BOSTON (AP) David Ortiz hit a grand slam to cap a five-run fourth inning and Dustin Pedroia extended his career-best hitting streak to 24 games with a solo homer, carrying the Boston Red Sox to a 12-5 win over the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night. Jacoby Ellsbury homered leading off the first inning for the Red Sox, who won for the 19th time in 23 games and scored in double digits for the second straight night. Pedroia, who went 4 for 5 in Tuesday’s 13-9 win, added two singles and a sacrifice fly. Adrian Gonzalez had three hits and…
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee is proposing that instant replay be used to review certain calls at the College World Series next year. The rule must still be approved by the Playing Rules Oversight Panel. Reviewable plays would be limited to deciding if an apparent home run is fair or foul, whether a batted ball left the playing field for a home run or a ground-rule double or whether there is fan interference on apparent home runs. The instant-replay process will operate under the assumption that the ruling on the field is correct. The only way a…
DALLAS (AP) Missouri has to set some different goals after sharing the Big 12 North division title three of the past four seasons. There are no more divisions in the conference that now has 10 teams and will play a round-robin schedule. “The dynamics change a little bit. Your goal was to win a Big 12 North championship because you can’t get in the championship game unless you do,” coach Gary Pinkel said Monday on the first day of Big 12 media days. “That’s the way it was at the time. And now it’s just to win a Big 12…
Former K-State pitcher Evan Marshall is already on his way up the Arizona Diamondbacks minor league system. Marshall is now in the High-A California league with the Visalia Rawhide after a successful stint in Class-A short season baseball. He pitched three innings last week with Visalia, giving up two unearned runs on two hits with three strikeouts. Marshall, a fourth round pick of the D-Backs last month, finishes his time with Yakima Bears with two saves and a 0.75 ERA.
BOSTON (AP) Eric Hosmer doubled to lead off the 14th inning and scored when Mike Aviles bunted the ball over the head of charging first baseman Adrian Gonzalez to give the Kansas City Royals a 3-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Monday night. Louis Coleman (1-2) went two innings and twice pitching out of jams. Joakim Soria struck out three in the bottom of the 14th to earn his 18th save and send Boston to just its fourth loss in 21 games. The Red Sox threatened to score five times in the last six innings, but the Royals…
A Riley County murder conviction and sentencing in a 2007 case has been upheld, in an opinion released by the Kansas Supreme Court the end of last week. The Court Friday filed a decision, affirming Kevin Hernandez’s convictions of premeditated first degree murder, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary, and residential burglary in what the court calls the June 2007 brutal slaying of Adam Hooks. Hooks was bludgeoned and stabbed to death in his Manhattan trailer home. And his body was found dismembered and placed in containers in and near his car. The Kansas Supreme Court in a unanimous decision rejected the…
The city’s proposed 2012 budget is on the agenda for Manhattan City Commissioners Tuesday night, with the official public hearing to be held. The matter must still go through a second reading after the Tuesday night meeting. There’s also a recommendation for increases in water rates and tapping fees and waste water rates, that would take effect in January. The status of Lot 9 in the South End Redevelopment district might be official soon, and the City Commission will take a look at options for the area Tuesday night. And Manhattan will have a new park before the year is…
Chii-Dong Lin, a university distinguished professor of physics at Kansas State University, has been named one of the state’s top 150 scientists. The selection comes through the Ad Astra Kansas Initiative, an organization that throughout the year is spotlighting Kansas researchers, inventors and engineers from the past to the present who have advanced their field. Lin is the eighth active faculty member at K-State to be selected as a top Kansas scientist. Lin is an internationally recognized expert and pioneer in atomic, molecular and optical physics. His research deals with basic scientific issues behind the development of technology for the…
Today’s troubled housing market, hit by foreclosures, slow sales and declining values, presents opportunities and challenges for home buyers, according to Eric Higgins, a professor of finance at Kansas State University. “When prices drop substantially, it creates the opportunity to buy,” Higgins said. “If you’re waiting for prices to hit absolute rock bottom, that may not occur for some time.” Higgins is co-author of a recent study that found the best way to help the housing market recover is to stop delaying foreclosures. Regardless of whether you’re buying a home in a market that’s struggling or that’s thriving, Higgins recommends…
Veterinary medicine students are more likely to struggle with depression than human medicine students, undergraduate students and the general population, according to several recent collaborative studies from Kansas State University researchers. In a study conducted by Mac Hafen, therapist and clinical instructor in K-State’s college of Veterinary Medicine, 32 percent of veterinary medicine students surveyed showed symptoms of depression, compared to just 23 percent of human medicine students who showed symptoms above the clinical cutoff. Veterinarians deal with stressors that human medicine doctors do not have to experience, such as frequently discussion euthanasia with clients. Additionally, veterinarians are required to…