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NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball adopted its first pitch clock, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases for next season in an effort to short...

Certainly, Roberto Clemente's name holds gravity for all MLB players. Perhaps David Bednar, a Mars native who grew up a rabid fan of the Pirates and n...

NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge homered for the fourth straight game, hitting No. 55 of the year in Wednesday’s doubleheader opener against Minnesota to s...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (AP) — For a week and a half at the Little League World Series, no team came close to Hawaii. The championship Sunday was no d...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Oneil Cruz, Tucupita Marcano and Bryan Reynolds all tripled and scored, and Roansy Contreras struck out seven over five innings to...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — School began Wednesday at Hollidaysburg Area Junior High School. Most members of the Hollidaysburg Little League baseball team we...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — If the goal of swinging a bat is to hit the ball hard, then Oneil Cruz did it better than anyone. The Pittsburgh Pirates rookie reco...

As a handful of position players went through fielding drills and others took batting practice indoors, Wil Crowe and Mitch Keller talked like two Pir...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — This time, Hollidaysburg allowed itself to relax. The Pennsylvania champions claimed their third victory of the Little League Wor...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Another anemic start. Another Chase Link home run. Hollidaysburg Little League replicated Monday’s script Monday against Massapeq...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jake Fraley had three RBIs and scored four times to power the Cincinnati Reds to a 9-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday. Fr...

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Benintendi hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the seventh inning and the New York Yankees got a win they desperately needed, b...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT — Hollidaysburg has been treated like a team of celebrities at the Little League World Series. Representing the host state and Mid-...

NEW YORK — The inside of Josh Donaldson’s right forearm was throbbing. Getting drilled there in the fourth inning really hurt. It still hurt when Wedn...

Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley might have enjoyed his trip to Pittsburgh as a color commentator for NESN, which broadcasts Boston Red Sox games...

It’s been difficult to see the light at the end of the tunnel for Pirates fans this season. They still have a bevy of prospects developing in the mino...

All Aaron Hicks could do Monday night was wear it. He heard the boos, which were reminiscent of the ones that became Joey Gallo’s walk-up and exit mus...

The Little League World Series is back to its old self, and more. After no tournament in 2020 and no international clubs in 2021, both due to the COVI...

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Long before the PGA Tour’s postseason opener ended with a winning bogey in a three-hole playoff, the biggest drama was in the ...

Last season, 30 major college football programs made coaching changes, including some of the bluest bloods in the sport — Southern California, Oklahom...