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This Date in Baseball - Mariano Rivera records his 500th career save, 2nd reliever to do so
June 28 1910 — Joe Tinker of the Chicago Cubs became the first major leaguer to steal home twice in the same game, an 11-1 win over Cincinnati. 1919 — Carl Mays of Boston pitched two complete games against the New York Yankees. The Red Sox won the first game 2-0 and lost the nightcap 4-1. 1949 — Joe DiMaggio played his first series of the year after a bone spur operation and hit .455, with four home runs and nine RBIs, as the New York Yankees swept Boston at Fenway Park. 1970 — Pittsburgh swept the Chicago Cubs 3-2 and 4-1 in the Pirates' final games at Forbes Field. 1984 — Dwight Evans of the Boston Red Sox completed the cycle with a three-run 11th-inning homer to beat the Seattle Mariners 9-6. 1986 — Phil Niekro of the Cleveland Indians and Don Sutton of the California Angels became the first 300-game winners to start against each other in this century. Neither Niekro nor Sutton got a decision as the Angels scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth to win 9-3. 1994 — Matt Williams tied Willie Stargell's 1971 NL record for home runs before July with his 28th in San Francisco's 7-4 loss to Los Angeles. 2004 — David Bell became the first Philadelphia player in almost nine years to hit for the cycle as the Phillies beat Montreal 14-6. 2007 — Frank Thomas hit his 500th home run to become the 21st major leaguer to reach the career mark. Thomas hit a three-run shot in the first inning, connecting against Minnesota's Carlos Silva. 2007 — Craig Biggio became the 27th player in major league history to get 3,000 hits in Houston's 8-5 11-inning victory over Colorado. Biggio singled to center field in the seventh inning for the milestone hit and was thrown out trying to stretch the play into a double. 2008 — Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo combined to no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers, but the Angels lost 1-0. It was the fifth game in the majors since 1900 in which the winning team didn't get a hit, and first since Boston's Matt Young lost one in 1992. 2009 — Mariano Rivera earned his 500th save, becoming the second reliever to reach the milestone, and the New York Yankees beat the Mets 4-2 for a Subway Series sweep. 2011 — Jason Bay and Carlos Beltran hit grand slams in consecutive innings — after the New York Mets had gone nearly two years without one — of a 14-3 win over Detroit. Bay and Beltran cleared the bases in the fourth and fifth innings off Daniel Schlereth. 2015 — In an astonishing debut, Steven Matz became the only major league pitcher to drive in four runs in his first career game while leading the New York Mets to a 7-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. 2018 — Freshman Kevin Abel threw a two-hitter for his record fourth win in the College World Series, and Oregon State beat Arkansas 5-0 for the national championship. 2023 — Domingo Germán of the Yankees throws the 24th perfect game in major league history, and the first since 2012, in defeating the Athletics, 11-0. He strikes out nine batters in pitching his gem. _____
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Why Arkansas's elimination from College World Series is 'heartbreaking' | Baseball Bar-B-Cast Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman react to Arkansas blowing a 5-3 lead in the 9th inning of their second game against LSU in the College World Series semifinal. Hear the full conversation on the 'Baseball Bar-B-Cast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen. 2:38 Now Playing Paused Ad Playing
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LSU baseball's Jay Johnson named coach of the year following national championship win
LSU baseball head coach Jay Johnson received more hardware after leading his team to the 2025 national championship. The American Baseball Coaches Association named Johnson its NCAA Division I coach of the year. The Tigers finished with a 53-15 overall record in 2025 and lost just one game in the postseason. Johnson's squad went 5-0 in the College World Series, defeating SEC rivals Arkansas twice and Coastal Carolina twice in the finals to raise the program's eighth trophy in Omaha. Led by the country's best one-two punch in starting pitching, the Tigers played the best when the lights were the brightest. Kade Anderson and Anthony Eyanson soared up MLB Draft prospect boards with their 2025 performances. The pair combined for 15.1 innings and 19 strikeouts against the Chanticleers and ended the season first and third, respectively, in the NCAA in strikeouts. Johnson, who just finished his fourth year with the Tigers, pushed all the right buttons in the NCAA Tournament. In the super regional vs. West Virginia, Johnson put outfielder Josh Pearson in the leadoff spot, a mix-up from the Tigers' traditional order, and it paid off with Pearson mashing a grand slam. Johnson received praise for how LSU handled its pitching staff in the College World Series and the Tigers defense was one of the best-coached units in the country.
