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BALTIMORE — Coming off the very best week of his massive league profession, rookie Gunnar Henderson got here up with the proper encore. Henderson st...

PHOENIX -- By the time he took the mound to start out the ninth inning with the D-backs trailing the Phillies by eight runs, there was subsequent to nothing that Josh Rojas might do to vary what the ultimate consequence can be, however the infielder might present a few advantages. First, he might save Arizona from having to make use of an precise pitcher for an inning. And second, he might present some levity on an evening wherein nothing went proper for the D-backs in a 15-3 loss, and that in flip might assist them flip the web page for Wednesday. The D-backs entered the sport on a heck of a roll. Winners of 12 of their final 14 video games earlier than Tuesday’s setback, they've the finest report within the National League. It had been some time since that they had a clunker of a sport, ...

Gary Cosby Jr.-Tuscaloosa News / USA TODAY NETWORK As a lot as I like a partisan crowd in a playoff sport, there’s one thing to be stated for a event that has a devoted house. Having skilled firsthand each the Men’s College World Series in Omaha and the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the cultural ecosystem that springs up round these competition websites is not like anything in baseball. College baseball followers know the quirks of Charles Schwab Field, they’ve walked the Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge from Omaha to Council Bluffs, Iowa, they know the jello shot leaderboard at Rocco’s Pizza. (Whatever else occurs in baseball this season, nothing shall be funnier than LSU followers discovering themselves in a ingesting competitors with Oral Roberts followers.)...

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NEW YORK — Runs had been troublesome to come back by all weekend at Yankee Stadium, and one large mistake by second baseman Gleyber Torres was simply the break Boston wanted Sunday night time. ...

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The Arizona Diamondbacks rallied from an early four-run deficit earlier than practically blew a four-run lead late. Their supervisor and a reserve infielder have been ejected after the identical participant bought hit by a pitch twice in three innings. ...

SEATTLE -- Scott Servais hardly ever calls out his group’s shortcomings within the public realm, which made the Mariners supervisor’s feedback stand out after their stinging loss on Sunday in Anaheim and once more upon returning to T-Mobile Park on Monday. Baserunning blunders and defensive miscues price them over the weekend. Their beginning rotation had weathered an uncharacteristic spiral for two-plus weeks. And their offense, occurring greater than two months, had been “struggling madly” within the phrases of president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto. “Lack of focus,” Servais stated. Yet within the two days since that public analysis, the Mariners have regarded nothing like a group missing focus. In these 48 hours, they’ve performed arguably their most full video games in successiv...

Troy Taormina-USA TODAY Sports As a measure to enhance baseball for the typical fan — and even the decidedly non-average followers who frequent our pages — I feel the pitch clock has been a convincing success. Trimming virtually half an hour from the size of video games hasn’t diminished baseball itself, with the chopping room flooring primarily plagued by the issues that happen in between the motion. Now, you possibly can argue that we’ve additionally eradicated a few of the dramatic pressure from essential conditions in necessary video games. But for each high-stakes matchup between two nice gamers in a giant second, there have been a mess of unimportant ones stretched out endlessly by a parade of uniform readjustments and crotch reconfigurations. I take pleasure in having a leisure...

NEW YORK (AP) - The New York Yankees’ Hal Steinbrenner says he’s open to different baseball homeowners’ consideration of proposing a wage cap for 2027, however provided that small-market groups just like the Oakland Athletics are topic to a payroll flooring, too. ...