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Brian Riley was the shortstop for the Enfield baseball team that won its last nine games to qualify for the state tournament. That was in 1994. Freddy Medina was the pitcher who won a school-record 38 games for Enfield and helped the Raiders to the 2001 Class L championship game against Staples, where they lost 6-3. Riley helped coach that team. Nobody knows exactly when the trash-talking started, maybe a…

Buy Photo Former Burger Chef second baseman Bill Lastrapes points out a former teammate to his father and team Legion manager Dud Lastrapes.(Photo: Scott Clause/The Advertiser)Buy Photo x Embed x Share CLOSE Check out this timelapse video of M.L. “Tigue” Moore Field at Russo Park is nearing completion being put together ahead of the Ragin’ Cajuns home opener Saturday night. David D’Aquin / USA TODAY Network As I walked into…

A week ago, I wrote about how both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are in rare historical company this season. According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo power ratings — which measure a team’s strength at any moment — each is playing roughly as well as the fabled 1927 Yankees played. But this season’s top-heaviness extends well beyond just the Astros and Dodgers. Each member of MLB’s ruling class this season…

Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print comment Saturdays usually bring us plenty of afternoon baseball. That’s not the case this Saturday, though, as only two of the day’s 15 games feature an afternoon start time. It’s not a day filled with an overwhelming number of aces, either. Then again, fewer aces means more mid- and lower-level hurlers who will help us out on the hitting side, and that’s certainly…

Astros rookie Yuli Gurriel had a career-high four hits, including a home run, and Houston received a gritty pitching performance from Mike Fiers in an 8-7 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night. Colin Moran hit his first major league homer and first triple for Houston, and Brian McCann also went deep. The Astros took an 8-2 lead into the ninth before Adam Jones hit a two-run double off…

America has spoken, and the New York Yankees are the country’s most-hated baseball team. It’s no surprise that one of the most successful sports franchises in the world with 18 division titles, 40 American League pennants and 27 World Series championships — all Major League Baseball records — continues to be disliked by baseball fans. FiveThirtyEight conducted a survey asking 989 self-described baseball fans from June 30 to July 8…

A week ago, I wrote about how both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are in rare historical company this season. According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo power ratings — which measure a team’s strength at any moment — each is playing roughly as well as the fabled 1927 Yankees played. But this season’s top-heaviness extends well beyond just the Astros and Dodgers. Each member of MLB’s ruling class this season…

After three days of competing at VTV Baseball Complex in Castaic, 18 players were selected Friday for the 2017 12U National Team, and two of them hail from the Santa Clarita Valley. Kai Caranto of Santa Clarita and Gregory Pierantoni of Valencia were among those chosen from 36 candidates for Team USA, which will play in the U-12 Baseball World Cup in Taiwan later this…

America has spoken, and the New York Yankees are the country’s most-hated baseball team. It’s no surprise that one of the most successful sports franchises in the world with 18 division titles, 40 American League pennants and 27 World Series championships — all Major League Baseball records — continues to be disliked by baseball fans. FiveThirtyEight conducted a survey asking 989 self-described baseball fans from June 30 to July 8…

A week ago, I wrote about how both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are in rare historical company this season. According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo power ratings — which measure a team’s strength at any moment — each is playing roughly as well as the fabled 1927 Yankees played. But this season’s top-heaviness extends well beyond just the Astros and Dodgers. Each member of MLB’s ruling class this season…

When Mike King approaches home plate for his turn to bat, a spotter will walk with him part of the way before the catcher finishes the job. Once King is in the batter’s box, he listens to the pitcher’s instructions for where he should stand. In Beep baseball, a league for blind, low-vision and legally blind players, the pitcher and batter work together. And King, who is legally blind, says…

Kapco Park in Mequon, Wisconsin on Friday, July 22, 2016. CALVIN MATTHEIS/calvin.mattheis@jrn.com(Photo: Journal Sentinel files) West Bend West’s shot at perfection, and Milwaukee Marquette’s chance at redemption, will have to wait another day. The state summer baseball championship game between the undefeated Spartans and the reigning state runner-up Hilltoppers scheduled for Friday night at Kapco Park was rained out and will be played at 10 a.m. Saturday. With rain forecast…

Caption Close They say there is no crying in baseball. Sometimes, that’s all there is. Stamford Senior Legion coach Kevin Murray stood in the middle of a circle of his players and coaches after the team had just won a come-from-behind, extra-inning game in the state tournament and the sadness and grief became too overwhelming to contain any longer. As his team celebrated the win, Murray collapsed in foul territory,…

A week ago, I wrote about how both the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston Astros are in rare historical company this season. According to FiveThirtyEight’s Elo power ratings — which measure a team’s strength at any moment — each is playing roughly as well as the fabled 1927 Yankees played. But this season’s top-heaviness extends well beyond just the Astros and Dodgers. Each member of MLB’s ruling class this season…

America has spoken, and the New York Yankees are the country’s most-hated baseball team. It’s no surprise that one of the most successful sports franchises in the world with 18 division titles, 40 American League pennants and 27 World Series championships — all Major League Baseball records — continues to be disliked by baseball fans. FiveThirtyEight conducted a survey asking 989 self-described baseball fans from June 30 to July 8…

When Mike King approaches home plate for his turn to bat, a spotter will walk with him part of the way before the catcher finishes the job. Once King is in the batter’s box, he listens to the pitcher’s instructions for where he should stand. In Beep baseball, a league for blind, low-vision and legally blind players, the pitcher and batter work together. And King, who is legally blind, says…

Head of the Eddie Geadel Society, Tom Keefe, had his cowbell at the ready. (via Jesse Saucedo) Last Sunday, a standing-room-only crowd of over 200 gathered in the auditorium at the Pasadena Central Library. The occasion was the Baseball Reliquary’s 19th annual Shrine of the Eternals Induction Day. It’s an event that attracts all kinds of baseball fans, as well as “baseball royalty.” Audience members included Ty Cobb’s granddaughter, Cindy…

For those of us who fear both large men and the concentrated power the judicial system gives to one person wielding a gavel, the All-Star break was a nightmare. Aaron Judge took every baseball story line, gathered them up like a bunch of twigs, and used them to launch baseball after baseball at the sound barrier. He was the consensus AL front-runner for Rookie of the Year because he was…

It was hardly the smoothest of transitions, but former South Carolina head coach Chad Holbrook ended up as College of Charleston’s baseball coach after all. After a couple of tumultuous days, College of Charleston and Holbrook came to an agreement Thursday morning to bring the former Gamecocks skipper to the Lowcountry. Holbrook, 46, will officially be introduced during a press conference Friday morning at Randolph Hall…

For the next week and a half, we’re going to hear a lot of names thrown around as the July 31 trade deadline approaches. It’s going to get tedious after a while — the same old names, the same old teams, mentioned over and over again until a trade actually happens.  But what if there were new names thrown into the mix? What if teams could queue up the best…