As Major League Baseball ramps up its investigation into performance-enhancing drugs to more than a dozen major league players, three-time AL MVP Alex Rodriguez quietly rehabs his surgically repaired hip at the Yankees’ minor league facility in Tampa, Fla., with plans to return in the second half of the season with “a lot of unfinished business.”
When I was 12, I knew all the umpires. Shag Crawford. Emmett Ashford. Nestor Chylak. Satch Davidson. Augie Donatelli. Tom Gorman. Bill Haller. Chris Pelekoudas. Ron Luciano. Frank Pulli. Ed Runge. Marty Springstead. Harry Wendelstedt. Big Lee Weyer, who sometimes during a rain delay would join Jack Brickhouse in the broadcast booth and perform card tricks.
Kris Bryant will be one of the top picks in Thursday’s Major League Baseball draft. Bryant, a Bonanza High School graduate and University of San Diego star who put up mind-numbing power numbers as a junior this season, probably will go in the top five with a chance to be selected first by the Houston Astros.
The difficult part, for once, is coming down hard on Bud Selig and Major League Baseball. But before handing the sport’s top executives gold stars for drawing a line when it comes to chasing those cheaters that still exist on the base paths, know that situations like this are always defined by an underbelly of political strategy.
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is interviewing players linked to a Miami anti-aging clinic that allegedly sold performance-enhancing drugs and has become the focus of the sport’s investigation.
Top pitching prospect Aaron Blair, who went to Spring Valley High School, tested positive for the banned substance Adderall, according to a Baseball America report.
The concourse at Isotopes Park is a beefy 40 feet wide, lined by catchy concessionaires such as Atomic Margaritas and offering everything from Asian noodle stands to funnel cake vendors to Hebrew National hot dog hawkers.
WINNING/LOSING PITCHER: 51s, Zack Wheeler (4-1); Grizzlies, Fabio Castillo (0-1)
The Royals and Cardinals should have known something was up when the first pitch was delayed an hour by rain.
It was 10 years ago today that the Community College of Southern Nevada, as it then was known, defeated San Jacinto of Texas 4-1 to win the 2003 Junior College World Series.
The decision surely has saved Jamie Hoffmann money on his dental bills, but aside from that, the 51s outfielder still isn’t entirely sure why he chose to pursue a career in professional baseball instead of hockey.
New Mexico showed Friday why it is the Mountain West’s best hitting team.
Brandon Bayardi had just watched UNLV teammate T.J. White slap a fastball for an RBI single, and the slugger guessed he wouldn’t see a similar pitch.
