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Baseball: Ex-teammate Ubaldo Jimenez hits Colorado’s Troy Tu...

Scottsdale, Ariz. • Cleveland pitcher Ubaldo Jimenez nailed former teammate Troy Tulowitzki in the elbow Sunday, carrying their feud onto the field and causing the Indians and Colorado Rockies to clear the benches. Tulowitzki left th [...]

Posted On : Apr, 02 2012 | Comments : 0

Auburn baseball team lets lead slip away

AUBURN – With the clock ticking down on a shortened Game 2 against Missouri of a Sunday doubleheader, Auburn ostensibly had three outs to get and a two-run cushion with which to work. Instead, the home Tigers coughed up the lead whi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 20 2012 | Comments : 0

Gators baseball team gets back in swing tonight

GAINESVILLE — They waited all summer, fall and winter for this. The University of Florida baseball team that made it to the College World Series finals, only to lose to South Carolina, begins the season at 7 tonight in the first of [...]

Posted On : Feb, 17 2012 | Comments : 0

London baseball team under fire for nickname

A new professional baseball team is trying to create some buzz in London, Ont., but not all of it is turning out to be positive. The minor league London Rippers introduced their logo this week — a nefarious-looking man in a black to [...]

Posted On : Nov, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Three American Jewish baseball players to help Israeli team

Three Jewish former major leaguers will help Israel field a competitive team in next year’s World Baseball Classic. Shawn Green, Brad Ausmus and Gabe Kapler met this week in Los Angeles with Israeli baseball officials and promised t [...]

Posted On : Nov, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Longhorns dismiss Etier from baseball team

Texas baseball coach Augie Garrido announced Monday that infielder Jordan Etier has been kicked off the team following a weekend arrest for evading arrest and possession of marijuana. Etier is a two-year starter for the Horns and would ha [...]

Posted On : Oct, 18 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

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

Florida Atlantic baseball team shaves heads to support cance...

Florida Atlantic’s baseball players, coaches and staff have shaved their heads to support the cancer-stricken brother of a teammate. Pitcher Jake Meiers’ brother, Cody, was recently diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma, a [...]

Posted On : Sep, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Pro baseball team withdraws plans to build stadium at Clawso...

America’s Pastime, at a professional level, does not have a future in the middle of a residential neighborhood at Clawson City Park. Summit Professional Baseball has withdrawn a proposal to build a new baseball stadium for a team [...]

Posted On : Aug, 25 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball, softball teams from South Tampa land in Junior Lea...

Talk about a power couple. She plays softball. He plays baseball. Sydney Socher, 15, and boyfriend Carter Leslie, 14, are both catchers. Their teams both play at a park in Palma Ceia. And, early Friday, both of them hopped on airplanes [...]

Posted On : Aug, 14 2011 | Comments : 0

Ugandan Baseball Team Strikes Out on US Visas

It could have been one of the inspiring and heartwarming stories that make sports so endearing. Instead, the fate of a youth baseball team from Africa is mired in controversy. The baseball team from Kampala, Uganda, was set to become the [...]

Posted On : Jul, 30 2011 | Comments : 0

African baseball team to make history at Little League World...

For the first time, a team from Africa will compete in the annual Little League World Series after a squad from Kampala, Uganda called the Rev. John Foundation Little League team took the Middle East-Africa region. They beat out Saudi Ara [...]