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Baseball fans in the Hub were shocked yesterday to learn of news reports suggesting a Red Sox staffer was caught using an Apple Watch to steal signs during a recent series with the New York Yankees. Here’s what they had to say when we asked them if the team should be punished. “I love the Red Sox, but they should be playing with integrity. I probably would want them to…

Phillies manager Pete Mackanin picks between two pairs of red sneakers based on which ones have been on his feet during hard-to-come-by wins. Brewers catcher Stephen Vogt gets dressed in a specific sequence each day, down to how he pulls on his socks and in what order. Sometimes, Kansas City’s Brandon Moss pretends to be superstitious by going with a good-luck bat. Oakland manager Bob Melvin rotates between several parking…

12:25 PM PST There are six hours and 45 minutes until baseball. Four hours and 35 minutes until work is done. Today has sapped so much of my energy; baseball where are you? Justin Verlander starts against the Mariners today. It’s his first start as an Astro, and his third against Seattle this season. He has a perfect 11-11 record in career starts against our team, but the Tigers have…

The Boston Red Sox have reportedly been accused of using an Apple Watch to steal signs from the New York Yankees, according to a complaint filed to the commissioner’s office by Yankees general manager Brian Cashman. MLB investigators are looking into claims that the Red Sox used the watches to steal hand signals from opponents’ catchers. The watches would tell them what type of pitch was being thrown, information which…

Podcast (tht-audio): Download (Duration: 39:53 — 9.1MB) Jen, Sarah, and Mary discuss articles from the week of Aug. 28. Other topics include baseball’s response to Hurricane Harvey and the Justin Verlander trade. Twitter questions are also answered. Subscribe to THT Audio on iTunes here.

Tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf have steered their children away from the game that made them famous, but that didn’t stop their eldest, 15-year-old son Jaden, from becoming a terrific athlete. He just chose to use his hand-eye coordination to strike a different ball. Instead of a racket, Jaden wields a baseball bat and strives for a different kind of grand slam than his parents once did. Jaden…

The Red Sox responded in kind on Tuesday, filing a complaint against the Yankees, claiming that the team uses a camera from its television network, YES, exclusively to steal signs during games. It is unclear what penalties, if any, Commissioner Rob Manfred will issue against the Red Sox and whether he will order a more expansive investigation to determine the extent of the Red Sox’ sign-stealing system. It is also…

The Mira Costa baseball team spent part of Labor Day weekend helping with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. Coach Keith Ramsey and players collected more than 100 buckets filled with supplies, along with bags of clothing, shoes, pillows and blankets. They will be sent in conjunction with the ACT Project and the University of Houston baseball program.

Keith Hernandez doesn’t know exactly what he’ll do when he decides to move on from the Mets broadcast booth. He just knows what it won’t involve: baseball. Hernandez, in a wide-ranging interview with Sports Illustrated, told stories about his glory days as a Major League Baseball player living in Manhattan, discussed his love of history, offered some insight into his forthcoming memoirs and bristled aplenty at some of the recent…

I. Catch He could close his eyes and hit his throwing partner in the chest. That still came natural. The accident had not stripped that. Then Matt Imhof opened his left eye — his only working eye — and tried to catch the…

Labor Day of course occasions high-level leisure time for those not tasked with, you know, laboring. Speaking of which, the University of Louisville baseball team on Monday took to the pool to pull off a profoundly impressive basketball shot. Please regard:  Teamwork? People, it makes the dream work.  Yes, this is the internet — electric hootenanny of lies — and as such it’s possible this footage has been altered in…

Major leaguers continue to pound home runs at a record pace, and along the way they’ve reached milestones on both sides of town. Through Sunday’s games and with less than a month left in the season, there have been 5,189 home runs, or 1.27 per team per game. The record is 5,693 in 2000, or 1.17 per team per game. At that pace, the 2017 total will be a record…

After the Detroit Tigers traded two of their top players, USA TODAY Sports’ Bob Nightengale explains how these big moves could change the complexion of the MLB playoffs. USA TODAY Sports

By Daniel Cancel and Noris Soto | Bloomberg News Baseball is a religion in Venezuela. The country cheers Felix Hernandez, Miguel Cabrera and other local boys who’ve made it in the Major Leagues up north, then turns its attention to its very own winter league that runs from September through the end of the year. They’re raucous games featuring drumming, cheerleaders and copious amounts of beer. Alongside hot dogs, vendors…

Matt Mika, the lobbyist who was shot multiple times on June 14 when a gunman opened fire at lawmakers practicing for a charity congressional baseball game, spoke out, recounting the harrowing scene. “Time stopped. It just stopped,” he said. “I could see his eyes and the gun, but that was it,” Mika, 38, said of the moment he saw the gunman, in an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America.” “After…

The lobbyist who was shot multiple times earlier this year when a gunman opened fire at lawmakers practicing for a charity baseball game spoke out, recounting the harrowing scene of the shooting when, he says, “Time stopped, it just stopped.” “I could see his eyes and the gun, but that was it,” Matt Mika, 38, said in an exclusive interview with “Good Morning America,” of the moment he saw the…

I recently watched the Texas Rangers and Oakland Athletics play a listless afternoon of baseball, as what should have been a mildly interesting contest between a playoff contender and an also-ran devolved into a languid slugfest. Both teams trotted out middling starting pitchers with earned run averages over 5.00, and the only real excitement came from learning the players’ nicknames during Players Weekend (note to A’s shortstop Jed Lowrie: “Jed”…

See more of the story The stars had to align just right — they always have to, it seems, with any outing with kids — but owing to a combination of a weekday off of work, perfect weather, a day game and the general cooperation of two little ones, last Thursday provided the occasion to bring my 9-month-old daughter to her first Twins game. It’s a milestone, to be sure,…

11:30 PM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment HOUSTON — That they were playing baseball at all seemed something like a miracle. It was just a week ago that Hurricane Harvey made landfall on the Texas shore, unleashing more rain that any storm ever had over the continental United States. More than 50 inches of the stuff, leading to catastrophic floods all over the region, displaced thousands…

HOUSTON (Reuters) – The city of Houston on Saturday witnessed two milestones on its road to recovery from Hurricane Harvey: a visit from the president of the United States and the return of baseball a week after deadly floodwaters engulfed the metropolis. President Donald Trump, in a widely watched test of his handling of the disaster, distributed food and played with children at a center for evacuees in his first…