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Cardinals vs. White Sox Game 2 Highlights
Orlando Dreamers president on MLB becoming reality Dr. Rick Workman sat down with FOX 35's Randi Hildreth for an in-depth discussion on his background, growing up as a St. Louis Cardinals fan, where he found his love for baseball and his path to becoming the anchor investor and president of the Orlando Dreamers, the organization working to bring Major League Baseball to Orlando by relocating an existing team or through league expansion. Right now, the Dreamers' chief target appears to be the Tampa Bay Rays after the team and owner Stu Sternberg backed out of their $1.3 billion stadium deal with St. Petersburg and Pinellas County. Dr. Workman speaks on the next steps with the Orange County Commission and City of Orlando to pursue a public-private partnership and the more than $2 billion the Dreamers say they have ready to purchase an MLB franchise and begin work on building a new stadium in the I-Drive area. 12:09 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
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Baseball fan removed from Wrigley Field after climbing net to retrieve bat
A fan at Wrigley Field climbed protective netting to retrieve a bat during a game on Thursday. The bat belonged to Milwaukee outfielder Sal Frelick and became lodged about 10 feet up the screen in the sixth inning. The fan successfully pulled the bat into the seating area after scaling the netting. Security initially removed the fan from the stands following the incident. The fan later returned to the cheers of the 41,078-strong crowd, the Cubs' largest attendance this season.
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'They took us on a journey': Braintree baseball proud of playoff run to state final
WORCESTER -- Don Fredericks still would have been proud. And who knows, maybe he had something to do with it. Fredericks was the head coach for the Braintree High baseball program's first three state crowns (1972, 1984, 1989) -- highlights of a glorious two-decade reign in the dugout that saw him win 337 games and 11 Bay State Conference championships. Fredericks passed away at the age of 79 last spring, and his old team decided to honor him this season with a memorial tournament in his name. Advertisement The Wamps staggered into that four-team get-together in the midst of an injury-riddled slump, but perhaps their old boss sent them some mojo from the Great Ballpark in the Sky. Braintree won the tournament (which was played at BC High due to field conditions), beating Westwood and the hosts, and used that momentum as a springboard into an unexpected playoff run. "When we got to that tournament, that's when all that momentum started," Wamps coach Bill O'Connell said. "We started believing." A four-game romp through the postseason brought them to the precipice of what would have been the program's sixth state crown, the most ever by a Massachusetts high school baseball team, according to MIAA record keeping. In the end, it wasn't to be as Chelmsford busted loose for six runs in the top of the ninth inning Friday night to post an 8-2 win in the Division 1 state final at Polar Park. "Amazing season," O'Connell said near the third-base dugout as the eighth-seeded Wamps (16-9) glumly watched the 14th-seeded Lions (19-8) hoist the trophy. "They took us on a journey. They took the whole community on an unbelievable journey. They played great. That's a very good (Chelmsford) team. They had 15 hits. They were challenging us every inning. We held them off for as long as we could." Advertisement More: 'Another chapter to a great story': Moquin pitches Silver Lake softball into Div. 2 final That Braintree was even here was a victory of sorts as the Wamps had slumped badly late in the regular season, weighed down by injuries that claimed star pitcher Max DeRoche (Tommy John surgery) and Peter Brooks (hamstring tear). Brooks made it back in time for the playoffs and had a big night in the title game, going 3-for-4 with a run scored. More: 'Best feeling in the world': Norwell girls lacrosse captures Div. 4 title from Cohasset With DeRoche sidelined, Braintree went with a two-man pitching rotation down the stretch as senior right-hander Connor Grieve and sophomore lefty Luke Joyce swapped complete games back and forth. Joyce almost made it five CGs in five playoff rounds, but he eventually ran out of gas with one out in the seventh and gave way to Matt Rodgers. Advertisement "Luke made some pitches to get out of some serious jams," O'Connell said. "Luke pitched his butt off. He gave us everything he had on short rest." Braintree's Sean Canavan, center, cheers on Matt Rodgers during a game in the Division 1 state championship at Polar Park in Worcester on Friday, June 13, 2025. Braintree was resilient but just could not take enough advantage of its opportunities in the final. After Rodgers' RBI single in the sixth knotted the score at 2-2, the Wamps had a pair of golden chances to win the title in walk-off style as they got the leadoff runner on in both the seventh and eighth innings. Each time, Chelmsford starter Matt Stuart (bound for Div. 1 Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina) was up to the task, striking out Owen Donnelly (1-for-4, run) to end the seventh with runners on first and second and fanning Joyce to end the eighth with a runner on second. The Wamps went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of ninth, obviously deflated by Chelmsford's knockout blow in the top of the top of the frame. Advertisement "We just couldn't get the big hit," O'Connell lamented. "We had opportunities to score; we just couldn't get it done against a (future) Division 1 (college) pitcher. We battled all day." Braintree jumped out in front 1-0 as Grieve singled home Donnelly in the third, driving an 0-2 pitch the other way to short right field. Grieve was coming off a huge day in the semifinals, having gone 4-for-4 with 4 RBIs in an 8-3 win over King Philip at LeLacheur Park in Lowell earlier in the week. That had prompted O'Connell to dub him the MVP of the playoffs. Braintree's Peter Brooks, right, celebrates with Michael Ryan a game in the Division 1 state championship at Polar Park in Worcester on Friday, June 13, 2025. Chelmsford struck for two fluke runs in the fifth as Braintree let a two-out pop fly along the first-base line fall in as two runners scampered home. Undeterred, the Wamps tied it back up before eventually succumbing in the ninth as Chelmsford strung together four hits, two walks (one intentional), a hit batter and a sac fly to send 10 men to the plate, ending Braintree's dream of its first crown since winning back-to-back Super 8 titles in 2015 and 2016 with O'Connell in the dugout. Advertisement "This is my fourth state championship (appearance)," said O'Connell, whose 2014 team lost in the Super 8 championship game. "Those other teams were loaded. I told the guys in the locker room today, 'I'm so proud of you guys because you're just a bunch of sandlot players. Just a bunch of guys who battle together.' The teams in the past had ridiculous talent. These guys just battled and it's amazing what they did this year." "We're not the most talented team," agreed senior first baseman Sean Canavan, who will play at UMass-Lowell, "but we had great chemistry and we just wanted it more." A talented senior class -- Grieve, Canavan, Donnelly, Rodgers, Cam Crook and Colin Kacey -- will be hard to replace, but the Wamps will bring back a slew of talent next spring to try again. "The future is very bright here," sophomore shortstop Michael Ryan said. "We'll be back next year." This article originally appeared on The Patriot Ledger: Braintree baseball falls to Chelmsford in MIAA state championship
