RAYS: Pitcher Shane McClanahan is done for the regular season due to a left arm injury.
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Cooper Markle is coming home to play college baseball. The Lincoln native — who has spent the last decade-plus growing up in the Houston area — committed to Nebraska baseball.
CHICAGO-CLEVELAND: White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson and Guardians third baseman José Ramírez exchanged punches at second base Saturday night, …
Add another pitcher to the list who wants to learn under Rob Childress at Nebraska. Right-hander Blake Encarnacion of Friendswood, Texas, committed to the Huskers.
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LOS ANGELES — As their old conference ticks its way toward a shriveled, uncertain future — schools skedaddling seemingly by the day — UCLA and USC have formally commenced the countdown toward a more assured fate. A clock unveiled by UCLA as part of a transition website counts the days, hours, minutes and seconds until the school and its cross-town rival officially become members of the Big Ten ...
Ace pitcher Justin Verlander was shipped from the New York Mets to Houston ahead of the trade deadline, returning to the Astros after he helped them win the World Series last year. The retooling Mets acquired minor league outfielders Drew Gilbert and Ryan Clifford in the deal. The major league-leading Atlanta Braves also got some help, acquiring reliever Brad Hand in a trade with the Colorado Rockies. The Toronto Blue Jays added shortstop Paul DeJong from St. Louis, acting quickly after Bo Bichette was sidelined by right knee soreness.
Detroit Tigers left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez blocked a deal, exercising his no-trade clause. Tigers general manager Scott Harris says there was a deal that did not go through with the Los Angeles Dodgers after Tuesday’s trade deadline. Rodriguez's contract includes a provision that allows him him to block trades to 10 teams in every season. Rodriguez can opt out of his $77 million-five contract after the season and become an unrestricted free agent, or he can choose to play out the deal that pays him $18 million in 2024, $16 million in 2025 and $15 million in 2026.
ASTROS: Houston acquired reliever Kendall Graveman from the White Sox Friday in exchange for minor league catcher Korey Lee.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels acquired right-handers Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo López from the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night…
Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Rolen was the only player to be voted in by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America this year, and McGriff was selected unanimously by the Contemporary Baseball Era Players Committee. Rolen credited his parents for raising him to be a good person, not a major league ballplayer.
The city of Papillion named two streets at the Papillion Landing Softball Complex Jordyn Bahl Boulevard and Peaches James Way to celebrate the athletes and their accomplishments in softball both in Papillion and college.
The scrimmages will be the first public look at Nebraska's 2024 roster, which is headlined by Oklahoma transfer Jordy Bahl.
The Nebraska softball team added some experience — and some pop — to its lineup with the addition of a sixth-year player.
The MLB draft is over and the transfer portal window has closed. Nebraska baseball's busy offseason roster flip is nearly complete too with an incoming 25-man haul headlined by a slew of high-upside arms.
For the fourth consecutive game the Fremont Moo bullpen could not hold a lead as the Moo lost to the Oahe Zap 8-7 in ten innings Wednesday night.
A wide-ranging summer catchup with Nebraska coach Will Bolt includes a busy draft week and the driving reason why the Huskers made multiple staff changes.
Baseball player Max Clark of Franklin, Indiana, and softball player Ava Brown of Montgomery, Texas, have been honored as the best male and female players of the year.
The New York Yankees' Gerrit Cole will start Tuesday night's All-Star Game for the American League and Arizona's Zac Gallen will open on the mound for the NL. Cole will start for the first time in his sixth All-Star nod. He is 9-2 with a 2.85 ERA and 123 strikeouts in 117 innings. Gallen, a 27-year-old right-hander, is 11-3 with a 3.04 ERA, tied for the major league lead in wins. The first-time All-Star has 125 strikeouts in 118 1/3 innings. Yankees and Diamondbacks are All-Star starting pitchers for the time since Roger Clemens faced Randy Johnson in the 2001 game at Seattle.
“They love that I can hit the ball,” Nebraska's Max Anderson said of the Detroit Tigers. “They love that everywhere I’ve been, I’ve hit. That’s where they wanted me — they told me I can hit and they’ll figure it out from there.”
Nebraska left-hander Emmett Olson went off the MLB draft board early Monday afternoon, going in the fourth round to the Miami Marlins.
Nebraska infielder Max Anderson drafted No. 45 overall by the Detroit Tigers in the second round of the MLB draft late Sunday night.
The Houston Astros selected Nebraska shortstop Brice Matthews at No. 28 overall on Sunday night — higher than any projection — with the final pick of the MLB draft's first round.
Max Anderson grew up following the Major League Baseball draft. He got the prospect magazines. He watched the early round selections on televi…