One can’t overstate the importance of winning the opener in a double-elimination baseball tournament.
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Things continue to go well for the Las Vegas 51s, despite the fact many of the fifth-graders at Tuesday’s game weren’t aware of the team’s hot start.
So much for easing in the new kid. Rafael Montero was handed quite an assignment by the New York Mets for his major league debut: a Subway Series start against the crosstown rival Yankees.
Daniel LaSalle almost winces as he recalls his first experience with Mojave baseball.
UNLV coach Tim Chambers received the automatic four-game suspension of the baseball regular season for bumping an umpire. The Rebels play Arizona State Tuesday night and UNR on Thursday through Saturday.
After the mother of all sand storms Saturday night at Cashman Field caused the suspension of the game between the 51s and Tacoma, Mother Nature stayed relatively calm Sunday during an abbreviated Mother’s Day doubleheader.
Brandon Allen has had his share of big moments in baseball, but few can rival the rarefied feat the first baseman helped the 51s achieve Thursday night in Salt Lake City.
UNLV pitcher Erick Fedde who was slated to be a first-round draft pick this year, will miss the rest of the season due to Tommy John elbow surgery.
Senior Day allowed Centennial coach Charlie Cerrone to slot players into different positions on the baseball field Friday.
The 51s tied a Pacific Coast League record with four consecutive home runs in the fourth inning, and Brandon Allen went 5-for-6 as Las Vegas routed the Salt Lake Bees 16-4 Thursday in Salt Lake City for their third straight victory.
The 51s rallied from a 5-2 deficit with one run in the eighth inning and two each in the ninth and 10th to defeat the Salt Lake Bees 7-5 on Wednesday night in a Pacific Coast League game in Salt Lake City.
Green Valley’s Keola Paragas has been stingy on the mound all season for the Gators, but the senior left-hander hasn’t always gotten a ton of offensive support.
The host Tacoma Rainiers scored five runs in the bottom of the eighth inning to beat the Las Vegas 51s 6-4. Las Vegas had scored two runs in the top of the eighth to take a 3-1 lead .
Sticky pine tar-like substance is long lasting, and that’s putting it mildly.
The last time I spoke with Dirk Hayhurst was 2009. He was standing about 375 feet from home plate at Wrigley Field in Chicago, shagging batting practice fly balls — but mostly he was just standing there with the other Las Vegas pitchers — before a special 51s game against the Iowa Cubs.
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