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B1G HIGHLIGHT – Indiana, the 2014 tourney champion, had a blast at the home of the College World Series. With the Big Ten Baseball Tournament set to return to Omaha, Nebraska, this season and 2018, the conference announced an extension for TD Ameritrade Park to serve as the host venue from 2019 through 2022, it was announced Tuesday. [ MORE: Watch Chicago Cubs introduce injured Kyle Schwarber ] This year’s…

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – The Youngstown State baseball program announced the addition of a special new teammate on Tuesday as Jacob Sypert, a sixth grader at Roosevelt Elementary in McDonald, became a member of the program. Sypert and the YSU Baseball team have been partnered together as part of the Team IMPACT program, which is a non-profit organization that aims to improve the quality of life for children facing life-threatening and…

April 12, 2016 Rosemont, Ill. – With the Big Ten Baseball Tournament set to return to Omaha, Neb., in 2016 and 2018, the conference announced an extension for TD Ameritrade Park to serve as the host venue from 2019 through 2022. The 2016 Big Ten Baseball Tournament will be back in the home of the NCAA Division I Men’s College World Series from May 25-29 after setting record attendance numbers…

It has been a tough spring for the seniors on the University of Maine baseball team. And with the upperclassmen having suffered through a collective slump, the team has of late relied heavily on its freshmen. UMaine (7-22) snapped a 10-game losing streak Saturday with a doubleheader sweep of the New York Institute of Technology. The victories were spearheaded by the first-year players. Freshmen Danny Casals, Colin Ridley and Jeremy…

Welcome to today’s daily fantasy post! Remember that you can find our posts on the brand-spanking new DFS home page, as well as the fantasy page. Bookmark those sites now! Let’s get to today’s interesting facts, using DraftKings prices. We’ll cover the night slate of games, leaving out only Pirates-Tigers (1:10 p.m. ET) and Diamondbacks-Dodgers (4:10 p.m.) from today’s schedule. Five things to watch 1. So you think Noah Syndergaard is the…

The traditional baseball bat’s characteristics are as universal as they are simple – a cylinder of wood, wide at the barrel and narrow at the handle, with a circular knob at the base. But for the first time in decades, baseball’s most recognizable piece of equipment is getting a major makeover. Continue Reading Below Zepp Labs and Baden Sports are among multiple upstart manufacturers that are tinkering with the…

The sun is setting behind the San Gabriel Mountains, turning California’s mid-spring hillsides to gray and then, steadily, to black. The Dodgers have just earned the tying run against the Angels and I am making healthy progress on my garlic fries and souvenir-size Sprite, my Dodger Dog a distant second-inning memory. To my left, two fans — one in an Angels cap, the other in Dodger blue — argue about…

  The Twins struck out only seven times Monday. We say “only” because they have lofty standards when it comes to whiffs. The Twins have become flag-bearers for flailing, Kings of the K’s. They swing and miss more than a blindfolded golfer. The Twins didn’t reach their quota for strikeouts in the home opener, but they whiffed enough to keep their offense toothless in a 4-1 loss to the Chicago…

Connor Benge HOUSTON – A boy who loves baseball lies in the neurology unit of a Houston hospital after a weekend ballgame in Beaumont where a line drive struck him in the head. Connor Benge threw a fastball from the pitcher’s mound Saturday that a batter hit into the infield. “He pitched, threw a pitch, fastball,” recalled his father, John Benge. “And a kid caught up with it, line-drived right…

You might be tempted to say baseball’s biggest first-week team surprise was the Orioles — the majors’ last remaining undefeated squad. You’d be wrong, however. That distinction instead belongs to the Reds, who just took two of three from the Pirates to improve to 5-1. Sure, the O’s had a messy offseason and were a trendy pick to finish last in the American League East. But the Reds? They were…

There are a lot of objectively and definitively great organizations in baseball. The Royals, Cubs, Pirates, Cardinals and Dodgers are right at the top of the list. The Astros might be up there too. The best of them, though, might be the San Francisco Giants. If you want to know why the Giants have won three titles in the last five seasons, look no further than what they did on…

Connor Benge HOUSTON – A boy who loves baseball lies in the neurology unit of a Houston hospital after a weekend ballgame in Beaumont where a line drive struck him in the head. Connor Benge threw a fastball from the pitcher’s mound Saturday that a batter hit into the infield. “He pitched, threw a pitch, fastball,” recalled his father, John Benge. “And a kid caught up with it, line-drived right…

You might be tempted to say baseball’s biggest first-week team surprise was the Orioles — the majors’ last remaining undefeated squad. You’d be wrong, however. That distinction instead belongs to the Reds, who just took two of three from the Pirates to improve to 5-1. Sure, the O’s had a messy offseason and were a trendy pick to finish last in the American League East. But the Reds? They were…

The Hurricanes didn’t get to play as many games this weekend as they wanted. But the one they did get in — a 10-2 victory over Notre Dame in chilly South Bend — helped make them the nation’s top-ranked baseball team. Miami, which has won nine straight games and 20 of its last 22, took the top spot in the most recent Baseball America Top 25 which was released early…

Fun fact: Bill Dugan, 39, of Roseville caught 5 fouls at today’s @Tigers game, and it’s only the 5th inning! @freep pic.twitter.com/J1DNc8kyek — Robert Allen (@rallenMI) April 11, 2016 This is Bill Dugan, and he did something today you never ever will — caught a total of five balls, and counting. Everyone yearns to catch a single foul ball. People spill drinks over them, risk…

The Colorado Rockies’ Trevor Story has become quite the … phenomenon early in the 2016 season. His hot start to the season has prompted several … articles, and he’s … the talk of baseball. I would also like to create a … narrative around these specific events, so here is an … account of some other hot Aprils in recent memory. My first season as a national baseball writer…

The Hurricanes didn’t get to play as many games this weekend as they wanted. But the one they did get in — a 10-2 victory over Notre Dame in chilly South Bend — helped make them the nation’s top-ranked baseball team. Miami, which has won nine straight games and 20 of its last 22, took the top spot in the most recent Baseball America Top 25 which was released early…

The Emmy award-winning film-maker Ken Burns has made documentaries about the American civil war, jazz, the famous case of the five black and Latino teenagers wrongly convicted of gang-raping a woman in New York’s Central Park and more. Now, he and co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon turn their attentions to baseball legend Jackie Robinson. Their four-hour film will air on PBS on 11-12 April. Related: Donald Trump and the…