The Dodgers’ bullpen got an unexpected, and badly needed, reprieve Tuesday night.

Entering the day, no team had relied upon its relievers more heavily. Thanks to injuries and ineffectiveness from the starting rotation, the bullpen’s 126 innings were far and away the most in the majors.

Now, they were staring down a second designated ...Read more

CLEVELAND — It barely rained at Progressive Field on Tuesday, and the Twins and Guardians followed the weather’s lead: Not much rain, and only a little bit of thunder in their bats.

No Twin ever touched third base during the long-delayed game except for during Ty France’s home run trot.

The Guardians had only slightly more traffic on the...Read more

The Padres got off to a good start Tuesday night against one of the teams that recently supplanted them atop the National League West standings.

A three-run first inning launched them to a 7-4 victory over the Giants that ended a losing streak at four games.

The Padres up 5-1 before the Giants put together a three-run sixth against Nick ...Read more

A few hours before first pitch Tuesday, the question — “Who’s next?” — was posed as an amusing talking point among a small group of Mariners personnel and media members inside the T-Mobile Park home dugout.

Dylan Moore and Jorge Polanco have won back-to-back American League Player of the Week honors, the first time that’s happened ...Read more

HOUSTON — Tigers right-hander Reese Olson was in absolute control of this game going into the sixth inning Tuesday night.

Up 2-0, he was battering the right-handed heavy Astros lineup with change-ups, sliders and curveballs off well-placed sinkers. He’d allowed just three hits and was breezing along on just 67 pitches.

And in a blink, he ...Read more

DENVER — The club with the worst start in modern National League history keeps sinking deeper.

Colorado lost its eighth straight game on Tuesday at Coors Field, an 8-2 defeat to the Braves that was never in doubt. German Marquez, who’s yet to regain his All-Star form, was hit hard for seven runs in five-plus innings. And the NL’s most ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Kansas City Royals starter Michael Lorenzen notched a key milestone Tuesday night against the Tampa Bay Rays at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

Lorenzen earned his 50th career win in the Royals’ 3-1 victory over the Rays. He allowed one earned run and registered four strikeouts in six innings.

It was his third quality start in ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — For three innings, Andrew Heaney continued his dominance at PNC Park. But when the Pirates’ veteran left-hander ran out of gas, his team had no other answers, ultimately leading to a 9-0 loss to the Cubs Tuesday evening.

Entering the game as one of the hottest arms in baseball, Heaney opened his outing on a tear, retiring the ...Read more

If the Red Sox could draw up the ideal game, it would probably look a lot like Tuesday night’s 10-2 series-opening victory in Toronto.

They received seven innings from their new ace, Garrett Crochet, and finally gave him the run support he deserved.

And they didn’t make a single error.

Crochet came into the series leading the rotation in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Bryson Stott slid across home plate to score the winning run on a wild pitch and stayed there, flat on his belly, for a few seconds after having his left hand stepped on.

It gave everyone else a chance to catch their breath.

Surely, you know the feeling. Because if you watched the last few innings Tuesday night of the Phillies...Read more

BALTIMORE — Founded in 1903, the Yankees did not record their first four-homer first inning until March 29 of this year.

That bombardment came against a familiar face in the Brewers’ Nestor Cortes, who saw his first three pitches of the game end up in Yankee Stadium’s seats as Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger and Aaron Judge went back-to-...Read more

NEW YORK — Despite a lopsided score and home runs by Francisco Lindor, Pete Alonso and Starling Marte, the most impressive inning for the Mets was one in which they didn’t have to swing the bats at all.

In the top of the fourth inning, with left-hander David Peterson facing the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Nos. 3-5 hitters, the Mets made three ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Mets will be without left-hander A.J. Minter for a while, if not for the rest of the season.

While the team is hesitant to give a definitive diagnosis, manager Carlos Mendoza described it as a “pretty significant” lat injury on Tuesday, ahead of the start of a series against the Arizona Diamondbacks. The left-hander is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Less than a month ago, Tyler Glasnow couldn't have sounded more confident.

After tossing five shutout innings in his season debut against the Atlanta Braves on March 31, the oft-injured 31-year-old Dodgers pitcher believed he had finally unlocked the secret to better health.

That night, the 6-foot-8 right-hander said his ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Traditionally, when a member of the Dodgers is honored with a bobblehead night at Dodger Stadium, someone from their family will throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

But on Saturday, on the night of his bobblehead commemorating the final out of last year's World Series championship, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had a different ...Read more

DENVER — Hunter Goodman hit a three-run home run in the opening inning, then the Rockies went back to their bad business as usual.

Colorado fell to Atlanta, 6-3, in the series opener on Monday at Coors Field, squandering the early lead gifted by Goodman in a seventh straight defeat. It dropped the Rockies’ record to 4-24 as they continued ...Read more

BALTIMORE — With Devin Williams in a timeout as the Yankees’ closer, pitching coach Matt Blake spent a few minutes dissecting the right-hander’s woes with the New York Daily News, The Athletic and the YES Network before the Bombers opened a three-game series with the Orioles on Monday.

Blake, like those watching Williams, isn’t exactly ...Read more

CINCINNATI — New city, new ballpark, new opponent.

Same road riddle for the Cardinals.

After a first-inning pulse to take an early and short-lived lead, the Cardinals’ offense flat-lined into a of series double plays and ultimately a 3-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Monday night at Great American Ball Park. The Cardinals lost for the ...Read more

CLEVELAND — Things really have changed for the Twins, and for just about everybody on the team. Or so it seemed Monday night.

How else to explain the first leadoff home run by Edouard Julien in more than a year, the second three-hit game of Jonah Bride’s career, the second two-hit game of Mickey Gasper’s career, Kody Clemens’ first hit ...Read more