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LSU ace pitcher Kade Anderson celebrates College World Series win as MLB Draft approaches
This may just be the summer of Kade Anderson. The left-handed pitcher was the ace of the LSU baseball team that just won its second College World Series in three years - that 2023 team was manned by MLB phenom and Cy Young Award candidate Paul Skenes. Well, Anderson may just be following right in Skenes' shoes, as he is in the conversation to be the top overall selection in next month's MLB Draft. Like Skenes did in 2023, Anderson worked a "shift" at a local Raising Cane's to celebrate his title on Wednesday. "It's so cool. I'm having a really good experience. It's been a blast so far," Anderson said to Fox News Digital recently. "Just the tradition of LSU, it's super exciting to be a part of this. It's been a dream of mine growing up, and to be able to work with Raising Cane's, it truly is something special." Anderson has not reached out to his former teammate (Anderson did not play in 2023, as he recovered from Tommy John surgery that he had during his senior year of high school) about the upcoming draft process, but he is not shying away from the opportunity. "He's a really good dude, he means well, and throughout the process, maybe I'll get on a call with him," Anderson said. That process, of course, is wild. Over the last couple of years, the summer had been the beginning of Anderson's offseason. This year, however, he is in the midst of his baseball calendar, even though he just threw the most important game of his life just last week. Anderson will hear his name called on July 13 and will head directly to the minor leagues to officially begin his quest to becoming a big-leaguer. It may be overwhelming, but Anderson does not seem to mind too much. "I'm going to take it day by day. I'm not really sure what's going to happen, but I'm just trying to take it all in, be where my feet are, and whatever the future holds, I'm really excited for it." Anderson pitched to a 3.18 ERA in 19 starts, going 12-1 and striking out 180 batters in 119 innings. In his lone College World Series outing, he tossed a shutout, striking out 10 and allowing just three hits over his 130 pitches. The Washington Nationals own the first pick in the MLB Draft – they picked first in 2009 and 2010 and selected Stephen Strasburg and Bryce Harper, respectively. Follow Fox News Digital's sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter.
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Brewers' Misiorowski continues history-making start to his career by outperforming Pirates' Skenes
Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee's Jacob Misiorowski made an extra effort to avoid getting caught up in all the hype surrounding the rookie flamethrower's highly anticipated matchup with Pittsburgh's Paul Skenes. 'It was just one of those things that you wanted to try and calm yourself down as much as possible and stay off the Internet because I feel like everything I swiped was me and Skenes, me and Skenes, me and Skenes,' Misiorowski said after the Brewers' 4-2 victory over the Pirates on Wednesday. 'I had to mute it, turn it off.' The way he's pitching, Misiorowski better get accustomed to the extra attention. After throwing five shutout innings to outperform the 2024 NL rookie of the year, Misiorowski owns a 3-0 record and 1.13 earned run average. The three hits Misiorowski has allowed thus far is the fewest by any major league pitcher through his first three career starts with a minimum of 16 innings pitched since at least 1901, according to Sportradar. Plenty of history was made Wednesday. According to Sportradar, Misiorowski averaged 99.5 mph and Skenes averaged 98.5 on their fastballs. That represented the highest combined fastball velocity by two starting pitchers in the same game since at least 2009. Misiorowski reached at least 100 mph on 19 of his 74 pitches — reaching a career-best peak of 102.4 — and Skenes got to 100 mph once out of 78 pitches. Since at least 2009, this marked the most combined 100-mph pitches by opposing starters for any game in which both reached that threshold at least once. 'I've watched plenty of his games,' Misiorowski said of Skenes. 'It's awesome to face a guy like that and really compare yourself to some of the best.' The hoopla surrounding this matchup of 23-year-olds didn't seem to bother Misiorowski, who struck out eight while allowing two hits and two walks. That was apparent well before the game. 'We were sitting over here laughing, joking,' said Brewers catcher Eric Haase, whose locker is just around the corner from Misiorowski's. 'Didn't seem it was affecting him at all.' The matchup drew a season-best sellout crowd of 42,774 for a weekday afternoon game. Most wanted to see what Misiorowski did next after allowing a total of one hit in his first two outings. His torrid start could force Misiorowski to deal with the level of attention Skenes has received ever since arriving in the big leagues as a No. 1 overall draft pick who led LSU to a 2023 College World Series title. Skenes has outperformed those considerable expectations. He was named the NL rookie of the year and finished third in the Cy Young Award voting last season. What advice would Skenes give Misiorowski about how to handle the scrutiny that could accompany an emergence to stardom? 'You've got to protect yourself, for lack of a better term, obviously with the media, but I assume if he goes and walks around Milwaukee now there's going to be more people that recognize him and all that," said Skenes, who met Misiorowski for the first time on Monday. "If he does what he's supposed to do and everybody thinks he can do, that's not going away any time soon. Get used to it and find ways to find peace and that kind of thing.' Skenes (4-7) lasted just four innings Wednesday while striking out four and allowing four runs, four hits and two walks. This was only the third time in 40 career starts that Skenes has given up as many as four runs. Milwaukee did all its damage during a second inning in which Skenes faced nine batters, threw 37 pitches and allowed four runs. Never before had Skenes faced that many hitters, thrown that many pitches or yielded that many runs in a single inning. After Milwaukee loaded the bases on a walk and two singles to start the second, Isaac Collins scored from third as Joey Ortiz grounded out to Skenes on an 0-2 pitch. Haase then hit a 1-2 pitch for a bloop RBI double that bounced in front of center fielder Oneil Cruz's diving attempt. Christian Yelich capped the rally with an RBI single to left on a 1-2 offering. Skenes allowed only one other base runner in his other three innings while matching the second-shortest stint of his career. His shortest appearance came in his final start last year, when he worked just two innings by design and didn't allow a base runner in a 9-4 victory over the New York Yankees. The performance raised Skenes' career ERA from 1.91 to 2.03. 'They did a good job of getting to some pitches," Skenes said. "I wasn't unhappy with the execution of all of those, there are probably a couple that could have been better but they did a good job.' ___ AP freelance writer Rich Rovito contributed to this report. ___ AP MLB: recommended
