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Former U.S. President George W. Bush will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 1 of the World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks Friday night. Bush, the U.S. president between 2001 and 2009, was part of a group that purchased the Rangers in 1989. He resigned as managing partner following his election as Texas governor in 1994. According to the Associated Press, Bush has participated in four World Series ceremonial first pitches, but Friday's at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, will be his first before an opener.

Arizona Diamondbacks starting pitcher Brandon Pfaadt was captured on film while seeming to be calmly reading his Bible alone in the dugout before he started in the pivotal Game 7 of the National League Championship Series against the Philadelphia Phillies.The MLB player was preparing to start the final game of the series, an elimination game to see which team would advance to the World Series.The Diamondbacks went on to win. Pfaadt pitched four innings with seven strikeouts, allowing two runs in the 4-2 victory. However, much of the attention was on photographs of the pitcher waiting in the dugout as...

AZ vs TX

For the first time since 2001 and the second time in franchise history, the Arizona Diamondbacks are champions of the National League. The D-backs outlasted the Philadelphia Phillies in Game 7 of the Championship Series at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday night (ARI 4, PHI 2). Arizona completed a shocking series comeback after falling behind 2-0 and 3-2 in the best-of-seven series and will take on the Texas Rangers in the World Series starting on Friday. Right from the start, Game 7 had action and tense moments -- the D-backs scored four batters into the game -- and the Arizona...

PHOENIX, AZ — After being swept by the Diamondbacks in humiliating fashion, the Los Angeles Dodgers were left wondering if perhaps they ought to have spent more time practicing baseball and less time honoring Satanic nuns dressed in drag. During the offseason, Dodgers management will be looking at what went wrong in yet another disappointing postseason, and everything will be under the microscope: whether they should have acquired better starting pitching at the trade deadline, why the bats went cold in October, and whether perhaps promoting heretical Satan worship in front of families at Dodger Stadium this year caused the...

D’backs 3 – Yankees 2 PHOENIX – This time the late-game magic showed up in the Diamondbacks’ dugout and it tore the heart out of the Yankees. Asked to protect a one-run lead in the ninth, his second inning, Mariano Rivera failed because of an errant throw to second by him and giving up three hits, including a bases-loaded bloop single to left by Luis Gonzalez that carried the Diamondbacks to a pulsating, 3-2, victory in front of 49,589 delirious fans at The BOB. Rivera, who entered the game in the eighth after Roger Clemens and Mike Stanton held the...

PHOENIX (AP) -- Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was pleased to face a New York Yankees roster missing Giancarlo Stanton, Aaron Judge and a bunch of other injured Bronx Bombers. Ketel Marte homered, Merrill Kelly won his first start against the Yankees and Arizona beat New York 3-2 Wednesday to sweep a two-game series. New York dropped to 0-5 this year against teams that currently have winning records, and is 17-8 against teams below .500. The Yankees had won nine of 10 heading into the series against the Diamondbacks but wound up heading home 6-3 on their western swing. ''How...

As a heartwarming Christmas gesture, a newly signed minor league baseball player used part of his draft bonus to pay off his parents’ mortgage. In a viral video shared on Twitter, Arizona Diamondbacks prospect Pavin Smith tweeted a video of his parents reacting to a letter he wrote detailing that he wants their home to be officially theirs:

Baseball legend and former Arizona Diamondbacks broadcaster Joe Garagiola, Sr., has died, the D-backs announced Wednesday. Garagiola was 90 years old.

Curt Schilling took on the Internet – and the entire Muslim world – on Tuesday and lost. Badly. The two-time National League strikeout king took to Twitter to voice his concern over Islamic extremism. He posted a photo of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler with the words, “It's said only 5-10% of Muslims are extremists. In 1940, only 7% of Germans were Nazis. How'd that go?” The 48-year-old also tweeted, “The math is staggering when you get to true (numbers).” Schilling, who won three World Series championships during his 20-year MLB career, deleted the post after 10 minutes. Currently working with...

