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NEW YORK – Baltimore slugger Chris Davis was driving down Florida’s west coast on Interstate 75 from Sarasota to Fort Myers for an exhibition game against the Minnesota Twins when he got the call. No game tonight. No games for a while. “Pretty shocked,” Davis said, “just how quickly things […]

NEW YORK – Baltimore slugger Chris Davis was driving down Florida’s west coast on Interstate 75 from Sarasota to Fort Myers for an exhibition game against the Minnesota Twins when he got the call. No game tonight. No games for a while. “Pretty shocked,” Davis said, “just how quickly things […]

Handing the ball to Yuki Nishi to start the season was probably a no-brainer for the Hanshin Tigers. Nishi was a celebrated free-agent acquisition in the winter of 2018, when he switched his Kansai allegiances from the Orix Buffaloes to the Tigers. He was Hanshin’s best pitcher in his first […]

For years, former major league pitcher Satoru Komiyama’s measure of success was wins on the ballfield, now as manager of Waseda University’s baseball team, he wants his yardstick to be the quality of character his players achieve. “We prepare these players so they can go through life without doing things […]

Spring Koshien, the national invitational high school baseball tournament, was canceled on Monday amid the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak. It was the first cancellation in the history of the tournament, which was scheduled to begin on March 19 at Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. This is a developing story. Source […]

NEW YORK – New York Mets outfielder Michael Conforto was scheduled to be examined by a doctor in New York after tweaking his side while making a catch in a recent spring training game. The slugger had an MRI in Florida but left camp and was sent to New York […]

YOKOHAMA – The fog of uncertainty surrounding the NPB season hung just as think in the air at Yokohama Stadium as the gray clouds that hovered above the ballpark on Tuesday morning. The Yokohama BayStars and Hanshin Tigers were supposed to play a preseason game in the early afternoon, but […]

TAMPA, FLORIDA – Now the New York Yankees know what’s wrong with Aaron Judge. As to when he’ll be OK to play, no telling. Judge has a broken rib and it’s uncertain whether he will need surgery, leaving doubt when he can return to the lineup. Manager Aaron Boone said […]

PHOENIX – Christian Yelich took to Milwaukee so much he staked his long-term future to the Brewers. “I’ve said many times that I’ve only been here for two years, but it feels like it’s been a lot longer,” the two-time NL batting champion said Friday after finalizing a $215 million, […]

MESA, ARIZONA – Gaylord Perry threw a spitball. Joe Niekro had an emery board and a piece of sandpaper. Whitey Ford used his wedding ring. Pitchers have been tinkering with the ball for decades in search of an advantage, skirting and — occasionally — breaking major league rules in the […]