04.12.2017 Sports Baseball: Mattituck grad, Ascher, signs with Colorado Rockies Getting into the major leagues isn’t easy. That point has been driven home to Steve Ascher, who said he has learned a lesson: “not to take anything for granted.”
04.03.2016 Sports Baseball: Tampa Bay Rays promote Cutchogue’s Ascher to Double-A club Life for a minor league baseball player during spring training can get pretty routine. Arrive at the complex early in the morning, run, stretch and throw. For Steve Ascher,...
12.25.2015 Sports Top Sports Stories 2015: A championship ring for Ascher In only in his second year of professional baseball, Steve Ascher has already earned a championship ring. Not bad.
09.14.2015 Sports Baseball: Ascher ends his season with a championship Steve Ascher is only in his second year as a professional baseball player, and he already has a championship ring coming his way.
03.02.2015 Sports Baseball: Ascher says pitching arm ‘never felt better’ It wasn’t what Steve Ascher said so much as the way he said it that made an impression. Asked how his pitching arm felt, his reply bursted with confidence...
09.02.2014 Sports Baseball: For Ascher, this baseball card’s a keeper Like many kids, Steve Ascher was an avid collector of baseball cards. “I was a big-time collector,” he said, estimating he had about five boxes full of them. Now...
06.11.2014 Sports Ascher inks deal with Rays, now bound for rookie ball Steve Ascher, who was a Yankees fan growing up, may one day get the chance to pitch against the Bronx bombers — as a member of the Tampa Bay...
06.07.2014 Sports Baseball: Mattituck grad drafted by Tampa Bay Rays Steve Ascher, a former standout pitcher who led Mattituck to a Long Island Championship in 2011, was drafted this afternoon by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 17 round...
05.07.2014 Sports Baseball: Mattituck grad wins Pitcher of Year award Steve Ascher, a 2011 Mattituck graduate, capped off a stellar season for the SUNY Oneonta baseball team with the Don Axtell Pitcher of the Year award, given to the...
03.26.2014 Sports Baseball: Ascher honored again as Pitcher of the Week Mattituck High School graduate Steve Ascher (’11) was honored for a second consecutive week as Pitcher of the Week for the State University of New York Athletic Conference.