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Stan Szeto-USA TODAY Sports Content warning: This story comprises particulars of home abuse. Professional sports are enthralling for the motion they produce on the taking part in discipline. Highlights of residence runs, slam dunks, and touchdowns can create lifelong relationships between followers and the sports they take pleasure in. Yet it’s essential to do not forget that sports are located inside the world round them, and infrequently mirror wider tendencies inside it. It’s straightforward to think about baseball gamers as little figures on a display screen who seem at 7:00 each night time, run round for just a few hours whereas being televised reside, and blink out of existence till the following night when community cameras are again on. It appears that the nearer we get to co...

NEW YORK — The New York Mets have acquired right-handed reliever Trevor Gott from the Seattle Mariners in trade for lefty Zach Muckenhirn. New York ...

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Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about All-Star-roster minimums and maximums, what the Aroldis Chapman commerce tells us concerning the how groups worth prospects, Jake Diekman’s exploits with the Rays, Evan Longoria’s late-career contributions, and the same-named siblings of Carlos Pérez, Carlos Pérez, Wilmer Flores, Wilmer Flores, Wander Franco, Wander Franco, and Wander Franco. Then (45:59) they discuss to Steve Wynn and Linda Pitmon of The Baseball Project concerning the band’s origins and longevity, its new album, the inspiration for its songs, its songwriting and recording course of, its historic accuracy, making certain that a number of eras are represented, being musical super-utility gamers, the band’s viewers and place in its members’ musical careers, the musicians they’d...

Joey Votto hit a two-run residence run to finish an 0-for-21 droop, Ian Gibaut pitched out of a jam within the sixth inning and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Washington Nationals, 3-2, Monday evening within the opener of a four-game collection. ...

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Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Last season, Shohei Ohtani had one of many biggest seasons in historical past that didn't end in taking house an MVP trophy. His misfortune in 2022 was working into top-of-the-line offensive campaigns that anybody dwelling can keep in mind, with Aaron Judge placing up a 207 wRC+ and 11.5 WAR with none recognized pitching expertise to make the most of. Most writers nonetheless don’t vote totally and even based on WAR-type metrics, so Judge setting a brand new American League single-season house run report, with 62, was additionally fairly useful. Fast ahead to 2023, and Judge’s toe harm has mainly ended any probability of him repeating his MVP feat, however Ohtani has been doing his greatest to make sure that even a wholesome Judge would have had bother doing...

When rising up in New York, Josiah Gray remembered going to the outdated Yankee Stadium and seeing ads for that yr’s All-Star Game on the venue. He badly needed to go, however a possibility by no means materialized.  ...

There had been too many unimaginable performances final week to suit into simply two weekly honors. While Ronald Acuña Jr. was named NL Player of the Week introduced by Chevrolet, Domingo Germán and Shohei Ohtani shared the award within the AL. For Germán, the rationale for inclusion right here is a straightforward one: perfection. On Wednesday, Germán threw an ideal recreation in an 11-0 win over the Athletics, the twenty fourth such recreation in AL/NL historical past and first since Félix Hernández in August 2012. Among the myriad enjoyable information concerning the recreation, these two stand out: He solely wanted 99 pitches to get it performed, and he had allowed a mixed 15 earned runs in 5 1/3 innings in his prior two begins. The excellent recreation was Germán’s solely begin of the...

Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports I prefer to assume I’m fairly tuned in to what’s happening in baseball every day. I examine the information and the standings repeatedly, and my morning wouldn’t be full and not using a fast scan of the leaderboards in all the most important statistical classes. That being so, it’s uncommon that I’ll be caught off guard by a participant’s ERA, or batting common, or WAR. That doesn’t imply it by no means occurs, although, and when it does, I usually really feel compelled to share my shock. With that introduction as a clue, would you care to guess who leads the Rays in residence runs? You know, the Rays who've extra homers than any group within the American League. The Rays who rank second in baseball in runs scored and first in wRC+. The Rays who do...