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Yomiuri Giants pitcher Fukuda suspended for bets on baseball – FOXSports.com
TOKYO (AP) A pitcher for the Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s most popular baseball team, has been suspended for betting on games, including those involving his own team. Satoshi Fukuda bet on 10 Nippon Professional Baseball games and 10 major league games in an attempt to win back money he lost gambling on high school baseball games in August. The NPB games included three or four involving Yomiuri. In all, Fukuda is…
Dale Hansen: Winning baseball in a football town – WFAA
Oct 4, 2015; Arlington, TX, USA; The Texas Rangers celebrate their win over the Los Angeles Angels at Globe Life Park in Arlington. The Texas Rangers defeat the Angels 9-2 and clinch the American League West division.(Photo: Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports) I really shouldn’t let this bother me anymore, but it does — especially when you realize I’ve been listening to it for more than 30 years now — but…
CC Sabathia checks into alcohol rehab, will not pitch in postseason – CBSSports.com
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A’s promote Beane to president of baseball operations, name Forst GM – CBSSports.com
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Supreme court won’t hear challenge to baseball antitrust immunity – Reuters
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Major League Baseball’s long-standing exemption from U.S. antitrust laws brought by San Jose as part of the California’s city’s effort to become the new home of the Oakland Athletics. The court’s decision not to take the case means a January appeals court ruling that said San Jose cannot seek a court order allowing the Athletics to move to the…
A comprehensive guide to the best of baseball’s champagne showers – SB Nation
Baseball is very traditionalist and the seasons are very long. Combine the two and you get postseason clincher champagne/beer showers (!!!). Photo: John Sleezer/Pool via USA TODAY Sports The players, obviously, love it — a chance to let loose, you’ve made it to the postseason — but others aren’t such huge fans of the pre-World Series win partying. The hate mostly peaked around 2013, which was shortly after…
This Week in (Dumb) Baseball: About the MLB playoff format – CBSSports.com
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Supreme court won’t hear challenge to baseball antitrust immunity – Reuters
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Major League Baseball’s long-standing exemption from U.S. antitrust laws brought by San Jose as part of the California’s city’s effort to become the new home of the Oakland Athletics. The court’s decision not to take the case means a January appeals court ruling that said San Jose cannot seek a court order allowing the Athletics to move to the…
A comprehensive guide to the best of baseball’s champagne showers – SB Nation
Baseball is very traditionalist and the seasons are very long. Combine the two and you get postseason clincher champagne/beer showers (!!!). Photo: John Sleezer/Pool via USA TODAY Sports The players, obviously, love it — a chance to let loose, you’ve made it to the postseason — but others aren’t such huge fans of the pre-World Series win partying. The hate mostly peaked around 2013, which was shortly after…
4 Moments That Changed the 2015 Baseball Season – ABC News
It could have been one of the most memorable comebacks in Los Angeles Angels history, but instead it will go down as a mere footnote. When the Angels scored five runs in the ninth inning Saturday to beat the Texas Rangers 11-10, they kept themselves in the postseason race for another day and prevented Texas from clinching the AL West. Then on Sunday, Texas beat the Angels, wrapping up the…
New Yorkers urged to be on alert for baseball ticket frauds – Albany Times Union
Caption Close New York Mets fans celebrate the Mets season with a banner in center field after the Mets concluded the regular season with a 1-0 shutout of the Washington Nationals in a baseball game in New York, Sunday, Oct. 4, 2015. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) ORG XMIT: NYM125 Photo: Kathy Willens New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom, left, and New York Mets relief pitcher Tim Stauffer, and the Mets…
Was Max Scherzer’s 17-strikeout gem the greatest no-hitter in baseball history? – Washington Post
Max Scherzer celebrates his no-hitter Saturday against the Mets. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) FLUSHING, N.Y. — Part of baseball’s enduring appeal is ambiguity, the grey area where numbers and eras and circumstance blur, leaving statistics up for debate, rendering words like “the greatest” less definitive than they seem. Was Max Scherzer’s no-hitter the greatest in baseball history? Maybe, but first field all the qualifiers: He threw it on a chilly, rainy…
GM Jeff Bridich on Rockies’ ups and downs of bottom-line baseball – The Denver Post
On The Rox blog Boxscores of Rox games Rockies photos Rockies Mailbag archive Ask Mailbag questions Rox stats, roster Live scores in MLB SAN FRANCISCO — Another losing chapter in Rockies history comes to a close Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park against the Giants. The Rockies will finish last in the National League West for the third time in four years. It was not the leap forward new general manager…
Close vote likely coming on Macon baseball study – Washington Times
MACON, Ga. (AP) – A study to determine Macon-Bibb County’s ability to support a professional baseball team could come down to a close vote this week. The Macon Telegraph (http://bit.ly/1VyeypO ) reports that four commissioners said last week they plan to vote in favor of the $50,000 feasibility study Tuesday. The study would need support from at least five of the nine commissioners to pass. Two other commissioners have said…
Was Max Scherzer’s 17-strikeout gem the greatest no-hitter in baseball history? – Washington Post
Max Scherzer celebrates his no-hitter Saturday against the Mets. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) FLUSHING, N.Y. — Part of baseball’s enduring appeal is ambiguity, the grey area where numbers and eras and circumstance blur, leaving statistics up for debate, rendering words like “the greatest” less definitive than they seem. Was Max Scherzer’s no-hitter the greatest in baseball history? Maybe, but first field all the qualifiers: He threw it on a chilly, rainy…
GM Jeff Bridich on Rockies’ ups and downs of bottom-line baseball – The Denver Post
On The Rox blog Boxscores of Rox games Rockies photos Rockies Mailbag archive Ask Mailbag questions Rox stats, roster Live scores in MLB SAN FRANCISCO — Another losing chapter in Rockies history comes to a close Sunday afternoon at AT&T Park against the Giants. The Rockies will finish last in the National League West for the third time in four years. It was not the leap forward new general manager…
Texas Wins Division Title on Baseball’s Final Day – Voice of America
WASHINGTON— Major League Baseball’s regular season wrapped up on Sunday with the league taking a scheduling page out of international soccer’s playbook. All of the games across the United States were scheduled at the same time to avoid having a situation in which a team in playoff contention competing in a later game might utilize different starters depending on how an earlier game ended. Last…
Scherzer nearly reached baseball immortality with two perfect games this season – MASNsports.com
FLUSHING, N.Y. – Max Scherzer became just the sixth pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw two no-hitters in the same season in the game’s storied history. But do you know how close he was to tossing two perfect games? How about Jose Tabata’s dropped elbow and Yunel Escobar’s skipped throw across the diamond. That close to baseball immortality. Of course you’ll remember Scherzer just one strike away from…
Rangers clinch AL West title with win over Angels in Game 162 – CBSSports.com
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Was Max Scherzer’s 17-strikeout gem the greatest no-hitter in baseball history? – Washington Post
Max Scherzer celebrates his no-hitter Saturday against the Mets. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek) FLUSHING, N.Y. — Part of baseball’s enduring appeal is ambiguity, the grey area where numbers and eras and circumstance blur, leaving statistics up for debate, rendering words like “the greatest” less definitive than they seem. Was Max Scherzer’s no-hitter the greatest in baseball history? Maybe, but first field all the qualifiers: He threw it on a chilly, rainy…