TORONTO — The margins by which the Mariners find success or failure are narrow enough that something like one significant flub on the bases could end up being costly.

How about three?

The Mariners ran their way into trouble on the bases on multiple occasions on Friday night, falling to Toronto, 3-1, before a sellout of 40,263 at Rogers ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Zack Wheeler fired a sinker that just dotted the outside corner of the strike zone, freezing Marlins second baseman Otto Lopez.

Home plate umpire Manny Gonzalez rung Lopez up and Wheeler walked off the mound, his work done for the night. The strikeout was Wheeler’s 13th across seven innings in the Phillies’ 7-2 series-...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Jazz Chisholm Jr. has received a one-game suspension and an undisclosed fine from Major League Baseball.

The league made the discipline official shortly after Yankees manager Aaron Boone revealed the news on Friday afternoon. Boone added that Chisholm is appealing the suspension, hence his presence in the Yankees’ lineup on ...Read more

DENVER — Friday night’s game between the Rockies and Nationals at Coors Field has been postponed because of inclement weather, the club announced.

The game has been rescheduled for 6:10 p.m. Sunday as the second game of a split doubleheader, with Sunday’s 1:10 p.m. game to begin as scheduled. Separate tickets will be required for each ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Shohei Ohtani has had plenty of milestones moments on the field in the last year.

This weekend, he’s about to have one off of it.

The Dodgers slugger and reigning National League MVP is being placed on the paternity list, manager Dave Roberts announced, in anticipation of the birth of his first child this weekend.

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TAMPA, Fla. — As the Yankees prepared for their first road game at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Thursday, their tenants appeared more than cozy.

Gone were all the Yankees logos that once filled the home clubhouse. That was to be expected with the Rays moving in this season after Hurricane Milton destroyed Tropicana Field, but the displaced...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — MLB is looking into the tweet that Jazz Chisholm Jr. fired off from the Yankees’ clubhouse after he was ejected in the seventh inning of Thursday’s game, a league source told the New York Daily News.

“Not even f–king close,” Chisholm wrote on X — in a since deleted post — moments after home plate umpire John Bacon ...Read more

NEW YORK — Griffin Canning gave the Mets a sick pitching performance Thursday night in more ways than one.

The right-hander held the St. Louis Cardinals to one earned run and fanned eight to help the Mets open the series with a 4-1 win at Citi Field. His best start in a Mets uniform so far, this came two days after he was unable to pitch in ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — With the Yankees playing at their spring training home on Thursday, their starter gave them a spring training-length performance.

Will Warren lasted just 1 2/3 innings in the Bombers’ first major league game at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Still the Yankees’ beat their tenants, the Rays, 6-3.

With the Yankees up 1-0 thanks...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The Angels are finally heading home.

The grueling start to their season came to an end with a 5-3 loss to the Texas Rangers on Thursday night.

The Angels began the season with 15 of their first 18 games on the road. No team had played with that many road games in their first 18 since 1957. A schedule switch because of ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Brandon Hyde practically spoke it into existence.

Hours before the Orioles downed the Cleveland Guardians, 6-2, in what marked Baltimore’s long-awaited first series win, the manager explained his reasoning for pushing Cedric Mullins to the top of the lineup card, sliding Gunnar Henderson back into the No. 2 hole for the first ...Read more

DETROIT — The Kansas City Royals can’t get out of their own way. And their struggling offense is becoming a major concern.

On Thursday, the Royals (8-12) continued to spin their wheels offensively against the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park. KC squandered multiple scoring chances in a 6-1 loss to its American League Central rival.

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LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani is not publicly known, nor personally sees himself, as a quick starter at the plate.

"Overall, in my career," he said through interpreter Will Ireton, "I don't really have a hot start in the beginning of the season."

This year, that's technically true again — but only if you hold the reigning National League MVP...Read more

NEW YORK — Darryl Strawberry has some words for the people trying to erase Jackie Robinson‘s legacy. To put it simply, they should be ashamed.

“Shame on them,” the former Mets outfielder said Thursday at Citi Field.

Robinson’s heroic legacy of breaking MLB’s color barrier has been lauded for decades, with the league annually ...Read more

CHICAGO — Edgar Quero was in the home clubhouse Wednesday when Triple-A Charlotte manager Sergio Santos called him into his office.

The Chicago White Sox catching prospect learned he was headed to the major leagues.

“I was a little surprised,” Quero said Thursday morning at Rate Field. “I was ready for the game. He told me that and I ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Cristopher Sánchez’s change-up is his most effective pitch.

He turns to it 34.8% of the time in a typical outing, and uses it to put away batters 19.4% of the time. In Thursday’s 6-4 win over the San Francisco Giants, his signature offering was lethal.

Aided in part by the late afternoon shadows stretching across the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Starting pitcher Andrew Heaney reached 10 years of major league service time on Thursday, so Pirates executive chef Tony Palatucci gave him a gift: a cart with six watermelons, carved with the logos of the teams he played for, plus balloons, cupcakes, a cake and assorted fruit.

Then Heaney went out and gave the Pirates a gift of ...Read more

CINCINNATI — Cal Raleigh and Randy Arozarena hit back-to-back home runs in the top of the ninth inning to tie the score, and the Mariners scored four runs in the 10th inning en route to a seesaw 11-7 victory over the Cincinnati Reds to win their first road series of the season Thursday afternoon.

Raleigh, incredibly, has hit six home runs in ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Grayson Rodriguez has suffered a setback.

The Orioles scratched the right-hander from his scheduled bullpen session Thursday with shoulder soreness, manager Brandon Hyde announced. Rodriguez, who was already sidelined with elbow/triceps inflammation, is undergoing an MRI.

“We scratched the side a day or two ago,” Hyde said. �...Read more