ANAHEIM, Calif. — Even though Reid Detmers didn’t get the victory he deserved for his masterpiece on Sunday, at least the Los Angeles Angels did.

The Angels’ left-hander retired 24 of the 25 batters he faced through eight innings, with 14 strikeouts.

After Detmers was done, the Angels beat the Texas Rangers, 2-1, scoring the winning run ...Read more

The best thing that happened to the reeling Colorado Rockies on Sunday happened in Las Vegas.

Right-hander Ryan Feltner pitched five strong innings for Triple-A Albuquerque in a rehab start and should be returning to the big-league club soon. The Rockies desperately need him because their starting rotation is in a shambles.

Feltner, who was ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After his walk-off home run Sunday afternoon, Colton Cowser was asked if the exhilarating victory, the Baltimore Orioles’ second straight, could ignite the ballclub to go on a winning streak.

“Absolutely,” Cowser said. “I feel like you’re always just a couple wins away from getting on a roll. I feel like we have the ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Welcome to Slam Francisco.

An afternoon after Harrison Bader hit his second grand slam in a week, Rafael Devers powered the Giants to an 8-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park with San Francisco’s third grand slam in the last eight days.

This marks the first time since 1924 that the Giants ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — There is no supposed to in baseball.

The game doesn’t work that way. Most times this season, the San Diego Padres can be thankful for that.

They hit less often than any team, yet they have won more often than just a handful of teams.

On Sunday, though, the vagaries of the game worked against them and deprived them of a series ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Failure and defeat are embedded into a baseball season. It’s the nature of a 162-game schedule and the avalanche of opportunities afforded players over the accumulation of all those games.

While defeat is an undesirable outcome in any game, it also isn’t unexpected given that nearly every team will lose a minimum of 60...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Looking back, Alex Vesia can say that when he was traded from the Miami Marlins to the Los AngelesDodgers with fellow pitching prospect Kyle Hurt in 2021, he had “no idea” what it actually meant to trust the process.

Sure, it’s a cliche, and one most strongly associated with the Philadelphia 76ers’ rebuild in the NBA a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It’s Memorial Day, the time of year when baseball front offices typically shift from gauging what they have on the roster to figuring out how to improve upon it.

Go ahead, then, and peek at the standings.

See the Phillies? They’re smack dab in the middle, after a 3-1 loss at home Sunday to the Cleveland Guardians dropping ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Tampa Bay Rays had several solid chances to take a lead Sunday, but failed to convert any.

That cost them in the end, as Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer off Kevin Kelly in the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 2-0 win.

Kelly has been one of the Rays’ top relievers, but gave up a leadoff walk to Trent Grisham then ...Read more

TORONTO — As the Pittsburgh Pirates looked to avoid a sweep, it was crucial that they got off to a good start. Spencer Horwitz made sure they did.

Horwitz hit the very first pitch of the ballgame for a homer, Oneil Cruz added a solo shot off Dylan Cease in the second, and the Pirates beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Sunday afternoon at ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After Colton Cowser’s bat made contact with the ball, he watched it fly for a second just to make sure what he felt with his hands was true.

Then he looked toward the Baltimore Orioles’ dugout, flung his bat in excitement and screamed out a year’s worth of frustration. Cowser, who lost his job as the club’s starting center...Read more

NEW YORK — Taking a quick break from talks with Tampa and Hillsborough County officials to attend to the more fun part of the job — watching his majors-best team beat the Yankees on Friday — Rays CEO Ken Babby said there is still “a lot of work to be done” in finalizing agreements to fund construction of a new ballpark.

But he made ...Read more

Romy Gonzalez can finally “see the light at the end of the tunnel” after what he calls the worst offseason of his life.

“I started swinging last week, but today was my first day of flips, that was really good, and yeah, just kind of stacking days right now, getting closer,” Gonzalez told the Herald Saturday afternoon, after he worked ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Angels pitchers finally got some of the big outs that have been so hard to come by during this frustrating season.

The Angels escaped three bases-loaded jams, allowing them to hang on to a 5-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.

Angels starter Walbert Ureña got out of two bases-loaded jams with strikeouts of ...Read more

TJ Rumfield played drought-buster, but that wasn’t enough to lift the Colorado Rockies to a win in the desert on Saturday night.

Another poor start from veteran right-hander Michael Lorenzen, and hitting 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position cost Colorado in a 5-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

Rumfield led off the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Lucas Giolito expects to throw harder as he wades into the season. He expects to throw better, too.

He was just good enough Saturday.

Giolito danced in and out of trouble through five shutout innings in his second start as a San Diego Padre, his offense was more patient than potent and that was a formula that managed to work in a...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Teoscar Hernández backpedaled up the line as he watched the flight of his deep fly ball down the left-field line.

It clanged off the left-field foul pole to give the Dodgers the lead for the first time in a game they’d win 11-3.

The three-run shot was Hernández’s seventh home run this season and first off a left-handed ...Read more

CINCINNATI — Two power-packed comebacks and some extra-innings sleight of hand weren’t enough for the Cardinals to overcome the Reds and complete a doubleheader sweep of their hosts Saturday.

Riley O’Brien muscled through the 10th inning to preserve a tie game and leave two Reds stranded in scoring position, the potential walk-off runner...Read more

Zack Wheeler turned and watched a fly ball land in left fielder Brandon Marsh’s glove, then turned again and walked off the field.

Cool. Calm. Emotionless.

Just like always.

How does a Phillies pitcher follow Cristopher Sánchez‘s eight scoreless innings? If it’s Wheeler, he sits through a two-hour rain delay, then blanks the Guardians ...Read more