Pedro Martinez

Mariano Rivera, the New York Yankees legendary reliever, recorded his 602nd career save Monday afternoon against the Minnesota Twins to set baseball’s new career record. But let's not get carried away with the comparisons to some of baseball's all-...

BASEBALL LEGEND: Ted Williams lost out on the 1947 AL MVP because a voter from Boston left him off of the 10-person ballot entirely! STATUS: I'm Going With False. With the Major League Baseball season coming to a close, thoughts......

WASHINGTON — The world's oceans may be vast and deep, but a decade-long count of marine animals finds sea life so interconnected that it seems to shrink the watery world. An international effort to create a Census of Marine Life......

Writers from around Tribune Co. weigh in on the topic. Check back throughout the day for more responses, and feel free to leave a comment of your own. Bill Kline, The Morning Call It was 1968, the Year of the......

Tribune News Services SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic -- Pedro Martinez began training in the Dominican Republic for a possible return to pitching in this Caribbean nation's winter league. Martinez, who did not pitch in the major leagues this year, said...

Roy Halladay, who pitched a perfect game and a no-hitter in his first season in the National League, won the NL Cy Young Award on Tuesday. Halladay won unanimously. He became the fifth pitcher to win a Cy Young Award......

The Phillies did a little math on Friday ... basic addition and subtraction. According to multiple published reports, the Phillies and general Ruben Amaro Jr. have come to terms and reached an agreement on a contract extension. The club has......

"Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game," the legendary Casey Stengel once said. "You can win or you can lose or it can rain." The Texas Rangers are probably thinking that the rain thing might be......

April 13 1986 - Northern State won the women's division of the Northern Invitational track and field meet with 138 points. 1991 - Kevin Tapani pitched a seven-hitter at the California Angels, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 6-0 win in their home...

It looks like New York Mets General manager Omar Minaya and manager Jerry Manuel will not be returning to their roles when the team begins its 2011 season. An official announcement is expected to be made before the playoffs begin next week. According to...

Most topics can be explained in 18.5 hours, but not baseball. It's so much more than a game with a winner and loser; it's the hope, philosophy and history of a nation's spirit played out on a diamond. Persisting into the bottom of the ninth, with...

The Yankees were one of a handful of teams to send a scout to watch Pedro Martinez throw a bullpen session in the Dominican Republic on Friday. Well, "sent a scout" might be too strong. The Yankees had a scout......