Hometown baseball players thriving in the majors
One of the biggest moves before the MLB trade deadline on Wednesday was a three-team deal with the Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds and San Diego Padres. Trevor Bauer, a Hart…
Hart alums taking main stage in MLB postseason
When Hart baseball coach Jim Ozella flips on his television to watch the Major League Baseball postseason, he’s given an experience likely no other high school coach in America can…
Baseball notebook: Monty homers; 2 from Hart make Area Code Games
The Comcast SportsNet Chicago broadcasters couldn’t help themselves. As Mike Montgomery trotted around the bases at SunTrust Park in Atlanta on Wednesday after the first home run of his major…
MLB Report: Shields, Britton ready to contribute
It’s all about returns lately when it comes to Santa Clarita Valley products in Major League Baseball. In June, Hart High graduate James Shields returned off the disabled list for…
SCV baseball products making an impact in the pros
Trevor Bauer, Cleveland Indians, Hart High grad In Bauer’s most recent appearance on the mound, he threw seven innings and allowed four hits while recording eight strikeouts against the Minnesota…
SCV baseball alums grinding in the pros
Here’s a look at how Santa Clarita Valley products have fared in Major League Baseball so far this season: Trevor Bauer (Cleveland Indians, Hart High grad) In four starts, Bauer…
SCV in play on MLB’s opening day
As a visiting baseball team warmed up for a non-league game at Hart High earlier this season, the gaze of one player fell on a list of names entitled “Hart…
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Mike Montgomery pitches during the seventh inning of Game 3 of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians in Chicago. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Montgomery prepping for run at Cubs starting rotation
The Major League Baseball winter meetings in Maryland came and went this week, and a player who’d already been traded three times in his career stayed put. Hart High graduate…
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Mike Montgomery celebrates after after recording the final out of Game 7 of the World Series Thursday in Cleveland. The Cubs won 8-7 in 10 innings to win the series 4-3. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Mason Nesbitt: Hart grad Montgomery provides perfect World Series ending
The story just kept getting better. A historic World Series that went five, six, seven games. A finale that went eight, nine, 10 innings. And a final frame that featured two…
Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Mike Montgomery pitches during the seventh inning of Game 3 of the World Series against the Cleveland Indians in Chicago. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Cleveland takes Game 3 of World Series
CHICAGO (AP) — Cody Allen, Andrew Miller and the Cleveland Indians crashed a Wrigley Field party 71 years in the making. Leave it to that sensational bullpen to silence the…
Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer throws during the first inning of Game 2 of the World Series against the Chicago Cubs Wednesday in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Bauer, Indians fall in Game 2 of World Series
CLEVELAND (AP) — Jake Arrieta made a teasing try at history, Kyle Schwarber drove in two runs and the Chicago Cubs knocked Hart High graduate Trevor Bauer out of the…
The making of Montgomery’s moment
The advice was meant as motivation. When Hart High graduate Mike Montgomery signed with the Kansas City Royals in 2008, his dad, Dave, told him to pitch every game like…
Mason Nesbitt: Montgomery and Bauer make World Series historic for SCV, too
Hart High baseball coach Jim Ozella knew the question before I asked it. How could he not? “Let me see, wait one second, the question revolves around Montgomery and Bauer,”…
Montgomery, Cubs reach World Series
CHICAGO -- Chicago Cubs pitcher Kyle Hendricks outpitched Clayton Kershaw, Anthony Rizzo and Willson Contreras homered early and the Cubs took their first pennant since 1945, beating the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 Saturday night to win the…
Mason Nesbitt: MLB spotlight shined on SCV Monday
I hesitated to write this. There exists, after all, a perception among some that The Signal has a Hart High bias, that our logo is colored so because we bleed…
