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Arlington, Texas – The Texas Rangers will open the 2021 season with Globe Life Field at full capacity, the club said Wednesday. The ballpark in Arlington, Texas, which opened its doors last year and hosted the 2020 World Series, holds about 40,500 spectators. “The Rangers are encouraged that the Governor’s […]

It’s likely many who were in Japan on March 11, 2011, can recall exactly where they were when the Great East Japan Earthquake struck. Japan’s pro baseball players were in the midst of spring training, and pitcher Darrell Rasner was gearing up for his third season with the Tohoku Rakuten […]

New York – As his friends and former teammates work out at major league spring training camps across Florida and Arizona, Colin Rea trudges through the snow of eastern Iowa doing his best to prepare for the season in surroundings that don’t lend themselves to the game. After pitching in […]

Mesa, Arizona – Shohei Ohtani made an impressive pitching debut at spring training on Friday, striking out five batters in 1⅔ innings in the Los Angeles Angels’ 7-3 win over the Oakland Athletics. The Angels clocked Ohtani’s fastball at 100 miles per hour (161 kph) as the Japanese two-way star […]

Los Angeles – The California Department of Public Health gave baseball teams and fans cause for spring fever Friday when it announced that spectators can return to the state’s baseball stadiums in gradually increasing numbers starting on opening day as the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Since the state’s five MLB teams […]

Up to 10,000 spectators will be admitted for games at this month’s prestigious spring invitational high school baseball tournament, organizers announced Thursday. A year after it canceled the tournament at iconic Koshien Stadium outside Osaka for the first time, the Japan High School Baseball Federation will sanction the event in […]

Tempe, Arizona – Shohei Ohtani crushed a monster two-run homer Wednesday to help lift the Los Angeles Angels to a 6-2 spring training win over the Texas Rangers. The 143-meter blast, which cleared the batter’s eye screen behind center field, continues an impressive spring for the two-way star, who is […]

Tempe, Arizona – The Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani, who is expected to return to his two-way role in 2021, singled twice against the Chicago White Sox on Monday during a spring training exhibition game in Tempe, Arizona. The teams finished tied at 4-4 in the five-inning game at Tempe […]

Peoria , Arizona – Just over four months after he was stabbed in the lower back, San Diego Padres outfielder Tommy Pham expressed joy just to be able to take the field again. Pham went hitless in two at-bats out of the cleanup spot in the Padres’ Cactus League opener […]

Urasoe, Okinawa Pref. – Former New York Yankee Masahiro Tanaka will open the season as the second starting pitcher in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles rotation, manager Kazuhisa Ishii said Saturday. Tanaka, who returned to the Pacific League club this year for the first time since his 2013 MVP season, […]