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Ichiro vs. Pete Rose, it’s the hottest baseball debate of the week. And it got even hotter Wednesday as Ichiro knocked two more hits for the Miami Marlins, bringing his career total to 4,257. [Join a Yahoo Daily Fantasy Baseball contest now] If you know baseball numbers well, you already know the implication: Ichiro “passed” Pete Rose in career hits. Rose’s 4,256 hits are the MLB record. There’s a big asterisk…

Rainy weather struck the Appleton area a little after 5 p.m. Wednesday, forcing a postponement in the start of the WIAA Division 2 state baseball tournament semifinal between second-ranked Lodi and top-ranked Milwaukee Lutheran. The tarpaulin was pulled onto the field at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute shortly after the second Division 3 semifinal ended, a little after 5 p.m. Heavy rains followed, perhaps lasting a…

BANGOR, Maine — The Old Town baseball team capped off a historic day for the school’s athletic program in riveting fashion Wednesday evening. Just hours after the Old Town softball team won its Class B North championship, the top-ranked Coyotes scratched out two fifth-inning runs to back the two-hit pitching of Kaleb Gifford and claim their first title since 1993 with a 2-0 victory over No. 3 Hermon in their…

A rumor that began during the spring came to fruition on Wednesday when Summerville High School baseball coach Banks Faulkner announced to his players that he would be stepping down as head coach effective immediately. Speculation is that Faulkner, who led Summerville to the Class AAAA state championship in May, will be approved as the new head coach at Blythewood High School on Thursday night. Faulkner declined comment…

3:52 PM ET Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email print comment Oh, to be young. Through 10 weeks of the season, seven individuals who have yet to celebrate their 25th birthdays find themselves included among the top 42 starting pitchers on our Player Rater. One of them, a 23-year-old, currently ranks fourth, and another, also 23, recently set a major league record with four consecutive starts of at least six scoreless innings…

DON’T WORRY – THIS IS NOT A LONG READ … TCU’s return to the College World Series will first include a re-match with Big 12 regular season champion the Texas Tech Red Raiders – an ideal time to revisit one of the more popularly absurd stories from both teams this season. Back in late April, TCU hosted Texas Tech in a baseball series at Lupton Stadium in Fort Worth during…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The crowd had gathered at the Gem Theater in Kansas City to watch four of the greatest players in baseball history talk about their careers. But for Andre Dawson, Orlando Cepeda, Tony Oliva and Tim Raines, Saturday night’s Hall of Game ceremony offered both a chance to be honored and to honor others. “The players who came before us,” Raines said, “they paved the way for…

Shut Up and Play the Hits Appreciating Ichiro Suzuki’s worldly claim to baseball history Getty Images My condolences to those who have lost loved ones in the Great Ichiro War of 2016. This week, tensions escalated in certain corners of Baseball Twitter, a community that embraces numbers, spreadsheets, and order. But last night, confusion and chaos reigned. This much is agreed upon: Ichiro Suzuki, lately of the Marlins, formerly of…

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Joey McClung(Photo: Submitted) Days after Joey McClung led Springfield’s baseball team to one of its most successful seasons in years, he resigned as coach. “To be perfectly honest, I was pleased with the way we did this year, but not everybody shared that opinion,” McClung said. “There was a difference of opinion on the direction of the program and since I didn’t think my contract was going to be renewed,…

Buy Photo Montville 3rd baseman Brock Caudill knocks down a hard grounder vs Mountain Lakes during their baseball matchup. April 4, 2015. Montville, N.J. Bob Karp/Staff Photographer.(Photo: staff photo)Buy Photo When Montville lost to Ramapo in an NJSIAA North 1 Group III semifinal on May 31, Brock Caudill could not fathom that his high school baseball career had apparently come to an end. “I was so upset that I didn’t…

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Mississippi State assistant coach Nick Mingione high-fives right fielder Jack Mangum (15) in their game against Southeast Missouri State during an NCAA college baseball regional tournament in Starkville, Miss., Friday, June 3, 2016.(Photo: James Pugh/The Laurel Chronicle, via AP) LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the second time, UK athletic director Mitch Barnhart has turned to a John Cohen assistant to be his new head baseball coach. Mississippi State assistant coach Nick…

Texas A&M’s ‘ball’ chant will rattle any pitcher. Twitter screengrab One of the great differences in college sports vs. professional sports is the fan atmosphere. This isn’t to say professionals sports fans are bad in any shape or form. It’s just that there aren’t taunting chants like you’ll see below in any pro sports setting. Texas A&M, hosting the Super Regional against TCU for the right to go to the…

Texas A&M’s ‘ball’ chant will rattle any pitcher. Twitter screengrab One of the great differences in college sports vs. professional sports is the fan atmosphere. This isn’t to say professionals sports fans are bad in any shape or form. It’s just that there aren’t taunting chants like you’ll see below in any pro sports setting. Texas A&M, hosting the Super Regional against TCU for the right to go to the…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this for Louisville. The No. 2 national seed Cardinals were the Vegas favorite to win the College World Series this year, until UC Santa Barbara came along and spoiled that fun in ridiculously dramatic fashion: a bottom of the ninth one-out grand slam and the Gauchos have punched their ticket to Omaha. This is UCSB’s first ever trip to Omaha, and they join Arizona has…

It wasn’t supposed to happen like this for Louisville. The No. 2 national seed Cardinals were the Vegas favorite to win the College World Series this year, until UC Santa Barbara came along and spoiled that fun in ridiculously dramatic fashion: a bottom of the ninth one-out grand slam and the Gauchos have punched their ticket to Omaha. This is UCSB’s first ever trip to Omaha, and they join Arizona has…

This is the way it’s always going to be with New England college baseball: The season starts, the season ends, and nobody really cares. For those who do care — and, really, we’re talking mostly parents, buddies, students, a few alums and a roving cast of connoisseurs — it ain’t easy. The games get rained out, get re-scheduled, get moved to different sites. Bring a parka and a Thermos and…