SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 7-6 in 12 innings on Mother’s Day as rookie catcher Jesús Rodríguez delivered a walk-off single a day after the team traded Patrick Bailey and put its faith in Rodríguez and fellow rookie Daniel Susac.

In taking 2 of 3 from the Pirates, San Francisco snapped a three-...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The old adage in baseball is that a pitcher doesn’t look at the opposing hurler because he only has to focus on the hitters.

But Chicago Cubs starter Jameson Taillon ignored conventional wisdom Sunday as Texas Rangers star Jacob deGrom was mowing down Cubs hitters in a 3-0 win at Globe Life Field.

“I don’t really pay...Read more

SAN DIEGO — It seemed like the same tired story.

Instead, it was the same thriller.

The San Diego Padres pushed their offensive lethargy as long as possible without paying for it Sunday, tying the game with two outs in the ninth inning on Nick Castellanos’ two-run homer and then celebrating after Manny Machado’s sacrifice fly in the 10th...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers lost the rubber match to the Atlanta Braves, who pulled into sole possession of the best record in the majors.

The 7-2 loss, however, didn’t have any bearing on how the Dodgers see their place within the league.

“I think that every team we play uses us as a measuring stick,” Dodgers manager Dave ...Read more

CHICAGO — The team that scored 12 runs Friday night was limited to one run … again … Sunday.

And this time it couldn’t be blamed on facing a left-handed starting pitcher. Nope, they just faced a really good right-handed pitcher, who is in the midst of a career season.

The Seattle Mariners scored one run in the first inning off Chicago ...Read more

A day after Byron Buxton supplied all the offense for the Minnesota Twins in a one-run victory over the Cleveland Guardians, the rest of the Twins’ lineup decided to pinch in.

The bottom three hitters in the Twins lineup — Kody Clemens, Brooks Lee and Royce Lewis — combined for six hits and four runs, leading the Twins to a 5-4 victory ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It was Game 41, the quarter pole of the season, and a time when front offices across baseball often begin to make judgments about the rosters they’ve built.

OK, so about the Phillies ...

“You know,” interim manager Don Mattingly said, “I feel like we’re going in the right direction now.”

It appears that way, doesn...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles’ luck wouldn’t seem to turn. Knotted in a 1-1 game with the Athletics, they kept barely missing the clutch hit they needed to take the lead.

Weston Wilson hit a liner down the right field line in the fifth that had the distance for a home run — but just stayed foul. Adley Rutschman crushed a fly ball to...Read more

BOSTON — Last month, Junior Caminero made a promise to his mother, Yeudy, that he’d hit a homer on her birthday, and he did, helping the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago White Sox.

Sunday, wearing a pink belt, socks, batting gloves and sweatbands while swinging a pink Victus bat to mark Mother’s Day, Caminero delivered another timely gift ...Read more

TORONTO — That was the José Soriano the Los Angeles Angels got used to seeing in the first month of the season.

After Soriano had a pair of disappointing games, his performance in the Angels’ 6-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday was reminiscent of what earned him the American League Pitcher of the Month for April.

Soriano gave...Read more

Television viewers outside of Georgia didn’t have many reasons to care about the Atlanta Braves in the mid-1970s. The team was terrible and its games were largely unavailable to anyone whose “rabbit ears” antenna couldn’t pick up an Atlanta signal.

For Ted Turner, who died Wednesday at 87, this wasn’t a baseball problem. It was a ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Bryce Eldridge’s first career home run, a towering solo shot that landed in McCovey Cove on a hop, was just about all that went right on Saturday night at Oracle Park as the San Francisco Giants were blown out 13-3 by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The 13 runs and 20 hits that the Giants’ pitching staff allowed were both the most...Read more

CHICAGO — In what has been a curiously uneven and far too inconsistent start to the highly-anticipated 2026 season, two of the prohibitive factors in the Mariners’ issues — the struggles of Luis Castillo and the offense’s inability to hit left-handed pitching — came together Saturday night at Rate Field.

The results — a 6-1 loss to ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Do the Chicago Cubs need another starter?

That’s one of the questions facing team President Jed Hoyer after Matthew Boyd’s left meniscus surgery, which followed the season-ending loss of Cade Horton and Justin Steele’s setback in his return from last year’s revision repair surgery on his left elbow.

It’s too ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. would like nothing more than to put a ball over the fence like Ty France did — on a 110 mph line — in the fifth inning at Petco Park.

One day. Definitely. Maybe.

On Saturday, he had to settle for a ball finding a patch of grass.

Tatis followed France’s game-tying homer with a soft go-ahead hit, Randy Vá...Read more

Asked to pitch in a high-leverage situation for the first time in a while, Camilo Doval disappointed on Saturday.

With the Yankees up 2-1 with one out in the eighth inning, the flame-thrower relieved Brent Headrick, who surrendered a solo homer to Jake Bauers the previous inning. Doval quickly recorded an out, getting Jackson Chourio to pop up ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The losing streak is now five games. The road record is now an MLB-worst 6-16.

The Kansas City Royals prolonged the Detroit Tigers’ misery Saturday night with a relatively breezy 5-1 win at Kauffman Stadium.

Oh, and the Tigers might’ve lost another player in the process.

Right fielder Kerry Carpenter left the game in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Schwarber’s spot in the order wasn’t due up for two more batters, but he was planted on the top step of the dugout anyway.

He’d been standing there since the ball had left Alec Bohm’s bat, and had traveled 368 feet to land among the left-field seats. Schwarber — along with every other Phillies player — was ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Orioles fell behind two batters in Saturday and never made it a game.

Shane Baz allowed five runs, and the offense narrowly avoided its first shutout of the season in a 6-2 loss to the Athletics. A three-run home run by designated hitter Brent Rooker off Baz in the third was the biggest blow of the afternoon for the A’s, who...Read more