Cuban baseball officials have not entered talks with Major League Baseball and have no agreement to play an exhibition game next year, a Cuban spokesman said on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal reported that MLB was likely to play a game in Cuba in 2016.
The Mo’ne Davis story is coming to Disney Channel. The 13-year-old who made history last summer as the first girl to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series is the subject of a biopic that the cabler is developing with producer Debra Martin Chase.
Former Major League Baseball pitching great Roger Clemens on Wednesday reached a settlement to a defamation lawsuit filed years ago by a former trainer who said he injected Clemens with performance-enhancing drugs, Newsday reported.
We wanted to get back together and do something as a team, so we decided to bring back our “Fear The ‘Stache” theme that we had last year. We are 1-0 with the mustaches so far and its great because everyone has bought in.
Sophomore pitcher Buddie Pindel allowed three hits in seven innings, and host Silverado capitalized on a handful of miscues by seventh-ranked Bonanza to claim an 8-1 victory. The complete game was Pindel’s second in as many outings.
Rebels freshman Blaze Bohall allowed three hits and one run in 7 1/3 innings in a 7-1 victory over Grand Canyon. The right-hander retired 17 of the final 18 batters he faced, settling down after hitting two hitters in the second inning and giving up the Antelopes’ only run.
Centennial baseball coach Charlie Cerrone wasn’t sure his team was ready Monday for its game against Legacy.
If Mike Bryant had seen this once, he had seen it a hundred times. Or a thousand, if you go back to Little League and Wiffle Ball: The baseball sailing toward the outfield fence on a long and high arc, easily clearing it, his son Kris breaking into a home run trot.
UNLV’s ninth-inning rally fell just short in an 11-10 loss to Air Force in a Mountain West baseball game Sunday in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Rebels scored five runs on five hits, a walk and a hit-batsman in the ninth inning and had two runners on base when the game ended.
A day after Las Vegan Kris Bryant went 0-for-4 in his homecoming at Cashman Field, he belted two home runs to increase his majors-leading spring total to six and carry Chicago to a 3-1 Big League Weekend exhibition win over the Oakland A’s.
Bishop Gorman junior right-hander Jack Little made just one mistake Saturday, allowing a two-run homer in the sixth. Other than that, he was nearly perfect in six innings, allowing three hits and striking out five in the Gaels’ 4-2 victory over Liberty.
Pat Venditte isn’t a baseball immortal by any means, but the Oakland Athletics switch-pitcher did inspire the creation of a new rule that’s named for him. The eighth-year pro is the only ambidextrous pitcher in professional baseball.
Starting with the 1961 season, P.K. Wrigley, the Cubs’ spendthrift owner, decided the team no longer should have a field manager. Instead, it would have an eight-man committee of coaches. And that every month or so, one of these fungo hitters would become head coach.
Erik VanMeetren, Morgan Stotts and Dylan Ellis hit consecutive doubles in UNLV’s four-run fourth inning, lifting the Rebels to a 4-3 victory over Air Force in a Mountain West baseball game Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Las Vegan Kris Bryant received a hero’s welcome from family and friends when he returned for a spring training game Friday with the Chicago Cubs, who defeated the Oakland Athletics 5-3 at Cashman Field. Bryant went 0-for-4, but has hit four home runs in spring training.
