By Andrew Scarpaci, Sports Editor With a 3-2 victory over the USA Tuesday, March 21, Japan has won the fifth World Baseball Classic (WBC), cementing themselves on top of the international baseball stage once again. The game came down to one of the most electrifying plate appearances in baseball history,…
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By Tatsuya Uemoto, Staff Writer In Game 6 of the Fall Classic on Nov. 5, the Houston Astros beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 to win the World Series. This is the second championship for the Astros in team history, the other occurring in 2017. Game 1 of the World Series…
By Tatsuya Uemoto, Staff Writer The MLB Playoffs are a fierce competition between teams that have survived the season and are in the thick of the action, and fan expectations are rising. Coming into the 2022 season, the MLB and Players’ Association agreed to expand the playoffs from 10 teams…
By Ryan Boettcher, Staff Writer On Wednesday, Sep. 23, one of the most prolific baseball players in history, Albert Pujols, hit his 700th career home run cementing his Hall Of Fame legacy in the MLB. Following his two home runs against the Dodgers’ pitchers Andrew Heaney and Phil Bickford, Pujols…
By Tatsuya Uemoto, Staff Writer As the Major League Baseball (MLB) season enters its last few weeks, most eyes are on the playoff race, but there is another thing that has been getting a lot of attention, and that is who will become MVP of the American League (AL) in…
By: Andrew Scarpaci, Sports Editor As the MLB regular season nears the end, Yankees and Mets fans alike are awaiting highly anticipated playoff appearances. The Yankees have been on top of the American League (AL) East division for the greater part of the entire season. At the end of June,…
By Andrew Scarpaci, Sports Editor On Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, Major League Baseball announced they were locking out the players. This is due to the ending of the collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that expired the day prior. This is nothing new, as CBA contracts between the league’s owners and the…
By Joe Frescott, Staff Writer Heading into the 2021 offseason, the New York Mets had a lot of questions that needed to be answered. After a very underwhelming 2020-2021 season, fans were disgruntled, as it looked as though the Mets were going to be a top team in the National…
By Andrew Scarpaci, Sports Editor The 2021 MLB season came to an end on Tuesday, Nov. 2, when the Atlanta Braves defeated the Houston Astros 7-0 in Game 6 of the World Series. The Braves, who only won 88 games in the regular season, had the fewest wins of any…
By Andrew Scarpaci, Joe Frescott, and Grace Catanese, Sports Editor & Staff Writers Sept. baseball marks an exciting yet nerve-racking time for MLB fans. With teams competing for one of the five playoff spots in each league, the games in Sept. become that much more important. The New York Mets…