BALTIMORE -- Yan Gomes doesn't like the term pitch "framing," even if he currently tops that leaderboard.

He doesn't want it to sound like he's about to put on a ski mask and climb into the getaway car with a big bag of money, even though the numbers indicate Gomes has done well enough in the first few weeks of this season to be charged with ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Sean Manaea watched as Marcus Semien fired a ball from short to second baseman Jed Lowrie, turned around, and jumped into the arms of catcher Jonathan Lucroy. History was made at the Coliseum.

Manaea no-hit the Boston Red Sox Saturday, requiring just 108 pitches to clinch a 3-0 victory against the best team in baseball ...Read more

CHICAGO -- From the start of Saturday night's game against the Astros, it seemed clear the White Sox players' heads were elsewhere.

With reliever Danny Farquhar hospitalized and in critical but stable condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage during Friday night's game, you couldn't blame anyone for lacking the focus necessary to compete at ...Read more

MILWAUKEE -- The Marlins haven't had many chances to win this season.

And they're not protecting those rare opportunities.

Despite an offensive outburst that gave them a four-run early lead, the Marlins saw it gradually evaporate until Jesus Aguilar homered off Junichi Tazawa in the bottom of the ninth to give the Brewers a 6-5 comeback ...Read more

BALTIMORE -- For a team with hitters struggling despite making solid contact, launching balls over the fence is a pretty good way to take care of that problem.

That was the blueprint the Indians followed on Saturday afternoon, when they hit three solo home runs en route to a 4-0 win over the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola began his latest gem Saturday at Citizens Bank Park by giving up a titanic opposite-field home run to Pittsburgh Pirates leadoff man Sean Rodriguez on the second pitch of the game. He ended it by striking out Jordy Mercer on a wicked changeup 101 pitches later to complete the seventh inning.

In ...Read more

DETROIT -- The Royals were unable to build on Friday night's unconventional, slump-busting win on Saturday afternoon. They lost to the Tigers, 12-4, at Comerica Park.

Starter Danny Duffy -- forced to pitch on fewer than the usual four days' rest because of the two doubleheaders the Royals played in four days -- allowed six earned runs on 10 ...Read more

CHICAGO -- White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar suffered a ruptured aneurysm that caused a brain hemorrhage Friday night during the team's game against the Astros.

The Sox said in a statement Saturday that he is stable but in critical condition in the ICU at Rush University Medical Center. He is being cared for by Dr. Demetrius Lopes and the Rush ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Justin Verlander pitched six scoreless innings to help the Astros shut out the White Sox 10-0 Friday night at Guaranteed Rate Field, and yet the former Cy Young Award winner found reason to be upset after the game.

The subject of Verlander's postgame rant was Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, who just happened to be the player that broke ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Looking to get out of his rough stretch to begin the season, Oakland Athletics' Kendall Graveman changed things up.

Everything was different from Graveman Friday night against the Boston Red Sox. His usual warm-up song, Lynard Skynard's "Sweet Home Alabama," was ditched in favor of Young Jeezy's "Put On." Graveman utilized a ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas -- The Mariners weren't facing the likes of Lance McCullers, Gerrit Cole or Charlie Morton, but it took them a little while -- roughly the first seven innings of their matchup with Texas Rangers on Friday night -- to realize that.

But the offense that had been held to two runs or fewer in the past five games awoke from its ...Read more

DENVER -- Manager Joe Maddon's decision to move Javier Baez to the second spot is paying off handsomely for the Cubs.

Baez collected four hits Friday night, including a two-run, opposite-field home run in the first inning, and drove in four runs as the Cubs used a seven-run sixth inning to pull away to a 16-4 win over the Rockies at wet Coors ...Read more