now in effect. There will be clocks at stadiums to hurry along pitchers and hitters, and there are restrictions on defensive shifts for fielders. The full slate of 15 games includes matchups at Dodger Stadium, Fenway Park, Wrigley Field and Yankee Stadium.
Major league pitchers and batters aren’t the only ones going on the clock this season. Big league broadcasters have also been using spring training to adjust to baseball’s new rhythm amid a series of rules changes. When the season opens Thursday, MLB will usher in an age of sharper, quicker and more concise commentary.
The Cleveland Guardians are close to signing a long-term contract with All-Star second baseman Andrés Giménez. The 24-year-old batted .297 and won a Gold Glove for the AL Central champions last season. He could sign the deal within days, according to an AP source. The person added that the Guardians are also nearing a deal with reliever Trevor Stephan.
Here is a closer look at some people in new places who could have a big impact this year.
Philadelphia Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto was ejected Monday in a spring training game against the Toronto Blue Jays for an awkward ball exchange that followed a pitch-clock violation. The home plate umpire had just finished calling a ball on Phillies pitcher Craig Kimbrel for taking too long on the mound when the at-bat devolved into the bizarre ejection.