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Wacky 6-run sixth inning propels White Sox to 10-5 victory against Rangers
CHICAGO — Jonathan Cannon’s lower back bothered him “a little bit” after playing catch Friday.
“I was still confident I was going to be able to throw today and woke up this morning and it was really tight,” the Chicago White Sox pitcher said before Saturday’s game against the Texas Rangers.
The Sox took the steps of scratching ...Read more

Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani to face hitters at Citi Field in first live BP since elbow surgery: 'It's a big step'
NEW YORK — Citi Field is set to host a significant step in Shohei Ohtani’s elbow progression.
The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar is scheduled to throw a live bullpen session before Sunday’s series finale against the Mets, marking his first time facing hitters since he underwent right elbow surgery in September of 2023.
Second baseman ...Read more

Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman expected to miss 'significant' time with quad injury
BOSTON — When Alex Bregman left Friday’s game with what was initially described as right quad tightness, the hope was that the standout infielder would feel better after a good night sleep.
Unfortunately for the Red Sox that didn’t happen, and now Bregman could be out for a long time.
Bregman was placed on the 10-day injured list ...Read more

Haunted by early errors, Mariners fail to rally in loss to Astros
HOUSTON — Up to this point of the season, defense has rarely proved to be the Mariners’ issue. Through the first 50 games they had committed just 20 errors and their .989 fielding percentage was tied for fourth in baseball.
But when you’re the Mariners and seemingly all you play is close games, a couple fielding miscues can prove to be ...Read more

Ineffective Padres lose bullpen game to Braves after Michael King scratched
ATLANTA — They felt their fortunes had turned.
But then Michael King slept awkwardly, and the San Diego Padres continued to be ineffective on offense.
The relievers who filled in for King were undone by a couple soft hits and a few really hard hits, and a 7-1 Atlanta Braves victory on Saturday was the Padres’ seventh loss in their past ...Read more

Yankees score 10 runs in 5th inning en route to 13-1 romp over Rockies
On Friday, the Yankees suffered a disappointing loss to MLB’s worst team.
Less than 24 hours later, the Bombers got revenge on the Colorado Rockies by exploding for 10 runs in the fifth inning on their way to a 13-1 victory at Coors Field.
The top of the fifth inning featured seven Yankee hits and three walks (one intentional to Aaron Judge)...Read more
Oneil Cruz plays hero once again, driving in game-winning run in Pirates win over Brewers
PITTSBURGH — Mitch Keller and Quinn Priester delivered a show, but in the end, it was Oneil Cruz who once again played hero. After tallying his first career multi-home run game Friday evening, Cruz followed that effort with a go-ahead RBI triple in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday, ultimately setting up a 2-1 Pirates win over the ...Read more

Giants' offense silenced by Nationals as Harrison makes first start of year
WASHINGTON — Kyle Harrison allowed two earned runs over four innings in his first start of the year, but the left-hander took the loss as the Washington Nationals’ Jake Irvin pitched eight scoreless innings as the San Francisco Giants lost, 3-0, on Saturday evening at Nationals Park.
Harrison got off to a rough start to begin his afternoon....Read more

Rafael Devers lifts Red Sox over Orioles in Game 1 of doubleheader with walk-off single in 10th
BOSTON — The Red Sox have let opponents score first 29 times this season, and the end result is usually another game in the loss column.
Not this weekend, though. The Red Sox have pulled off back-to-back come-from-behind victories in the first two games of this quartet with the visiting Baltimore Orioles. They’re 10-19 when opponents score ...Read more

Twins walk off Royals again, win 5-4 on Brooks Lee's RBI single in bottom of ninth
MINNEAPOLIS — The winning streak may be over, but the thrill of victory hasn’t ended for the Twins.
Brooks Lee grounded a single up the middle in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday, driving home Carlos Correa with the game-winning run and the Twins won for the 16th time in 18 games, 5-4 over the Royals.
It was the Twins’ third win in ...Read more

