SEATTLE — Good, clean, fun baseball.

Yes, we’re talking about the 2026 Seattle Mariners.

Bryan Woo remained unbeaten — and nearly untouchable — in another stellar start at home, Julio Rodríguez and Luke Raley continued to clobber baseballs, and the Mariners won their fifth straight game with a 5-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Philadelphia’s Edmundo Sosa sauntered out of the box, motioning with one hand at the opposing 51,794 Dodger fans in a pump-up wave. The left fielder, who had taken over for Brandon Marsh in the top of the sixth, connected with a four-seam fastball that reliever Tanner Scott left too far over the plate, and his two-run home run ...Read more

There is no sugarcoating the reality.

The San Francisco Giants, after an 8-3 loss on Saturday night at Coors Field to the Colorado Rockies, have lost five straight games, the second time this season they’ve strung together at least five consecutive losses. They’re on the verge of being swept by the Rockies, a team that finished with an ...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Los Angeles Angels’ 14-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday afternoon included an anxious moment.

Zach Neto, their shortstop and leadoff hitter, was face down in the dirt around home plate after a collision. The injury took him off the field for the first time this season.

There was no immediate word on ...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Mets may not have been able to figure out the Miami Marlins last weekend in Miami, but on a day when the club honored two of the more illustrious parts of its past, the present team finally managed to spear the Fish.

Mark Vientos hit a two-run double in the fourth inning to help the Mets to a 6-1 victory over the ...Read more

The Cleveland Guardians may have won the battle, a replay review that robbed Connor Wong of his first home run since 2024, but the Boston Red Sox won the war, Saturday’s game.

Wong’s 629-day, 91-game homer-less drought came to an end in the top of the sixth inning when he sent an 0-1 sweeper from Guardians right-hander Matt Festa soaring ...Read more

WASHINGTON — He swung, and he knew.

He let his bat go one way as he stepped the other direction.

And even before the baseball cleared the left-field wall and then the bullpen and then a dozen rows of seats, Fernando Tatis Jr. looked to the sky and held up his arms.

A home run hallelujah.

On his 239th trip to the plate in 2026, Tatis hit a ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — After a six-run second inning, the Pittsburgh Pirates appeared ready to cruise to a blowout win.

They didn’t make it easy, but they clinched a series victory anyway.

The Pirates defeated the Minnesota Twins, 10-9, on Saturday evening at PNC Park, taking the first two games of the series despite blowing an early six-run lead. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Munetaka Murakami didn’t sugarcoat how he felt Saturday morning.

“It hurts,” the Chicago White Sox slugger said through an interpreter when asked about his right hamstring. “It hurts.”

Murakami will miss four to six weeks, manager Will Venable said, after suffering a Grade 2 right hamstring strain on Friday. The Sox ...Read more

CHICAGO — Another day, another dud. Copy, paste.

The Detroit Tigers have dropped their eighth consecutive series with a 7-1 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Saturday afternoon at Rate Field. They've lost 20 of their last 24 games. They're 15 games under .500 (22-37) for the first time since August 2023. They're 6-21 in May. They're 8-23 on ...Read more

SEATTLE — On the weekend the Seattle Mariners are celebrating all things from the 1990s, Friday felt like a throwback to many nights from that decade inside the Kingdome when there was an abundance of loud contact and baseballs were leaving the yard.

J.P. Crawford got the night started. He also brought it to an end.

Crawford homered twice in...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Justin Wrobleski shouted two words — the first of which didn’t appear to be fit for print — and strode off the mound, the icy expression on his face frozen in place all the way to the dugout.

He had just struck out the side in the fifth inning of the Dodgers’ 4-2 win Friday against the ...Read more

There is truly no such thing as a safe lead at Coors Field. In his first game managing in the Mile High City, Giants rookie manager Tony Vitello learned that reality the hard way.

The Giants suffered a devastating 8-6 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Friday night as right-hander Caleb Kilian allowed both the game-tying home run to Hunter Goodman...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Kansas City Royals’ offensive struggles followed them across state lines in Friday’s series-opening 9-1 loss to the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field.

And this time, there were a few defensive mistakes as well.

In the first inning, the Rangers took advantage of two key errors. After Rangers shortstop Ezequiel Duran...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Jared Jones didn’t have a storybook return to the PNC Park mound. Bryan Reynolds made sure it got its perfect ending.

Reynolds hit a walk-off, two-run home run off Taylor Rogers in the ninth inning to give the Pirates a 6-5 win against Derek Shelton’s Minnesota Twins on Friday night at PNC Park.

The homer, Reynolds’ sixth,...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays ended their four-game losing streak in dominant fashion, defeating the Angels, 8-5, at Tropicana Field on Friday night.

Tampa Bay entered the bottom of the seventh trailing 2-1 before batting around and scoring seven runs off of two Angels relievers.

Right-hander Ryan Zeferjahn walked Cedric Mullins in his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Nationals entered Friday’s game having scored more runs than any team in the major leagues this season and having allowed more runs than any in the major leagues this season.

The Padres arguably brought the major leagues’ best bullpen into the contest.

The game the two teams engaged in over 3 hours, 18 minutes was pretty...Read more