San Francisco rookie right-hander Chris Heston threw the first no-hitter of the season as the Giants beat the New York Mets 5-0 Monday night at Citi Field.
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Bishop Gorman senior shortstop Cadyn Grenier has been named to USA Today’s All-USA baseball team. Grenier, the Review-Journal’s state player of the year, batted .472 with six home runs, 35 RBIs, 66 runs and 27 stolen bases in leading the Gaels to the Division I state title.
Shortstop Ramiro Pena hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning to lead El Paso to a 4-1 win over Las Vegas in a Pacific Coast League game Tuesday at Cashman Field. Dilson Herrera went 2-for-4 and drove in the only run for the 51s.
UNLV junior center fielder Joey Armstrong was selected Tuesday by the Arizona Diamondbacks with the first pick in the 10th round of the major league draft. He was the 286th overall pick and the first Rebel taken.
After getting hit in the groin by a line drive during the fifth inning of Monday’s Royals-Twins game, Kansas City pitcher Jason Vargas not only stayed in the game long enough to earn the win, but he was even mad at himself for not throwing out the lead runner at second after getting hit.
Apple is going to bail out Brandon Moss and pay the “ransom” demanded by the Indians’ bullpen for the safe return of the Cleveland outfielder’s 100th career home run ball.
Mike Bryant, father of Cubs slugger Kris, believes so. “There’s a preponderance of club ball teams, which has decimated the best developmental system there ever was, which was Little League,” he says.
Former College of Southern Nevada right-hander Phil Bickford was drafted today in the first round and 18th overall by the San Francisco Giants.
Growing up in the Bronx, catcher Johnny Monell would always tell his family that he would someday play professional baseball in New York, whether it be at Shea or Yankee Stadium.
College of Southern Nevada star pitcher Phil Bickford is expected to go in the first round of Monday’s major league draft. He was the 10th overall pick two years ago, but decided to go to Cal State Fullerton and then CSN.
In Wednesday’s episode of ESPN’s “Pardon the Interruption,” hosts Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon marveled at the talent coming out of Las Vegas.
Alex Castellanos’ grand slam highlighted the 51s’ six-run sixth inning Saturday night as Las Vegas halted a 10-game losing streak with a 9-4 victory over the El Paso Chihuahuas in a Pacific Coast League game at Cashman Field.
Switch-pitcher Pat Venditte retired batters with both arms in his big-league debut Friday night at Boston’s Fenway Park, tossing two scoreless innings for the Oakland Athletics in a 4-2 loss to the Red Sox.
Former UNLV star pitcher Erick Fedde, the Washington Nationals’ first-round draft pick last year, is working his way back from Tommy John surgery. He said he is on schedule to retake the mound this summer.
A woman struck by a piece of a baseball bat at Boston’s Fenway Park on Friday night suffered “life-threatening” injuries, Boston police spokesman David Estrada said.
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