The fourth annual Run-Walk to Home Base could have as many as 4,000 runners cross home plate at Fenway Park on May 4, 2013.

When Brandon Beachy celebrates Thanksgiving next week, he will be five months removed from Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery and approximately seven months away from being cleared to rejoin Atlanta’s rotation.

When Brandon Beachy celebrates Thanksgiving next week, he will be five months removed from Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery and approximately seven months away from being cleared to rejoin Atlanta’s rotation.

The Nationals have hired Tony Tarasco as their first-base and outfield coach and shifted Trent Jewett from first-base coach to third-base coach, the team announced on Wednesday. The rest of the coaching staff — bench coach Randy Knorr, hitting coach Rick Eckstein, pitching coach Steve McCatty and bullpen coach Jim Lett — will return for another season.

The Nationals have hired Tony Tarasco as their first-base and outfield coach and shifted Trent Jewett from first-base coach to third-base coach, the team announced on Wednesday. The rest of the coaching staff — bench coach Randy Knorr, hitting coach Rick Eckstein, pitching coach Steve McCatty and bullpen coach Jim Lett — will return for another season.

The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum’s Autumn Glory exhibit, which honors World Series champions, opens Friday with numerous artifacts from the Giants’ road to their 2012 World Series title.

Brewers medical director Roger Caplinger will gather the organization’s doctors and athletic trainers beginning Friday for the team’s annual medical symposium, a three-day discussion to focus as much or more on preventing injuries as on treating them.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, winner of last year’s National League Cy Young Award, finished second in the voting announced on Wednesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America for this year’s award behind winner R.A. Dickey of the Mets.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw, winner of last year’s National League Cy Young Award, finished second in the voting announced on Wednesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America for this year’s award behind winner R.A. Dickey of the Mets.

It is hard for me to change completely within less than a year, but I am delighted to see the Dodgers have owners committed to establishing a perennial winning franchise.

It is hard for me to change completely within less than a year, but I am delighted to see the Dodgers have owners committed to establishing a perennial winning franchise.

The Rangers are going to play at least one and possibly two exhibition games in San Antonio next spring. A press conference is scheduled for Friday to announce which team will play the Rangers at the Alamodome during the middle of Spring Training.

The Rangers are going to play at least one and possibly two exhibition games in San Antonio next spring. A press conference is scheduled for Friday to announce which team will play the Rangers at the Alamodome during the middle of Spring Training.

Mets right-hander Dillon Gee and reliever Bobby Parnell helped collect food donations at Citi Field to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims on Wednesday. Gee is doing his best to ignore talk of the Mets potentially trading him.

Mets right-hander Dillon Gee and reliever Bobby Parnell helped collect food donations at Citi Field to benefit Hurricane Sandy victims on Wednesday. Gee is doing his best to ignore talk of the Mets potentially trading him.

A humble Bob Melvin talked about winning the American League Manager of the Year Award and the A’s upcoming season at Oakland Coliseum on Wednesday.

Ratifying the historic new TV contracts leads the agenda for what is expected to be a quiet quarterly Owners Meetings, beginning Wednesday at the O’Hare Hyatt in Chicago.