Matt Hague

Before Saturday night's game with Indianapolis, IronPigs manager Dave Brundage talked about the aggressiveness of Leandro Castro at the plate. "It kind of showed against Buffalo and all those [veteran guys]. They weren't going to give him anything...

|TV SPORTS| |THURSDAY|  Men’s College Basketball — Kentucky at Notre Dame, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Western Illinois at South Dakota, 7 p.m. (MSN); Marquette at Florida, 8 p.m. (ESPN2).  Women’s College Basketball — Virginia at...

|TV SPORTS| Major League Baseball—Playoffs, St. Louis Cardinals at Atlanta Braves, 4 p.m. (TBS); Baltimore Orioles at Texas Rangers, 7:30 p.m. (TBS) College Football—Pittsburgh at Syracuse, 6 p.m. (ESPN); Utah State at Brigham Young, 9:15 p....

COURTESY: INDYINDIANS It was a picture-perfect night for baseball on Thursday as the Indianapolis Indians defeated the Louisville Bats 6-1 at Victory Field, lowering their magic number to clinch the International League West Division title to just one....

TODAY TEENER BASEBALL Aberdeen 15-16 Teeners vs. Watertown, Fossum Field, 5:30 p.m. doubleheader Aberdeen 13-14 Majors vs. Brookings, Fossum Field 2, 1 p.m. doubleheader LEGION BASEBALL Aberdeen Smittys at Brandon Valley, 4 p.m. ALL-STAR GAMES...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Needing just a sacrifice bunt or a sacrifice fly, the Pittsburgh Pirates failed to execute the fundamentals.   Ty Wigginton and Carlos Ruiz homered to back Vance Worley and the Philadelphia Phillies held on for a 5-4 victory...

After nine straight scoreless frames, during which both teams stranded nine runners and the Tribe saw three runners thrown out at the plate, Indians right fielder Alex Presley ripped a triple with one out in the 15th inning before trotting home on a walk-...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates scored six runs off Randy Wolf in the third inning, then went on to pound the Milwaukee Brewers 8-2 on Friday night.   Ryan Braun left the game with a right hip strain, after sitting out Thursday night's...

  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Andrew McCutchen and Garrett Jones helped James McDonald win when he didn’t have his best stuff.   McDonald may have helped himself even more.   In a tight spot in the sixth inning, he kept a cool head, striking out...

Starting pitcher Daniel Cabrera threw seven impressive innings but the Indianapolis Indians couldn't make an early lead stand up and had to rally late, taking an eighth-inning lead when Brandon Boggs scored on a wild pitch, before eventually beating the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates faced four of the NL's elite starting pitchers in their first four games of the season, yet still emerged with a split. That impressive result didn't feel particularly comforting to the Pirates after...

Yes This could be the year. The Pirates are poised to break their nearly two-decades of failure in 2012 — but only if a number of key batters start smacking balls out of the park. Pedro Alvarez, the club's hope to be the next slugger, put one...