Father and son would arrive at the Keller High School baseball field in the Dallas-Fort Worth area around 4:45 p.m., about 45 minutes after dad checked out of work for the day. They’d fill a bucket full of baseballs and sit them down at an unusual distance -- nearly half

First to second, no problem. The next 90 feet, just fine. “I’ve got 180 feet in me,” David Freese says with a chuckle. “And after that, I don’t know what’s going to happen.” The infielder’s 36-year-old body, lumbering as he barreled toward home, started to tilt and stumble forward around

The advice from now-University of Oklahoma head coach Skip Johnson, then a coach at Navarro College in Texas, seemed simple enough for the intriguing high schooler who had never before received formal pitching lessons: Pretend your hands and legs are on a string. “Hands go up, your legs go up.

The evening of March 19, 2018, conjures up an infamous moment for most Dodger fans, when a Cactus League pitch from Oakland’s Kendall Graveman ran too far inside and fractured Justin Turner’s wrist. Turner, however, chooses to remember the night for its more nostalgic moment hours prior. In a career