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BALTIMORE -- Aaron Judge’s statistics already seem larger than life, and now the Yankees’ captain is getting the full treatment as an anime hero. Judge is the latest player to be spotlighted in Major League Baseball’s anime-inspired “Heroes of the Game” series, which debuted ahead of Opening Day and is

LOS ANGELES -- There's nowhere quite like Miami.

TORONTO -- Daulton Varsho, are you serious? In his 2025 debut, fresh off the IL Tuesday in Toronto, Varsho made a catch we’ll be talking about all season long.

The Chicago White Sox unveiled their new Nike City Connect Series uniforms on Monday evening. The uniform pays homage to two historic Chicago sports franchises. The Chicago Bulls collaborated with the White Sox on this project to create this first-of-its-kind jersey. After the team’s first City Connect uniform became a

Three brothers from Puerto Rico play in the Major Leagues at the same time, all as catchers, and each goes on to win multiple World Series rings? Yes, the story of the Molina brothers -- Bengie, José and Yadier -- sounds ready-made for the Hollywood treatment.

Until expansion came along in 1961, Major League Baseball was usually played in 16 ballparks each season, at most. And with no Interleague Play, a team would only have games in eight of those venues in a year. So when Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927, he went

With bat dogs, wacky mascots and colorful alternate identities, many Minor Leagues ballparks resemble the circus. But Jacksonville’s VyStar Ballpark supplied the on-field act to go with the atmosphere on Saturday night when in the sixth inning, Jumbo Shrimp infielder Jack Winkler showcased a skill typically reserved for between-inning entertainment

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For Red Sox fan Anna Gailbreath, Crochet day is crochet day. See, Gailbreath is crocheting a red and white sweater this season during lefty Garrett Crochet's starts. She spends each outing working away on the sweater -- but only as long as Crochet is in the game. Once he exits,

We’ve seen our fair share of broken-bat hits in baseball. What happened in Wednesday’s Double-A matchup between the Columbus Clingstones and Chattanooga Lookouts was even wackier than your normal version of a broken-bat hit. The Clingstones' Chandler Seagle shattered his bat on a slow roller that went past the pitcher

CLEVELAND -- A batter doesn’t often call timeout before his plate appearance begins. But Steven Kwan had an excellent reason to do so in the Guardians’ 3-2 win over the Yankees on Tuesday -- when he took a moment to do a gender reveal for teammate David Fry. Kwan dug

Michael Sansone, a left-handed reliever for Salem, the Red Sox Single-A affiliate, strolled from the bullpen to the mound on Tuesday night, ready to take over in the bottom of the ninth inning of a road game against Hickory (Rangers) at L.P. Frans Stadium.

Whether you're a baseball player or a rapper, it's hard to produce the best results unless you have one big thing: confidence. On the field or in the recording studio, old-fashion self-assurance can go a long way toward success. That's one thing rapper Waka Flocka Flame makes clear as the

Life is tough. You've got to celebrate your dubs. Andy Lugo, third baseman for the High-A Greenville Drive, has a firm grasp of that concept -- but a flexible grip on his bat. The 21-year-old Red Sox prospect delivered a walk-off knock for the Drive on Saturday night and immediately

This story was excerpted from Todd Zolecki's Phillies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Even today, people send Matt Strahm the meme. It’s Nicolas Cage’s face Photoshopped over his body in a powder blue Phillies uniform. It has

Scooby-Doo, where are you! Well, these days, television’s lovable Great Dane is busy notching walk-off hits on the diamond. On Saturday, two Minor League teams held a Scooby-Doo Night, donning special Scooby-Doo-themed jerseys in honor of the famed animated cartoon series. And by the end of each game, both teams

ARLINGTON -- The Ohtani family has gained a new member. Shohei Ohtani announced that his wife, Mamiko Tanaka, gave birth to the couple's first child, a baby girl, in an Instagram post on Saturday. The post featured a photo of the newborn's feet, as well as an image of the

Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good, and that was certainly the case for the Single-A Hickory Crawdads on Friday night in their game against the Charleston RiverDogs. Entering the bottom of the eighth inning, it looked like they were headed toward perfection. But then a bloop

You're seeing double, eh? No, you're seeing Double-A. Thursday night's game between Boston's Portland Sea Dogs and Colorado's Hartford Yard Goats produced a glitch-in-the-matrix moment so surreal you won't believe it until you see it. And even then, you're going to do a double take. With one out in the

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Josh Jackson filled in on this edition. Read the full newsletter here,

Ask the average baseball fan what they know about Mariners star catcher Cal Raleigh, and they might bring up his playoff-drought-ending walk-off homer from 2022. They might know he won a Platinum Glove last season, or if they're particularly plugged in, that he just hit his 100th career homer on

TAMPA -- Jake Mangum got the ball. The wall got his batting gloves. With two outs in the ninth inning of the Rays’ 1-0 loss to the Red Sox on a windy Wednesday night at George M. Steinbrenner Field, Mangum tracked a Carlos Narváez fly ball straight back to the

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MILWAUKEE -- The Tigers got an out for the highlight reel, the Brewers got an insurance run and amateur physicists everywhere got a lesson in what happens when a moving object hits … well, another moving object. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Brewers manager Pat Murphy, who isn’t