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California high school shortstop Royce Lewis was selected with the top overall pick in the 2017 MLB draft. Years will pass before Major League Baseball knows whether the tens of millions of dollars it spends to entice black youth to play its game will have made any sort of tangible difference. At the same time, the draft can give a decent-enough sense of trends that may soon hit the major leagues, and in that regard, Monday night can’t be seen as anything other than promising. Continue to Article

June 13, 2017 3:09:am EST

On Tuesday evening, Scooter Gennett of the Cincinnati Reds did two things he had never before done in 502 previous Major League games: First, the 5-foot-10-inch utility infielder played left field. On most nights in June, at least 30 men play left field in Major League Baseball games. It is a feat rarer than a perfect game, of which there have been 23. Continue to Article

June 07, 2017 12:19:pm EST

On Tuesday evening, Scooter Gennett of the Cincinnati Reds did two things he had never before done in 502 previous Major League games: First, the 5-foot-10-inch utility infielder played left field. Second? He smote four home runs. On most nights in June, at least 30 men play left field in Major League Baseball games. In the 148-year history of the national pastime, only 17 men—including Gennett—have ever hit four home runs in one game. It is a feat rarer than a perfect game, of which there have been 23. “It’s just short of a miracle,” Gennett, who entered the game in the midst of an 0-for-19 slump, told reporters. “It’s surreal, man. It really is.” Baseball’s 162-game season is an epic odyssey Continue to Article

June 07, 2017 12:19:pm EST

Scooter Gennett of the Cincinnati Reds became just the 15th big leaguer to hit four home runs in one game, accomplishing the feat on Tuesday against the St. Louis Cardinals. Here are all four home runs, with the fourth coming in the bottom of the eighth inning of the Reds' 13-1 win. Gennett entered the game with just three home runs this season and 38 home runs in his career. Continue to Article

June 06, 2017 11:06:pm EST

Scooter Gennett of the Cincinnati Reds became just the 15th big leaguer to hit four home runs in one game, accomplishing the feat on Tuesday against the St. Louis Cardinals. Here are all four home runs, with the fourth coming in the bottom of the eighth inning of the Reds' 13-1 win. Gennett entered the game with just three home runs this season and 38 home runs in his career. Continue to Article

June 06, 2017 11:06:pm EST