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A high school baseball player from Garfield, N.J. died over the weekend after being hit in the chest by a pitch during practice.

Ron Santo, one of the greatest players in Chicago Cubs history and a longtime WGN radio announcer whose devotion to the perennial losers was made obvious night after night by his excited shouts or dejected laments, has died. He was 70.

Baseball management is more likely to consider expanded playoffs for 2012 than for next year.

The Atlanta Braves acquired All-Star second baseman Dan Uggla from the Florida Marlins on Tuesday in a trade for utility man Omar Infante and pitcher Mike Dunn ...

San Francisco Giants defeat Texas Rangers in Game 5 of the World Series, 3-1, to capture the title, winning the organization's first championship since moving West in 1958.

Midway through Game 4, the speakers at Rangers Ballpark blared the 1960s Halloween favorite "Monster Mash."

The Rangers recorded the first World Series victory in franchise history. Lewis combined with Darren O'Day and Neftali Feliz on a five-hitter, with Hamilton and Mitch Moreland each delivering a home run in a 4-2 victory.

Fans jumped up and down, shaking orange pompoms, waving scarves and chanting "Sweep! Sweep!" While the Giants are looking more and more like a baseball juggernaut, they're only halfway to their first World Series title in 56 years. They hope to wrap it up on the road.

Log onto popular video streaming websites on a Sunday during football season and you can usually find several channels showing decent-quality live feeds of the games.

It was like seeing Bill Gates standing in the unemployment line or Rush Limbaugh shooting hoops with President Obama. The San Francisco Giants did the unimaginable Wednesday against the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the World Series. They knocked the mystique and aura right out of burgeoning postseason legend Cliff Lee, cruising to an 11-7 victory in front of a frenzied crowd of 43,601 at AT&T Park.