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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Los Angeles Dodgers’ big bets on Japanese pitchers paid off earlier this month. Yoshinobu Yamamoto won World Series MVP honors, Roki Sasaki recorded critical outs and Shohei Ohtani started in Game 7.  Tatsuya Imai is the latest Japanese ace and free agent who has his sights set on Major League Baseball. …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry expressed his gratitude toward President Donald Trump on Sunday during a church sermon in Oklahoma. Trump pardoned Strawberry earlier this month for past tax evasion and drug charges. Strawberry was welcomed into a Tulsa church by Jackson Lahmeyer, the founder of Pastors for Trump. He …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Wednesday the league will cooperate with a U.S. Senate committee’s request for documents detailing gambling investigations.  “We’re going to respond fully and cooperatively and on time to the Senate inquiry,” Manfred said during a news conference at an owners meeting. The sport has been rocked …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The minute sports fans found out there was a new American pope and he’d been born in Chicago, every American sports fan had one thought: was he a Cubs or White Sox fan? Soon, news emerged that he was a White Sox fan — not without a false report, however, that he …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The wrongful death trial of former Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs has reached its sixth week, and his widow and mother took the stand on Monday. Carli Skaggs, who began dating the MLB pitcher in 2014, testified that she knew Skaggs battled a previous addiction to Percocet before they dated but …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! An MLB prospect is under “intensive medical care” after a car crash in the Dominican Republic that killed three people. Antonio Jimenez, a 24-year-old pitcher in the San Francisco Giants farm system, fractured his femur and spine and suffered “several” lacerations as a result of the Monday morning crash. An SUV collided …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Paul Skenes and Tarik Skubal were named the National and American League Cy Young Award winners, respectively, Wednesday, capping their terrific 2025 seasons and kick-starting what could be a whirlwind offseason for both star MLB pitchers. Skenes became the first pitcher since Dwight Gooden to win the National League Rookie of the …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! MLB announced that prominent U.S. sportsbook operators are establishing a nationwide $200 betting limit on baseball prop wagers focused on individual pitches in the wake of the indictment of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz for their alleged roles in a gambling scheme. The announcement also noted that individual-pitch bets …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Alex Vesia revealed on social media that his infant daughter Sterling died in the final week of October. “Our little angel we love you forever & you’re with us always. Our beautiful daughter went to heaven Sunday October 26th. There are no words to describe the pain we’re …

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Atlanta Braves have hired bench coach Walt Weiss as their new manager, the team announced Monday.  At the conclusion of the regular season, the team announced that manager Brian Snitker would transition into an advisory role with the Braves and that they were looking for a new skipper.  Weiss, as the …