SAN DIEGO -- Fernando Tatis Jr. is putting up MVP numbers and putting baseball on alert he might rewrite a portion of the record books.

The 21-year-old with the golden dreadlocks does so many special things on close to a daily basis, it might not be enough (or entirely accurate) to call his feats special anymore.

A night after hitting the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Kansas City Royals put together their second six-run inning in three games and rode that surge to a 9-6 win over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium to clinch the series victory, give the Royals a three-game win streak and put them in position to sweep the three-game set on Sunday afternoon.

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WASHINGTON -- For every bit of the 5.3 seconds Anthony Santander's go-ahead home run hung in the cool Washington air Saturday night, Nationals Park was silent. The outburst that rung out from the Orioles dugout when it hit the left-field seats was startling by comparison.

So, too, was the Orioles' breakout eighth inning itself.

An offense that...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Bryan Price, the Phillies' pitching coach, left the dugout Friday night after Ronald Acuna Jr. flipped his bat and jogged to first base after working a five-pitch walk.

Jake Arrieta had avoided trouble through the first five innings of a 5-0 win, but now the Braves had runners on first and second with no outs in the sixth as the...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The A's have won eight straight games, beating the Houston Astros, 3-1, on Saturday.

Marcus Semien became the first Athletic to hit a walk-off and a leadoff home run in back-to-back games. Drawing a 3-2 count to lead off the first, Semien launched Astros left-hander Framber Valdez's curveball offering into left field.

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Former major league player David Newhan got a call from A's bench coach Ryan Christenson late Thursday evening. It wasn't unusual for Christenson to call -- the best friends of 25 years talk regularly -- but this time was different.

Christenson didn't need guidance, he didn't want sympathy, he just felt remorseful. A video clip from a telecast ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Zack Burdi received a call from Chicago White Sox director of player development Chris Getz on Friday night.

Getz informed the pitcher, who has battled various injuries, he was being called up to the majors.

"Once (the phone call) happened, all the feelings started rushing in," Burdi said before Saturday's game against the Cleveland...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Mookie Betts' mother didn't allow her son to play high school football. Betts then volunteered as the team's water boy.

It's hard to imagine now, the future American League most valuable player and $365 million outfielder for the Dodgers filling empty bottles and fixing broken equipment in the shadows of Friday night lights. Back...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland A's extended their win streak to seven games with a comeback 3-2 win, clinched on Marcus Semien's RBI single in the 13th inning to come back from a 2-1 deficit heading into the bottom of the inning. Austin Allen tied things up with his RBI single, scoring Matt Chapman.

Before the big 13th inning, the A's went 1-...Read more

SEATTLE -- Here's the thing about rallies in baseball or in any sport: They are never just a product of the offense, even though that's often what is most remembered.

No matter how many runs you push across, it's meaningless if your opponent continues to keep scoring. This is the conundrum facing the Seattle Mariners because of their bullpen in...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Corey Seager was healthy.

That's it. That was the secret behind his success early in this unprecedented season. Behind all those squared balls off his bat. Behind his improved mobility at shortstop. Sure, he was stronger, but he returned to his peak -- maybe even established a new one -- because, above all, he was healthy.

"It's...Read more

PITTSBURGH -- The Pirates like to talk about their never-say-die attitude, the fight that often shows up late in games.

While many of their runs have been scored during garbage time, they do have a point. The Pirates have shown an ability to rally.

They've also seen their bullpen endure plenty of struggles this season, both when it comes to ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The first week of the season was a hootenanny, with all the 100-proof moonshine and fistfights.

The second week was the morning-after headache and black eye.

The Padres on Friday began their third week of baseball, after their first day off in this truncated tempest of a season.

"For all the guys, it was a chance to recharge, hit...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- There was no national anthem, a rain delay so brief, some of the players never left the field, and a loud thunder-and-lightning spectacle that gave empty Kauffman Stadium a haunted-house feel.

Yes, just more from the voluminous catalogue of 2020 weirdness. But none of it was stranger than this: The Twins lost their second ...Read more

The Miami Marlins handed Humberto Mejia a big task Friday. The 23-year-old starting pitcher had never played above the Class A Advanced level of minor league ball.

Now, here he was, at Citi Field as a steady stream of rain fell on the ballpark, making his MLB debut in the series opener against the New York Mets as the Marlins piece together a ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- As the Orioles' 11th and final run came around to score on a perfect Friday night at Nationals Park, third base coach Jose David Flores simply pointed the runner home instead of waving him around third base: he'd done that enough.

Smarting from a humiliating four-game sweep at the hands of a makeshift Miami Marlins club, the ...Read more