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BOSTON (AP) David Ortiz doubled with two outs in the 11th inning after lining a tying triple in the ninth and earlier moving into 20th place on the career home run list, sending the Boston Red Sox past the Houston Astros 6-5 on Saturday. Boston’s Jackie Bradley Jr. singled in the first inning, extending the majors’ longest hitting streak to 20 games. George Springer hit a grand slam and Carlos…

“I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time,” Bundy said. “Losing these seniors, taking them through T-ball all the way through, it’s bittersweet.” While the sweet from the second game for Enterprise came in a 10-1 lead after the second inning, the bitter was the never-quit comeback shown from North Sevier. The 2A East champions forced the final battle by beating Enterprise 9-4…

Bryce Harper is continuing his quest to make baseball fun again Saturday. His most recent effort involves an incredibly fun bat decal that reads “MBFA 2016” or “Make Baseball Fun Again 2016.” Keep fighting the good fight.

Soon after his son’s death, Mike Irwin knew he wanted to do something important in his memory. Hunter Irwin died in 2014 at age 23, and his dad spent the next two years grieving and contemplating what would best honor Hunter’s life. On a recent Saturday morning, Mike and his wife, Sandra, stood alongside a memorial plaque mounted on a handsome white pedestal, part of a large crowd gathered to…

9:47 PM ET print In an effort to serve daily fantasy players and season-long fantasy players who use daily lineup settings, we present daily notes each day of the season. It’s a daily version of our Fantasy Forecaster in which we project the best pitcher game scores, as well as the best team hitting matchups based upon a number of factors. Pitching GS: The pitcher’s projected “game score,” from Bill…

Buy Photo Orchard Lake St. Mary’s baserunner Griffin Sheposh steals second against Mt. Pleasant’s Obie Ricumstrict in the baseball Div. 2 MHSAA state championship on Saturday, June 13, 2015 at McLane Baseball Stadium in East Lansing.(Photo: Kirthmon F. Dozier, Detroit Free Press)Buy Photo The last time Mt. Pleasant won the state’s top baseball championship in 1996, none of the current players had been born. But that doesn’t mean it’s been…

BAYONNE — To the delight of parents and children alike, Mr. Met visited a special-needs baseball program this morning. The official mascot of the New York Mets came to 11th Street Park to support the Buddy Baseball League, which was started last year for mentally and physically challenged city residents ages 4 to 21. Earlier this year, SportsNet New York, the TV home of the New York Mets, awarded the league a…

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Saturday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. At the time of this writing, the two games that may have rain in play are Marlins-Nationals and Twins-Indians. The rain should hold off until later in the day in Washington, so in reality, the main game that’s in trouble there is…

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings and advice for Saturday’s MLB slate. Before we get into today’s rankings, we should point out that as of Friday night, the Nationals official website says Stephen Strasburg, not Tanner Roark, is pitching the first game of Saturday’s Marlins-Nats doubleheader. Both FanDuel and DraftKings have Roark listed among the early starters, so hopefully the Nats’ site is wrong and DFS players…

Elevator ↑Mooresville baseball: Seeded No. 21 in the N.C. 4A West playoffs, the Blue Devils upset No. 5 seed Hough 6-2 Friday. ↑Charlotte Country Day baseball: No. 5 seed Bucs (19-12) beat No. 4 Charlotte Christian (23-12) 5-4 to advance to next week’s semifinals against Wesleyan Christian or Wake Christian. ↑Lake Norman Charter baseball: beat R-S Central 2-1 to advance to third round of the N.C. High School Athletic Association…

Jake Stone had a two-run homer and a two-run triple to back Ricky Tyler Thomas’ strong pitching and lead Fresno State to a 9-1 win over UNLV in a Mountain West baseball game Friday at Wilson Stadium. Stone’s two-run triple was one of four straight hits in a five-run fifth inning by the Bulldogs (34-17, 20-8), the final of which was a two-run homer by Aaron Arruda, who also had…

Welcome to The Walk Off, the nightly MLB recap from Big League Stew. Here we’ll look at the top performers of the night, show you a must-see highlight and rundown the scoreboard. First, we start with a game you need to know about.  With Clayton Kershaw off to a historic start for the Dodgers and Jake Arrieta picking up where he left off as last season’s NL Cy Young winner,…

PASADENA, Calif. • When the Navy wouldn’t let Mitch Harris leave it for baseball, Mitch Harris made sure to bring baseball with him. He wasn’t going to be inactive on active duty. For five years and a handful of deployments around the world, Harris served his country with honor and brought two baseball gloves and a few baseballs so that he could do whatever possible to keep his…

It should be said up front that however distant, a dream run to Omaha for the 2016 Texas Longhorns baseball team is not technically dead. While there is zero chance of an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament, the Longhorns could repeat the feat of 2015 and slip in as Big 12 Tournament champions. But therein lies part of the reason why, no matter what happens in the postseason,…

Whether it’s hockey or baseball, cats just can’t seem to stay away from the high-stakes world of sports. An Angels-Cardinals game was briefly halted this week when an eager orange cat sprinted across the diamond, making it pretty far into the stands before an official scooped him up. Unfortunately, the cat did not round the bases in a mid-game stunner, but if he knew what bases were, we are confident…

MILROY, Minn. – On the first Sunday in May, the Milroy Irish opened their fifth season of play at Irish Yard, a baseball diamond carved into a soybean field on the outskirts of this southwestern Minnesota town. About 60 fans showed up – a small weekend crowd by Irish standards, but decent considering the breezy, high-50s weather – to watch the Irish hold on for a 6-5 win over Stark,…

LSU will attempt to tie its longest winning streak of the season Friday at Tennessee. The No. 11 Tigers (33-16, 14-10) return to SEC play as winners of their past five with this weekend’s games scheduled for 5 p.m. Friday, 12 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday. Follow live updates of the first contest in the comments stream below. “Momentum’s huge at this point in the season,” junior catcher Jordan…

Major League Baseball handed down Jose Reyes‘ suspension for his domestic violence incident this offseason, and it will see him forfeit his salary for the first two months of the season. Reyes will be eligible to return to action June 1, as he has agreed not to appeal the discipline. With the Rockies‘ shortstop position seemingly set with Trevor Story, Reyes might not have a job waiting for him even…