Joe Martinez came off the disabled list to win his first major league start, Eli Whiteside hit a grand slam for his first career home run and the San Francisco Giants rallied for a 10-6 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday. Martinez (2-0) pitched in the majors for the first time since he was struck in the head by a line drive hit by Milwaukee's Mike Cameron on April 9, his second outing of…
Indians right-hander Adam Miller is hoping to be ready for spring training after undergoing the second of two planned surgeries on his right middle finger. The Indians announced Wednesday that the two-hour procedure to reconstruct the flexor tendon was performed by Dr. Tom Graham at the Curtis National Hand Center in Baltimore on Tuesday.
Baseball's spring training is lucrative business in Florida. The 2009 Florida Grapefruit League season boosted the state's economy by an estimated $752 million, the Florida Sports Foundation reported Wednesday. The 39-day 2009 Florida spring training season drew about 1.6 million fans to 259 games at 15 locations, producing a $47 million average economic impact for each community hosting a…
Astros reliever LaTroy Hawkins was fined by Major League Baseball for comments he made about an umpire after he was ejected from a July 27 game in Chicago. Bob Watson, baseball's vice president in charge of discipline, would not reveal the amount of the fine. "When a player, a coach or a manager criticizes an umpire, that speaks to the integrity of the game," Watson said in a phone…
After the Mets lost yet another player to injury, Nelson Figueroa gave them the type of fill-in outing they needed. Figueroa pitched 4 1-3 scoreless innings and boosted the offense with a two-run triple after Jonathon Niese got hurt, leading New York over the St. Louis Cardinals 9-0 Wednesday. Angel Pagan hit his second homer in four games and had four RBIs, and David Wright also homered for the…
Rookie Jonathon Niese became the New York Mets' latest injury victim Wednesday, straining his right hamstring while covering first base against the St. Louis Cardinals and then collapsing when he tried to throw a practice pitch. Niese was hurt in the second inning when Joe Thurston hit a one-out grounder to Daniel Murphy with runners at the corners.
The San Francisco Giants have reinstated pitcher Joe Martinez from the disabled list and optioned reliever Waldis Joaquin to Triple-A Fresno. Martinez (1-0, 6.75 ERA) was to make his first major league start Wednesday against the Astros. He was hit in the head by a line drive by Milwaukee's Mike Cameron on April 9.
Hank Aaron wants to shine some more light on baseball's steroid era. The former home run king favors releasing the full list of players who tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs in 2003. In a wide-ranging interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press, the Hall of Famer said releasing the list would help Major League Baseball get past its drug stigma.
If Prince Fielder's teammates and several security guards hadn't stopped the furious Milwaukee slugger at the Dodgers' clubhouse door, reliever Guillermo Mota could have faced a whole other kind of discipline for the late shenanigans that marred Los Angeles' landmark win. Fielder was denied in his postgame attempt to challenge Mota, who hit him with a pitch in the ninth inning of…
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