Baseball

6/11/2026 |  Is Las Vegas going to be a launching pad? What Brewers-Athletics series could tell us about new MLB stadium (CBS Sports) Major League Baseball arrived in Las Vegas this week and it has been very hitter-friendly. The Athletics will play three games against the Brewers and three games against the Rockies in Las Vegas this week, and, two games into that six-game stretch, we've seen 17 home runs hit and 41 runs scored. The Brewers won 15-14 in 12 innings on Monday, and the A's won 7-5 on Tuesday.

6/10/2026 |  Building the ideal 2026 Home Run Derby field: Two Phillies in their home ballpark, plus Mike Trout's debu (CBS Sports) The 2026 Home Run Derby will be held on Monday, July 13, in Philadelphia at Citizens Bank Park. It's a great event, at least now that the league started throwing a clock on the thing in time for the 2015 Derby. 

6/10/2026 |  The Red Sox Should Be Sellers At The Deadline With Multiple Prime Trade Candidates (Fox Sports) Craig Breslow, the Red Sox chief baseball officer, is having a lot of conversations about how his front office will pilot MLB’s Aug. 3 trade deadline. But it seems like those discussions are not reflecting their reality.

6/10/2026 |  “Sunday Night Baseball” scores MLB’s top audience since Opening Week (Sports Media Watch) As “Sunday Night Baseball” starts to settle into a routine on NBC, the viewers may be following suit.
The latest edition of NBC’s “Sunday Night Baseball” (Giants-Cubs) averaged a combined 2.57 million viewers across a Nielsen-estimated linear audience (1.3 rating, 2.34M viewers) and streaming viewership measured by Adobe Analytics — marking the largest MLB audience on any network since the Opening Week of the season.

6/9/2026 |  Snyder's Soapbox: You don't want a salary cap, you just want to be a billionaire (CBS Sports) I've long said that one of the ugliest human emotions is jealousy. Even if people won't admit it, jealousy surfaces so much in sports discussions. Far too often, there's a twinge of jealousy when it comes to the players. They get to play a game and make millions of dollars. It does sound pretty awesome. But hey, life ain't fair and most of us weren't born with the physical skills to make it happen.