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WASHINGTON — The comebacks have fallen short. The hits and the runs have yet to get rolling.

The Padres keep saying it will happen, that the offense will come around.

Yet they played their final game of May on Sunday, ...Read more

Pete Alonso’s fist was raised to the sky long before the ball Colton Cowser struck landed. Alonso knew where it was headed.

Cowser’s third home run in the past seven days, a three-run shot, eventually settled in the ...Read more

Sunday didn’t start quite how the Pirates would have hoped.

Shortstop Konnor Griffin was placed on the 10-day injured list as he recovers from a minor right forearm injury. Carmen Mlodzinski — who was in line to make ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The Orlando Magic haven’t won a playoff series in 16 years.

Think about that for a second.

Sixteen years.

That’s an entire generation of Magic fans who have grown up hearing stories about Dwight ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Vegas Golden Knights coach John Tortorella said it following Game 2 of the Western Conference final and again Friday night.

Jack Eichel is one of, if not the best, 200-foot players in the world.

It doesn’...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The first thing everyone should know about Mike Gansey is that he was a hell of a college basketball player. The second-leading scorer on those John Beilein-coached, Kevin Pittsnogle-led West Virginia ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Derek Shelton had his usual smile when he first sat down to chat with local media Friday afternoon at PNC Park. It was his first time back to Pittsburgh since the Pirates fired him as their manager last May....Read more

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 ...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...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 ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Before he and two of his best students began figuring out how to stop NBA teams from tanking, T.J. Highley, the chair of La Salle University’s math and computer science department, thought they would ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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 ...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...Read more