After blasting a combined 10 home runs and scoring 28 runs in their previous two games, it would have been impossible for the Mariners to replicate that sort of production on Monday night

So when they had failed to score a single run against St. Louis Cardinals middling starter Miles Mikolas over the first five innings, which included ...Read more

The Padres did not exactly get to the Reds bullpen as much as the Reds bullpen was given to them on Monday night.

With 18 games remaining in the regular season and a division title and playoff seeding in the balance, the particulars don’t matter.

What does matter is that the Padres took advantage of the circumstances and came back to beat ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Royce Lewis doesn’t actually remember watching Barry Bonds hit a long home run off Troy Percival during the 2002 World Series, though his father, William, has a photo of the 3-year-old toddler sitting on his lap at Angel Stadium during that game.

But neither William nor the now-26-year-old Royce Lewis will ever forget the ...Read more

Garrett Crochet has been one of the best pitchers in baseball all season, but coming off a bizarre outing in which he allowed a season-worst seven runs, it was fair to wonder if the Red Sox ace was starting to run out of gas.

The big lefty dispelled any such concerns on Monday in Sacramento.

Crochet looked every bit his usual dominant self, ...Read more

Years ago, when Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax where at the top of the Dodgers’ pitching rotation, Drysdale missed a game to attend to some personal business. Koufax pitched a no-hitter that day.

When told about the achievement, Drysdale had one question: “Did he win?”

The Dodgers were three outs away from a combined no-hitter Monday, ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — With a smack of his glove and swift stride back to the dugout, Logan Webb celebrated a new career milestone.

“I told (catcher Patrick Bailey) before the game,” Webb said, “I’m only six away. But I’m not counting.”

The Giants ace wasn’t his most efficient, nor his most effective, against the Diamondbacks on ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Aaron Nola fired a sinker past Brandon Nimmo, who tipped it foul into J.T. Realmuto’s glove. As he walked off the mound, his seventh and final strikeout of the night secured, the crowd stood and clapped their appreciation.

Nola rebounded from a string of rough outings with his best start of the year on Monday night against ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Rookie pitcher Ryan Bergert has made a strong impression with the Kansas City Royals since arriving from the San Diego Padres at the trade deadline.

It wasn’t his night on Monday, however.

Bergert was chased early as the Royals lost 10-2 to the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field. He allowed eight runs on 11 hits in 3 1/3 ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — As the pennant race intensifies, the Phillies will be forced to navigate it without their star shortstop and third baseman.

Ahead of a pivotal series against the New York Mets, shortstop Trea Turner was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right hamstring strain. Third baseman Alec Bohm joins him on the IL with a sore ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was like Orel Hershiser could hear what Dodger fans were screaming at their TV.

Because, as slumping closer Tanner Scott came trotting into a nightmare ninth inning in Baltimore on Saturday night, the club's color analyst on SportsNet LA immediately tried to offer a rationalization for his entrance.

"You might be asking, why...Read more

DENVER — The San Diego Padres won’t get very far next month without Manny Machado rounding back into form. The same goes for Dylan Cease.

The two stars aligned on Sunday.

Machado’s first-inning homer got the offense started on a good, old-fashioned Coors Field romp, Dylan Cease turned in his best start in nearly a month and an 8-1 win ...Read more

In four games since their forced exile from the Roman (Anthony) Empire, the Boston Red Sox haven’t been the same.

They flew to Arizona to face a sub-.500 Diamondbacks team, but spent nearly the entire weekend struggling and lost the first two games.

Sunday looked lost, too, until the offense finally found its spark in pinch-hit fashion late ...Read more

DETROIT — Will Robertson saw the ball in the air and thought, “just make a play.”

The Chicago White Sox left fielder sprinted near the corner, tracking Spencer Torkelson’s long fly-ball.

“Off the bat, I honestly thought it was foul,” Robertson said. “But with the wind, you have to go for it. As I was running, I was like, ‘Oh, ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Angels were beaten up, but not beaten on Sunday.

The Angels were hit by pitches a franchise record five times and catcher Logan O’Hoppe came out of the game after being hit under his mask by a careless practice swing in their 4-3 victory over the Athletics.

Travis d’Arnaud, who entered the game at catcher after O’...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Imagine how annoyed Byron Buxton must have been when the baseball he crushed in the first inning Sunday sailed into the left-field seats. Just hours earlier, he had complained about how his last eight hits — now nine — had been for extra bases.

“I actually would like to steal a damn bag once in awhile,” Buxton said....Read more

PITTSBURGH — Bubba Chandler should be thankful his first big-league start coincided with the first Sunday of the 2025 NFL schedule. Because of the Steelers’ season opener, fewer people likely witnessed his afternoon to forget.

The game’s top pitching prospect struggled mightily, surrendering nine runs in less than three innings of work, ...Read more

CINCINNATI — Brandon Sproat‘s Sunday outing in Cincinnati was anything but typical.

Of course, this outing was never going to be typical. The ballpark was different, the uniform was different and while his catcher, Francisco Alvarez, was familiar, even he too was different than the one who has been behind the plate for most of his starts ...Read more

NEW YORK — As Ben Rice battled future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer in the first inning of Sunday’s rubber match between the Yankees and Toronto Blue Jays, Aaron Judge extended his arms twice while leading off of second base.

The gesture told Rice to prepare for Scherzer’s changeup. He laid off of one before hammering another deep to right, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The day started with a couple of Shohei Ohtani home runs. It continued with a strong 5 2/3 inning start from Clayton Kershaw. And it ended with the Dodgers in a celebratory postgame line, trading victorious high-fives near the mound.

After five straight losses, several weeks of mounting frustration, and the most painful collapse ...Read more

MIAMI — Trea Turner didn’t reach for the back of his right leg or come up limping at first base.

But he knew something was wrong.

“It was just kind of grabbing on me,” he said later. “Didn’t feel good.”

So, Turner made a swift right turn and headed into the dugout. The diagnosis: a strained right hamstring, and suddenly, a 5-4 ...Read more