Baseball

Nearly a month into the season, local products JP Sportman and Branden Cogswell are still playing well for the Stockton Ports, Class A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics. Sportman leads the Ports in hitting at .302 while Cogswell checks in at ...

Spring sports are in full "go-mode" as the weather (kind of) begins to turn. This week, we bring back our "Athlete of the Week" by heading to the diamond. There we find senior catcher/first baseman Kody Skype of the Chatham Panthers. The standout went 8-13 last week across four games...

"It's hard not to be romantic about baseball." I don't even remember where that's from. I guess it's from "Moneyball." I just looked it up. But no matter where it's from, it's true. While all offseason we've heard baseball get ripped because of season length, pace-of-play, lack of offense and other things, today is the day that we put that all aside and just focus on the games.

A visor would probably rank near the top as the single dumbest way to try and recover a souvenir home run ball.

The term 'Tommy John surgery' is one that the Mets are all too familiar with recently and on Thursday morning, those three words were uttered to yet another member of the team.

The New York Yankees kicked off their spring training with a bang...even though the game ended in a 5-5 tie.

All week at 1045theteam.com we are helping to welcome back baseball season! We are talking with our Capital Region products who are at -- or about to report to -- spring training. Today we talked with La Salle graduate and Central Connecticut product, J...

UNDATED (AP) — The Baseball Hall of Fame will enshrine four former players this summer. The class of 2015 includes first year candidates and former Cy Young Award winners Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez and John Smoltz. Joining the trio of ace pitchers is holdover Craig Biggio, who missed election last year by two votes...

While you were watching Monday Night Football, or getting ready for bed, the Chicago White Sox were making two marquee deals at the Baseball Winter Meetings in San Diego, Calif. First, the Southsiders acquired ace pitcher Jeff Samardzija from the Oakland Athletics to bolster a rotation that already has one of the league's best in Chris Sale...

Yesterday afternoon was no ordinary day in the Bronx.

The Albany Senators defeated the Albany Athletics on Saturday to capture the 2014 Albany Twilight League championship. The Senators took the best-of-three series 3-1 to win their first tile since 2005. The Senators won the clincher, 7-0. The Senators, which feature a number of current and former college of players from St...

After Briana Matazinsky of Tamarac was named our inaugural “ESPN 104.5 Athlete of the Week” last Friday, we are ready to announce our winner for week two. And it is… Bilal Matin, senior baseball player from Waterford High School...