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Every year, stories swirl around in the MLB, reporters wear down players, and individuals are questioned on their commitment to the game of baseball. At 162 games a year, that’s already 44% of the year, half of it away from home, not counting Spring Training, off days, and potential playoff games. The questions of what a professional sports player “owes” a fan and how lucky they should consider themselves to…

Major League Baseball is on pace to shatter its home run record. This year, players in the American and National Leagues combined have hit more than 4,000 home runs. The record, set in the year 2000, is 5,693. The last time Major League Baseball saw a dramatic increase in home runs, players were called to testify before Congress over allegations of using performance-enhancing drugs.  This time around, some are questioning…

Every year, stories swirl around in the MLB, reporters wear down players, and individuals are questioned on their commitment to the game of baseball. At 162 games a year, that’s already 44% of the year, half of it away from home, not counting Spring Training, off days, and potential playoff games. The questions of what a professional sports player “owes” a fan and how lucky they should consider themselves to…

Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several decades, died earlier this summer after choking on his meal at the Palm, a local power lunch institution. He’d lived a full enough life that none of his many obituaries mentioned his supporting role in a forgotten chapter in the sports history of the nation’s capital, when Donald Trump told everybody he was going to…

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By Kelly McElroyStaff Writer The South Louisiana Select 13U Major Elite baseball team based in Houma entered the U.S. Specialty Sports Association World Series in Orlando, Fla., on July 22 as the country’s No. 1 ranked team in its division. On Saturday night, South Louisiana Select proved more than worthy of that distinction when it topped the Baton Rouge-based Louisiana Tigers 4-3 to take home a…

Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several decades, died earlier this summer after choking on his meal at the Palm, a local power lunch institution. He’d lived a full enough life that none of his many obituaries mentioned his supporting role in a forgotten chapter in the sports history of the nation’s capital, when Donald Trump told everybody he was going to…

Michael Fulmer hopes a stint on the 10-day disabled list will provide him with the rest he needs to recover from a quirky, persistent elbow injury. Fulmer, the 2016 AL rookie of the year, was placed on the DL by the Detroit Tigers on Thursday — mostly as a precaution. An MRI revealed fluid around the elbow, but manager Brad Ausmus says there’s no ligament damage. The Tigers are describing…

Now that the MLB trade deadline has passed and the dust has settled from a flurry of last-minute wheeling and dealing, fantasy baseball owners can sift through the rubble, decide which teams and players were winners and losers and plan their attack for the rest of the season. The bullpen re-shuffling has left some questions to be answered, but two moves which were lauded both in fantasy and reality and…

Jeffrey Gildenhorn, a beloved D.C. restaurateur, recreational politician, and full-time man about town for several decades, died earlier this summer after choking on his meal at the Palm, a local power lunch institution. He’d lived a full enough life that none of his many obituaries mentioned his supporting role in a forgotten chapter in the sports history of the nation’s capital, when Donald Trump told everybody he was going to…

Welcome to Inefficiency Week. Over the next five days, we’re going to take a look at what we lose when we get lost in the chase for efficiency. We’ll explore the ways it’s changing the games we love to watch. We’ll remember its failures across the pop culture spectrum. And we’ll report on what it’s doing to our lives — romantic, physical, and otherwise. When I was a little kid, my family…

Jeurys Familia is one of four players suspended under the new domestic violence policy. (via Arturo Pardavila III) Recently, Pablo Sandoval was designated by the Boston Red Sox for assignment, only to return to his first team, the San Francisco Giants, on a minor league deal. For some Giants fans, myself included, the homecoming was not particularly welcome, and it wasn’t just because of his rapidly eroding skill set. In…

By the end, there were maybe 3,000 people in the stands, which is the kind of crowd you might expect in the winter for the Battle of the Bronx, either at Fordham’s Rose Hill Gymnasium or Manhattan’s Draddy Gym. These were the diehards. These were the die-nevers. “FRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-ZZZZZZIER!” one loud, slurry voice exclaimed, serving as the play-by-play man for the last act of this interminable baseball Wednesday, Todd Frazier waving…

As Kai Caranto’s double found grass down the left field line, Greg Pierantoni hurtled home. Santa Clarita resident Kai Caranto is 4-for-13 at the plate with 10 RBIs for the USA Baseball 12U National Team at the Baseball World Cup in Taiwan. Photo courtesy USA Baseball It was a Santa Clarita resident driving in a Valencia resident in a seven-run first inning that capped an…

Slide Show Capturing Camaraderie in a Minor League Baseball Team Credit Fred R. Conrad ‘ ); } In a bygone era, sports photographers didn’t have the benefit of Telephoto lenses, digital cameras or wireless transmission. But their technological limitations had under-appreciated benefits. “Photographers had to get really close to the ballplayers,” said Fred Conrad, a former staff photographer for The New York Times. “So there’s this wonderfully personal and intimate…

Ken Pagan’s life changed forever with the extension of his elbow and the flick of his wrist. Pagan, an avid hockey and baseball fan, etched his name in MLB postseason lore last October — just for all the wrong reasons. Ken PaganFacebook; AP His name won’t immediately ring a bell like other infamous fans like Jeffrey Maier, the 12-year-old ballhawk who snatched a controversial home-run ball in Game 1 of…

The four youth baseball players holding court down the right field line at the Hart complex Tuesday couldn’t agree on how many total miles their team had driven, how many years the players had been on the same team or how many games they’d won to reach this week’s Mustang World Series in Louisiana. Hunter Manning, Landon Hu, Brady Werther and Drew Provost, however, agreed…

Alex Avila said he’s aware that people like to crack jokes over the fact that his father Al, the general manager of the Tigers, traded him Sunday night to the Cubs. But the younger Avila said Tuesday that his father kept him abreast of a potential trade for the last month, adding that his mother might be more affected by the trade. “I think she was more upset with probably…

Nearly 30 years ago, Pete Rose’s colorful career as baseball’s all-time hit king ended in disgrace when he accepted a lifetime ban for betting on the sport — one he loved so much that he once said he would “walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play.” Now, an allegation of sex with a minor from during his time as a player could unravel an already compromised legacy that…

Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia has been placed on the 10-day disabled list with inflammation in his left knee. Boston made the move before Tuesday night’s home game against Cleveland. The team also added reliever Addison Reed to the roster, one day after obtaining him in a trade with the New York Mets for three minor league pitchers. Pedroia, who leads the Red Sox with a .307 batting average,…