Jordan Walker's RBIs seize the lead twice in late innings as Cardinals outlast Diamondbacks
ST. LOUIS — Against a 101-mph sinker, Jordan Walker just mustered an encore.
The Cardinals’ right fielder lashed a two-out, RBI single in the eighth inning. His liner up the middle overcame some slippery defense in the top of the inning and carried the Cardinals to a 6-5 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday afternoon at ...Read more

Red Sox call up top prospect Marcelo Mayer
BOSTON — Marcelo Mayer is headed to Fenway Park, multiple sources have confirmed to the Boston Herald.
The long-awaited call for the Red Sox’s top infield prospect comes on the heels of Alex Bregman leaving Friday’s game with ‘right-quad tightness.’
Bregman arrived at the ballpark on Saturday morning feeling worse than the day before...Read more

'It's reimagining team travel.' Why the Dodgers are using two planes on road trips this year.
NEW YORK — In the interest of doing things differently last October, the Dodgers made a subtle, but profound, change in their travel plans.
In previous postseasons — many of which ended with disappointing early eliminations — the Dodgers would use one wide-body plane to shuttle players, coaches, executives, staff, broadcasters and other ...Read more

Mac Engel: Why Bo Jackson thinks there won't be another 2-sport athlete will surprise you
ARLINGTON, Texas — The greatest athlete in the modern era now lives on YouTube, Instagram, our memories and a video game that Bo Jackson swears he has never played, but remains in boxes in his house.
Bo Jackson insists he has never played Tecmo Bowl, the popular late 1980s and early ‘90s video game version of the NFL before “Madden” ...Read more

Teoscar Hernández and Dodgers defeat Mets in 13 innings, but pitching issues loom large
NEW YORK — The upcoming month was already going to be tough for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
A rainy Friday night in Queens made it that much tougher.
In the fourth game of a 29-game stretch against playoff-contending teams, the Dodgers beat the New York Mets in a marathon contest at Citi Field, overcoming a three-run ninth-inning blown save ...Read more

Phillies survive Jordan Romano's off night, outlast Oakland Athletics in 4-3 win
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jordan Romano hadn’t allowed an earned run in nine appearances before taking the ball in the ninth inning on Friday.
The Philadelphia Phillies had just scored three runs on the Athletics’ All-Star closer Mason Miller in the top half of the inning, giving Romano a comfortable lead to work with. But all three ...Read more

Angels get back to .500 as winning streak reaches 8 games
ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Angels can start over now.
After being the Miami Marlins, 7-4, on Friday night to run their winning streak to eight games, the Angels are back to .500 for the first time in nearly a month.
They got there with their longest winning streak since they won 10 in a row in 2014, which was the last season they made the ...Read more

Manny Machado's home run lifts Padres past Braves, helps end losing streak
ATLANTA — The Padres ran into Chris Sale and ran into Ronald Acuña Jr.
And then Manny Machado ran into one.
And the Padres won.
The erstwhile slugger’s first home run in 63 at-bats was the difference on Friday night in a 2-1 victory over the Braves that stopped a losing streak at six games.
“Thank God,” Machado recalled thinking as ...Read more
Ryan McMahon, Rockies end slide with comeback win against Yankees at sold-out Coors Field
DENVER — There haven’t been many grand old nights at the ballpark in LoDo this season, but May 23 will be remembered as one of them.
A full stadium hung on every pitch in the late innings. Sure, many of them were here to root for the visitors, but the Colorado Rockies found a way to defeat the New York Yankees, 3-2, in front of an electric ...Read more

Nolan Arenado's triple turns walks into runs as Cardinals rally to upend Diamondbacks, Zac Gallen
ST. LOUIS — Before Nolan Arenado connected with the gapper that got everybody running, they had to walk.
Stymied most of the game by their irritation with the strike zone and Arizona right-hander Zac Gallen’s control in and around it, the Cardinals turned three walks, including one with the bases loaded, in the sixth inning into a tie game ...Read more
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