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Yahoo
19 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
LSU Shreveport makes college baseball history with championship win
As LSU baseball goes in search of a national championship in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, one of its branch campuses etched its name into the college sports record books. LSU Shreveport won the 2025 NAIA national championship 13-7, the first national title in any sport for the Pilots. They ended with a 59-0 record, the first undefeated season in collegiate baseball history. Advertisement The Pilots went down early against Southeastern, trailing 4-0 heading into the bottom half of the second inning. But they mounted a comeback, trading blows with the Fire until a four-run outburst in the sixth. Jackson Syring and Ian Montz clubbed back-to-back solo home runs to lead off the frame, followed by an RBI single from Ryan Davenport and a sacrifice fly from Austin Gomm. The Pilots finished with 11 hits in the victory while also holding Southeastern scoreless over the final four innings. Kenneth Schechter earned the win on the mound, hurling four scoreless innings in relief. Issac Rohde pitched the final frame, holding the Fire without a hit to send the Pilots into celebration. Head coach Brad Neffendorf led the team to the win during his sixth season at the home. In his career, LSUS made three trips to the NAIA World Series and four opening round appearances. He's the fastest coach in program history to reach 100 wins. This article originally appeared on LSU Wire: How LSU Shreveport made college baseball history with national title
Washington Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Is baseball actually troubled — or is it as good as it's ever been?
If we could love only perfect things, our days would be bleak. Baseball, as we find it today, is an opportunity to appreciate an imperfect thing and allow it to make us feel happy. This year I've watched plenty of MLB games and enjoyed them — a lot. I find baseball just as well-paced, dramatic and aesthetically pleasing — by which I mean imperfect but no more so than in other eras — as the sport I first fell for long ago.
Reuters
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Reuters
Braves' Chris Sale becomes fastest to 2,500 strikeouts
May 30 - Chris Sale made baseball history on Thursday with his last pitch of the night. The Atlanta Braves ace fanned the Philadelphia Phillies' Edmundo Sosa to end the sixth inning, the 2,500th strikeout of Sale's career. The left-hander became the fastest in baseball history to reach the 2,500-K milestone, getting there in 2,026 innings. The record previously was held by Randy Johnson, when he fanned his 2,500th batter after 2,107 2/3 innings in 1999. "I appreciate it for what it is, but I try not to get too caught up in stuff like that right now," Sale said after the Braves closed out a 9-3 win to gain a split of a day-night doubleheader in Philadelphia. "I know what our job is here. And no matter whether you have a good one or a bad one, the next one is the most important one." Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said of Sale, "He's kind of doing Hall of Fame stuff. That guy is probably as big a baseball fan as anybody, just the history of the game and the competition. He's a ballplayer, and it's really cool to watch." After allowing two hits and three walks while striking out eight Phillies, Sale is 3-3 with a 3.06 ERA through 12 starts this year. While his numbers are decent, they are far off the production he managed last year en route to winning the National League Cy Young Award. Sale won the pitching Triple Crown by leading the league in wins (18), ERA (2.38) and strikeouts (225). He took just three losses and also topped the majors in fewest homers allowed per nine innings (0.5) and most strikeouts per nine innings (11.4). Sale, 36, is an eight-time All-Star who helped the Boston Red Sox win the 2018 World Series. He has pitched for the Chicago White Sox (2010-16), Boston (2017-19, 2021-23) and Atlanta (2024-25). He owns a career 141-86 record with a 3.04 ERA in 384 career games, 304 starts. --Field Level Media
CBC
11-05-2025
- Sport
- CBC
Japan's Ayami Sato becomes first woman to play in Canadian men's pro baseball league
Social Sharing Star female pitcher Ayami Sato made history as the first woman to play in a Canadian men's professional baseball league on Sunday. Sato struck out one batter without allowing anyone on base in the first two innings of an eventual 6-5 loss to the Kitchener Panthers. Fans at Dominico Field in Christie Pits welcomed Sato with loud applause when the public address announcer introduced her in the starting lineup for Toronto's home opener. Widely considered the top female pitcher in baseball, the 35-year-old from Japan signed with the Maple Leafs in December to become the IBL's first female player. Sato helped Japan win five of its seven consecutive Women's Baseball World Cup titles (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018), earning MVP honours in 2014, '16 and '18. She pitched in the Japan Women's Baseball League from 2013 until it suspended operations in 2021, leading the league in strikeouts in three of its last four seasons. Toronto finished seventh in the IBL last season with a 17-25 record. WATCH | Japanese women's star Sato brings wealth of experience to IBL's Maple Leafs: Meet Ayami Sato: The first woman to compete on a men's pro baseball team in Canada 3 days ago Duration 2:10 The 35-year-old Japanese pitcher whose fastball reaches 80 mph, will pitch in the home opener for the Toronto Maple Leafs, an intercounty baseball team founded in 1896.
