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Matt Olson hit his first two major league home runs, Jaycob Brugman and Franklin Barreto also launched their first career shots and the Oakland Athletics routed the Chicago White Sox 10-2 on Saturday. Barreto homered in his big league debut. He joined Olson and Brugman in becoming the second trio of teammates to hit their first homers in the same game, the Elias Sports Bureau said. It also happened in…

The Corpus Christi Hooks celebrated and hosted members of the 1967 King baseball team — the first city team to win a University Interscholastic League state title — on Saturday. Quinton Martinez

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8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Nelson Cruz’ career spans two decades and four teams. He’s earned four All-Star appearances, an ALCS MVP award, a Silver Slugger award and the 2014 home run title. But his journey wasn’t always smooth. He spoke with Marly Rivera about moving to the U.S. two decades ago, and how…

Josh Jackson is extremely good at basketball.  That is why the Phoenix Suns chose him with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft on Thursday night, as they hope he can join fellow youngsters Devin Booker and Marquese Chriss on their rebuilding journey.  They did not pick him because of his baseball skills, which is a good thing, because as he showed Friday night, Josh Jackson is…

Josh Jackson is extremely good at basketball.  That is why the Phoenix Suns chose him with the No. 4 overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft on Thursday night, as they hope he can join fellow youngsters Devin Booker and Marquese Chriss on their rebuilding journey.  They did not pick him because of his baseball skills, which is a good thing, because as he showed Friday night, Josh Jackson is…

Matt Mika, the director of government relations for Tyson’s D.C. office, was sent to the Washington hospital after suffering multiple gunshot wounds to the chest when a lone gunman fired on the June 14 practice. | AP Photo By Cristiano Lima 06/23/2017 08:09 PM EDT Matt Mika, the Tyson Foods lobbyist who was one of five victims injured during the shooting at a congressional baseball practice last week, was discharged…

What have they done to my game? Baseballs are flying out of ballparks in record numbers. They are on pace this year to go over 6,000! Hitters are conversely striking out in record numbers. Managers are using relief pitchers in record numbers and the game itself has become almost unrecognizable from the tidy 2½-hour strategy-fests that so captured the nation’s conscience for over 100 years. Strategy? There is…

In Sunday night’s game, it routinely took O’Sullivan 10 to 17 seconds to signal Rivera once the pitcher had the ball. The tempo improved two nights later when Florida played again. O’Sullivan, in his sixth trip to the Series, shrugged off the first night pokiness as an anomaly. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “The first game is always a little weird,” he said. Last year’s College World Series games…

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If you pay any attention to baseball, you know about the narrative that the sport is circling the drain. As my colleague Bryan Curtis chronicled, the first known assertion that baseball is dying dates from 1868, and the flood of cautionary notices and premature memorials hasn’t slowed since. The latest alarm comes from Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci, in a piece published Tuesday. “What Happened to Baseball?” the article inquires. “Home…

What have they done to my game? Baseballs are flying out of ballparks in record numbers. They are on pace this year to go over 6,000! Hitters are conversely striking out in record numbers. Managers are using relief pitchers in record numbers and the game itself has become almost unrecognizable from the tidy 2½-hour strategy-fests that so captured the nation’s conscience for over 100 years. Strategy? There is…

LSU baseball meets Oregon State at 3 ET on Friday, June 23 in an elimination game for the Tigers. It will be broadcast nationally on ESPN. LSU lost to Oregon State 13-1 on Monday to put it in the losers bracket. The Tigers have to defeat the Beavers twice on Friday and Saturday to advance to the championship series of the College World Series. LSU vs. Oregon State baseball live…

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The Negro League Baseball history is huge. That was quite evident on Wednesday when the Major League Baseball Players Association and Major League Baseball announced that they are jointly contributing $1 million to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. The grant should serve as inspiration for future generations of minority kids to play baseball by helping the NLBM sustain and preserve the history…

Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise addresses the media on December 6, 2016. On Wednesday, his condition was upgraded to fair a week after he was shot on a Virginia baseball field. Mark Wilson/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Wilson/Getty Images Louisiana Rep. Steve Scalise addresses the media on December 6, 2016. On Wednesday, his condition was upgraded to fair a week after he was shot on a Virginia baseball field….

Stadium beer sales are a costly microcosm of the beer industry itself. Kevin Zelko is a sales manager for Alpha Distributing in Kent, Wash., and makes his living sending beer brands including AleSmith, Epic, Boulder Beer, De Garde and Trinity to market. However, for more than a decade, he’s also been selling beers during Seattle Mariners baseball games at Safeco Field…