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x Embed x Share CLOSE Lincoln senior shortstop Jesse Hall talks about the Trojans’ 17-game win streak, team bond and goal to win a state championship this week. Brian Miller/Democrat Lincoln’s seniors hold the Class 8A state championship trophy after the Trojans’ baseball team defeated Hagerty 5-1 on Saturday night at Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers.(Photo: Andrea Melendez/The News-Press) Story Highlights The Lincoln baseball team captured the Class 8A state…

BASEBALL SOUTHERN SECTION CHAMPIONSHIPS Saturday •Division 3: Walnut 13, Righetti 2 •Division 5: Katella 3, Chaffey 0 (11) •Division 6: Santa Maria 9, Moreno Valley 0

The Birmingham High baseball coach was winded by so many sprints to the mound trying to keep his pitcher composed. The pitcher was cramping under the hot summer sun at Dodger Stadium, insisting he wasn’t coming out. The fans were getting nervous, particularly the seniors who were supposed to head on a bus to Disneyland for grad night right afterward. Yes, there was a lot of pressure Saturday afternoon on…

The month of May has come and gone, and seemingly taken with it two excellent careers. Ryan Howard hit .184 at Triple-A for the Braves and was released on May 8. A week later, Atlanta star first baseman Freddie Freeman was lost for a few months when he fractured his thumb. The Braves signed James Loney to a minor league deal then traded for Matt Adams rather than rekindle a…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment This interview was conducted in Spanish and has been translated. Read it here. Los Angeles first baseman Adrián González was born in San Diego, then spent several years in Tijuana as a child with his Mexican-born parents. Now, he talks to reporter Marly Rivera about moving back to the U.S. in elementary school, how Mexico is different now and…

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BASEBALL SOUTHERN SECTION CHAMPIONSHIPS Friday •Division 1: El Toro 4, Corona 0 •Division 2: Etiwanda 2, Palm Desert 1 •Division 4: Tahquitz 2, Grace Brethren 1 (8) •Division 7: Arrowhead Christian 14, Faith Baptist 2  

UCLA has been living a season on the brink almost from opening day. The Bruins’ record sat at five games below .500 in the middle of March, necessitating a sustained push for the next 2 1/2 months just to make the postseason. They were back in a familiar spot Friday, needing to stretch wins together to keep playing, after a mistake-filled showing in their NCAA baseball tournament regional opener. A…

Right-hander John Gavin gave up only three hits and struck out 10 in seven innings, second baseman Sahid Valenzuela had three hits, drove in a run and scored the go-ahead run in the fifth inning, and Cal State Fullerton defeated top-seeded Stanford 4-1 on Friday night to improve to 2-0 in the Stanford Regional. The Titans on Saturday night will face the winner of an afternoon elimination game between Stanford…

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This is a good time to be a college baseball fan. +7  The NCAA postseason is here. Sixty-four teams battle one another at 16 regional sites in the first step to reaching the hallowed grounds of Omaha, Nebraska. Fans will fill cozy stadiums, cramming into outfield bleachers while guzzling sodas and downing hot dogs. They’ll spend gobs of money, filtering…

Baseball Bill Holdforth in 2005. (Photo by Ricky Carioti / TWP) Back when he was still bartending at the old Hawk ‘n’ Dove — the original Capitol Hill version, fragrant with history and also bodily fluids — Baseball Bill used to host what he called “Interesting Story Hour” for his regulars. “And people would tell stories that weren’t particularly interesting,” recalled Paul Meagher, another longtime Hawk ‘n’ Dove employee. They…

The red-zone play was called, appropriately enough, “Jump Pass,” and Coach Mike Huber would call it from the sidelines by simply raising both hands in the air, as if to signal a touchdown. He didn’t care if the opposition knew what was coming — they couldn’t defend it anyway. His Linden High quarterback would simply lob a pass into the end zone, where his 6-foot-7, 240-pound wide receiver, a…

LSU baseball’s road to Omaha begins Friday at Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers need at least three wins to advance to a super regional, which also would be played in Baton Rouge. Click here to see the regional tournament bracket. Follow below — or click here — for live updates from LSU’s games.

This is a good time to be a college baseball fan. The NCAA postseason is here. Sixty-four teams battle one another at 16 regional sites in the first step to reaching the hallowed grounds of Omaha, Nebraska. Fans will fill cozy stadiums, cramming into outfield bleachers while guzzling sodas and downing hot dogs. They’ll spend gobs of money, filtering in and out of gift shops and forming lengthy lines at…

That sound? It’s the approaching hoofbeats of June, and June, it so happens, is a big month for baseball on any number of levels. “Why is June a big month for baseball?” you’re presently not asking. Fortunately for you, this scribe’s stock in trade is answering the questions no one is asking.  So here, people of baseball, is why the sport that binds is of central importance in June … …

Buy Photo IU has plenty of reason to smile with their fourth NCAA tournament berth in five years.(Photo: Robert Scheer / IndyStar)Buy Photo Story Highlights IU vs. N.C. State, 7 p.m., Friday, WatchESPN app BLOOMINGTON – For years, when his office was still a hole in the wall off the east hallway at Assembly Hall, former Indiana University baseball coach Tracy Smith kept the future within arm’s reach. Graphic renderings of…

x Embed x Share CLOSE Jake Adams is tied for the national lead in home runs in 2017, and he’s also tied the Big Ten Conference’s all-time single-season record. Jake Adams (35) celebrates a home run with his Iowa teammates.(Photo: Iowa Hawkeyes) HOUSTON — The hardware accumulation continues for Jake Adams. After being unanimously selected as the Big Ten Conference’s player of the year and a first-team all-conference selection, the Iowa…