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Pitching Deep Into Games Has Become a Rarity. Sandy Alcantara Does So with Regularity

Matt Martell is on a well-deserved vacation this week. Emma Baccellieri has you covered in his stead. Of Sandy Alcantara’s many impressive statistics this season—including a 1.82 ERA and an 0.91 WHIP—there is perhaps none so remarkable as his total innings pitched. The 26-year-old has made himself ...

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Man shot to death while confronting squeegee workers with bat: ‘He should have just kept driving’

BALTIMORE — Timothy Reynolds grew up playing baseball in Carroll Park, later earned a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University, launched an engineering career and fathered three children.

Tribune News Service

Report: Former Texas assistant Sean Allen to join Ohio State

A new addition to the staff for the Ohio State baseball team. #GoBucks

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Mike Brito, Dodgers player scout, dies at 87

For years, the mustachioed Brito was instantly recognizable behind home plate dressed in a stylish suit and a Panama hat with a cigar clenched in his teeth holding a radar gun.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘A League Of Their Own,’ a warmhearted comedy and classic baseball movie, turns 30

Women lead the lineup — and show impressive skills on the field — in the enduring 1992 hit.

Chicago Sun-Times

Inside Kyle Farnsworth’s (Not-Entirely-Unlikely) Pivot From Baseball to Bodybuilding

The longtime MLB reliever just entered his first competition, and he crushed it. Up next? He might be done.

Sports Illustrated

Autographs of Moonlight Graham of ‘Field of Dreams’ fame are discovered at Baltimore medical school he attended

BALTIMORE — In the stuffy fourth-floor attic of a historic Baltimore academic building, amid discarded furniture and dusty filing cabinets, Larry Pitrof discovered treasure.

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Mike Brito, Legendary Dodgers Scout, Dies at 87

The well-known scout spent nearly four and half decades bringing in elite international players to the organization.

Sports Illustrated

Man fatally shot after swinging bat at squeegee worker

Baltimore’s police commissioner says a man was shot and killed after he swung a baseball bat at a person who cleans windshields at intersections for cash

The Independent UK

Ryan Divish: Why Julio Rodriguez deserves to go to the All-Star Game

SAN DIEGO — If asked, he will happily say yes.

Tribune News Service

Marcus Hayes: Underappreciated ace Zack Wheeler: Best starter in baseball? Most important Phillies player?

The Phillies faced their biggest game in recent memory Sunday night. The visiting Cardinals sat just ahead of them in the playoff race, and they’d split the first two games of the weekend series.

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Kyle Schwarber homers twice as the Phillies rout the Nationals to inch closer to wild-card contention

PHILADELPHIA — After an 11-0 win over the Nationals on Tuesday, the Phillies are a half a game out of a wild-card spot. Of course, there is plenty of baseball left — half an 162-game season left, to be exact — but it is still a remarkable feat, considering how…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Jeff Gordon: Elite starting pitching could be scarce in baseball's trade market

Oakland Athletics starting pitcher Frankie Montas was cruising along this summer, building big value ahead of baseball's Aug. 2 trade deadline.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Paul Sullivan: A tragic event in Highland Park became just another day at the ballpark — and in America

About 3½ hours before the Chicago White Sox met the Minnesota Twins Monday to start the biggest series of the season, manager Tony La Russa’s pregame media session in the dugout competed with a singer practicing over the Guaranteed Rate Field sound system.

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The wife of ailing Orioles owner Peter Angelos met with MLB commissioner after her son’s lawsuit questioned her leadership

BALTIMORE — A week after one son’s lawsuit described her as isolated and indecisive, the wife of ailing Orioles owner Peter Angelos and her other son met with Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, who was reassured about her oversight of the team as part of her control over her…

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SI:AM | Julio Rodríguez Is Living Up to the Hype

The Mariners rookie is off to a historically great start.

Los Angeles Times

Dylan Hernández: Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw deserves the All-Star start

There was no mention of the month Clayton Kershaw spent on the injured list or how he hasn't pitched a sufficient number of innings to qualify to be on the earned-run average leaderboard.

Tribune News Service

Mike Persak: What we think we know about the Pirates at the season's (almost) halfway point

The Pirates are almost halfway done with their season. That unofficially important mark will come Wednesday, when they wrap up a two-game set against the best team in baseball, the New York Yankees.

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The Independent UK

White Sox, MLB decide to play game after parade shooting

The Chicago White Sox talked to Major League Baseball about postponing their game against the Minnesota Twins after a gunman opened fire on an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago, killing at least six people

Chicago Tribune

Liam Hendriks calls out gun laws after Highland Park shootings. ‘The access to the weaponry ... totally needs to change,’ Chicago White Sox closer says.

The Chicago White Sox consulted with Major League Baseball on whether to play Monday night’s game with the Minnesota Twins after shootings at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park killed six and wounded more than two dozen others.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki legged out a wild inside-the-park home run and baseball fans were in awe

Welcome back off of the IL, Seiya Suzuki!

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball by the numbers: A look at some trends halfway through the season

Home runs and sacrifice bunts are down. So are strikeouts, but that is almost entirely because of the National League using the DH.

Chicago Sun-Times

Baseball should honor Larry Doby, another pioneer in integrating the sport

On July 5, 1947, the unassuming 22-year-old joined the Cleveland Indians and played at Comiskey Park, the first Black player in the American League. Every July 5, AL players should wear his No. 14.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Benjamin Hochman: Cardinals legends Gibson, White and Flood profiled in powerful documentary 'After Jackie'

During a poignant moment in the documentary “After Jackie,” the words of Jackie Robinson catch your attention and your breath: “I think that one day, white Americans are going to take a real good look at themselves and recognize the harm that they're doing to America — not to Black…

Chicago Tribune

Paul Sullivan: Boston Red Sox rookie’s 1-star review of Wrigley Field hits a nerve with the Chicago Cubs

The Chicago Cubs owners have spent the last decade-plus trying to emulate the Boston Red Sox.

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