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SACRAMENTO — For Dave Roberts, it’s 1,000 down and Cooperstown to go.

Victory No. 1: 15-0 over the San Diego Padres in 2016, with vintage Clayton Kershaw on the mound and Adrián González in the cleanup spot. Amid ...Read more

PHOENIX — Landen Roupp almost received a gift. Almost.

The Arizona Diamondbacks, already leading by three in the third thanks to Lourdes Gurriel Jr.’s three-run homer, loaded the bases with two outs. Despite the ...Read more

Five weeks after the Twins tried to shake up their poor infield defense by shifting Brooks Lee to third base, and later Royce Lewis to first, they are in the middle of another infield shuffle.

Luke Keaschall, who made 72 ...Read more

CHICAGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. turned on the fifth pitch of the game and watched it for just a moment.

That was more time than it took to know the ball would reach the bleachers. Tatis was halfway to first base when his ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Nets have agreed to a two-year, $18 million guaranteed deal with free-agent guard Keon Ellis, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania, adding a defensive-minded rotation player who fills one of the team’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In need of 3-point shooting, the Lakers lost the league's best sharpshooter on the first day of free agency.

Guard Luke Kennard has agreed to a two-year, $13 million deal with the Phoenix Suns, The Los ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Mike Gansey’s first free-agency move as the 76ers’ president of basketball operations is adding a player with whom he is quite familiar.

Dean Wade has agreed to a four-year, $39 million contract with ...Read more

NEW YORK — Pitchers' duel? What pitchers' duel.

It was billed as a battle between the reigning American League Cy Young winner and the leader in the clubhouse for the award this season.

Tarik Skubal held up his end of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Before Tuesday night’s game, Orioles manager Craig Albernaz said Baltimore fans “have every right to boo.”

Four hours later, his team gave the fans something to boo for the second night in a row.

The ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Cristopher Sánchez unleashed a slider for a first-pitch strike in the second inning and called for a trainer.

Uh-oh.

Three words the Phillies never want to see in the same sentence: “Cristopher Sá...Read more

The catching crew supplied most of the Mets‘ offense Tuesday night in Toronto. It’s not how the Mets envisioned winning a game, but they’ll take wins how they come right now.

Francisco Alvarez and Luis Torrens each ...Read more

ATLANTA — There was nothing smooth or swift about how Matthew Liberatore reasserted his place in the rotation with a one-hitter Tuesday night, so why should be there anything simple about how the Cardinals finished it?

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Winning American League Player of the Week honors on Monday wasn’t enough for Junior Caminero.

On Tuesday, in a 10-4 victory over the Royals that was the Rays’ sixth straight win, he made history....Read more

BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox entered Tuesday night’s game against the Washington Nationals on a 12-game streak of consecutive quality starts (the club’s second-longest since the Live Ball Era began in 1920), a season-...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Dodgers scratched Shohei Ohtani from his scheduled Wednesday start against the Athletics, in a move that all but ensures he will not pitch in the All-Star Game.

The Dodgers delayed Ohtani's ...Read more

BOSTON — Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras on Tuesday night was ejected for the second consecutive game, but this time he wasn’t alone.

Interim manager Chad Tracy, outfielder Nate Eaton and Washington Nationals ...Read more

BOSTON — Red Sox left-hander Connelly Early’s pitch count was at 61 after four innings, but lefty reliever Danny Coulombe was already warming in Fenway Park’s home bullpen.

After a lengthy on-field melee in which ...Read more

Sabrina Ionescu scored a season-high 26 points and the New York Liberty held off rallies by the short-handed Las Vegas Aces, winning, 93-85, in the WNBA Commissioner’s Cup title game Tuesday night in New York.

The Aces ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Of all the calculated maneuvers by LeBron James during his eight years with the Lakers, he saved his smartest for last.

He left before the door could hit him in the butt.

He knew the Lakers didn’t want ...Read more