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White Sox's Ventura hire a daring move

There was a school of thought surrounding the Chicago White Sox that perhaps the departure of Ozzie Guillen would herald a more predictable era for the franchise. The new manager couldn’t help but be more buttoned-down, thus lending [...]

Posted On : Oct, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball still takes back seat to NFL

Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig went to the Milwaukee Brewers playoff game Sunday, which should come as no surprise since he once owned the team. While there, he also found himself doing what most other sports fans were doing over the wee [...]

Posted On : Oct, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

RPT-Baseball-Phillies take 2-1 series lead over Cards

* Francisco steps in and steps up * Phillies one win from reaching NLCS (refiles to fix day) Philadelphia's Ben Francisco blasted a pinch-hit home run to give his team a 3-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday and move the P [...]

Posted On : Oct, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Napoli, Rangers take Game 2 from Rays

Mike Napoli kept fouling off pitches while Texas Rangers fans chanted his name. "It was pretty loud, too, and when I heard it, I was like you guys can't do this to me right now in this situation," Napoli said. He came throug [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball: Royal treatment for Hollingsworth

My Wife, Jeannine, and I celebrated our anniversary Monday night with a nice dinner at a local restaurant and a trip to the theater to see “Moneyball,” an interesting movie made even better if you are a baseball fan. As I w [...]

Posted On : Sep, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

MLB sets times for potential wild-card tiebreaker games

Major League Baseball set the times for potential wild-card tiebreaker games with both races coming down to the wire. Any one-game playoffs would be played Thursday. First pitch for an American League tiebreaker between the Boston Red Sox [...]

Posted On : Sep, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball Manager Builds Winning Team Unconventionally in 'Mo...

Brad Pitt is getting rave reviews and there's 'buzz' about a possible Oscar nomination for his performance in a new film set inside American professional baseball. Moneyball is based on a true story. "There are rich teams [...]

Posted On : Sep, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Braves: Playoff teams don’t lose series to Nats, Marlins, Me...

On statistics-driven websites like CoolStandings, the Braves are still given a 65.7 percent chance of winning the National League wild card spot, almost twice the percentage of the St. Louis Cardinals (34.3). But if this is about odds, [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

MARLINS PLACE CLOSER NUNEZ ON RESTRICTED LIST

Florida Marlins closer Leo Nunez has been playing under an assumed name, and the issue prompted him to return Thursday to his native Dominican Republic, two people familiar with his immigration status said. Both people said the Marlins [...]

Posted On : Sep, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

On Baseball: The choice remains clear: Get better or get bou...

A chef for one of the ritzy sections of Fenway Park joined me in the elevator Wednesday, hours before the final Red Sox home game of the regular season. "It's weird. I don't know if I'll have a job after tonight," sh [...]

Posted On : Sep, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

USC baseball recruiting class rated nation's best

The two-time defending NCAA champion South Carolina baseball team signed the nation's top recruiting class, according to Collegiate Baseball. The Gamecocks signed 16 high school prospects and had five junior college transfers in this [...]

Posted On : Sep, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Yankees’ Mariano Rivera May Have Set Unbreakable Baseball Sa...

Mariano Rivera helped define the ninth-inning closer role with the New York Yankees and now holds a record that Major League Baseball historians said may stand forever. With 602 saves over 17 seasons, Rivera broke Trevor Hoffman’s r [...]

Posted On : Sep, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Canadian baseball team roster set for World Cup, Pan Am Game...

Canada's national men's baseball team will rely on a mix of youth and experience for two major tournaments next month. The 24-man roster, which was announced Friday, includes nine players who will be making their national team deb [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball-Phillies first to seal spot in playoffs

Roy Halladay pitched his first shutout of the season as the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Houston Astros 1-0 on Wednesday to become the first team to book a place in the Major League Baseball playoffs. The red-hot Detroit Tigers could be [...]