SYDNEY (AP) -- Adrian Gonzalez ripped line drives to all areas of the park, often scattering his Los Angeles Dodgers teammates in the outfield from the safety of the batting cage. It was just a few hours after arriving in Australia, with his body thinking it was about midnight. Related Stories Still, the first baseman who led the Dodgers in hits, home runs, RBIs and games played last season did a good job of making Sydney Cricket Ground, the home for two Major League Baseball season-opening games this weekend, sound and look like a real ballpark. The Dodgers and their...

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus has declined a request to intervene on behalf of Dodgers owner Frank McCourt in his showdown with Major League Baseball, Rep. Charles Gonzalez said Friday. Gonzalez (D-San Antonio), the chairman of the CHC, met Friday with MLB lobbyists. He said he had requested a meeting with Commissioner Bud Selig to discuss issues of concern to the Latino community but said the CHC would not stand with McCourt in his battle against Selig. We can't take sides in a business dispute," Gonzalez said. "We do want to express our appreciation for what Mr. McCourt has meant to...

The Washington Nationals baseball game Sunday afternoon was briefly interrupted during the bottom of the fifth inning when four people ran onto the field to protest Arizona’s immigration law. The reason there were protesters: the Nationals were playing the Arizona Diamondbacks. On the field, two protesters tried to unfurl some sort of protest sign but they couldn’t quite straighten it out before one of them was pancaked by a security guard, who received a standing ovation from the fans on the first-base line. All four were escorted off the field and their fates couldn’t immediately be learned.

Disgraceful is right. While I had struggled to go back to sleep, I had decided to go on my computer. While going over a few current event articles on my computer, I can upon an article based on a video of what looked like a man running on Citi Field with the Mexican flag in his hands during the weekend when the Arizona Diamondbacks came into New York City to play a weekend series against the Mets. While that game was going on, there were protesters outside protesting. While they have the legal right to protest on the outside, what...

Protesters Rush Citi Field with Mexican flags During AZ Diamondbacks Game

 East W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10 New York Yankees 50 31 .617 -- 28-13 22-18 20-11 10-7 9-6 Won 2 6-4 Boston Red Sox 49 33 .598 1.5 29-17 20-16 18-17 10-9 8-2 Lost 1 6-4 Tampa Bay Rays 48 33 .593 2.0 20-19 28-14 19-10 11-6 11-6 Won 2 6-4 Toronto Blue Jays 41 42 .494 10.0 21-19 20-23 13-14 11-9 10-8 Lost 2 2-8 Baltimore Orioles 25 57 .305 25.5 16-25 9-32 9-27 4-6 5-13 Lost 1 5-5  Central W L Pct GB Home Road East Cent West Streak L10 Detroit...

Several hundred people, many from the SEIU, use a three-game series with the Dodgers to voice opposition to Arizona's controversial law. ...The SEIU and the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles bought 100 bleachers seats for Monday night's game, according to SEIU's Hilda Delgado, so they could boo Arizona and turn their backs on the Diamondbacks' first pitch.

People are being kidnapped in Phoenix, and not every now and then. Every day. Phoenix, one of the biggest and brightest cities in this country, has been blighted by roughly one kidnapping per day over the past four years. Who's doing the kidnapping? Who's being kidnapped? Mostly illegal immigrants and drug dealers. They are the victims, yes, but they are the violators too. They are both. Phoenix was once the fastest-growing big city in America. It was a place to go. Now it's a place to leave. But you're not hearing that part of the story. You're not hearing about...

Baseball, America's favorite pastime, has officially entered the debate over Arizona's tough new immigration law. This morning City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor David Campos sent a three-page letter to Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to request that he pull next year's the All-Star game from Chase Field in Phoenix. On the same day, the Major League Baseball Players Association issued a statement calling for immediate repeal or modification of the law. The union's executive director, Michael Weiner, said hundreds of international players, both on the Arizona Diamondbacks and visiting teams, as well as their families, live in and...

Sportswriter Dave Zirin is calling for a boycott against the Arizona Diamondbacks because of the state's new immigration law. MSNBC Anchor Tamron Hall frets that MLB players of Latino descent may be profiled and "pulled over" because of their appearance.