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COLUMBIA, S.C. — For the second weekend in a row, South Carolina baseball entered Sunday with a chance to sweep an opponent. And for the second consecutive weekend, the Gamecocks fell without much of a whimper offensively in a series finale. The Gamecocks (5-3) recorded eight hits — only three after the fourth inning — and Chad Holbrook was ejected in a 5-1 loss to Wright State on Sunday at…

From now until the World Baseball Classic begins on March 6, we’ll be helping you get to know each team involved in baseball’s global tournament. Today’s entry: Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has one thing in mind entering the 2017 World Baseball Classic: Repeat. After becoming only the second country to win the Classic in 2013, this well-rounded team has an opportunity to repeat history by joining Japan as back-to-back…

COLUMBIA, S.C. – When South Carolina football took to the practice field Saturday morning, Brandon McIlwain was getting ready for a Saturday afternoon baseball game against Wright State. The sophomore quarterback currently is a sophomore outfielder with the Gamecocks baseball team, leading him to be at Founders Park and not at the first spring football practice Saturday.  Still, in the middle of a busy baseball schedule and academic obligation, McIlwain…

Sez Me … Am I missing something here? Is baseball dying? Is it in ICU? Are priests around the world, not to mention the Pope, giving it extreme unction? No. Baseball is not in need of a Sacrament. It is thriving.  And yet they continue in their efforts to MacGyver it, because, well, this is 2017, and it should be like the bullet train (except the one in California, which…

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU senior left-hander Jared Poche’ tossed eight more innings of no-hit baseball before finally surrendering his first hit of the season in the ninth inning, and the Tigers’ offense was impressive as well, defeating Maryland 14-0. The Tigers improved to 6-1 on the year, while Maryland fell to 1-4 with the loss. Poche’ (2-0, 0.00 ERA), who decided to return for his senior season…

Oakland Athletics ace Sonny Gray hasn’t had much luck lately. In 2016, he posted new full-season worsts in starts (22), ERA+ (70), and strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.24). If 2017 is destined to go better for Gray, then consider this an ominous sign: he will not be permitted to pitch for the United States’ World Baseball Classic team. The reason? Gray was denied insurance coverage for the event, according to Susan Slusser…

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU senior left-hander Jared Poche’ tossed eight more innings of no-hit baseball before finally surrendering his first hit of the season in the ninth inning, and the Tigers’ offense was impressive as well, defeating Maryland 14-0. The Tigers improved to 6-1 on the year, while Maryland fell to 1-4 with the loss. Poche’ (2-0, 0.00 ERA), who decided to return for his senior season…

BATON ROUGE, La. — LSU senior left-hander Jared Poche’ tossed eight more innings of no-hit baseball before finally surrendering his first hit of the season in the ninth inning, and the Tigers’ offense was impressive as well, defeating Maryland 14-0. The Tigers improved to 6-1 on the year, while Maryland fell to 1-4 with the loss. Poche’ (2-0, 0.00 ERA), who decided to return for his senior season…

Marcia Martinez Staff Writer @MMartinezSJR The University of Illinois Springfield is offering a course focused on America’s pastime: baseball. Several UIS baseball players are enrolled this semester in Baseball: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The class teaches baseball through economics, history, politics, technology and culture. “I said, ‘Absolutely. Sign me up,” explained UIS senior outfielder Trey Hannam. “We started off in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It…

I did not wake up today expecting to write about a spring training home run. Do you remember the first spring training homer from last year? You do not. No one cared by the next morning, and too much “HERE’S THE FIRST HOMER OF SPRING” is bad for your health. This damned homer, though. This damned homer. Start with Aaron Judge, who eats granite and juggles bears. He is a…

Just when you think you have a handle on a player’s value, the format question rears its ugly head. “He’s more valuable in Format A than Format B,” Pundit C says on Program D. And you die a li Want more for Draft Day? Well, you can live again, because I’m here to set the record straight for the two formats most played on CBS Sports: Rotisserie and Head-to-Head. For…

As the 70th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the baseball’s color barrier nears, baseball l commissioner Rob Manfred said he is committed to increasing the participation of African-Americans in the sport. Black players accounted for 8.3 percent of rosters in 2016, according to MLB. The highest percentage was 19 in 1986, MLB said, citing researcher Mark Armour from the Society for American Baseball Research. advertisement | advertise on newsday…

Tommy John we know. Tommy John we can handle. When Matt Harvey had Tommy John surgery at the end of the 2013 season, it hurt coming off a Cy Young-caliber breakthrough, but it also felt just right, like the chapter you’re always tempted to skip in a story you’ve read time and time again. But this … thoracic outlet syndrome? That sounds super clinical and imposing … and obscure enough…

   Spring training games are beginning, and the weather here is feeling unseasonably springlike, so I’m starting to think seriously about another baseball season.    One thing I’m not looking forward to is the snail-like pace of some major league games, an issue that could be addressed rather easily if players and owners could come to agreements about it.    I see that they’re going to dispense with throwing four…

I did not wake up today expecting to write about a spring training home run. Do you remember the first spring training homer from last year? You do not. No one cared by the next morning, and too much “HERE’S THE FIRST HOMER OF SPRING” is bad for your health. This damned homer, though. This damned homer. Start with Aaron Judge, who eats granite and juggles bears. He is a…

Getty Images Former Chiefs safety Sanders Commings is attempting to join the exclusive club of players who have played in both the National Football League and Major League Baseball. Commings, a 2013 fifth-round pick who was limited by injuries to just two games with the Chiefs, has signed a minor league contract with the Atlanta Braves organization. At 26 years old and having not played baseball since high school, Commings…

The four-pitch intentional walk, a relic from baseball’s past used at declining rates in the modern game, died on Wednesday, when Major League Baseball and its Players Association agreed to replace it with an automatic walk triggered by a signal from the dugout. The curious part was its cause of death: It was sacrificed in the name of shorter games. That is curious, to say the least, because the intentional…

8:00 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — After 17 professional spring trainings, Jake Peavy‘s instincts point him toward the comfort of a baseball diamond. He should be arriving bleary-eyed at the clubhouse with a cup of coffee at 7 a.m. and getting ready for a bullpen session, rather than working out at his ranch in Alabama and coaching part time just up the…

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, in collaboration with his quisling associates in the players’ union, is apparently ready to do away with the normal and basic baseball act of four balls leading to a walk. He and they have agreed to a scheme by which the intentional walk doesn’t physically occur, but is simply motioned for from the dugout. Advertisement This is revolting, not just because Manfred is a…

Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred, in collaboration with his quisling associates in the players’ union, is apparently ready to do away with the normal and basic baseball act of four balls leading to a walk. He and they have agreed to a scheme by which the intentional walk doesn’t physically occur, but is simply motioned for from the dugout. Advertisement This is revolting, not just because Manfred is a…