Baseball

Relief pitcher Will Ohman made his first — and last — appearance for the Washington Nationals this spring against the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Ohman allowed two hits and two walks in one inning pitched, and he was promptly cut from the team before he got to the showers...

You didn’t have to see ‘BASEketball' to know mixing sports is a horrible, horrible idea.

Los Angeles Angels all-star outfielder Mike Trout had his contract renewed by the team for $510,000 per year on Saturday. That means the 2012 AL MVP runner-up will make just $20,000 above the major league minimum, which disappointed Trout and his agent, Craig Landis...

A marquee NBA matchup and the start of an international baseball tournament highlight the upcoming sports calendar. Here's what to watch this weekend:

Spring training reports have an abundance of sports cliches, but Washington Nationals manager Davey Johnson is doing his part to change that. He thinks his players are such swell guys that they'd make great dates for his daughter — or your daughter...

Ever since Alex Rodriguez left for Texas in 2001, the Seattle Mariners have been a little thin at shortstop. Nick Franklin is trying to change that.

From his hipster glasses to his Belichick hoodie to his themed t-shirts, Tampa Bay Rays manager Joe Maddon is a bit of a sports fashion plate. (That's him in gnome form, at left.) In years past, the unconventional Maddon has asked his players to embrace fashion themes on road trips: dress like nerds, don wigs or wear plaid jackets, etc...

Hopefully, Josh Hamilton is planning on flying into Texas next time he plays there, because his bridges into Dallas-Fort Worth may now be burned. The former Texas Rangers outfielder, who signed a five-year $125 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim this off-season, told a Dallas-Fort Worth TV station that the DFW metropolitan area is "not a true baseball town...

A former trainer for the Boston Red Sox administered frequent injections of a painkilling drug, a practice in violation of Massachusetts' law, Yahoo! Sports reported.

Prince Fielder, who just might be the world’s largest baseball player, is now on the world’s largest baseball card.