Major League Baseball will play its 2025 All-Star Game in Atlanta, four years after moving the event from Truist Park to Denver's Coors Field over objections to changes in Georgia's voting rights laws.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. stole his 69th and 70th bases of the season Wednesday night, marking the first time in Major League Baseball history a player has reached 40 home runs and 70 stolen bases in a single season.
Sean Murphy reached on a two-run fielding error by right fielder Seiya Suzuki in the eighth inning and the major league-leading Atlanta Braves overcame a six-run deficit to beat the Chicago Cubs 7-6.
NPR's Scott Simon ponders stadium naming rights: how relatively inexpensive it is for companies to link their brands to major league ballparks and football fields.
In an announcement posted to Northwestern University's athletics page, head baseball coach Jim Foster was "relieved of his duties effective immediately."
"He made it big all due to his own efforts. We had nothing to do with it," Ohtani's former coach, Shoji Asari, says of the Los Angeles Angels' superstar. Asari emphasized fun over winning.
The real magic of simulation baseball is that it gives me and my dad something to take seriously that isn't actually serious. The games don't matter, but who you play them with really does.
Ozzie Albies lined a three-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning and the Atlanta Braves rallied to beat the reeling New York Mets 13-10 for a three-game sweep.