What part of the chicken is the tender? While this question has confounded the masses for decades, on Saturday night, one thing became clear: a Chicken Tender alternate identity provides the perfect inspiration for one tasty no-hitter. Fueled by protein and an outstanding outing by Rafael Sanchez at

There isn’t much more you could ask from Konnor Griffin after he catapulted himself to No. 1 prospect status in his first pro season. But the Pirates phenom delivered in a big way anyway on Friday night, hitting his first two Double-A homers.

Griffin added a single that plated

According to the musical My Fair Lady, the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain. But when Biloxi’s Garrett Spain traversed the plane from third base to home in Friday night’s game, the plane could not contain Garrett Spain.

As such, Spain danced his way to a run

Typically, the Chesapeake Bay area is associated with scenic shorelines, but it felt more like Home on the Range when the Chesapeake Baysox unveiled an udderly one-of-a-kind Colton Cowser bobblehead.

Nicknamed the Milkman, the Orioles outfielder stands atop a “COW-SER” pedestal, primed to bulldoze the next pitch. The twist? Cowser is

You’ve probably seen a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat, but have you seen a rabbit throw out a first pitch?

On Saturday night, Alex the Great, a Flemish Giant rabbit, kicked off Reno’s Harry Potter night with his own bit of magic. With the help of a pitching

June 20 -- the start of summer, the longest day of year … and the day that the Springfield Cardinals throw no-hitters. Add in some Margaritaville-themed threads, and the vibes, as they say, are immaculate.

On Friday night, the Cardinals’ Double-A affiliate threw a no-hitter on June 20 for the second

Occasionally, a baseball feat leaves us in a state of disbelief. On Saturday night, Roman Anthony did just that.

MLB's top prospect blistered a 497-foot grand slam that left Triple-A Worcester's Polar Park on a trajectory toward Boston.

It’s safe to say that many of the fans in

Jac Caglianone has been electric throughout his young pro career, and his home runs seem to defy the laws of nature. It’s only fitting then that the Royals' top prospect has rumbled into Triple-A with the Omaha Storm Chasers and in a flash, has strung together a three-game home run

There are a lot of birds in baseball.

In the big leagues, we have Cardinals, Orioles and Blue Jays. In the Minors, some lesser-known species inhabit the ballparks like Loons and Sky Carp. But when a pair of ducks interrupted Saturday’s Double-A Springfield game at Hammons Field, they made

With bat dogs, wacky mascots and colorful alternate identities, many Minor Leagues ballparks resemble the circus. But Jacksonville’s VyStar Ballpark supplied the on-field act to go with the atmosphere on Saturday night when in the sixth inning, Jumbo Shrimp infielder Jack Winkler showcased a skill typically reserved for

It’s pretty rare to be a part of history. But to do it twice? Now that’s straight out of a movie.

Saturday’s game between Durham and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre at Durham Bulls Athletic Park had all the trappings of a cinematic blockbuster (Bull Durham, anyone?), plot and characters included. The Bulls

Sometimes, you have to take the bad with the good, and that was certainly the case for the Single-A Hickory Crawdads on Friday night in their game against the Charleston RiverDogs.

Entering the bottom of the eighth inning, it looked like they were headed toward perfection. But then a bloop that

For the first time since 2008, the Spokane Indians took home the Northwest League title after a back-and-forth Championship Series against the 2023 victors, the Vancouver Canadians.

After three one-run games, Game 4 followed the same script. Knotted at 1 after nine innings, Vancouver struck first in the top of the

In the words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

In the span of approximately 15 months, Davis has called his baseball home: Tucson, Ariz; Palm Beach, Fla.; Peoria, Ill., and now, Springfield, Mo.

Five months ago,

College football season officially kicked off on Saturday, and at its Midwest epicenter in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the reigning national-champion Wolverines toppled Fresno State. Fifteen hundred miles away in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a pair of former Michigan athletes celebrated the victory and their own momentous occasion.

Tommy Henry and Karl Kauffmann

For many, a debut professional season played with three teams in three different cities at three different levels would be overwhelming. For Quinn Mathews, it’s the Cardinal way.

The 6-foot-5 lefty, who spent four years as part of the Stanford Cardinal, has shot up the St. Louis Cardinals' system

This season, Indianapolis has been no stranger to fast-rising pitching prospects. Mere months after Paul Skenes' ascension from Indy ace to National League All-Star Game starter to potential Rookie of the Year, another Pirates top prospect was dominant in his Triple-A debut in the form of Bubba Chandler.

It had been 442 days since Kumar Rocker last pitched in a game for a full-season affiliate. With a layoff of that length, any sort of comeback performance would be deemed an accomplishment. But on Friday night, the Rangers’ No. 3 prospect made a statement, striking out four

Leo De Vries has perhaps never deserved his nickname of “El Mutante” more than on Friday night when he left the yard twice for the first multihomer game of his very young pro career.

But that’s not where his otherworldly abilities end -- the 17-year-old homered from both the right and

Six times every season, the Reno Aces hold a Home Run for Life game, presented by Donor Network West, to honor a Nevada community member who has been impacted by organ, eye and tissue donation. On Friday night, the event took on even more meaning as the club

In a city full of pressing your luck, Jacob Wilson wasn't satisfied with hitting just his first Triple-A home run -- so he hit his second too, giving him his first multihomer game as a pro in one fell swoop. The top Athletics prospect lifted the Aviators to

Holidays and the traditions that surround them give a comforting predictability to our lives. Every time the calendar flips to a new month, small text or icons indicate the upcoming dates of note. After Saturday night’s unique feat, it would be no surprise if Tyler Fitzgerald had a

They say it’s better to be a big fish in a small pond, but for the second time in the past two days, one of the top Marlins prospects joined a larger talent pool in the form of High-A Beloit. Noble Meyer, the organization’s top prospect, made his

On the first day of the NCAA Regionals last season, Virginia coasted to a 15-1 victory over Army thanks in part to a two-hit performance by Kyle Teel. Fast forward 364 days, and it’s clear that while a lot changes over the course of a year, some things

Every collaboration has a thread that binds two entities or ideas together, and for one iteration of the MiLB x Music Capsule Collection, that theme might be No One’s Gonna Love the Charleston RiverDogs More Than Band of Horses Does.

The Charleston-based rock band partnered with Official League on a limited-edition