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It was a scary night in Major League Baseball, as Giancarlo Stanton and Chase Headley both took fastballs to their faces on Thursday. Stanton — the Miami Marlins’ young superstar — was hit by an 88-mile per hour fastball to his jaw, as the Marlins played the Brewers in Milwaukee. (Video of Stanton getting hit by the pitch, thrown by Dan Fiers, is here.) Stanton was visibly bleeding before being…

It was a scary night in Major League Baseball, as Giancarlo Stanton and Chase Headley both took fastballs to their faces on Thursday. Stanton — the Miami Marlins’ young superstar — was hit by an 88-mile per hour fastball to his jaw, as the Marlins played the Brewers in Milwaukee. (Video of Stanton getting hit by the pitch, thrown by Dan Fiers, is here.) Stanton was visibly bleeding before being…

Jeff Roberson / AP Even with the Nationals holding an eight-game lead in the National League East, Manager Matt Williams has not allowed the Nationals to peek into the future. “It’s human nature to look ahead,” Williams said. “But we cannot do that, and we must not do that.” If they wanted to, though, they would now know when the playoffs begin, because Major League Baseball released the postseason schedule…

On this date in 1985, Pete Rose became baseball’s all-time hit king with a first-inning line-drive single to left field off Padres righty Eric Show. It was his 4,192nd career hit, breaking Ty Cobb’s long-standing record. Here is the historic hit: Rose, who was 44 at the time, was serving as player-manager for the Reds. He retired following the 1986 season with 4,256 career hits, a record that will not…

GREENVILLE — A Greenville coach has been banned for life by a youth baseball league after it found he forged the birth certificate of one of his sons. Mark Eldridge has been banned for life from the Midwest Ohio Baseball League, which found he fraudulently altered the birth certificate of his son, Logan, for the 2013 and 2014 baseball seasons. Eldridge has been banned from coaching, managing, administering or any…

MILWAUKEE (WITI) — In coordination with new procedures established by Major League Baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers have announced that all fans will be screened metal detectors on Thursday, September 11 against the Miami Marlins and again on Saturday, September 13 against the Cincinnati Reds. Fans are encouraged to arrive early on those dates to accommodate the screenings. The Brewers have screened fans at select gates this year for multiple games, but…

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Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for September 11 2014 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 77 Chris Sale L Oak 11-3 2.09 0.94 1-0 1.89 1.11 66 Johnny Cueto R StL 17-8 2.23 0.98 2-2 3.42 1.44 63 Corey Kluber R Min 14-9 2.47 1.10 1-3 2.88 1.36 61 Cory Rasmus R @Tex 3-1 2.81 1.18 1-0 3.38 1.13 61 A.J….

The sausage race at a Milwaukee Brewers game Cal Sport Media/Zuma Press If you’ve been to a Major League Baseball game recently, chances are you’ve seen an increasingly popular competition within the game: the mascot race. But as the ballpark experience has become a blur of sprinting, costumed characters—ranging from ex-players to ex-presidents, sausages to sodas, and a paint brush to a toothbrush—one all-important question has remained unexplored: Which team…

Bruce MacPherson Nobody enjoys going up against the baseball skeptics. These people are notoriously averse to new ideas and philosophies. If it were up to them, everyone would be wearing stirrups. But after several years of experimentation around the major leagues, even the purest of purists seem to have warmed up to one thoroughly modern tactic: the defensive shift. These days, more and more teams are positioning fielders in unusual…

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The sausage race at a Milwaukee Brewers game Cal Sport Media/Zuma Press If you’ve been to a Major League Baseball game recently, chances are you’ve seen an increasingly popular competition within the game: the mascot race. But as the ballpark experience has become a blur of sprinting, costumed characters—ranging from ex-players to ex-presidents, sausages to sodas, and a paint brush to a toothbrush—one all-important question has remained unexplored: Which team…

Bruce MacPherson Nobody enjoys going up against the baseball skeptics. These people are notoriously averse to new ideas and philosophies. If it were up to them, everyone would be wearing stirrups. But after several years of experimentation around the major leagues, even the purest of purists seem to have warmed up to one thoroughly modern tactic: the defensive shift. These days, more and more teams are positioning fielders in unusual…

The Stengel line quoted above appears in every book on the great manager and the crazy-as-a-fox things he said, every baseball quotation book as well. It came well into his retirement, somewhere circa 1973. Casey was asked if he ever thought about managing again. His full answer: “Well, I’ll tell you, young fella, to be truthful and honest and frank about it, I’m 83 years old,…

Baseballs(Photo: George Walker IV / THE TENNESSEAN) MURFREESBORO – Neighbors came out Wednesday night to the Rutherford County Board of Zoning Appeals to speak in favor of a proposed indoor baseball facility on Williams Road in the Midland community. But then they are mostly family. Property owner Scott Findlay submitted a request for a major home-based business to build a private-use indoor baseball training facility on a 7.75-acre plot in…

The Stengel line quoted above appears in every book on the great manager and the crazy-as-a-fox things he said, every baseball quotation book as well. It came well into his retirement, somewhere circa 1973. Casey was asked if he ever thought about managing again. His full answer: “Well, I’ll tell you, young fella, to be truthful and honest and frank about it, I’m 83 years old,…

Starting pitcher projected Game Scores for September 10 2014 Statistics Past 21 Days GS Team Name T Opp W-L ERA WHIP W-L ERA WHIP 67 Stephen Strasburg R Atl 11-10 3.43 1.17 2-0 2.81 0.94 63 Hisashi Iwakuma R Hou 14-6 2.97 0.99 3-0 4.57 1.11 60 Matt Shoemaker R @Tex 14-4 3.25 1.10 3-0 1.05 0.78 60 Jeff Samardzija R @CWS 6-12 3.21 1.10 1-3 4.72 0.98 59 James…

Major League Baseball released its schedule for 2015 this week. This is the kind of late-season event that is only of interest to the most intense fans. Not too many casual observers of the game are interested in knowing who their team will open against next April, whether their team will be home over July 4th or when their team will first meet their most hated rival in 2015. Nonetheless,…

The coach of a Long Island youth baseball team allegedly pocketed more than $12,000 that moms and dads had raised for a trip to play in Cooperstown, parents and a league official charged. “He screwed our kids,” a dad said of Vincent Carrecca, 40, coach of the Merillon Sharks travel team for 12-year- olds. “Our kids were crying over this. My son was crying for days.” Carrecca, of New Hyde…