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One thing South Carolina struggled with last season was winning games when it didn’t play its best. It’s safe to say it found a way Wednesday night without its best effort. John Jones and Alex Destino hit first-inning home runs and Reed Scott and Josh Reagan pitched an efficient final four innings to lead South Carolina to a 5-4 victory over Furman at Founders Park. “You’re not going to play…

FORT MYERS, Fla. — This June 16 will mark two years since Paul Molitor lost his close friend and fellow hall of famer Tony Gwynn at age 54 to parotid (mouth) cancer. Before he died, Gwynn blamed his failing health on years of chewing tobacco on a baseball field, a pastime Molitor still includes as part of his daily work routine. “Tony’s case being an extreme consequence of usage and what…

By Ed Friedrich of the Kitsap Sun BREMERTON — Bob Feller’s Hall of Fame pitching stats have a hole in them. The Hall of Famer’s career was interrupted by four years in the Navy during…

TOKYO—Three top executives at Japan’s oldest and most prestigious baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, will step down after a fourth player admitted this week to betting on baseball games. The latest revelation, just weeks before the start of a new season, is attracting widespread attention and some hand-wringing in Japan. Chief Cabinet…

Say you’re flipping a fair coin, and it comes up heads three times in a row. That’s kind of remarkable. Now, what are the odds the coin comes up heads a fourth time? The correct answer is that the odds are unchanged. There’s always a 50/50 chance the next toss will result in heads. The coin has no memory. It doesn’t know what happened in the past. But humans have…

By Adam Greene, sports@knoxnews.com PIGEON FORGE — For the public, the ribbon cutting and remarks were over quickly Wednesday, but for the children that took the fields at the Ripken Experience Pigeon Forge Youth Baseball Complex, the memories of getting coached up by Hall of Fame shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. might last a…

@BiertempfelTrib The two frames showing just how close the bat was to the boy’s head. pic.twitter.com/7VwnfWp8L1 — Christopher Horner (@Hornerfoto1) March 6, 2016 To celebrate his son Landon’s ninth birthday this weekend, Shaun Cunningham took him to his first baseball game. It was a spring training match between the Atlanta Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates, at a stadium in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Pirates outfielder Danny Ortiz was swinging when…

BRANDON — When Tony Saladino III was growing up, the baseball fields off of Parsons Avenue in Brandon were more than a just place of play, it was a safe haven, even a second home. On Feb. 20, the opening ceremonies for South Brandon Baseball — its first season under the umbrella of Pony Baseball after transitioning from Little League Baseball — once again brought Saladino…

TOKYO—Three top executives at Japan’s oldest and most prestigious baseball team, the Yomiuri Giants, will step down after a fourth player admitted this week to betting on baseball games. The latest revelation, just weeks before the start of a new season, is attracting widespread attention and some hand-wringing in Japan. Chief Cabinet…

You could argue, convincingly, that Mookie Betts already busted out in 2015. The Boston Red Sox outfielder hit .291, after all, with 18 home runs and 21 stolen bases in 145 games. But it’s a testament to the height of Betts’ ceiling that it still feels like he’s just getting started. The big news for the Red Sox this winter was the offseason additions of potential game-changers like ace David…

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The boy who narrowly missed being hit in the face by a wayward baseball bat has explained why he was distracted at the game: He was sending a photo of the game to his mom and sister. And he says his first pro baseball game was “amazing.” Landon Cunningham and his father, Shaun, became celebrities at baseball’s spring training, after Shaun lunged in front of Landon to block the bat…

One father’s quick action likely saved his 8-year-old son from being seriously injured at a baseball game over the weekend. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Dad Shaun Cunningham told ABC News that he was watching the Pirates play the Braves as part…

A rendering of the ball park from Major League Baseball’s website. FORT BRAGG, N.C. (WNCN) — Major League Baseball will build a new ballpark on Fort Bragg where a game between two major-league teams will take place in July, officials said. The Atlanta Braves and the Miami Marlins will play “a first-of-its-kind regular season game in celebration of the nation’s Service members at Fort Bragg,” Major League Baseball officials said….

Talk about a close call. Some quick thinking from a dad blocked an errant baseball bat from hitting his son square in the face this weekend. The incident happened on Saturday at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Complex as the Atlanta Braves took on the Pittsburgh Pirates. Shaun Cunningham of Marion County planned to take his eight-year-old son Landon to his first major league game to watch their favorite baseball…

Freddie Freeman has an extremely chill cat, and now he’s going to have an extremely chill baby boy, as was announced by an exploding baseball: It’s a……!!!! (We have no idea until that ball exploded!!) Video credit: @forthehuynh pic.twitter.com/jZWa0PimXr — Chelsea Freeman (@chelseafree5) March 8, 2016 That’s a pretty cool way to find out/reveal the sex of your child, although I’m glad it was…

One father’s quick action likely saved his 8-year-old son from being seriously injured at a baseball game over the weekend. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Dad Shaun Cunningham told ABC News that he was watching the Pirates play the Braves as part…

BARANQUILLA, Colombia — Baseball, a sure sign of Spring, is around the corner. In the meantime, Major League Baseball’s offseason is “go time” for young players at MLB’s baseball academies in places like the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela. The academies are high-intensity training centers designed to nurture and develop the cream of Latin America’s emerging baseball player crop. However, the vast majority of young academy players don’t get…

A baseball game nearly turned into a disaster this weekend when an errant bat almost hit a little boy in the face. The near-miss happened Saturday when the Pittsburgh Pirates were playing the Atlanta Braves in a spring training game and a Pirates’ player lost his grip on a bat that headed toward the stands. Christopher Horner, a photographer for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, caught the moment on camera when the…