Rob Manfred this week said his primary focus since assuming the head chair at MLB’s dinner table was to indeed improve ways the game might reach young minds. He wants to inspire them, compel them to follow baseball and have them fall in love with the game. Is he fighting a losing battle?
Pinch hitter Dan Rohlfing was hit by the first pitch he saw with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the 51s a 6-5 win over the Iowa Cubs in a Pacific Coast League game Tuesday night at Cashman Field.
Poor Bryce Harper. Not only is his team, the Washington Nationals, mired in a major slump — losing six straight and 13 of their last 17 games — but Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Nina Agdal confessed Monday to “cheating” on the Las Vegan with his rival, Angels outfielder Mike Trout.
5-year-old Hailey Dawson of Las Vegas threw out the ceremonial first pitch before the A’s-Orioles game Monday night. She was wearing a plastic robotic prosthesis — a “special hand” she calls it — designed by UNLV engineers.
Danny Muno came through twice in key situations as the 51s earned a dramatic 5-4 win in 12 innings over the Iowa Cubs in a Pacific Coast League game at Cashman Field on Monday night.
I think we all can agree there can be only one Dos Equis beer guy. But Matt Szczur, an outfielder for the Iowa and Chicago Cubs, is fairly interesting in his own right.
New York Yankees right-hander Bryan Mitchell left Monday night’s game against the Minnesota Twins with two outs in the top of second inning after getting hit in the face by a line drive.
John Kruk unwittingly texted with George Brett about ribs for two years before realizing the George he’d been corresponding with was the Royals great.
Imagine the grinding from the grandstands longtime local baseball umpire Fred Atiyeh took in three decades behind the plate. Forget the fact he was a top-notch game caller and an even better man. Precision and ethics mean nothing to baseball fans, who know it’s their God-given right, indeed their duty, to razz the umpire at every opportunity.
David Denson, a first baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers’ rookie affiliate in Helena, Montana, made baseball history this weekend by revealing that he is gay.
Matt Kemp hit for the first cycle in San Diego Padres history Friday night. The milestone, which took seemingly forever, came in the franchise’s 7,444th game and helped the Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 9-5.
Daniel McCutchen pitched seven strong innings, and a sixth-inning error plated the decisive runs in the El Paso Chihuahuas’ 3-2 win over the 51s in a Pacific Coast League game Friday in El Paso, Texas.
Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell has been diagnosed with early-stage cancer and will miss the rest of the season as he undergoes treatment.
In a bizarre, trashy story involving Las Vegas, 51s catcher Johnny Monell jokingly donned a trash can lid in the dugout Wednesday night and it saved him from being hit by a foul ball.
Hector Gomez’s two-out, bases-loaded RBI single in the ninth inning sent the El Paso Chihuahuas to a 5-4 win over the 51s in a Pacific Coast League game Thursday in El Paso, Texas.
