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The final game of a baseball season is always tough. As the players walk off the field for the last time, you start thinking about the months you’ll have to wait before seeing them on the field again. And yet, you take comfort in knowing that Opening Day will eventually arrive—and with it, another full season of baseball. But for the Port Washington Vikings, this game was different. For…

ENLARGE Winning 20 games is an uncommon achievement these days in baseball, what with pitchers being tied to tight pitch counts. But Aaron Harang of the Philadelphia Phillies has a shot at an even tougher feat: losing 20. Losing 20 games requires a lot to go right. (And, of course, wrong.) Besides typically needing to be on a miserable team, the pitcher needs to be healthy enough to get a…

Chris Archer pitched a one-hitter, allowing only a fifth-inning single by Colby Rasmus, and struck out 11 to lead the Tampa Bay Rays over the Houston Astros 1-0 Thursday night. It was Archer’s third career shutout and second against the Astros, having also blanked them in 2013. Archer (11-9) retired the final 15 batters, fanning five. Rasmus led off the fifth with a groundball single and was the last runner…

ENLARGE Winning 20 games is an uncommon achievement these days in baseball, what with pitchers being tied to tight pitch counts. But Aaron Harang of the Philadelphia Phillies has a shot at an even tougher feat: losing 20. Losing 20 games requires a lot to go right. (And, of course, wrong.) Besides typically needing to be on a miserable team, the pitcher needs to be healthy enough to get a…

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Eight-year-old Pirates fan Dominic (sp?) held up a sign during last night’s Pirates game, in an attempt to get Starling Marte to give him a baseball for his birthday. Marte threw a ball in his direction, but another child grabbed it, which made little Dom sad. Poor Dom. There’s a happy ending to this story, though. The Root Sports crew talked to the kid and handed him his own baseball….

You hear the occasional criticism that he was too demanding, or he didn’t communicate so well at times, or he didn’t know how to put together a bullpen (which may have cost the Tigers a world championship). But for the most part, Dave Dombrowski, the new Red Sox president of baseball operations, has few detractors and far more admirers in the game. “He’ll be in the Hall of Fame someday,”…

You hear the occasional criticism that he was too demanding, or he didn’t communicate so well at times, or he didn’t know how to put together a bullpen (which may have cost the Tigers a world championship). But for the most part, Dave Dombrowski, the new Red Sox president of baseball operations, has few detractors and far more admirers in the game. “He’ll be in the Hall of Fame someday,”…

0 Shares Print It is one of the most unforgettable, if not one of the most unusual, images in major league baseball history. Eddie Gaedel, all 3-foot-7 and 65 pounds of him, crouched over in the batter’s box, waiting for a pitch that would never come anywhere near a strike zone that was estimated to be 1.5 inches in height. The stunt pulled off 64 years ago — Aug. 19,…

Dave Dombrowski Hired As Red Sox President Of Baseball Operations, Effective Immediately The Boston Red Sox announced Tuesday night that they have hired Dave Dombrowski to be their president of baseball operations. Dombrowski, 59, will assume responsibility for all baseball operations matters, effective immediately, and report directly to Red Sox owner John Henry and to chairman Tom Werner. Ben Cherington declined the opportunity to continue as the Red Sox’s general…

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BOSTON (CBS) — Baseball fans near and far are throwing their support behind Red Sox manager John Farrell, who on Friday revealed he is stepping away from the game for the rest of the season to battle Stage 1 Lymphoma. On Monday night’s edition of Inside Baseball on the WBZ-TV News at 10 on myTV38, Dan Roche and Steve Buckley (filling in for Tony Massarotti), discussed Farrell’s road ahead, and a special…

Sure, you could donate your finest items to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown. But most of those items would wind up in the basement, there, too. Even more spacious, yes, and perfectly climate-controlled. But still locked away most of the time, enjoyed by only the very lucky few. You could piece out your collection – here a bat to the Negro Leagues Museum in Kansas…

The thing you don’t expect about playing baseball in prison is that everyone is extremely friendly. The entire roster of convicted felons who suited up for the San Quentin Giants on Thursday seemed genuinely grateful for the opportunity to play against some weekend warriors from the outside: Welcoming us and thanking us for coming upon our arrival in the prison yard, stopping by the visitors’ dugout for pleasantries during the game,…

0 Shares Print Baseball can be slow and safe and polite and, to many fans, just boring. Not the Toronto Blue Jays. They have speed and swag. If you aim a pitch at a player’s head, expect a lingering scowl. Then a home run. And definitely some fighting words. They are the most interesting, compelling and unique team in baseball. For Latino and African-American sports fans yearning for baseball players…

John Trousdale could have walked away from the game of football. Few would have questioned the decision. After all, his athletic future was secure. The Lauderdale County senior committed to play baseball at Alabama on July 9. It was a dream come true for the life-long Crimson Tide fan. Trousdale had the option of stepping away from football to avoid suffering an injury that could risk his collegiate future, a…

0 Shares Print Baseball can be slow and safe and polite and, to many fans, just boring. Not the Toronto Blue Jays. They have speed and swag. If you aim a pitch at a player’s head, expect a lingering scowl. Then a home run. And definitely some fighting words. They are the most interesting, compelling and unique team in baseball. For Latino and African-American sports fans yearning for baseball players…

0 Shares Print Baseball can be slow and safe and polite and, to many fans, just boring. Not the Toronto Blue Jays. They have speed and swag. If you aim a pitch at a player’s head, expect a lingering scowl. Then a home run. And definitely some fighting words. They are the most interesting, compelling and unique team in baseball. For Latino and African-American sports fans yearning for baseball players…