Lefty Goes Distance for Sizzling Hoppers
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GRASSHOPPERS REPORT  Grasshoppers  5  Intimidators  2  Site: First Horizon Park, Greensboro  Why the Grasshoppers won: For the second straight night, Greensboro got an outstanding pitching performance from its starter.
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Arizona leftfielder Quinton McCracken left the game with a strained right groin after chasing after a foul ball in the first inning...Bautista extended his hitting streak to eight games...Los Angeles first baseman Hee-Seop Choi is mired in an 0-for-12
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Take a peek at some of the moves the pros are making.
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Left-handers are supposed to have a tough time in Fenway Park. Visiting southpaws are really supposed to struggle with the Green Monster looming over their shoulder. Nobody told Scott Kazmir.
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Brad Wilkerson thought he had a sacrifice fly. But the ball kept carrying with the help of wind blowing out to right field. All of a sudden, Wilkerson had a lot more than an RBI.
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As Matt Leinart drifted toward the left sideline, scrambling to buy extra time, he motioned David Kirtman to break off his route and go downfield.
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FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When Red Sox prospect Jacoby Ellsbury was at Oregon State, he used wooden bats during batting practice, saving his aluminum hacks for the games. That is one of the more obvious clues he had his sights on loftier goals.
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Steve Stricker can do little wrong Saturday, firing a 7-under-par 64 to grab a share of the lead with Aaron Baddeley, who fires a 65 of his own. Tiger Woods, above,ÃÂ is lurking one-shot back at 14-under-par.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - The way heâs been batting lately, Eric Chavez figured Laynce Nix would surely get a glove on his line drive to center field.
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By Greg Avery, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.  Dec.
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Scott Verplank hobbled his way through some miserable weather last week at the American Express Championship. In the desert, where conditions were perfect, he not only walked better but played better, too.
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Derek Anderson and Andrew Walter have combined to throw for just under 10 miles in their careers.
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Somebody's been hitting the 57, because this stock is moving.
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Carlos Beltran has hit home runs and taken them away with leaping catches above the center-field wall. These days, he is creating dreams.
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Manny Ram&#xED;rez crushed a batting practice ball, sending it up about 12 rows into the seats in left-center field. He sent the next one a handful of rows into the seats in left. Then, on the final ball in his set, Ram&#xED;rez decimated the pitch, his swing propelling it near the spot where his 451-foot home run had ...
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With the weight of a nation on his shoulders, Canadian lefty finds water on third playoff hole while No. 1 Vijay Singh keeps his cool.
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The New York Yankees haven&#39;t given up improving their pitching rotation yet, and they appear to be making moves with a certain tall left-hander in Arizona in mind.