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Rutgers two-sport athlete Jawuan Harris has been sidelined for the past two weeks as the result of an unspecified athletic department violation. A scholarship wide receiver, Harris is currently a member of the baseball team. Harris appeared in the first 40 games of the season, including 39 starts, but the speedy outfielder has been out of the lineup since an April 24 game against Penn State. “Jawuan Harris is still a part…

Our daily fantasy baseball picks continue with starting pitcher rankings and advice for Wednesday’s MLB slate. As a former pitcher, I’m a huge fan of pitching duels. That’s why I’m in love with today’s matchups: Mat Latos vs. Cole Hamels (both undefeated); Chris Archer vs. Taijuan Walker; Marcus Stroman vs. Madison Bumgarner; Jordan Zimmermann vs. Max Scherzer in the odd double-revenge game against former teams; Noah Syndergaard vs. Kenta Maeda.  MORE FANTASY:…

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Cal Ripken Jr. directs Damon Vargas, 9, during Scotts and MLB It’s Good Out Here Field Refurbishment Program at Tom Conley Field on Monday in Ladson, South Carolina. (Photo by Dan Hale/MLB Photos) They’re going about it different ways and in different roles, but few people are as committed to making baseball more appealing to kids than Cal Ripken Jr. and Bryce Harper. Ripken, who in December was hired as a…

The weather in Hyogo, Japan, was mostly sunny with a chance of fish. A half-digested fish that rained on the outfield of Koshien stadium in western Japan caused a baseball game to be delayed for a few minutes on Sunday. According to a spokeswoman for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team, the condition of the fish made it clear that it couldn’t have been thrown in from the stands and…

“My focus is caught between, ‘How am I going to let my guys know,’ versus, ‘We’ve got to play two games and we’ve got to win both of these games,’” Fischer said. “I’m going through the roller coaster of emotions that day.”

Looking for daily fantasy baseball picks, strategy and advice? You’ve come to right place. This is the DFS MLB Playbook for Tuesday, featuring all the MLB DFS info you need to know from Sporting News partners FantasyAlarm.com. Catcher is one of the most loaded positions tonight, and there’s value all over the board among the starting pitchers. However, with bad pitching at Coors Field, you can load up on hitters from the Diamondbacks-Rockies game. Oakland…

Last month, Nationals wunderkind Bryce Harper grabbed some attention for wearing a Trump-esque “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Here’s the photo, in case you’ve somehow missed it: Bryce Harper wearing a “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Love it, so much. pic.twitter.com/zESqRjO0qN — Mr. Schäfer (@misterschafer) April 5, 2016 Harper also called baseball “tired” a few weeks back, referring the game’s old school mentality and the way players are not allowed…

print John Young, who founded RBI, a youth baseball program designed to bring African-American youth back to the sport, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 67. “All of us at Major League Baseball are saddened by the loss of John Young, a trailblazer and champion of both professional and youth baseball,” commissioner Rob Manfred wrote in a statement Monday. John Young, who founded RBI, a youth baseball program designed…

Last month, Nationals wunderkind Bryce Harper grabbed some attention for wearing a Trump-esque “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Here’s the photo, in case you’ve somehow missed it: Bryce Harper wearing a “Make Baseball Fun Again” hat. Love it, so much. pic.twitter.com/zESqRjO0qN — Mr. Schäfer (@misterschafer) April 5, 2016 Harper also called baseball “tired” a few weeks back, referring the game’s old school mentality and the way players are not allowed…

Both LSU and Tulane moved forward in the national baseball rankings Monday after weekend sweeps of Arkansas and South Florida, respectively. The Tigers (31-16) jumped as many as six spots in the Collegiate Baseball poll and has high as No. 11 on the Baseball America list. Coach Paul Mainieri’s squad heads to Notre Dame for midweek matchups Tuesday and Wednesday as No. 11, No. 16 and No. 21, according to…

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There’s throw-the-ball-over-the-plate accuracy, and then there’s throw-the-ball-through-a-cylindrical-object-that’s-falling-50-feet-away accuracy. Ryan Mason has the second one. .@Cal_Baseball‘s Ryan Mason w/ the INSANE accuracy pic.twitter.com/HpxBPUli11 — Pac-12 Network (@Pac12Network) May 7, 2016 We have questions: – How many tries did this take? – Where is this cylindrical object falling from? – Why do they just happen to have a perfectly cylindrical object that fits the size…

Harper was intentionally walked with two men on in the 12th for his record-tying sixth walk of the day. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) CHICAGO – Bryce Harper brought one of those pink bats most major leaguers use on Mother’s Day to home plate at Wrigley Field seven times Sunday. He never swung it. Six times, the Chicago Cubs walked him, tying a major league record. Once, they hit him….

Harper was on base a lot in Chicago. (USATSI) The Cubs swept the Nationals on four games, culminating with a 4-3 extra-innings win on Sunday thanks to a Javier Baez walk-off homer. It was also thanks in part to walking Bryce Harper six times, tying an MLB record. Three times Harper was put on base intentionally, twice in extra innings to load the bases (more on the “Barry Bonds” treatment…

With eight games over four days at Wrigley Field and U.S. Cellular Field this weekend, Chicago was treated to a baseball smorgasbord. And for good measure, we also got a taste of all four seasons, with a winter chill on Thursday night, summer breezes on Friday, a cool fall day on Saturday and a gorgeous spring afternoon for Mother’s Day on Sunday. Everything fell into place for the first-place Cubs,…

Tears streamed down Til Strudwick’s face as he looked on at the orange flag rippling in the wind Sunday afternoon. On it, in black, was the word “HERE” in capital letters. For Strudwick, 65, a diehard baseball fan, it was more than just a replica of the flag that marked where lauded Orioles outfielder Frank Robinson hit the first home run out of Memorial Stadium exactly 50 years ago. It…