OAKLAND, Calif. — Starling Marte sent the Oakland A’s to a 2-1, walk-off victory on Saturday afternoon with an extra-base hit to score Elvis Andrus from first base. But Andrus injured himself rounding third and crumpled to the ground in agony at home plate.

Following Frankie Montas’ gem in Friday’s landslide win, Sean Manaea turned in a...Read more

CHICAGO — A team that began the month inviting questions about an uncertain future is finishing September by making uncanny history.

The Cardinals won their club-record 15th consecutive game by rallying to overpower and overwhelm the Cubs, 8-5, on Saturday at Wrigley Field. In 130 years of professional baseball in the National League, no ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Incredibly, the skies opened up here of all places on Friday afternoon, scrambling the Petco Park grounds crew into a rare tarp drill as the San Diego Padres prepared to resume a game that began in rainy Atlanta two months earlier, back when the bullpen was the strength of a playoff-bound team.

The baseball gods can be funny like ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Bailey Ober never faced more than four batters in an inning Friday as the Twins beat Toronto, 3-1.

The rookie starter went five shutout innings with six strikeouts at Target Field in front of an announced crowd of 18,861. His one flaw was a solo home run Marcus Semien hit into the bullpen in the sixth inning, but Jorge Alcala ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Don’t try to make sense of what happened Friday night at Citizens Bank Park. Sometimes, even in a sport that seeks to find a metric for everything, there aren’t explanations.

Instead, cue up the video of Héctor Neris snapping his glove at a two-out grounder back to the mound and running — nay, scampering — to first ...Read more

Stayin’ alive, but still producing the second-fewest runs per game in the National League.

The Mets remained mathematically alive in the pennant race following their 5-1 loss to the Brewers on Friday night in Milwaukee. There was hardly any inspirational play from the Mets to back their manager’s continued belief they are a playoff team. ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Chicago White Sox starter Dylan Cease exited Friday’s 1-0 victory against Cleveland in the sixth inning with a bruised right triceps after being hit by Bradley Zimmer’s hard grounder back to the mound.

X-rays were negative, and Cease’s status is day to day, the Sox said. He allowed three hits and struck out nine in 5 1/3 ...Read more

DETROIT — The Detroit Tigers recorded back-to-back doubles in the seventh inning but couldn't produce a run in what turned out to be their final scoring opportunity Friday night.

Facing Kansas City Royals reliever Jake Brentz, Niko Goodrum slapped a fastball into right field. Third base coach Ramon Santiago waved Goodrum around second base, a...Read more

BALTIMORE — Cedric Mullins has made his mark in center field at Camden Yards throughout this Orioles season. Fittingly, that’s where he drove his historic home run Friday night.

The three-run blast off Texas Rangers starter Spencer Howard was Mullins’ 30th of the year, making him the first player in Orioles history with a 30-30 season. ...Read more

BOSTON — The Yankees would like to make this weekend their last trip here of the year. Friday night Gleyber Torres and Giancarlo Stanton made that pretty clear.

In what many expect to be a preview of the American League wild-card game, the Yankees crushed Nathan Eovaldi and the Red Sox, 8-3, at Fenway Park.

It was a good start to this do-or-...Read more

CHICAGO — All the greats that have come and gone and gone to Cooperstown as Cardinals in the past eight decades never experienced anything like this.

Stan Musial did more things than any Cardinal has ever done or ever will do, and he never had a team that did this. Four of the men to manage the Cardinals in the past 60 years are in the Hall ...Read more