The Situation: Atlanta has an injured Bartolo Colon and a doubleheader this weekend, so they’ve decided to call up their closest pitching prospect, and a pretty good one at that, in Sean Newcomb. The ...

Sean Newcomb came one strike away from a no-hitter on Sunday before losing it on his 134th pitch of the afternoon. The Atlanta Braves starter allowed his first and only hit of the game in a 4-1 win ...

Middleboro native Sean Newcomb has been traded to the Athletics, the Boston Red Sox announced Tuesday afternoon. Boston received cash considerations in exchange for the left-handed pitcher. Newcomb ...

Slowly but surely, they're beginning to trickle in. It's prospect o'clock in the land of baseball, with the reported arrival of Sean Newcomb Saturday continuing a string of recent promotions. He ...

Newcomb and the Giants agreed Monday on a minor-league contract that includes an invitation to MLB spring training, Maria I. Guardado of MLB.com reports. Once one of the more promising young ...

The Astros were in town on the Fourth of July, the Braves were surging after a weekend sweep at Oakland, and there was added buzz from the announcement earlier Tuesday that Freddie Freeman was coming ...

ATLANTA --Atlanta Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb apologized Sunday for racist, homophobic and sexist tweets he sent as a teenager, calling them "some stupid stuff." The 25-year-old spoke less than an ...

A pair of Twitter users whose posts exposing offensive old tweets by baseball players went viral over the weekend say their aim was not malicious but to give fans a fuller picture of who they're ...

Sean Newcomb will walk to the mound Saturday for his 29th start, and do it on what is hallowed ground for New Englanders such as him and the couple of hundred or more friends, family members and ...

Sean Newcomb’s greatest performance quickly became a nightmare on Sunday night. In the hour after Newcomb came one out from throwing a no-hitter for the Atlanta Braves, Twitter detectives unearthed ...