Baseball

Japan’s annual Summer National High School Tournament at Koshien has been canceled amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, organizers said Wednesday. The decision not to hold the summer tourney is the first time since the World War II that it will not be held. The spring version also was canceled in […]

New York – The Texas Rangers would prefer to stay home in their new ballpark instead of returning to Arizona whenever it is time to get back to spring training. They still haven’t played a game, or even had an organized workout, in their $1.2 billion stadium with a retractable […]

WASHINGTON – The Washington Nationals will unveil their World Series championship rings during a « virtual” ceremony shown on television and online Sunday — an unprecedented approach brought about by the coronavirus pandemic. With the start of the Major League Baseball season on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak, Nationals owner […]

Houston – A 5-year-old boy and a woman drowned in the backyard pool of former Los Angeles Dodgers player Carl Crawford’s Houston home, according to reports. Houston police were called about 2:40 p.m. Saturday for a reported drowning at a north Houston home that property and business records list as […]

Houston – Former major league manager and infielder Art Howe was released from a Houston hospital Sunday after a stay in intensive care because of the coronavirus. « Relief, back in my own bedroom. It’s just sweet,” the 73-year-old Howe said. « It was a long five days or so. I’m finally […]

New York – Major League Baseball will look somewhat like high school ball this year under protocols to deal with the new coronavirus, with showers at ballparks discouraged and players possibly arriving in uniform, like they did when they were teenagers. Team personnel will be banned from eating at restaurants […]

Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish on Friday joined a growing chorus of Major League Baseball stars expressing resentment about possibly being asked to work in unsafe conditions while the new coronavirus pandemic rages. « I think it’s basically the same as treating MLB players like fighting dogs, » Darvish wrote on his […]

Organizers of Japan’s National High School Baseball Championship are mulling the possibility of canceling this summer’s tournament in light of the coronavirus pandemic, a source familiar with the matter said Friday. According to the source, the Japan High School Baseball Federation will discuss whether to cancel the Aug. 10 to […]

Rome – Baseball. In Japan. At the Olympics. For World Baseball Softball Confederation president Riccardo Fraccari, it seems like such a sure home run that he can’t even imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to be involved. No wonder the refusal of Major League Baseball and its players’ association to send […]

The owners of the 12 NPB clubs recognize the league could face a “critical situation” due to the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, Yokohama DeNA BayStars owner Tomoko Namba said on Tuesday. Speaking in an online news conference after an extraordinary owners meeting, Namba said that although the participants did […]