Talons rookie center fielder Sierra Sacco made a name for herself in the pro ranks last month when she hit the first homer in AUSL history. On Wednesday, she showed her glove can be just as impressive as her bat. It was a play that had Sierra written all over

Backed by a historic partnership with Major League Baseball, the Athletes Unlimited Softball League has launched its inaugural season and will be pitting its four teams against each other until the championship weekend in late July. Thanks to the widest broadcast distribution of any season in any sport under the

Aliyah Binford was on vacation in Pensacola, Fla., with a few of her former Ole Miss teammates when she received a call from the Blaze. Would she like to join the team?

Aubrey Leach is one of the best softball players in the world. She played at the University of Tennessee from 2016-2019 -- finishing on Top 10 lists for career batting average, steals, on-base percentage and walks. She competed in the AUX for the last four years, tallying the second-most points

There are some occasions when the very essence of the game -- its raison d'être -- is captured in a single moment. During Monday night's AUSL contest between the Talons and the Bandits in Rosemont, Ill., we saw that in the fourth inning.

The Athletes Unlimited Softball League launched on June 7. And with the backing of Major League Baseball, this four-team foray into pro softball has made an instant impression on fans. As planned since its inception, the AUSL has been on a two-week hiatus that began on June 24, but play

Softball is booming, and Major League Baseball is backing a new opportunity for star players to continue their careers professionally. The Athletes Unlimited Softball League launches June 7. It’s a bold and fun new venture that will be barnstorming the country in its inaugural season this summer. The league is

SEATTLE -- T-Mobile Park is farther away from Florida State University than any big league ballpark, yet geography didn’t get in the way of a meetup between two of the school's most prominent recent baseball and softball alumni on Wednesday afternoon. Cal Raleigh, the Seminoles’ slugger from 2016-18, welcomed Michaela

TAMPA -- About 15 minutes before Drew Rasmussen’s first pitch Monday night at George M. Steinbrenner Field, Sierra Romero scaled the mound and fired a strike of her own.

The Blaze needed a win in the worst way after dropping eight straight games to fall to 1-10 in the first half of the inaugural Athletes Unlimited Softball League season. But thanks in large part to their third baseman, they will go into the two-week break in high spirits. Ana

In the nightcap of Sunday’s AUSL doubleheader, fans at Love’s Field were greeted with a familiar sight: Sam Landry pitching in the circle. Landry -- a second-team All-American during her senior season at Oklahoma -- had a homecoming for the Volts on Sunday night, returning to familiar confines. She completed

It was the bottom of the first inning in the Blaze’s season opener on June 7, and Danielle Gibson Whorton was stepping up to the plate in a professional softball game for the first time in 651 days. She could be forgiven for thinking it had been even longer. Gibson

You don’t see a 4-3 putout like this one every day. In Saturday afternoon’s 4-0 victory over the Volts, Talons second baseman Ali Aguilar and first baseman Tori Vidales combined for a bizarre 4-3 putout -- though they made it look quite routine. Danieca Coffey looped a base hit into

First base at Wilkins Stadium in Wichita, Kan., is such a familiar place for Sydney McKinney that there wasn't much fanfare when she got there a couple times on Friday. In fact, she looked right at home. The former Wichita State softball star returned to her old stomping grounds and

The little girl wanted so desperately to play on her older sister’s youth softball team that her parents had to appease her somehow. So they sprung for an extra uniform for young Sydney Romero to match the one worn by her sister Sierra. “I got to be the bat girl,”

Sports fans have been delivering handmade good luck charms to their favorite athletes for as long as most of us can remember. How many of them can say they worked? There’s at least one softball fan who can, because prior to Thursday’s game, a makeup of a June 17 rainout,

Dejah Mulipola is a veteran when it comes to international travel and softball. After all, she's represented Team USA in the Olympics and played professionally overseas, globetrotting to destinations from South America to Southeast Asia in the process. But one thing Mulipola will not want to experience again is her

Generally, in sports, athletes who need glasses don't wear them. They prefer goggles -- think of Horace Grant or the eternally-bespectacled Chris Sabo. They'll wear contacts or go get laser eye surgery. Maybe they'll even risk having nothing on and get hit in the face by a ball rather than

The "Barry Bonds of softball" has officially arrived in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. Bri Ellis -- recently named the D1 Softball National Player of the Year as a senior at Arkansas -- clubbed her first AUSL home run on Sunday afternoon for the Talons who overcame a three-run deficit

Will Ferrell and Christopher Walken have nothing on the Bandits of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League. If you really want to hear "more cowbell," just check out one of their games. Pitcher Sarah Willis told MLB Network during the Bandits' 6-0 win over the Volts on Saturday night that the

We are only one week into the Athletes Unlimited Softball League season, but we might have already seen the game of the year on Saturday afternoon between the Talons and the Blaze in Chattanooga, Tenn. The two clubs combined for 26 runs and 29 hits in a 14-12 win for

Sydney McKinney needed to work on hitting the inside pitch. So Bandits assistant coach Mike Lotief came up with some unorthodox ideas for how to ensure McKinney could get the barrel of her bat out in time to catch inside offerings from opposing pitchers in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League.

Thursday's game between the Bandits and Volts of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League featured a heavyweight pitching matchup of two pitchers selected first overall in their respective draft this year. The Bandits' Lexi Kilfoyl -- a former Oklahoma State All-American -- was selected No. 1 overall in January's first-ever AUSL

If you’re an avid card collector, you’ve probably ripped open plenty of Topps packs, hoping to pull an autographed card of a highly touted rookie. But do you have an autographed card of the "Barry Bonds of Softball?" You can try to get one now.

Bubba Nickles-Camarena and the Bandits of the Athletes Unlimited Softball League have developed a fun new home run celebration. And they’re getting a lot of practice with it. Nickles-Camarena became the first player in the brand-new AUSL to hit multiple homers this season, smacking her second of the year in