CHICAGO — Jonathan Cannon’s lower back bothered him “a little bit” after playing catch Friday.

“I was still confident I was going to be able to throw today and woke up this morning and it was really tight,” the Chicago White Sox pitcher said before Saturday’s game against the Texas Rangers.

The Sox took the steps of scratching ...Read more

NEW YORK — Citi Field is set to host a significant step in Shohei Ohtani’s elbow progression.

The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar is scheduled to throw a live bullpen session before Sunday’s series finale against the Mets, marking his first time facing hitters since he underwent right elbow surgery in September of 2023.

Second baseman ...Read more

BOSTON — When Alex Bregman left Friday’s game with what was initially described as right quad tightness, the hope was that the standout infielder would feel better after a good night sleep.

Unfortunately for the Red Sox that didn’t happen, and now Bregman could be out for a long time.

Bregman was placed on the 10-day injured list ...Read more

HOUSTON — Up to this point of the season, defense has rarely proved to be the Mariners’ issue. Through the first 50 games they had committed just 20 errors and their .989 fielding percentage was tied for fourth in baseball.

But when you’re the Mariners and seemingly all you play is close games, a couple fielding miscues can prove to be ...Read more

ATLANTA — They felt their fortunes had turned.

But then Michael King slept awkwardly, and the San Diego Padres continued to be ineffective on offense.

The relievers who filled in for King were undone by a couple soft hits and a few really hard hits, and a 7-1 Atlanta Braves victory on Saturday was the Padres’ seventh loss in their past ...Read more

On Friday, the Yankees suffered a disappointing loss to MLB’s worst team.

Less than 24 hours later, the Bombers got revenge on the Colorado Rockies by exploding for 10 runs in the fifth inning on their way to a 13-1 victory at Coors Field.

The top of the fifth inning featured seven Yankee hits and three walks (one intentional to Aaron Judge)...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kyle Harrison allowed two earned runs over four innings in his first start of the year, but the left-hander took the loss as the Washington Nationals’ Jake Irvin pitched eight scoreless innings as the San Francisco Giants lost, 3-0, on Saturday evening at Nationals Park.

Harrison got off to a rough start to begin his afternoon....Read more

BOSTON — The Red Sox have let opponents score first 29 times this season, and the end result is usually another game in the loss column.

Not this weekend, though. The Red Sox have pulled off back-to-back come-from-behind victories in the first two games of this quartet with the visiting Baltimore Orioles. They’re 10-19 when opponents score ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The winning streak may be over, but the thrill of victory hasn’t ended for the Twins.

Brooks Lee grounded a single up the middle in the bottom of the ninth on Saturday, driving home Carlos Correa with the game-winning run and the Twins won for the 16th time in 18 games, 5-4 over the Royals.

It was the Twins’ third win in ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Against a 101-mph sinker, Jordan Walker just mustered an encore.

The Cardinals’ right fielder lashed a two-out, RBI single in the eighth inning. His liner up the middle overcame some slippery defense in the top of the inning and carried the Cardinals to a 6-5 victory against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday afternoon at ...Read more

BOSTON — Marcelo Mayer is headed to Fenway Park, multiple sources have confirmed to the Boston Herald.

The long-awaited call for the Red Sox’s top infield prospect comes on the heels of Alex Bregman leaving Friday’s game with ‘right-quad tightness.’

Bregman arrived at the ballpark on Saturday morning feeling worse than the day before...Read more

NEW YORK — In the interest of doing things differently last October, the Dodgers made a subtle, but profound, change in their travel plans.

In previous postseasons — many of which ended with disappointing early eliminations — the Dodgers would use one wide-body plane to shuttle players, coaches, executives, staff, broadcasters and other ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — The greatest athlete in the modern era now lives on YouTube, Instagram, our memories and a video game that Bo Jackson swears he has never played, but remains in boxes in his house.

Bo Jackson insists he has never played Tecmo Bowl, the popular late 1980s and early ‘90s video game version of the NFL before “Madden” ...Read more

NEW YORK — The upcoming month was already going to be tough for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

A rainy Friday night in Queens made it that much tougher.

In the fourth game of a 29-game stretch against playoff-contending teams, the Dodgers beat the New York Mets in a marathon contest at Citi Field, overcoming a three-run ninth-inning blown save ...Read more

WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jordan Romano hadn’t allowed an earned run in nine appearances before taking the ball in the ninth inning on Friday.

The Philadelphia Phillies had just scored three runs on the Athletics’ All-Star closer Mason Miller in the top half of the inning, giving Romano a comfortable lead to work with. But all three ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Angels can start over now.

After being the Miami Marlins, 7-4, on Friday night to run their winning streak to eight games, the Angels are back to .500 for the first time in nearly a month.

They got there with their longest winning streak since they won 10 in a row in 2014, which was the last season they made the ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Padres ran into Chris Sale and ran into Ronald Acuña Jr.

And then Manny Machado ran into one.

And the Padres won.

The erstwhile slugger’s first home run in 63 at-bats was the difference on Friday night in a 2-1 victory over the Braves that stopped a losing streak at six games.

“Thank God,” Machado recalled thinking as ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Before Nolan Arenado connected with the gapper that got everybody running, they had to walk.

Stymied most of the game by their irritation with the strike zone and Arizona right-hander Zac Gallen’s control in and around it, the Cardinals turned three walks, including one with the bases loaded, in the sixth inning into a tie game ...Read more