Whenever a professional athlete even hints that he might play a second pro sport, it attracts attention. Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson created that kind of intrigue by refusing to close the door on a professional baseball career when he interviewed for HBO’s “Real Sports.”
New York Mets closer Jenrry Mejia has been suspended for 80 games without pay after testing positive for the banned substance stanozolol, Major League Baseball said on Sunday.
Desert Oasis senior Nolan Kingham, one of the area’s top baseball prospects as a pitcher, showed Saturday that he also can hit. He was 4-for-4, including two fifth-inning home runs, as the sixth-ranked Diamondbacks topped No. 4 Green Valley 10-1.
Brandon Allen, Darrell Ceciliani and Alex Castellanos homered to back Darin Gorski’s strong pitching and lift the 51s to a 7-2 win over the Fresno Grizzlies in a Pacific Coast League game Saturday at Fresno, Calif.
Payton Squier’s eighth-inning sacrifice fly brought home the decisive run Saturday in UNLV’s 3-2 win over Ohio State in a nonconference baseball game in Columbus, Ohio. Rebels starter D.J. Myers held Ohio State to two runs on six hits and one walk and struck out six in 6 1/3 innings.
Cimarron-Memorial’s baseball team scored four unearned runs in the second inning and cruised to a 13-4 victory over host Bonanza to gain some breathing room in the competitive Northwest League. Niko Decolati, Luis Flores and Tyler Giovinco homered for the Spartans.
Preston Tucker’s two-run homer capped the scoring in Fresno’s five-run third inning Friday night, sending the Grizzlies to an 8-4 victory over the 51s in a Pacific Coast League game in Fresno, Calif.
Troy Kuhn’s one-out RBI single in the ninth inning sent Ohio State to a 6-5 victory over UNLV in a nonconference baseball game Friday in Columbus, Ohio. The Rebels scored single runs in each of the first five innings and led 5-2 after five.
Alex Rodriguez hit hit first home run in nearly 19 months, but it wasn’t enough as the New York Yankees fell to the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 on Thursday night.
Matt Dominguez’s RBI double in the seventh inning sent the Fresno Grizzlies past the 51s 2-1 in both teams’ Pacific Coast League opener Thursday night in Fresno, Calif. Las Vegas didn’t register a hit until the seventh.
Preston Pavlica left the field early Thursday with an injured quadriceps. But the Liberty senior did plenty of damage while he was in the game. Pavlica was 2-for-2 with a two-run homer and two runs, and the Patriots held on for a 4-3 win at Silverado.
Masters’ coverage may corner the amens this weekend, but don’t let visions of azaleas, camellias, dogwoods and those green jackets prevent you from catching a few innings of the Red Sox and Yankees playing in the Bronx.
We picked up a huge win over No. 5 Arizona State this week and that was really good for our guys. The game was a little weird as we were scheduled to play on Tuesday night. We got a couple innings in then, but because of a lighting issue we had to put the game on hold.
The 51s will feature two hard-throwing pitchers this season in right-hander Noah Syndergaard, who is rated baseball’s No. 11 prospect by Baseball America, and left-hander Steven Matz, who is No. 33. They are the top two prospects of the New York Mets.
UNLV came back from a 5-1 deficit to beat Arizona State 7-6 on Wednesday, completing a game that was suspended Tuesday night because of a power failure. The Sun Devils are the highest-ranked team the Rebels have beaten since defeating No. 3 Cal State Fullerton 8-6 in 2003.
