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The back of all tickets for Rochester Red Wings games come with this warning.(Photo: .) On the front of every ticket to every major- and minor-league baseball game, fans will find their section, row and seat number. On the back of every ticket is printed something that may be far more important: A warning about the risks and dangers fans should expect to encounter if they happen to be sitting…

Welcome back to an annual tradition, in which you’re reminded that it’s bad to have opinions about baseball after the first month of the season. For example, these were actual words written after April: Delmon Young might actually be a worthwhile hitter now Fact. While he’ll always be limited by the hackhackhack, we’re 300 at-bats into the new, high-average Delmon. In 44 plate appearances this season, he’s…

LIBERAL – People walked past Kaiser Carlile’s open casket as they entered the Seward County Community College gymnasium Tuesday for his funeral. The 9-year-old was wearing his Liberal Bee Jays uniform, the same one he was wearing Aug. 1 when a player’s swing in the on-deck circle struck Kaiser in the head during a National Baseball Congress World Series game at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium. Kaiser died the next day. Some people…

There are 15 games on the MLB schedule Tuesday night, allowing DraftKings daily fantasy players a full array of possibilities when it comes to setting a lineup. Is Zack Greinke worth $12,000 after getting roughed up in his previous start? How about Matt Harvey, or an under-the-radar rookie instead? While star power always helps, the key to outscoring the competition lies in finding value from lesser-used names. A red-hot outfielder…

On June 8, 2001, the Kansas City Royals were in the midst of a lengthy playoff-less streak 16 years long. Though they would wait another 13 years for that streak to end, a young boy did not care about that as he went to Kauffman Stadium with his father. Fresh off a move from Cleveland, Ohio, the boy did not have an attachment to the Royals in any form. He…

Rending of the proposed Vanderbilt University baseball complex. This view shows the pro locker room and lounge facility in the complex at Memorial Gym. The Vanderbilt University Board of Trust has approved a $10 million project, planned to be built after the 2016 baseball season.(Photo: Submitted) Improvements to Vanderbilt’s baseball facilities could begin in the summer of 2016, according to athletics director David Williams. The school’s board of trust has approved…

(Rick Osentoski, USA TODAY Sports) Leading off Tonight’s meager seven-game slate starts at 7:05 p.m. On these light nights, it pays to go with a stars-and-scrubs strategy because the middle tiers of players don’t offer much upside. Click for more tips on how to win days like this. There are eight lefties on the hill — seven not named Chris Sale. Use the platoon cheat sheet. In fact, the Los Angeles…

ENLARGE Updated Aug. 10, 2015 2:27 p.m. ET Major League Baseball prides itself on the idea that every team has a chance. “Hope and faith” is what Bud Selig called it, and in the last decade of his tenure as commissioner he set out to create it in as many markets as possible, for as long into the season as possible, year in and year out. The result has been…

In 2011, Pat Connaughton was ranked by one scouting service as the 33rd-best prospect in the Major League Baseball draft. Pro clubs passed on his services, however, when it became clear that he was going to attend Notre Dame to both play baseball and act as a swingman on the Fighting Irish’s basketball team. Connaughton shined in his college basketball career as a shooter and scorer, and though the Baltimore…

More kids are playing baseball at a younger age these days, leading to a rise in injuries that one local doctor called an epidemic. App Users: Watch Mobile Video Injuries have always been a risk of playing sports, but in this case, medical professionals are not talking about the bumps and bruises that come with playing the game. The repetitive motion of baseball, specifically pitching, can cause a variety of…

Whether following bloodlines or the white-chalk base lines, Red Land baseball’s success story resembles a family tree. At the top is the undisputed father of Red Land baseball, Brandt Cook, who later this month celebrates his 75th birthday. Fifty years after Cook created the baseball program at the brand new Red Land High School, the area’s Little League team is embarking on a historical run. And Red Land’s legion baseball…

Depending on whom you ask, professional baseball could be on the precipice of an important technological advancement, or it might be flirting with an “I, Robot”-style takeover. The San Rafael Pacifics and Vallejo Admirals, two independent (not major league-affiliated) minor league teams, recently played two games using a computer system, rather than the home plate umpire, to call balls and strikes. The automated system, called Pitchf/x, uses three cameras to…

Pedro Bragan has seen a lot in his 31 years with his family’s business ties to minor-league baseball in Jacksonville. His family has presided over 2,300 wins and 2,063 losses in Jacksonville — and he has plenty of memories and treasures to prove it. Bragan’s office resembles something of a baseball museum. It is filled to the brim — and beyond — with antique jerseys, autographed baseballs, vintage pennants and…

Diamondbacks win in wild ending Chris Owings lifted a ball to deep center field and was mobbed by his Arizona Diamondbacks teammates just before reaching second base. The Diamondbacks continued to celebrate their way back to the dugout when they looked across the diamond and saw some of Cincinnati’s players gathering around the umpires. Owings’ first career game-ending hit would have to wait. It took awhile to sort out the…

Pedro Bragan has seen a lot in his 31 years with his family’s business ties to minor-league baseball in Jacksonville. His family has presided over 2,300 wins and 2,063 losses in Jacksonville — and he has plenty of memories and treasures to prove it. Bragan’s office resembles something of a baseball museum. It is filled to the brim — and beyond — with antique jerseys, autographed baseballs, vintage pennants and…

(Charles LeClaire, USA TODAY Sports) The dog days of summer are when the true champions can withstand the heat and make their move. But in addition to concentrating on their own teams, fantasy owners might be doing a little scoreboard-watching as well. At this stage of the season, every move must be viewed not only through the prism of what it does for your team … but also how it…

If the Kansas City Royals are the Bad Boys of Baseball, we need a new definition of “Bad Boy.” Here are a few numbers to ponder: only one team in all of baseball has had more of their batters hit by pitches than the Royals. That team is the Pittsburgh Pirates and as of Sunday morning, the Bucs have had 62 of their batters hit by pitches. The Royals are…

Of all the aces operating on Sunday, none can take Max Scherzer’s spot as the top DraftKings selection. While the alternatives face tough matchups, the National League Cy Young candidate gets the Colorado Rockies away from Coors Field. Not the easiest tilt, but they’re not an offense to avoid on the road against an ace. Roll with Scherzer despite a few recent hiccups. After ponying up $13,200 for…

The trade deadline has passed, but that does not, of course, mean that trading season has completely left us. There are still August trades to be made; those somewhat strange swaps of often-damaged or overpriced or simply not entirely desirable goods, only slightly complicated by baseball’s waiver claim process. It was a fascinating late July trade market, as well; we saw more value moved by WAR than at any…

AP Earlier this year, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson said that his baseball hobby isn’t a contract ploy. And it apparently wasn’t, because his new deal doesn’t include a no-baseball clause. PFT has confirmed a smattering of reports that, indeed, Wilson’s new deal doesn’t prevent him from playing baseball. In contrast, the contract signed in May by Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston expressly prevents him from playing baseball. Other players have a similar clause,…