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CORVALLIS -- Troy Claunch picked a great time for his first home run and an even better one for his first sacrifice fly. Then the Oregon State bullpen put a happy ending on its rather rough month of April. Clauch's deep fly to right field in the seventh inning provided the game-winning RBI as the sixth-ranked ...

Nothing against either team, because this is half of what makes baseball special in both a good and bad way, but the baseball sandwiching those manic innings was ... fine. It was fine! It was baseball. But boy there was a lot of it. If you were bored, good news there was an endless game happening.

Members of the T-Ball River Bandits march onto the field during the Opening Day Parade of the Costa Mesa American Little League at Costa Mesa High's Little League fields on Saturday. The scheduled first game was called off when it started raining near the end of opening ceremonies. (Mike Mullen).

That was the message that got a Texas university's head baseball coach fired on Thursday, after it was revealed that he'd turned away a potential Colorado recruit ... Texas Wesleyan University fired its head baseball coach after he dismissed a prospective student-athlete because the kid is from Colorado.