Relief is on the way for the Seattle Mariners’ battered bullpen.

Right-hander Gregory Santos, on the injured list since March with a right lat strain, cleared one important hurdle in his rehabilitation when he threw a 30-pitch bullpen session on Saturday.

Just as important, Santos reported feeling good on Sunday morning, manager Scott ...Read more

BOSTON — When the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees last met at Fenway Park in mid-September 2023, seats for the rain-soaked four-game double-doubleheader disaster could be had for as low as a dollar plus fees.

On Sunday night, the tickets were still more affordable than they should be for baseball’s greatest rivalry, but the place was ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Words taken from an interview Royce Lewis conducted when he returned from the injured list earlier this month have been repeated in the clubhouse and dugout: "Royce does Royce things."

Lewis keeps making things happen. In the second game of Sunday's doubleheader against the Oakland Athletics, which the Minnesota Twins swept with...Read more

Those who regularly attend the Masters learn to differentiate the roars that roll like thunder through the amphitheater known as Augusta National.

Roars for an eagle by Tiger Woods sound different than those for an eagle by a journeyman. Just by listening, you might be able to tell that a leader's shot had landed on the 16th green and was ...Read more

PHOENIX — Drew Thorpe wasn’t nearly as sharp in the second start of his big-league career.

The right-hander allowed seven earned runs — three in the first inning — for the Chicago White Sox in Sunday’s 12-5 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in front of 37,694 at Chase Field.

Thorpe walked five and didn’t record a strikeout in 3 1/3 ...Read more

A pair of reserves being summoned from Triple-A Indianapolis did just the trick for the Pittsburgh Pirates to depart Coors Field with a series victory against the Colorado Rockies.

Left-hander Josh Fleming tossed a season-high four scoreless innings and Jason Delay smacked a bases-clearing double en route to the Pirates topping the Rockies, 8-2...Read more

Connor Joe's baseball career wasn't the only aspect of his life put into question by the results of a standard physical.

Joe was with the Los Angeles Dodgers February of 2020 as a non-roster spring training invitee, hoping to get back to the big leagues after making his MLB debut the season before with the San Francisco Giants.

Those ...Read more

The anger and intensity were genuine.

For eight innings, with his now infamous ego, Logan Gilbert, in charge, he disdainfully dispatched of Rangers hitters with the mindset of, “If you don’t know who I am, then maybe your best course would be to tread lightly.”

The emotional response was real and elevated from the sold-out crowd basking ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – After Thairo Estrada and Brett Wisely delivered two RBI doubles in the fourth inning for the San Francisco Giants on Sunday afternoon, everybody inside Oracle Park seemed to exhale.

The Giants had left dozens of runners on base throughout the first five games of their homestand this week, including 18 in two games to start ...Read more

The good vibes derived from Tyler Glasnow's dominant seven-inning start and Shohei Ohtani's two-homer game were shattered in the seventh inning Sunday when a 98-mph fastball struck the left hand of Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, who writhed on the ground in pain for a few minutes before coming out of the game.

The Dodgers went on to defeat the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Yoshinobu Yamamoto was put on the 15-day injured list Sunday because of triceps tightness, an injury that forced the Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander out of Saturday night's 7-2 loss to the Kansas City Royals after two scoreless innings.

Yamamoto was undergoing further medical testing Sunday, the results of which were not ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Major League Baseball doesn't make its player of the week announcements until Monday afternoon, but Carlos Correa deserves early congratulations.

Correa, already hitting as well as anybody in the American League, drilled a two-run homer in the second inning and a solo homer in the fourth inning. The 12th multi-homer game in ...Read more

The New York Mets are rolling.

Sunday’s 11-6 victory over the San Diego Padres put the cherry on top of what was a fantastic weekend for the Amazins securing a three-game sweep. With the Mets trailing 1-0 after a rough first inning for Tylor Megill, Francisco Lindor got the party started launching a solo homer to right field to tie the game. ...Read more

CHICAGO — St. Louis Cardinals rookie catcher Pedro Pages smacked his second home run of the series and his second as a big leaguer, both having come with his father in attendance and the second on Father’s Day, to lift the club to a narrow victory and a road series win.

Pages’ two-run homer provided all the scoring in a 2-1 nail-biter win...Read more

ATLANTA — What had the potential to be another damning and frustrating loss by the Tamp Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon instead turned out to be an inspiring 8-6 victory over Atlanta Braves.

Jose Siri provided the winning margin with a two-run homer with one out in the ninth, putting the Rays back ahead after they let a 6-2 lead get away.

The ...Read more

BALTIMORE — This was precisely the scenario for which the Baltimore Orioles acquired Corbin Burnes’ pitching services.

Father’s Day, sellout crowd at Camden Yards, series rubber match against one of the best starters on one of the best teams in baseball.

It was Burnes, looking for his 10th straight quality start, versus the Philadelphia ...Read more

A few members of the Minnesota Twins watched a recent MLB Network segment that asked whether Royce Lewis was the best player on the team.

There's a good argument for that, they agreed.

But where there is no debate, in the minds of many associated with the club, is who is the Twins' most valuable player.

Carlos Correa is atop that list.

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LOS ANGELES — A noticeable drop in the velocity of his four-seam fastball in the first inning was the first sign that something was not right with Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Saturday night.

The red lights then began flashing after the top of the second, when SportsNet LA cameras caught pitching coach Mark Prior ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Rockies stole home for the first time in nearly 13 years. But that was just a subplot to their 16-4 shellacking of the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday night at Coors Field.

In front of a lively crowd of 40,033, backup catcher Hunter Goodman rocked LoDo with a supercharged performance. Michael Toglia provided a fireworks ...Read more