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BRADENTON, Fla. — David Bednar has pitched in only three Grapefruit League games and has a 9.00 ERA, with two walks and the same number of home runs a...

SOFTBALL Johnsonburg 7, Clarion 4 JOHNSONBURG — The Johnsonburg softball team got its season off to a good start, beating Clarion 7-4 with dominating ...

MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s strikeout of Mike Trout, Trea Turner’s go-ahead, eighth-inning grand slam against Venezuela, Japan’s walk-off semifinal w...

MIAMI (AP) — Shohei Ohtani emerged from the bullpen and fanned Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out in a matchup the whole basebal...

CLARION — All good things must come to an end, and for the Otto-Eldred girls basketball team, their end came from a last-second prayer that failed to ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Umpires will have a new view this season: on Zoom. Major League Baseball struck a deal with Zoom Video Communications Inc. allowing on...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (AP) — New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz has a torn patellar tendon and is expected to miss the entire season after hurting his rig...

PHOENIX (AP) — Mark DeRosa said last week that one of his most important jobs as United States manager during the World Baseball Classic is making sur...

It was a forever moment, encapsulated by a forever snapshot, upon which he’ll always be able to look back with pride. There on the Houston Astros’ web...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Tim Anderson wanted to study his swing. After a season hampered by groin and hand injuries, the Chicago White Sox shortstop wan...

Albert Pujols is open to transitioning into coaching. Eventually. Just not yet. The retired slugger popped into the St. Louis Cardinals spring trainin...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Carlos Rodón’s debut for the New York Yankees is going to have to wait. The veteran left-handed pitcher will begin the season on th...

The one constant through all the years,” James Earl Jones famously intoned in “Field of Dreams,” “has been baseball.” So it has. But this year, Major ...

Nolan Arenado wants the World Baseball Classic to grow into a global event with stature approaching soccer’s World Cup. “I feel like the hype is a lit...

Robot umpires. A strike zone that looks more like a stop sign than a rectangle. Allowing the batter to take off for first base on any pitch, not just ...

BRADENTON, Fla. — Jack Suwinski is no stranger to being shuffled around the outfield. One of three pieces acquired by the Pirates in 2021’s deadline d...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — It took 2 hours, 19 minutes for the Miami Marlins to beat the Houston Astros 4-3 in a spring training game Monday — a gam...

By the time Cubs outfielder Brennen Davis actually saw a pitch from Arizona’s Joe Mantiply, the count was already at a ball and a strike. Both the hit...

FONTANA, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Busch still smiles at the memory of getting thrown out of California Speedway during his first competitive trip here in 20...

Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais spent parts of 11 seasons and nearly 800 games behind home plate as a catcher with four franchises, mostly in t...