As a lifelong baseball fan, Florida State coach Mike Martin is well aware of the role that numbers play. Perhaps like no other game, a dizzying array of calculations is what defines its participants. At every level. And for his part, Martin has amassed

Video equipment has long been part of baseball even as major league officials ponder using it to aid umpires. Official scorers have used TV replay to help them decide hit or error, and fans have watched replay after replay in their living rooms or

Major League Baseball wants to implement instant replay by Aug. 1, according to two high-ranking officials within the World Umpires Association. GROWING LIST: A rundown of contentious calls The officials said MLB approached the umpires Wednesday to

Major League Baseball wants to implement instant replay by Aug. 1, according to two high-ranking officials within the World Umpires Association. GROWING LIST: A rundown of contentious calls The officials said MLB approached the umpires Wednesday to

The Mets recent losses have come in a sickening loop, one in which the outcome is sensed before the rest of the grisly plot unfolds. One loss is barely distinguishable from the next because only the details - how many runners were left on base, which

The Mets recent losses have come in a sickening loop, one in which the outcome is sensed before the rest of the grisly plot unfolds. One loss is barely distinguishable from the next because only the details - how many runners were left on base, which

So, after spending countless hours in a truck, Fred Sr. would come home and pick up his son to go play baseball, fighting 30-45 minutes of traffic, day after day and night after night. 'We were all over the place,' Fred Sr. recalled. In a way, it was

Mike Lowell hit his second grand slam of the season, a streaking J.D. Drew hit a two-run shot and the Boston Red Sox kept rolling at home with a 9-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night. The Red Sox are 18-3 in their last 21 games at Fenway

Andy Pettitte and the New York Yankees, on occasion, still look very much like contenders. The Boston Red Sox have been looking that way for awhile. Hideki Matsui hit a grand slam on his 34th birthday, and Pettitte bounced back from one of the worst

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