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Gopher Baseball Features 39 Home Games in 2012

The University of Minnesota baseball program will feature 39 home games during the 2012 season announced today by head coach John Anderson. Minnesota will play 38 games in the Metrodome, while the May 5 game against Penn State is schedule [...]

Posted On : Jan, 06 2012 | Comments : 0

Baseball's game of the year

Before the night of Oct. 27, you could have fueled a spirited debate with the directive, "Pick the best game of the 2011 Major League Baseball season." Philadelphia and Cincinnati hooked up in a 19-inning marathon in May, c [...]

Posted On : Dec, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Cards' skipper La Russa takes blame for Game 5 gaffes

La Russa took the blame for the bullpen follies that twice led to the wrong reliever pitching in the critical eighth inning, and admitted that Albert Pujols signaled for an ill-fated, seventh-inning hit-and-run on his own. But his ramb [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Rangers' Lewis loses 1st postseason game of career

Colby Lewis came into Game 3 of the AL championship series as the surest thing the Texas Rangers had on the mound. And for three innings, he was. Then, the Detroit Tigers began chipping away. And by the time they were done, they had [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 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

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

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 games, especially Yankees-Red Sox games, have becom...

The great Red Holzman was talking once about what pro basketball was like in the old days, before the 24-second clock, for guards like him and his old City College teammate, Sonny Hertzberg. Holzman ended up in the pros with the Roches [...]

Posted On : Sep, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

With an 0-for-3, Uggla's hit streak ends at 33 games

Dan Uggla's mental health never seemed at risk, not when he was scraping bottom at .173 and not when his 33-game hitting streak came to an end Sunday afternoon. His teammates were never afraid to go near him when he was struggling or [...]

Posted On : Aug, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Alex Rodriguez to Be Asked About Poker Games

Once again, officials for Major League Baseball want to meet with Alex Rodriguez. This time, though, it is not about performance-enhancing drugs. In the coming weeks, baseball officials plan to question Rodriguez about reports of his part [...]

Posted On : Aug, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Angels' Weaver banned six games for throwing at batter

Weaver, who was also fined an undisclosed amount, threw a ball over Avila's head in Sunday's game right after Detroit's Carlos Guillen angered the pitcher by watching his home run ball instead of immediately rounding the bases [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Fox, Bud Selig happy with All-Star game format

The players might not like the All-Star game determining home-field advantage in the World Series, but the president of Fox Sports wonders what the fuss is all about. "It's not Armageddon," Ed Goren said Tuesday. In eig [...]

Posted On : Jul, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Baseball’s All-Star game can be classic again

The square peg that is the All-Star game and the black hole that is Bud Selig’s idea to make it count for something are back for their ninth year of nonsensical commingling. There is no worse rule in baseball. It rivals the BCS for [...]

Posted On : Jul, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Giants lose game, and perhaps Posey, in 12th

Scott Cousins went to college at the University of San Francisco. He lives in the Bay Area, and he had almost a dozen friends and family at AT&T Park on Wednesday night to witness the biggest moment of his professional career. [...]