By Danielle O’Connor, Staff Writer As the calendar hits near October, the season changes to fall. Some people associate fall with the rusty orange color of the leaves and the changing of the weather. . However, sports fans correlate this time of year with the sport deemed “America’s pastime”; baseball.…
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By Ella Barrington, Staff Writer Dominic Pieto, a communications major from Cranberry Township, Pa., set a program record on March 22. Striking out 17 batters throughout eight innings, the redshirt junior led the Sharks to a 14-6 victory over the Norfolk State Spartans. “It was kind of just a normal…
By Dylan Stovall, Staff Writer The LIU Post Baseball and Cheerleading team spearheaded community spirit by hosting their inaugural League of Yes event on Oct. 8th at the Pratt Center. The League of Yes provides opportunities to individuals of all ages with disabilities to experience the joy of playing baseball…
By Brendan Kaufman, Staff Writer The MLB playoffs are here and well underway with upsets abound and underdogs ready to claim the World Series for themselves. In the heat of the chaotic first three rounds, only two teams remain: the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks. Before clinching the World…
by Brady Campbell, Assistant Sports Editor There is a chill in the air as the seasons change from summer to fall, and while the weather may be getting colder, in the baseball world, things are just beginning to heat up. This is the final week of the regular season, with…
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,…
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…