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Next Game: UNLV 2/20/2016 – 2 p.m. Live Stats 1260 AM Longhorn Network Listen Live Watch Live Full Schedule Roster AUSTIN, Texas—After jumping out to an early lead, No. 23 Texas Baseball fell in its extra-inning season opener to the visiting UNLV…

LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri and the 11,000 plus fans that took advantage of perfect weather to pile into Alex Box Stadium for Friday’s season opener against Cincinnati learned one thing about Mainieri’s revamped 2016 team. And that’s with seven new starters and a freshmen-filled depth chart, you may not know the names of the players yet. But you will very soon, especially if they keep showing the same resolve…

Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. There are all kinds of stories, rumors, game coverage, and Vines of dudes getting hit in the beans every day. Trying to find all of it while on your way to work or sitting at your desk just isn’t easy. It’s okay, though, we’re going to do the heavy lifting for you each…

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Western Hills baseball(Photo: Hannah Sparling) He fought. He lost. Now, the former Western Hills University High School baseball coach is urging his team to play without him. “Play on and keep fighting; that’s my message to them,” said Matt Phillips, who was initially fired Jan. 14. “You can be upset, which is fine. But you know, you have to move on when things happen in life.” Phillips, who still works security…

Western Hills baseball(Photo: Hannah Sparling) He fought. He lost. Now, the former Western Hills University High School baseball coach is urging his team to play without him. “Play on and keep fighting; that’s my message to them,” said Matt Phillips, who was initially fired Jan. 14. “You can be upset, which is fine. But you know, you have to move on when things happen in life.” Phillips, who still works security…

On Tuesday, we discussed the three most confusing teams in baseball. What are the Pirates, White Sox and Diamondbacks going to do in 2016? No idea. Two of them might meet in the NLCS. Two of them might meet in the World Series. Heck, three of them might meet in the World Series because baseball will always surprise you, can’t predict baseball, you never know about baseball. So on Wednesday,…

Western Hills baseball(Photo: Hannah Sparling) He fought. He lost. Now, the former Western Hills University High School baseball coach is urging his team to play without him. “Play on and keep fighting; that’s my message to them,” said Matt Phillips, who was initially fired Jan. 14. “You can be upset, which is fine. But you know, you have to move on when things happen in life.” Phillips, who still works security…

Caption Close FILE – This June 18, 2002 file photo shows Cal Ripken Jr., right, owner of the Aberdeen IronBirds, and his brother, Bill, walking off the field with their mother, Vi, after she threw out the ceremomial first pitch prior to the team’s season-opening debut at the new Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, Md. Police say Cal Ripken Jr.’s mother is safe after an armed man abducted her from her…

At Least One Top-40 Pitcher Will Be Lost to Tommy John Surgery One of the benefits of drafting as close to Opening Day as possible is that one of your draft picks is less likely to fall victim to a devastating injury in spring training. Granted, there’s no way to predict when an injury will occur, but it’s far less painful when you lose a high draft pick to a…

As a baseball conference, the Big 12 is in an interesting spot. Even when it was really a 12-school league, there were only 10 baseball schools as Colorado and Iowa State did not field teams.  After the Great Shuffling, the conference is down to just nine baseball schools–and with an 8-team conference tournament, that means one school per year has the dubious honor of being the only one not to…

A star high school baseball player set to make his college debut was found dead early Monday in the subzero cold on a Syracuse campus, officials said. Searchers discovered the body of Onondaga Community College freshman Alex Hendry, 19, around 1 a.m. near the college’s baseball and softball fields, according to the school. The former all-county player at Hilton High School in the Rochester area was slated…

We like to joke about predictions being ludicrous and pointless, and how you know they’re wrong if they exist, but more than a few of them end up being right. The Dodgers looked like favorites in the NL West, and then they won the NL West. The Cardinals looked like a postseason team, and then they made the postseason. This predicting stuff, why, it’s simple. Sometimes. And then there…

A college baseball player in Syracuse, New York, who was last seen leaving a party late Saturday night, was found dead early Monday near the school’s baseball fields in temperatures that were well below zero, authorities said. Alex Hendry, a 19-year-old freshman at Onondaga Community College, was reported missing Sunday by his roommate after he failed to return home the previous night, the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Department said in…

Ex-big-leaguer Scott Rolen is a backer of Indiana baseball.(Photo: Frank Victores, USA TODAY Sports) WESTFIELD, Ind. – Abutting the nation’s largest youth sports complex are several as-yet undeveloped lots, a few houses and a nursing home but mostly wide expanses of corn stalks and soybean plants. This Midwestern farmland encloses 31 all-purpose fields for soccer and lacrosse and a 26-ballfield sprawl of Little League and high school diamonds. The latter seems…

Baseball America’s 2016 Top 100 Prospect Rankings Look Good For Red Sox There’s a common theme among the various Major League Baseball prospect rankings that have been released leading up to the 2016 season: The Boston Red Sox’s farm system is in good shape. Baseball America released its annual preseason top 100 prospects list over the weekend, and the Red Sox again were painted in a positive light. Four Red…

The Kalamazoo Growlers are a collegiate summer league baseball team. They’re running a novelty jersey promotion, in which the team will wear an alternate top featuring emoji selected by a fan vote. Now, some parties with ulterior motives would have you, dear reader, elect the eggplant emoji onto this sacred uniform. But do not be misguided. Peach emoji is where it’s at. Peach emoji is where it has always…

The pace of play needs to be picked up in baseball. That is why a set number of timeouts must be added. Sounds counterintuitive – to speed up the game, we must supply managers the ability to stop it. But there already are timeouts. The problem is they are unlimited. A catcher wants to visit the mound, sure, go for it. The same for an infielder. A pitching coach literally…

Baseball America’s 2016 Top 100 Prospect Rankings Look Good For Red Sox There’s a common theme among the various Major League Baseball prospect rankings that have been released leading up to the 2016 season: The Boston Red Sox’s farm system is in good shape. Baseball America released its annual preseason top 100 prospects list over the weekend, and the Red Sox again were painted in a positive light. Four Red…

The Road to Omaha begins with the first pitch of the 2016 college baseball season on Friday. Virginia looks to defend its championship while the Florida Gators are the preseason favorite to win it all. Looking to make a road trip to escape the dead of winter or planning to hit the road this spring? Here’s five great places to take in a college baseball game: …