PHOENIX — What’s up with the Padres?

Just the same old thing.

The offense did close to nothing. The starting pitcher did not make it out of the fifth inning.

The San Diego Padres lost 5-1 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night at Chase Field.

It was their third loss in four games.

The Padres’ biggest shortcoming is they have not ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The billing couldn’t have been bigger. Dodgers vs. Giants. Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs. Logan Webb. One of the game’s oldest rivalries, pitting what were supposed to be two of the game’s top pitchers.

On Friday night at Dodger Stadium, however, only one right-handed ace showed up.

In the first meeting of the season between the ...Read more

SEATTLE — Back home, and back to .500, the Seattle Mariners finally found a way back to their brand of baseball Friday night.

For one night, at least.

The Mariners scored four runs in the seventh inning to rally from an early two-run deficit, backing a strong start from Luis Castillo in a 7-2 victory over the Cleveland Guardians to open a ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — To end their longest losing streak of the season the Cardinals may have to explore a different way to get things started.

Following five innings without a hit to begin Thursday’s shutout loss, the Cardinals managed one hit in the first four innings of Friday’s game. The host Brewers did not have to generate much offense ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before the first pitch of Friday’s game, the crowd inside Kauffman Stadium cheered loudly for Royals legend Alex Gordon, who was inducted into the team’s Hall of Fame.

It didn’t get louder than that until the Royals finally gave the crowd something to cheer for in the bottom of the ninth inning. But that rally fell ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Four hours, 37 minutes and two rain delays after the originally scheduled first pitch, the Orioles beat the Los Angeles Angels, 2-0, on Friday night.

Charlie Morton earned the win with 10 strikeouts — tied for his season high — over five shutout innings, scattering five hits and a walk to lower his season ERA to 6.05. The ...Read more

BOSTON — Aaron Judge is without question among the most dominant players of his generation, and this season the New York Yankees superstar has been hitting at an absurd clip.

He offered yet another reminder of his greatness Friday, when he got off the mat after three humbling at bats and leveled Garrett Crochet with a breathtaking knockout ...Read more

NEW YORK — Danny Jansen hit a two-run homer to cap a six-run sixth inning as the Rays rallied to beat the Mets, 7-5, on Friday night.

After Rays starter Taj Bradley was knocked out in the fifth inning, five Rays relievers held the Mets down.

Edwin Uceta did the heaviest lifting, getting the last two outs of the seventh with two on, then ...Read more

HOUSTON — Twins pitchers frequently credit each other for providing good examples they try to emulate on the mound.

So does it work both ways?

Maybe so, given the shocking meltdown the starting rotation has suffered this week. On Friday, Chris Paddack, who had lowered his ERA in 12 consecutive games, followed the example of Simeon Woods ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kyle Schwarber’s dominance during the month of June throughout his career has been well-documented.

It has spawned jokes, nicknames and speculation that Wawa’s annual Hoagiefest promotion might have something to do with his annual hot streak. The Phillies slugger has a .912 OPS in June for his career.

This June, however, ...Read more

BOSTON — Alex Bregman could be back much sooner than the Red Sox initially thought when their star third baseman went down with a quad strain in Game 1 of a May 23 doubleheader.

His latest ultrasound was promising, he announced in the Red Sox clubhouse on Friday afternoon.

“That showed that it was doing really well in healing, healing the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa did the little things. It was enough for a vuctory.

The Pirates beat the Cubs, 2-1 in 10 innings, on Friday afternoon at Wrigley Field. Kiner-Falefa’s bases-loaded sacrifice fly was the difference, scoring automatic runner Adam Frazier.

It was another day the Pirates were unable to score runs for ace ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Chicago White Sox had heard of Aaron Civale’s desire to remain a starting pitcher.

They reached out to the Milwaukee Brewers to see if the right-hander was attainable.

“More or less doing a status check on that situation,” Sox general manager Chris Getz said during a conference call on Friday, “in which they ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV is a huge Chicago White Sox fan.

It's a good thing too — otherwise the event being thrown in his honor at the team's home stadium this weekend might be a little awkward.

While the White Sox play the Rangers in Texas on Saturday afternoon, the Archdiocese of Chicago will be at Rate Field celebrating the new leader of the Catholic...Read more

CHICAGO — They wear black and white, but still stand out in a sea of Chicago White Sox fans.

One has danced atop the dugout at Rate Field. Another earned a Topps trading card for throwing a perfect strike. And a third has run the Chicago Marathon 13 consecutive times. Sports is a habit, but their life’s work is a higher calling. They’re ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Cardinals reached their first visit of the season to Milwaukee and their first National League Central series in five weeks looking to halt their recent history.

Instead they played spectators to a start that will go down in Brewers history.

Rookie Jacob Misiorowski, the high-powered right-hander and Missouri native, made his...Read more

CHICAGO — Pirates starter Andrew Heaney gave the Wrigley Field faithful nothing to cheer about in the first three innings. In the fourth, Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong broke through with a roar.

The Cubs beat the Pirates, 3-2, on Thursday night at Wrigley Field. Heaney allowed just four hits in six innings, but two, including Crow-...Read more

Thursday night’s series finale at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., featured an old-school pitchers’ duel between Will Warren and Seth Lugo.

But it was Paul Goldschmidt’s go-ahead RBI single in the top of the eighth that gave the Yankees the 1-0 victory and helped complete the sweep of the Kansas City Royals.

Warren put up zero after...Read more

BALTIMORE — Some nights he comes blazing out of the gates. Other nights, like Thursday, he’s more like an old-time locomotive — a little slow out of the station but gradually picking up steam and power with every chug of his gifted left arm.

Tarik Skubal blanked the Orioles on three hits for seven innings, helping the Tigers take the ...Read more