Ichiro Suzuki singled in the first inning and doubled in the ninth to raise his hits total in the Japanese and North American major leagues to 4,257, passing Pete Rose's record Major League Baseball total during the Miami Marlins' 6-3 loss to the San ...
Baseball appears set to return to the Olympics for the 2020 Tokyo Games. Major leaguers may balk. "It's not going to happen. I don't think it's fathomable," Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw said. Astros shortstop Carlos Correa wasn't sure he'd play for a gold medal ...
Is a 162-game professional baseball season too long? Is a 143-game schedule too short? Is a 154-game calendar just right? According to a Bleacher Report article by Jacob Shafer last month, this could be the final year for Major League Baseball's 162-game format that has been in ...
Baseball made its call on the Chase Utley slide: out. Major League Baseball and the players' union have banned rolling blocks to break up potential double plays, hoping to prevent a repeat of the takeout by Utley that broke the leg of New York Mets ...
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters ace Shohei Otani has attracted a crowd of scouts to Arizona this past week with his pitching, but his batting has left them speechless. The 21-year old, who hits left-handed, has been drawing rave reviews in batting practice and games since ...
Major League Baseball has found no links between Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish and the alleged illegal gambling activities of his younger brother, Sho, U.S. media quoted a source as saying on Saturday. Sho Darvish was arrested in October and charged with gambling and running ...
The former scouting director of the St. Louis Cardinals pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to hacking into the player database and email system of the Houston Astros in an unusual case of high-tech cheating involving two Major League Baseball clubs. Chris Correa pleaded guilty ...
One of the biggest moments in his career left Brett Eibner conflicted, and the U.S. team without one of its key players just hours before the Premier 12 final on Saturday at Tokyo Dome. The deadline for MLB clubs to promote players to their 40-man ...
Major League Baseball hopes to play regular-season games in Europe within five years and return to Mexico for the first time since 1999. Rob Manfred, who took over as commissioner from Bud Selig in January, has made expansion of international play a priority. "I think the ...
Torii Hunter's Minnesota reunion went about as well as could have been expected — for both sides. That's the way Hunter decided to cap his career, too, as the last of 19 major league seasons. The Twins confirmed Monday night that Hunter will retire. He told ...
Ryan Goins saw the lazy fly leave Ben Zobrist's bat and began to give chase from second base. Jose Bautista saw the same thing from right field and sprinted after the ball. Neither of the Blue Jays wound up catching it. A seemingly sure out turned ...
Joe Maddon posed for a selfie on the field with his wife. Jon Lester sprayed champagne with his young son. Rocker Eddie Vedder partied on the mound. For the Chicago Cubs and their ever-hopeful fans, this bash was a long time in the making. Kyle Schwarber, ...
