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As the selections announcement dragged on Monday morning, someone on the Long Beach State baseball team mustered a question: Hey, how many regionals are left? The team, which thought it would be comfortably in the 64-team NCAA regional field, started running through which matchups had been revealed.  “We’re like, ‘God, I don’t think there’s many left,’ ” Coach Troy Buckley said. “And next thing you know there isn’t. There’s one…

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Bracket (PDF) SAN FRANCISCO – Four Pac-12 baseball teams earned berths to the 2016 NCAA Baseball Championship, the Division I Baseball Committee announced today. UTAH earned the Pac-12’s automatic bid while ARIZONA, ARIZONA STATE, and WASHINGTON earned at-large selections. Regional action begins on Friday, June 3. All games will be broadcast live on the ESPN Networks. The Pac-12 currently holds an all-time record of 784-474 (.623) in the NCAA Baseball…

If you hadn’t been following college baseball this season and happened to take a cursory glance at the recently released NCAA Tourney field of 64, your first question would probably be some version of “what the hell happened to the West Coast?” Not a single one of the 16 regional host sites is West of Texas, a surprising development for one of the sport’s most talent-saturated areas. It’s a credit…

print AUSTIN, Texas — Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in college baseball history, is out after 20 seasons at Texas. The decision Monday comes after the Longhorns’ first losing season since 1998. Texas will miss the NCAA postseason for the third time in five years. The university said in a statement Monday the 77-year-old Garrido was “relinquishing his duties” as coach and will become special assistant to athletic director Mike…

Mitch Gaspard has resigned as Alabama’s head baseball coach after seven seasons. The Crimson Tide went 234-193 in Gaspard’s tenure, but missed the NCAA Tournament in three of those seasons. He took over for Jim Wells prior to the 2010 season and Alabama reached the Super Regional round, but had not reached that point since then. Alabama also made NCAA regionals in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Alabama was not selected as…

Western Michigan is headed to Louisville to start the NCAA baseball tournament. The Broncos are the only in-state program to make the tournament, as both Michigan and Michigan State were left out of the field of 64 teams announced Monday. Western Michigan (22-32) was the surprise winner of the Mid-American Conference tournament, earning a bid to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1989. The No. 4 seed Broncos…

Mixed Leagues Adam Lind, 1B, Seattle Mariners Aaron Hill, 2B/3B, Milwaukee Brewers Brad Miller, 2B/SS, Tampa Bay Rays Jurickson Profar, 2B/SS, Texas Rangers Coco Crisp, OF, Oakland Athletics Hyun-Jin Ryu, SP, Los Angeles Dodgers Danny Duffy, SP/RP, Kansas City Royals Archie Bradley, SP, Arizona Diamondbacks   AL-Only Paulo Orlando, OF, Kansas City Royals Whit Merrifield, OF, Kansas City Royals Matt Boyd, SP, Detroit Tigers Pat Dean, SP, Minnesota Twins Tim…

Lost in an offseason slog, dreaming of those fall afternoons spent arguing online about the existence of an SEC bias? Don’t worry, the NCAA baseball tourney has your fix! No conference in tournament history has ever earned more than three of the available eight national seeds (which means you get to host the first two rounds at your home park), but the SEC looks poised to do so when…

Monday’s MLB schedule is packed with games starting at different times, so those in daily fantasy baseball contests will have to double-check every entry to make sure the players they want are available in that specific FanDuel or DraftKings tournament. The late-afternoon contests have the most interesting splits (at least on FanDuel, where the Dodgers-Cubs and Rangers-Indians are included on that slate), with the Twins, Reds, Astros, Cubs, Indians and Rangers all…

CORVALLIS – On a day when Oregon State accomplished a feat not seen in the 110 years since its baseball program launched, Luke Heimlich could only think about the coming days. The sophomore pitcher fired his first career complete game Sunday in a 6-0 win over UCLA to conclude the regular season at Goss Stadium. In doing so, the Beavers held their opponent scoreless in a three-game series for the first time in…

Update: The Beavers shut out UCLA 6-0 Sunday afternoon to complete the three-game sweep. They now await their NCAA Tournament fate Monday morning at 9 a.m. Stay tuned for a full game story. Check the comments section for a live updates recap and analysis. UCLA at Oregon State Where: Goss Stadium at Coleman Field When: 11:00 a.m. On air: Pac-12 Network Records: UCLA (25-30, 12-16 Pac-12) at Oregon State (34-19, 15-14 Pac-12) Pac-12 standings: Oregon State is…

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Caption Close CLEARWATER, Fla. – Joe Davis hit his third home run of the tournament, but the University of Houston produced little else at the plate in a 7-2 loss to Connecticut on Sunday in the American Athletic Conference championship game. The loss likely ends the season for the Cougars (36-23),who entered the game on the bubble to make the NCAA Tournament. The AAC is expected to receive only three…

Texas A&M beat Florida 12-5 on Sunday to win the SEC Baseball Tournament in Hoover. See how the game unfolded. LIVE SCORE: Texas A&M 12, Florida 5. NINTH INNING * Florida goes 1-2-3 and Texas A&M wins. EIGHTH INNING * Gators don’t score. * With one out and 2 on, Eddy Demurias on to pitch. Bases loaded walk to the 9 hole hitter Homan makes it 8-5 and we’re at our 2nd pitching…

The best quality Central Missouri will have when it heads into its elimination game against Franklin Pierce 3 p.m. ET Tuesday in the Division II Baseball Championship in Cary, North Carolina, is its resiliency. The Mules are coming off a tough, 4-3 loss to Lander on Saturday at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in which the winning run scored with one out in the bottom of the…

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It’s championship Sunday in the 2016 Big Ten Baseball Tournament at TD Ameritrade Park, home of the College World Series. Coming up at 2:20 p.m. ET: No. 4 Ohio State takes on No. 8 Iowa in the title game (watch on BTN2Go). In completed action, the Buckeyes knocked off No. 7 Michigan State, 7-3, for the second time in as many days to advance to play the Hawkeyes, the event’s…

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings, strategy, and advice for Sunday’s MLB slate. Warning: Don’t get cute on the mound today. With Clayton Kershaw, Chris Sale, Stephen Strasburg starting, and even David Price and Johnny Cueto in tough matchups, there are going to be some huge pitching performances today. Make sure you pay up to get your share of those points.  MORE FANTASY: Prospect rankings | Waiver wire  That means…

CHICAGO (AP) – Officials with the Illinois High School Association is considering a rule that would put a maximum on the number of pitches that can be thrown by a high school baseball player. The proposed rule also would set forth a minimum amount of rest, The Chicago Tribune (http://trib.in/22pJTe6 ) reported. A limit of 105 pitches is favored by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Preston Wolin, who is on the IHSA’s…