His bat woke up in time
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If they gave an award for the greatest turnaround by a college baseball player, then Jake Christman of Newton, a second baseman at Franklin Pierce College, would be a prime candidate.
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David Ortiz had a different view of a familiar situation.
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Dusty Baker, manager of the Chicago Cubs, found himself awake at 3 am yesterday morning and immediately turned on the Weather Channel for an update on Hurricane Frances.
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Mike Piazza has been around baseball practically his whole life, and the moment was not lost on him.
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The day after Scott Rolen slugged a two-run home run to help St. Louis beat the Houston Astros in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series, he was asked
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That la-la-la sound you hear is from baseball, with its hands cupped over its ears to another retro-'roid accusation.
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Joe Torre may not have slept well on Sunday night after watching his team lose Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, but it wasn&#39;t because he was up second
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Orlando Cabrera began the day in South America, leaving Colombia in the pre-dawn hours. He ended it with his biggest hit as a Red Sox.
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A fossil found in Wyoming has apparently resolved a long-standing question about when bats gained their radar-like ability to navigate and locate airborne insects at night. The answer: after they started flying.
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THE moment that all Australian cricket fans had been anticipating for 35 years came at 4.20pm local time. It had been delayed by a frustrating last-wicket stand of 52 in seven overs, but when Zaheer Khan swung
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Batting practice barely had started Tuesday evening, but the Astros already had killed one bird. Although it was an accident when Chris Burke&#39;s hard grounder killed a pigeon
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Tim Wakefield already had left Aaron Boone&#39;s homer that won last year&#39;s AL championship series far behind. Now he has a more pleasant playoff memory.
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The smile and the swing were unmistakably the same. They both belonged to David Ortiz and were on display yesterday, as he took batting practice for the first time since he was hospitalized for a second time because of heart palpitations.
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Turn back the clock 25 years or so, Larry Lucchino said, and he might have reacted differently to the Yankees' sudden rush toward contention.
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Justin Verlander found out real quickly how much a no-hitter changed his life. When the Detroit Tigers young ace walked into a restaurant with his girlfriend, he was greeted with a standing ovation. "Yeah, the second one of the night," Verlander said Wednesday, about 17 hours after pitching a no-hitter against the Milwaukee Brewers.
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The five innings that Pedro MartÃ­nez were encouraging but inconclusive. He held the Marlins without a hit until the fifth, but then allowed four runs in that inning before departing.
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For an instant, the ball that blasted off Miguel Tejada's bat found its way into the glove of Coco Crisp, who had raced to the depths of center field to make the play.