Baseball

10/29/2024 |  Royals catcher Salvador Perez wins MLB’s Clemente Award for philanthropy (Associated Press (AP)) NEW YORK (AP) — Honored with Major League Baseball’s highest honor for character, community involvement and philanthropy, Salvador Perez wanted fellow major leaguers to know contributing even a little time to charitable work can go a long way.

10/29/2024 |  Ripken Baseball Announces 2025 All-Ripken Games Schedule (SportsTravel) Ripken Baseball has announced the return of the All-Ripken Games in 2025, featuring an expanded schedule with 10 tournaments at eight different facilities.
The 2025 schedule starts in April in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It has events in South Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Maryland, New York, New Jersey and Florida. The season will culminate at the end of the year in Florida with the All-Ripken Futures Games, featuring the top players of the season.

10/29/2024 |  World Series averaging 15.15 million viewers in Japan, including 15.9 for Game 2 (Associated Press (AP)) LOS ANGELES (AP) — The World Series is averaging 15.15 million viewers in Japan through two games. According to Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 4-2 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 2 averaged 15.9 million, making it the most-watched MLB postseason game in the nation’s history.

10/29/2024 |  MLB Offseason Primer: AL East (Spotrac News) Baltimore Orioles
Projected 40-Man CBT: $103.8M (24th)
Guaranteed Contracts: 2 ($14.3M)
Arbitration-Eligible: 16 ($50.5M)
One of the better stories throughout much of 2024 completely combusted down the stretch, missing out on a division title, then being swept out of the Wild Card round. With that said, Gunnar Henderson is a cornerstone piece and Colton Cowser had his mini-breakout. However, Adley Rutschman slid back (again) offensively, there’s no 9th-inning reliever in sight, and Corbin Burnes, the only viable starter, is headed to the open market. O’s fans will be impatiently waiting for this new ownership group to open up their checkbooks.

10/29/2024 |  Fans in Shohei Ohtani’s Japanese hometown watch Dodgers reach brink of World Series title (Associated Press (AP)) OSHU CITY, Japan (AP) — Signs around Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan proclaim him “The Pride of Oshu City.”
They might need to add “World Series Champion” soon.
Hundreds of fans filed into a public viewing center in Ohtani’s hometown on Tuesday morning — the country is 13 hours ahead of New York — to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Yankees 4-2 to take a 3-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series. Those fans will surely be tuned in again Wednesday morning when Ohtani and the Dodgers have a chance to clinch the championship.