Baseball

In spring in the northern hemisphere, Blake Whitney trains alongside the best baseballers in the world but in the off-season he's just another player in Alice Springs.

Blake Whitney has followed his wife to the NT for her work, and he's thriving in Red Centre.

The Adelaide Giants face the Perth Heat in this weekend's best-of-three grand final series.

The napkin Lionel Messi signed to join Barcelona as a 13-year-old is up for auction in March, but that's nothing compared to some of the other odd pieces of sports memorabilia that have gone under the hammer.

Shohei Ohtani has just signed a deal that is richer than all of LeBron James's playing contracts combined — and it's proof the baseball star is an unmatched phenomenon, writes Nick Campton.

Shohei Ohtani — the most coveted MLB free agent in recent memory — has agreed to a record $US700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Curtis Mead isn't taking much time off this off season. The Tampa Bay Rays star is practising daily with the Adelaide Giants.

The Adelaide born and bred player, who is training with the Adelaide Giants on his holiday, is aiming for a long tenure in Major League Baseball despite initial setbacks.

Marley Fridd fell in love with the game when she was seven, but South Australian baseball rules meant she had a long time to wait before she could step up to the plate.

Sport is legendary for its curses — but Japanese baseball ended its most famous one on Sunday when Hanshin Tigers ended its KFC curse after 38 years.

Cricket has been confirmed as a new Olympic sport for the 2028 LA Games, with Cricket Australia hailing the move as a "game-changer" for the sport.

A fan is refused entry to a baseball game in Philadelphia after officials refuse to allow his emotional support animal — an alligator named WallyGator — into the ballpark.

After more than a century, US athletics superstar Noah Lyles is within his rights to be sick of teams being dubbed "world champions" for winning American sporting leagues, writes Jon Healy.

Carly Moore says she's honoured to represent her state and the country, and the 27-year-old hopes to inspire more girls and women to take up the sport.

When Carly Moore walks out onto the diamond in Canada this week, she will become the first South Australian to represent Australia at a Women's Baseball World Cup. She's hoping to inspire more local females to step up to the plate.

Pitching prodigy Blake Townsend hopes Australia's breakthrough performance on the world stage will help encourage a new generation of talent to take up the sport. 

A Texas A&M-Texarkana baseball player is hit in the chest by a bullet from a nearby neighbourhood while watching his teammates from the bullpen.

The introduction of the pitch clock has made MLB games shorter and more palatable, but has had an unexpected impact on concession sales.

Australia's historic ride at the World Baseball Classic finally ends in a 4-3 defeat by Cuba in the quarterfinals after taking an early lead.

In what has been described as a "significant" moment, Australia defeats Czech Republic 8-3 to advance to the World Baseball Classic quarterfinals for the first time.

Japan have ended Australia's unbeaten run at the World Baseball Classic with a 7-1 thumping.

Rob Glendinning and Robbie Perkins' heroics lead Australia to a stunning 8-7 victory over world number four South Korea in their World Baseball Classic opener in Japan.

A little league field is starting to take shape near the childhood home of a Melbourne baseballer nearly a decade after he was shot dead while jogging in Oklahoma.

The Australian national baseball team will compete against one of the biggest stars in the Major League at the World Baseball Classic.

Many of Australia's top baseball players are part-timers, working regular day jobs. They're about to face the 'Japanese Babe Ruth', a superstar as big as they come who is set to sign one of the largest contracts in global sporting history.