Babe Ruth&#39;s bat still hitting homers
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The big-barreled ash-wood bat wielded by baseball legend Ruth to help beat fierce rivals Boston Red Sox 4-1 in the inaugural game at Yankee Stadium on April 18, 1923, was the top item in a baseball memorabilia sale at Sotheby&#39;s.
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TORONTO -- A good day to impersonate the Babe? Depends on the Babe. In David Ortiz's case, it was historic. The Red Sox DH, who hit his 53d home run in the first inning yesterday off Toronto lefthander Gustavo Chacin in the Rogers Centre, tied the American League record for home runs away from home, 32, set by Babe Ruth ...
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Red Sox right fielder J.D. Drew was on his way to a marvelous game, hitting a home run and double in his first two at-bats last night, with seven innings still to be played.
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Barry Bonds is still looking for No. 700. It was Corey Patterson who came through with the biggest home runs of the night.
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Ichiro Suzuki went home quietly, still waiting for the big hit he&#39;s been chasing. Bobby Crosby sent the Athletics into a decisive weekend series against Anaheim with the biggest hit of Oakland&#39;s season.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run Friday night, toppling another milestone and edging closer to Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron in his quest to become the greatest slugger in baseball history.    Bonds rewarded his fans in the opener of the San Francisco Giants' nine-game homestand with a 392-foot opposite-field homer to left center leading off the third inning...
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MILWAUKEE -- How many home runs does Barry Bonds have to hit to get beyond the lack-of-lovability issue? The correct answer is: It just doesn&#39;t matter.
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Barry Bonds swung at nine pitches and none of them left the ballpark. He made one spectacular throw and it saved the game. &quot;Tonight, he did it with his arm,&quot; winning pitcher
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland Athletics gained a share of first place. Ichiro Suzuki did not. Suzuki went 1 for 5 on Thursday, inching within one hit of George Sisler&#39;s single season record of 257, but again
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Fifty-six years after his death, Babe Ruth&#39;s baseball career is finally over. The Curse of the Bambino is dead. The Red Sox waited even longer to be emancipated - that&#39;s right, four score and six years, since last they won a World Series.
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With a hard single to right field Thursday against the Athletics, the Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki posted his 256th hit of this season.
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Barry Bonds hit his 700th home run last night, toppling another milestone and edging closer to Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron in his quest to become the greatest slugger in baseball history.
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As hot as Ichiro has been - and he sizzled to a 13-game hitting streak with a single in the seventh inning last night â-ven he isn&#39;t as hot as Edgar Martinez in the past six games, hitting .
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The 30-year-old right fielder, who has 257 hits, has tonight and two games remaining to break the record. George Sisler&#39;s mark of 257 hits was set in 1920.
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Bronson Arroyo kept Barry Bonds four home runs shy of Hank Aaron's record and moved within 752 himself. The Cincinnati Reds right-hander allowed three runs and seven hits &#151; none a home run by Bonds &#151; in 6 2-3 innings and went deep for the third time in his career in a 6-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Thursday night.
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Barry Bonds ended his latest home run drought and showed he might be finding his stroke again. Bonds hit his 747th homer and moved within eight of Hank Aaron's career record with a two-run shot during the Giants' 4-3 win over Toronto on Monday night, just the second home run since May 8 for the slugger and his first this month.
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Ichiro Suzuki is so fast you might wonder why he doesn&#39;t bunt more often. Only a handful of his 250-plus hits have been bunts and manager Bob Melvin explained that opposing