While most of the teams have one final day for the All Star break, the Texas Rangers and Houston Astros will open a weekend series tonight in Arlington.
The Cincinnati Reds return from the All Star break with the first of three games at the Colorado Rockies tomorrow night. The next Reds on Radio broadcast will be Saturday night from Coors Field, with pregame at 6:40 on News Radio 95.3 FM/1230 AM WHOP.
Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz is recovering from a third surgery after experiencing complications resulting from his gunshot wound.
Ortiz’s wife, Tiffany, says in a statement today that he is ”recovering well and in good spirits.” He had the surgery earlier this week at Massachusetts General Hospital. Ortiz was shot in the back at a bar in the Dominican Republic last month.
Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book ”Ball Four,” died Wednesday at the age of 80. Bouton fought a brain disease linked to dementia and was in hospice care. Bouton also had two strokes in 2012.