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Dodgers, Padres take NL West rivalry to boiling point
Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, center is hit by a pitch thrown by San Diego Padres relief pitcher Robert Suarez, left as catcher Martin Maldonado watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts yell at each other after Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts yell at each other after Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, yells toward the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout after Fernando Tatis Jr., lower right, was hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, center is hit by a pitch thrown by San Diego Padres relief pitcher Robert Suarez, left as catcher Martin Maldonado watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. kneels on the ground after being hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. kneels on the ground after being hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, center is hit by a pitch thrown by San Diego Padres relief pitcher Robert Suarez, left as catcher Martin Maldonado watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts yell at each other after Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, and Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts yell at each other after Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. was hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt, center, yells toward the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout after Fernando Tatis Jr., lower right, was hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani, center is hit by a pitch thrown by San Diego Padres relief pitcher Robert Suarez, left as catcher Martin Maldonado watches during the ninth inning of a baseball game Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) San Diego Padres' Fernando Tatis Jr. kneels on the ground after being hit by a pitch during the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Thursday, June 19, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took seven games over 11 days for the simmer to reach full boil. The Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres flashed playoff intensity in their long-awaited first two series of the season and went face-to-face, quite literally, after 10 batters were hit during a stretch the Dodgers owned on the scoreboard. Advertisement In winning five of the seven games, the Dodgers also hit Fernando Tatis Jr. with pitches three times. The last of those came in the eighth inning of Thursday's 5-3 Padres victory when the benches finally cleared after Tatis was hit near the right hand. While the staredown behind home plate was more peacock feathers than fisticuffs, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and Padres manager Mike Shildt were ejected following a tense back-and-forth exchange. Afterward, the Padres' Manny Machado said his true feelings won't be known until Tatis gets results from X-rays and a CT scan. 'They gotta pray for (results) to come back negative tomorrow,' Machado said. 'They should. Us, too, but they should for sure.' Advertisement After Tatis was hit, the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani took a pitch to the back of his right (pitching) shoulder from Robert Suarez. With Dodgers players starting to move over the dugout railing, Ohtani waved back his teammates and took first base. 'Well, I think he knew it was intentional,' Roberts said. 'He wasn't hurt by it, and he didn't want any more drama, which I respect that a lot.' Ohtani was hit twice in the series, each a half inning after Tatis was hit. The Dodgers' Andy Pages also was hit twice in the series. Roberts said he hoped Tatis does not miss extended time. 'I didn't feel good about Tatis — great player, good guy — getting hit,' Roberts said. 'I didn't feel good about it. And so as (Shildt) comes out, and he's yelling at me and staring me down, that bothers me. Because, to be quite frank, that's the last thing I wanted.' Advertisement Shildt said he has respect for the Dodgers but seeing Tatis get hit three times by their pitchers in less than two weeks doesn't sit right. He has also been hit by the Dodgers six times in his career, the most by any club. 'Whether it was (intentional) or it wasn't, enough is enough,' Shildt said. 'We got a guy who's getting X-rays right now, is one of the best players in the game, fortunately he's on our team, and this guy has taken shots, OK?' While the teams waited more than two months to face each other for the first time this season, there will be another two-month wait until they face off again Aug. 15-17 at Los Angeles and Aug. 22-24 at San Diego. 'It's going to be a fun ride,' Machado said. 'This division's freaking awesome, and it's going to be a fun ride going down the road. The Giants got better with (Rafael) Devers, and we know what these guys have on the other side. And what we have on this side. And obviously you can't count out Arizona. They've got a really good team over there. They're going to be battling. It's a four-headed monster battling it out, so it'll be an interesting second half.' ___ AP MLB:
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Brewers rookie Durbin, a Chicago-area native, hits home run in 'homecoming' at Wrigley Field
CHICAGO — Milwaukee Brewers infielder Caleb Durbin was able to thrill — and upset — a group of family and friends at Wrigley Field with one swing of the bat on Thursday. The 25-year-old rookie from the Chicago suburb of Lake Forest, Illinois, hit a two-run homer in the second inning that put Milwaukee ahead en route to an 8-7 win over the Cubs. He connected in his second game at the North Side ballpark and fifth in Chicago, following three against the White Sox earlier this season.
