Gloria Gates Foundation improved its record to 14-1 with a 7-4 win over UTLX in a George B. Kelley Baseball Federation game at Stout Field at Geesey Park on Wednesday. Brayden Pike and Nick Kraft each had two hits and two RBIs for Gloria Gates, which scored six runs in the top of the third ...
The area will be hosting several baseball tournaments over the next few weeks, and the fourth-annual Park Home Altoona Classic will kick things off today. The 23-team single-elimination tournament involving the three Altoona youth baseball leagues — 10 teams from the Altoona Area Baseball ...
CHICAGO — Chicago Blackhawks center Connor Bedard will miss the start of the season after he had surgery on his left shoulder. Team physician Michael Terry says Bedard is expected “to make a full recovery in an approximate timeline of four months.” The NHL hasn’t announced its regular-season schedule, but the Blackhawks played their first game last season on Oct. 7. Bedard, who turns 21 on July 17, got hurt while skating with a group of NHL players last week in his hometown of Vancouver. It’s a major blow for a Blackhawks team trying to emerge from a painful rebuilding ...
DETROIT — Justin Verlander plans to call it a career later this year. The three-time Cy Young Award winner, two-time World Series champion and 2011 AL MVP will retire after this season with the Detroit Tigers. Verlander made the announcement on Wednesday, shortly after he was added as a ...
PITTSBURGH — Ryan O’Hearn hit three home runs and finished with a franchise-record 10 RBIs as the Pittsburgh Pirates drilled the Atlanta Braves 12-4 on Tuesday night. The first baseman, the rare free agent to sign a multiyear deal with the Pirates, made it easy for ace Paul Skenes (7-8) ...
Blair, Foot and Ankle won the Little League title in the Hollidaysburg Area Summer Baseball League. Team members include Emmett Carson, Finn Corey, John Merritts, Clayton Reams, Logan Hoover, Gavyn McDade, Seth Moyer, Armon Sinisi, C.J. Burger, Trey Muth and coaches Rob Muth, Greg McDade, ...
