Bender (shin) will throw a couple more live batting practice sessions before making his Grapefruit League debut, Christina De Nicola of MLB.com reports. Bender is a bit behind schedule because of a ...

The game hadn’t started yet and Yordan Alvarez was already making an impact with his bat. During batting practice Tuesday before the Houston Astros faced the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field, the ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — For the first time in a Dodgers uniform, 23-year-old right-hander Roki Sasaki threw to hitters Wednesday in front of a gigantic crowd of spectators, the likes of which rarely gather ...

Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Nick Castellanos is one of the most reliable active generators of notable quotables in all of Major League Baseball. When he's not ruminating about Scooby Doo's ...

PHOENIX – When Lourdes Gurriel Jr. stepped into the cage this week, it wasn’t just routine batting practice. It was a breath ...

Observations from Mets’ spring training on Saturday: Good sign Francisco Alvarez, whose early part of the 2025 season was marred by a fractured hamate bone, homered on a back field in a live batting ...

The definition of insanity is doing something over and over again expecting the same results. Clearly the Colorado Rockies got the message. Colorado couldn’t keep going the way they were without ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. — It was only a late-morning live batting practice session inside a quiet jetBlue Park devoid of fans, but it was apparent pretty quickly that Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet didn’t ...

A Pittsburgh Pirates player suffered an injury this week straight out of “Looney Tunes.” Pirates manager Derek Shelton revealed to reporters on Wednesday that catcher Joey Bart, who has now sat out of ...

The newly acquired left-hander came out pumping the heat in his first live batting practice since spring training began, regularly hitting 97 and 98 mph with his fastball Sunday afternoon at ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Houston Astros pitcher Luis Garcia was scratched from a batting practice session Thursday because of right elbow soreness, another setback in his attempt to return from ...