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What a disgrace, those of us in sports journalism protested to you in the immediate wake of the news Tuesday that Fredi Gonzalez was fired as Atlanta’s skipper. How can Major League Baseball, we demanded, look itself in the mirror in 2016 with Gonzalez having been the lone Latin manager in a game where over a quarter of the players are of Spanish-speaking origin? How preposterous are such optics in…

10:00 AM ET print Maybe it’s inevitable. Maybe it’s unavoidable. Maybe it’s simply built into the fabric of the sport. Maybe baseball games are just destined to take three hours to play. No matter what clocks are ticking. No matter what rules are changed. No matter what, period. Maybe. Just don’t tell that to the commissioner. “I’m not prepared to accept the fact that we’re always going to play three-hour…

Reds reliever Steve Delabar entered Tuesday’s game against the Indians in the fifth inning with his team already down 8-0. Delabar came in with the runners on first and third and one out. After walking Jason Kipnis to load the bases, Delabar struck out Francisco Lindor. One more out and Delabar was out of the jam. Instead, the 34-year-old reliever walked four straight Indians with the bases loaded, all on…

High school sports teams call themselves families so often, that it’s become cliche. Most dismiss it as the lip service it usually is, just coaches and athletes assigning a bond that doesn’t actually exist. But when J.J. Smith needed family the most, he found it in his Basic baseball teammates. Smith’s father, Jerry, died after a long illness May 8 at the age of 49. Two days later, the Wolves…

Texas second baseman Rougned Odor has been suspended eight games for punching Blue Jays outfielder José Bautista in the face on Sunday, forcing baseball to suffer more than a week without its most accomplished pugilist. The 5ft 11in, 195lbs infielder with predictable nickname “Stink” has a reputation for packing a heavyweight punch despite his cruiserweight size. Long before Odor socked Bautista square in the jaw for baseball crimes ranging from…

x Embed x Share A look at the teams from Monmouth and Ocean counties that have distinguished themselves as the best of the best over the years Buy Photo Wall players celebrate a pair of seventh inning runs in their win over Raritan in the 2004 NJSIAA Group III final.(Photo: File photo)Buy Photo There’s nothing like the sight of players spilling from a dugout and meeting on the diamond in…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Wednesday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. First, I did not run the numbers for today’s early slate. Thus, the Playbook, Rankings and Optimal Lineups — all available to our Playbook Pro members — will NOT feature players from the early games. All of the big-money contests and qualifiers…

by: Jenna Deery Updated: May 18, 2016 – 11:45 AM CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A 6-year-old boy is recovering from a severe head injury after officials said he was hit by a baseball at a Charlotte Knights game over the weekend. Officials said they are staying in contact with the boy’s family and helping them in any way possible. The boy, James David, was in the BB&T Ballpark stands near third…

10:00 AM ET print Maybe it’s inevitable. Maybe it’s unavoidable. Maybe it’s simply built into the fabric of the sport. Maybe baseball games are just destined to take three hours to play. No matter what clocks are ticking. No matter what rules are changed. No matter what, period. Maybe. Just don’t tell that to the commissioner. “I’m not prepared to accept the fact that we’re always going to play three-hour…

x Embed x Share Coach Dan McDonnell recaps 9-2 win over IU Steve Jones, The C-J Buy Photo Louisville’s Will Smith slides into third ahead of the ball. May 17, 2016(Photo: Scott Utterback/The CJ )Buy Photo The University of Louisville baseball team used an eight-run sixth inning Tuesday night to push past Indiana University 9-2, capping the Cardinals’ best regular-season home campaign in the modern era, finishing undefeated in midweek games and…

The bullpen interview prank isn’t a new invention. South Carolina did it, Mississippi State also participated — but North Carolina pulled out all the stops on Monday night when pitcher Zac Gallen got the call in a dugout. It started simply enough with the old “bubblegum on the cap” trick, then it escalated. There were banana phones and cup goggles. Dancing. And even a mid-game meal….

Good luck trying to make sense of Jason Heyward’s offensive struggles this season. Heyward is a career .266 hitter with a .777 OPS, yet he sits at .236 and .620, repectively, in those marks entering play Tuesday. Heyward is riding a quiet seven-game hitting streak in which he’s raised his season average 34 points. He was 5-for-11 against the Pittsburgh Pirates over the weekend, but he’s not ready to tempt…

Chipper Jones knows a thing or two about baseball’s “unwritten rules.” A 19-year MLB veteran, Jones spent the majority of his storied career playing under legendary Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, whose traditionalist views on the sport did not include much patience for boisterous home run celebrations. Continue Reading Below Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista and Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper are leaders among baseball’s new school –…

Chipper Jones knows a thing or two about baseball’s “unwritten rules.” A 19-year MLB veteran, Jones spent the majority of his storied career playing under legendary Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox, whose traditionalist views on the sport did not include much patience for boisterous home run celebrations. Continue Reading Below Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista and Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper are leaders among baseball’s new school –…

The bullpen interview prank isn’t a new invention. South Carolina did it, Mississippi State also participated — but North Carolina pulled out all the stops on Monday night when pitcher Zac Gallen got the call in a dugout. It started simply enough with the old “bubblegum on the cap” trick, then it escalated. There were banana phones and cup goggles. Dancing. And even a mid-game meal….

The Cubs would have scored the Jake Arrieta trade as a major victory even if Jake Arrieta never threw a pitch in a Cubs uniform and kept bouncing to the next Triple-A affiliate, teasing a different organization with his potential. Pedro Strop has been that good. Arrieta eclipsed Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw in last year’s National League Cy Young Award voting, overshadows the $155 million lefty (Jon Lester) in…

If you took my daily fantasy baseball lineup advice last Tuesday, you received three home runs from Lorenzo Cain and Kevin Gausman’s nine Ks. As long as you didn’t fill in the rest of your roster with zeroes, you should’ve been able to cash in either FanDuel or DraftKings contests. On the flip side, if you listened to my warning and avoided Gregory Polanco all week, you dodged his miserable 14 at-bats which produced just three…

The bullpen interview prank isn’t a new invention. South Carolina did it, Mississippi State also participated — but North Carolina pulled out all the stops on Monday night when pitcher Zac Gallen got the call in a dugout. It started simply enough with the old “bubblegum on the cap” trick, then it escalated. There were banana phones and cup goggles. Dancing. And even a mid-game meal….

The Cubs would have scored the Jake Arrieta trade as a major victory even if Jake Arrieta never threw a pitch in a Cubs uniform and kept bouncing to the next Triple-A affiliate, teasing a different organization with his potential. Pedro Strop has been that good. Arrieta eclipsed Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw in last year’s National League Cy Young Award voting, overshadows the $155 million lefty (Jon Lester) in…