Baseball: Highly touted Sasaki homers in MLB Draft League debut

KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 14:01 | Sports, All

Highly touted Stanford University slugger Rintaro Sasaki made an impressive debut in the MLB Draft League, one of the top amateur summer leagues in the United States, with a home run Tuesday.

The 19-year-old left-handed hitter, who skipped Japanese pro baseball's draft to play U.S. college baseball, went 2-for-5 with three RBIs in the Trenton Thunder's 11-1 rout of the Frederick Keys in the state of Maryland.

Sasaki, batting cleanup for the Trenton, New Jersey ... Read more

Two Class of 2022 Graduates Win Fulbrights

Two members of The University of Scranton’s class of 2022 have been awarded 2022-2023 Fulbright grants, the prestigious international academic exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government that awards competitive, merit-based scholarships for r ... Read more