Baseball: MLB and college baseball
The regional rounds of the NCAA softball tournament began on Friday with two mercy-rule victories, including Oklahoma’s thrashing of Prairie View A&M in the Norman regional. The Sooners, who have won 35 games by run rule this season, achieved their first tournament victory with a combined no-hitter by sophomore pitcher Nicole May and senior pitcher […] More
Spencer Nivens and Drake Baldwin both hit two-run home runs, and Missouri State fought off a ninth-inning onslaught by No. 4 Arkansas to win 6-4 at Baum-Walker Stadium on Tuesday evening. The Razorbacks (34-11) are Missouri State’s (22-19) highest-ranked opponent since defeating No. 1 Wichita State in the 1996 Missouri Valley Conference Tournament. Nivens gave […] More
Oral Roberts baseball defeated No. 3 Oklahoma State, 15-9, in a 12-inning slugfest Tuesday evening at O’Brate Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Jakob Hall pitched three perfect innings in relief while Caleb Denny ended a triple shy of the cycle. The Golden Eagles earned their second victory over a Top 3 opponent this season. ORU is […] More
Baseball takes its show to London this weekend, and while the travel is onerous and disrupts the flow of a season, Yankees and Red Sox players seem to be enjoying it. Their social media feeds certainly seem to think so, anyway. Elsewhere on Thursday, starters for the All-Star Game in Cleveland were announced, with a […] More
London is calling for Major League Baseball for the first time, and the sport is ready to jump across the pond for a two-game Red Sox-Yankees series this weekend. The trip figures to present plenty of good social media opportunities for the teams and players involved, too. Back stateside, Craig Kimbrel is ready to join […] More
Manny Machado returned to Baltimore on Tuesday night for the first time since the Orioles traded him to the Dodgers last summer. He signed with the San Diego Padres in the offseason and received a resounding ovation when he took the plate for the first time. And then he homered later in the game. Meanwhile, […] More
When your luck has got you down, sometimes you’ve just got to change something. That’s what the Philadelphia Phillies tried on Monday, anyway. With their team mired in a seven-game losing streak, the Phillies’ official team Twitter account changed its avatar to a four-leaf clover (complete with Phillies logo, of course) and its profile picture […] More
The Dodgers are having a dream season thus far, and the dreamiest weekend of all just passed. L.A. had a rookie hit a walk-off home run on Friday … and on Saturday … and on Sunday. Three different rookies playing hero for a team with plenty of All-Star veterans is pretty amazing. If you’re the […] More
The Dodgers have won via walk-off on two straight nights, both from rookies. So what else to do for the rookies but to congratulate each other on social media? First it was Matt Beaty, then Alex Verdugo. Speaking of sharing something special, Yadier Molina and Albert Pujols clearly do, even after seven seasons apart. And […] More
Albert Pujols’ return to St. Louis became even better with a home run in the second game of the Angels’ trip to face the Cardinals. Speaking of important home runs, the Mets’ Pete Alonso tied the team record for home runs in a rookie season — and we’re not even at the All-Star break. Elsewhere, […] More
Friday night in Major League Baseball was all about returns. It was the return of Albert Pujols to the city where he became a future Hall of Famer for the Cardinals. The return of the Pujols-Molina friendship. The return of Aaron Judge to the Yankees lineup. And the return of Dallas Keuchel to the big […] More
In Albert Pujols’ seventh season in Anaheim, he finally got a return trip to St. Louis — and it was worth the wait. Cardinals fans gave their former hero a long standing ovation and gave him the welcome he deserved in the town where he became a star. Dallas Keuchel didn’t become a star in […] More
