Two weeks ago, Nick Lucky was playing for the Lancaster Stormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, a Partner League of Major League Baseball. On June 16, Lucky was signed by the Mets and assigned to Double-A Binghamton. It hasn't taken him long to make his presence felt. On

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An episode of "Jeopardy!" that aired this past February featured the following clue: In late Spring, Congaree National Park in South Carolina is famous for its nightly display of synchronized these? The correct response is fireflies, as any fan of Kansas City's Single-A affiliate would know. The Columbia Fireflies, established

If you, like so many over the past week, saw the video of a disappointed pup watching another canine eat a hot dog at the Marlins’ Bark in the Park night, we have some good news for you. The dog, a 6-year-old cunucu named Jonah, has been found. And the

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A wholesome moment unfolded on Thursday night at Rogers Centre, and a young Rangers fan went home particularly happy.

As the famous "Bull Durham" quote goes: Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes it rains. In the case of the Dunedin Blue Jays, Single-A affiliate of the Toronto club, it rains a lot more than sometimes.

NEW YORK -- Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong is known for hitting the long ball. He has a team-leading 17 home runs to back it up. But during the second game of the day/night doubleheader against the Mets, a contest in which Chicago won, 10-5, Crow-Armstrong showed he can play small

NEW YORK -- It didn’t take long for Norway’s faithful fans to find the next destination to keep the party going. After taking in their national team’s historic World Cup victory over Senegal on Monday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. -- a 3-2 win that saw Norway advance

On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, you might be able to attend an opera performance, or a wrestling match, or a drag show, or a wedding. All you need to do is make your way to the local ballpark. Just about 10 miles east of downtown is Walker Stadium,

Catching is hard enough as it is, but the Tigers’ Dillon Dingler had to deal with an additional obstacle behind the plate in Tuesday night's 4-3 loss to the Yankees at Comerica Park. Dingler was in a good spot to receive Detroit reliever Kyle Finnegan’s 97 mph fastball with one

The Marlins had quite a crowd on hand for Monday night’s game against the Rangers at loanDepot park, including the Tartan Army of Scottish football supporters making the rounds with the World Cup taking place in Miami. That crowd also featured a bevy of four-legged friends. At the Marlins’ “Bark

A version of this story originally ran in June of 2023

Any time you’re at a ballfield or watching a game on TV, you’ll hear the language of baseball and softball. The sibling sports overlap in their vocabulary with terms like “southpaw,” “payoff pitch,” and “frozen rope.” Others are sport-specific, like “circle” for softball, while baseball uses “bump.” It takes an

As usual, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was manning second base for the Yankees on Monday night. What he probably didn’t expect on top of his normal job was groundskeeping duties. During the fourth inning of the Yankees’ game at Detroit’s Comerica Park, the dirt camera near Chisholm’s position at second base

While Knicks star Karl-Anthony Towns was the toast of New York City on Thursday after helping lead his team to the promised land, there’s an alternate universe out there where the All-Star center hits the Canyon of Heroes celebrating a championship in an entirely different sport. In a phone interview

Question: Does Hall of Fame catcher Carlton Fisk know "The Carlton" dance? We know Mookie Betts does. Pitcher Taijuan Walker did his best rendition in 2016, too. We’re not sure about the 1972 AL Rookie of the Year, but we do know there has been a meeting between the Carltons

Joey Votto has become a weekly fixture as a guest on “MLB Now,” and he provided some cuteness overload on Thursday with an excellent story to go with it. Making this television appearance from his car, Votto also had a furry friend traveling alongside him. Host Brian Kenny asked Votto

Tartan Army continued its MLB takeover Tuesday night, using the six-day break between Scotland’s World Cup games for a trip to see the Bronx Bombers. Scotland football fans celebrated their Group C win over Haiti on Saturday with a visit to historic Fenway Park Sunday night. With their next game

RICHMOND, Ind. -- Richmond Flying Mummies part-owner Matt Bomberg talks about what it means for the stars from such a gigantic movie to take interest in this little city of 35,000 in eastern Indiana. A place more routinely known for its obscure Jazz roots or prolific production of lawnmowers than

JJ Wetherholt was always destined to be an MLB player -- and he had a big supporter during that journey.

Longtime Independence, Kan., resident and educator Ken Brown puts his tiny town's big-time baseball history into perspective. "When you study a little bit of Independence history, there's something about a feud we had between two bankers, something about Independence being one of the richest towns per capita, there's the big

We all need a little help, sometimes. And in the case of one lucky fan at Wrigley Field on Monday night, that help came from the Cubs' starting pitcher against the Rockies, Shota Imanaga.

It’s well known by now that Jacob Misiorowski is in the midst of one of the greatest stretches by a starting pitcher in baseball history. It’s also pretty well known that “The Miz” loves Pokémon … a lot. Those two things came together Friday night, as Misiorowski dealt a one-hit

BOSTON -- Tartan Army, meet the Fenway faithful.