Nathan Patterson never even made the varsity baseball team as a middle infielder during high school back home in Kansas.
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Retired Boston Red Sox player David Ortiz has hired former Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis to conduct an independent investigation into his shooting.
Bryce Harper is officially a father. The Philadelphia Phillies star announced on Instagram Monday morning the arrival of his son.
Nick Martini stroked his eighth home run of the season, a two-run shot to right-center field in the eighth inning, for the game’s only runs.
Louisiana won six games in eight days, becoming the first team to win the LLWS after losing its first game since the tournament expanded in 2001.
Franklin Barreto’s homer, his 19th of the season, came with one out in the eighth inning and staked Las Vegas to a 4-0 lead.
The tournament will expand to 20 teams in 2021 and place Nevada in a qualifying region with Montana, Wyoming and Utah.
Chicago’s return not listed on official Cactus League schedule but will be added at later date, according to Aviators president Don Logan.
Houston beat Detroit as a minus-550 favorite a night after losing to the Tigers as the biggest Major League Baseball favorite in memory, netting at least one bettor a $10,000 profit.
MLB said in a statement that it has been “in contact with the relevant government agencies” about how to proceed under the sanctions.
A 1988 baseball card of former Las Vegas Stars pitcher Keith Comstock taken at Cashman Field was called “the funniest baseball card ever made” by ESPN Wednesday.
The original contest was halted after a 1 hour, 49 minute-rain delay early on Aug. 8 with the score tied 4-4 and nobody out in the top of the 10th inning.
Detroit pulled off one of the biggest upsets in baseball history Wednesday with a 2-1 road win over Houston. The Tigers were anywhere from a plus 375 to plus 450 underdog.
Dominican officials say a 1,050-kilogram shipment of drugs heading from South America to Puerto Rico was one of several seizures attributed to this ring.
In his fifth pro season, the first baseman has hit a career-high 35 home runs and driven in 101 runs for the Aviators, who are contending for a playoff spot in the PCL.
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