Last year, the Minnesota Twins played poorly coming out of the All-Star break, losing each of their final four series before the trade deadline. It cemented their status as major sellers, dealing 10 players off their major league roster.

The Twins, for the second straight season, are fading toward out of the playoff picture ahead of the Aug. 3 ...Read more

BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox will have to wait one more day to see if they can extend their 14-game winning streak.

Tuesday’s game between the Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles at Fenway Park was postponed due to inclement weather. The two sides will play a doubleheader Wednesday with the first game set for 1:35 p.m. ET and the night cap ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — ESPN's 30 for 30 will launch the first two of six podcast episodes July 28 examining the gambling scandal that resulted in Shohei Ohtani's interpreter Ippei Mizuhara going to prison for stealing nearly $17 million from the baseball superstar and gambling it away.

The podcast, titled "The Betrayal of Shohei Ohtani" is told by ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Pirates’ game scheduled for Tuesday night against the New York Yankees was postponed due to rain, the teams announced Tuesday afternoon.

They will now play a doubleheader on Wednesday at Yankee Stadium, with games scheduled for 1:05 p.m. and 7:05 p.m.

Forecasts called for rain and thunderstorms lasting late into the night, ...Read more

CHICAGO — The 10-year reunion hangovers are the best kind of hangovers.

You’re young enough to still tie one on, but old enough to know when it’s time to crash. Still crazy enough to do something dumb, but mature enough to curb your impulses.

Reliving the past during a weekend celebration with old friends reminds you of where you’ve ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — A day after seeing their seven-run lead evaporate in a loss in Arizona, the one-run lead the Cardinals nursed for most of Monday night in Anaheim vanished in the ninth with their All-Star closer on the mound.

Pitching with a 2-1 lead, right-hander Riley O'Brien put two runners on base with one out in the ninth after giving ...Read more

For the first time in nearly seven weeks, Jameson Taillon took the mound feeling good about finally getting another opportunity to help the Chicago Cubs.

Taillon could only watch since going on the injured list June 8 because of his left hamstring strain and as the injuries to the rotation piled up. He wanted to use that recovery time to work ...Read more

Reds manager Terry Francona didn’t hesitate. Dom Canzone did.

From the top step of the visitors’ dugout, Francona got the attention of home-plate umpire Dillon Wilson and held up four fingers, an unambiguous signal for an intentional walk.

Canzone, the Mariners’ left-handed slugger, was about to enter the batter’s box to face Caleb ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Freddy Peralta came off the field in the bottom of the sixth to an ovation from the fans who have watched him pitch since he was a teenager. This wasn’t the pitcher they once knew, and it was as if they knew he needed some encouragement after another tough outing in a season full of them.

The former Milwaukee Brewers ace gave up...Read more

The Minnesota Twins have played 10,398 games in team history, and Joe Ryan picked Monday to become the club’s first pitcher to give up six home runs in a game.

Talk about poor timing.

Beginning a four-game series against the Cleveland Guardians, one of the two teams the Twins are chasing in the American League Central standings with two ...Read more

TORONTO — For all the things the Tampa Bay Rays did poorly or didn’t do at all during their lost weekend at Fenway Park that resulted in a four-game sweep by the Red Sox — and there were plenty — manager Kevin Cash said Monday afternoon there actually was a simple solution.

Getting the heck out of Boston.

“Running into the wrong team...Read more

Willy Adames was the reason that the San Francisco Giants didn’t lose in the top of the ninth on Monday evening at Kauffman Stadium. He’s also one of the reasons that the Giants did lose to the AKnsas City Royals in the bottom of the ninth.

Talk about an absolute whirlwind of a sequence.

Adames hit a game-tying two-run home run in the top ...Read more

NEW YORK — Typically a man of many words, Jazz Chisholm Jr. offered a succinct summary of his season on Sunday night.

The second baseman had just played the part of hero, launching an eighth-inning solo shot that spared the New York Yankees from being swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in a three-game series and a doubleheader. But when the ...Read more

ATLANTA — Some key players have been injured. Some key players have been inefficient.

But if there is one trait that defines the San Diego Padres and will likely doom the Padres, it is inconsistency.

A day after scoring 19 runs, they scored two.

In a 3-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves, it was entirely on-brand for the 2026 Padres too that they ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — There was talk last week about Wander Franco getting back on the field, as the Dominican baseball federation was seeking to add the TampaBay Rays shortstop to its roster for the upcoming Central American and Caribbean Games, though that seems unlikely due to eligibility issues.

Monday, there was news that Franco, 25, is headed ...Read more

NEW YORK — Eliezer Alfonzo jumped on a first-pitch cutter, keeping his hands inside to send it into shallow center field.

Two weeks after making his major league debut under tragic circumstances, Alfonzo recorded his first hit.

It was a heartwarming moment early in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 2-1 loss to the New York Yankees in the second ...Read more