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Chicago police reported a shooting inside Guaranteed Rate Field during Friday night’s Chicago White Sox game and said more information would be forthcoming. A police spokesman on social media said a media briefing would take place but later said a written update would be circulated overnight. It was not immediately clear how many people were injured. A spectator, Greg Mika, said he was seated near the woman who received medical treatment to her leg below the knee and watched her walk out of the stadium with medics. The incident occurred in the third inning of the game, he said, but the game co......

CLEVELAND — A wild and lengthy brawl broke out between the Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Guardians in the sixth inning Saturday night at Progressive Field. Guardians third baseman José Ramírez doubled to right and slid headfirst into second, where Sox shortstop Tim Anderson applied the tag. The two exchanged words and then punches were thrown as the benches cleared. Anderson and Ramírez squared off like prize fighters near second base, trading swings before Ramírez landed a right haymaker that leveled Anderson. It took 14 minutes to clear the field as tempers continued to flare. The Sox led ......

CHICAGO — For nearly a century, millions of words poured from the confines of the Tribune Tower in stories about crooked politicians, murderous lovers, civic giants, sports heroes, regular folks and big shots, charting all the joys and tragedies of the human condition. No longer home to a newspaper but to luxurious condominiums, the building now delivers a new and fascinating tale, of a baseball long buried, a baseball that some believe is worth $1 million or more. The ball is a homely and bruised and beaten thing. It was discovered earlier this year when three time capsules were found during ......

NEW YORK — What should have been a joyous celebration after Gleyber Torres’ walk-off hit quickly became an ugly scene at Yankee Stadium. Fans in the right-field seats responded to the game-winning hit by flinging garbage on to the field in the general vicinity of Cleveland’s outfielders. The incident was brewing from the previous batter. Isiah Kiner-Falefa’s deep fly ball to left field made Steven Kwan crash forcefully into the wall, which left him directly underneath the vitriolic fans, who presumably screamed typical New York pleasantries at him. Whatever was said, it caused center fielder M......

PHILADELPHIA — The mud is found during low tide, shoveled from the banks of the waterway and stuffed into buckets to be brought back to a garage at the Jersey Shore. It has been harvested — which is how Jim Bintliff describes the act of digging up mud — in South Jersey for more than 80 years ever since one of Connie Mack's assistant coaches discovered it could help grip baseballs. And as Major League Baseball clamps down this month on pitchers using foreign substances to doctor balls, this mysterious mud remains the only agent approved by the league to be applied to baseballs. But where exactl......

Cuban baseball player César Prieto, a highly touted 22-year-old infielder, ditched the Cuban national team Wednesday and defected to the United States. Prieto and his then-teammates arrived in Florida on Wednesday to compete in an Olympic qualifying tournament. Hours after the team’s arrival, the Cuban Baseball Federation released a statement confirming Prieto’s departure. The player hopped in a car outside the team hotel almost immediately after their bus arrived, according to baseball journalist Francys Romero. Because of the frosty diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the easiest......