UNLV is investing about $1.6 million into its baseball and softball facilities. Both seasons begin next month.
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Carlos Beltrán is out as manager of the New York Mets, the latest fallout from the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal that has rocked Major League Baseball.
He was the bench coach for the Houston Astros when they won the 2017 World Series and led Boston to the title the following year in his first season as manager.
Astros manager AJ Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow were fired Monday after the pair were suspended by Major League Baseball for the team’s sign-stealing during Houston’s run to the 2017 World Series title and during the 2018 season.
The Chicago Cubs and star third baseman Kris Bryant avoided arbitration, agreeing to an $18.6 million, one-year contract on Friday, a person familiar with the situation said.
Individual tickets for the 2020 Big League Weekend at Las Vegas Ballpark will go on sale Monday at noon, the team announced Tuesday.
Longtime newspaperman and Las Vegas resident Herb Jaffe covered Don Larsen’s World Series perfect game in 1956 for the Newark Star-Ledger. Larsen died Wednesday at age 90.
He was the unlikeliest of characters to attain what so many Hall of Famers couldn’t pull off in the fall classic.
Aviators president Don Logan said further discussion of major league baseball coming to Las Vegas is something to keep an eye on in 2020 and beyond.
Encarnación, who turns 37 on Jan. 7, has eight straight seasons with more than 30 homers.
Oakland needs to beat Denver as a 3½-point road underdog and needs the Texans to beat the Titans, Ravens to beat the Steelers and the Colts to beat the Jaguars.
Free-agent pitcher Hyun-Jin Ryu and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to an $80 million, four-year contract.
But other drugs, such as cocaine, opioids, fentanyl and synthetic THC, will be designated drugs of abuse and part of the random drug test protocol.
Cole was baseball’s most dominant pitcher for much of 2019 and helped the Houston Astros come within one win of their second World Series title in three seasons.
They will be inducted into Cooperstown during ceremonies on July 26 along with any players chosen next month by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
