CHICAGO — Kris Bryant, like many before him, hopes he can help the Chicago Cubs become a winner.
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At Cashman Field, Wilmer Flores homered twice, doubled, singled and had four RBIs for the 51s (48-44), who pulled within 1½ games of the Pacific Southern division-leading Padres (51-44).
San Francisco Giants pitcher Chad Gaudin has been charged with lewdness after police say he touched the breast of a woman on a gurney at a Las Vegas hospital earlier this year.
There’s little special about MLB’s All-Star game anymore, as evidenced by the fact it has lost half its television audience in the last 20 years, but Los Angeles Dodgers rookie Yasiel Puig could make the mid-summer classic fun and interesting.
At Tucson, Ariz., the Padres (49-40) were down to their last strike when pinch hitter Mike Wilson singled, scoring Dan Robertson and Gregorio Petit to extend their lead to 2½ games over the second-place 51s in the Pacific South Division.
A bench-clearing brawl between the Diamondbacks and Dodgers on June 11 was essentially caused by different interpretations of baseball’s set of unwritten rules — which, ironically, have been written in several books, including the 2010 tome “The Baseball Codes.”
In the top of the seventh inning, as the two girls stood inside the Cashman Field press box, 51s president Don Logan asked them, “Do you know what ‘pepper’ is?”
Inspired by his selection to the Pacific Coast League All-Star team Tuesday afternoon, 51s second baseman Wilmer Flores exploded for his first career five-hit game Tuesday night at Cashman Field, going 5-for-6 with two doubles, three runs and an RBI in Las Vegas’ 12-2 victory over the Fresno Grizzlies.
Bryce Harper made sure his return from the disabled list had an impact on Monday, as he hit a solo home run in his first at-bat.
At 3:57 p.m., a couple of minutes before the second game of a doubleheader against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, the Voice of So Many Summers tweeted “Hi everybody and a pleasant Wednesday evening to you, wherever you may be.” -#VinScully.
UNLV’s baseball program will host five camps this summer directed by the Rebels coaching staff.
Zack Wheeler lived up to the hype in his major league debut, pitching six scoreless innings to lead the New York Mets to a 6-1 victory over the first-place Atlanta Braves and a doubleheader sweep on Tuesday night.
It’s a good thing Eric Baldwin couldn’t hit the curveball. Otherwise, no one would have known how good a poker player he is.
Washington Nationals outfielder Bryce Harper will not have surgery on his swollen left knee, the team’s trainer said Tuesday.
A friend tells a story: It was close to eight years ago when he coached a fall baseball team that competed in a wood bat league in Las Vegas. The team added an eighth-grader as a pickup player for one tournament, a kid who arrived with a reputation in town for being incredibly talented.