NEW YORK — Move over John Fisher, baseball has a new worst owner.

After grossly overpaying for the Miami Marlins in 2017 ($1.2 billion), Bruce Sherman is now systematically destroying them.

As if Fisher’s stripped-down A’s aren’t a big enough eye sore for baseball as a lame duck franchise in Oakland, now you have Sherman, under-...Read more

DENVER — The reigning World Series champions got nothin’ on these Colorado Rockies.

Colorado won its first series on Saturday on its 13th try, snapping a franchise-worst drought to begin the season in that regard. In the 8-3 victory over Texas, the Rockies became the last MLB team to win a series this year, too, a day after winning ...Read more

SEATTLE — The juxtaposition of the results in a 24-hour span was striking but probably shouldn’t have been surprising given what has transpired this season.

Each time the Seattle Mariners have put together a strong showing at the plate, amassing base runners through hits and walks, scoring runs with timely hitting or homers, there is ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Kansas City Royals threw the first punch in Saturday night’s matchup against the Los Angeles Angels.

The Royals took an early one-run lead as team captain Salvador Perez drilled an RBI double down the left-field line.

Royals star Bobby Witt Jr. scored, and KC was off and running against Angels starter Tyler Anderson. ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The Dodgers weren’t in need of a “stopper” on Saturday, not after winning 13 of their last 16 games.

They weren’t facing anything close to a must-win situation, either, not with a 5 1/2-game lead over the San Diego Padres in the National League West standings.

Still, after dropping a series opener Friday against the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — There are legends, there are superstars and then there are people like the late Dick Groat, who probably belongs in a category of his own. Groat played two professional sports and is mostly known for the the sport that was not the one he loved most or was best at.

"Dick had to work hard at playing baseball," said his former ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The guttural roar on the shores of McCovey Cove half past 4 on Saturday afternoon was no ordinary home run celebration. Even for a grand slam, the response was disproportionate. This was an entire fan base’s worth of pent-up anxiety untethered on one swing from Matt Chapman.

What a glorious swing it was, connecting with a ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Cardinals' offense showed definite signs of life, and got contributions from some key hitters who’d been struggling lately. Still, that wasn’t enough to stop the slide as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied behind a three-run seventh inning to hand the Cardinals another defeat.

Brewers first baseman Rhys Hoskins, who has gone 4 ...Read more

DETROIT — With one of the most iconic pitchers in Tigers history sitting in the visitors’ dugout, a lot of the pregame talk Saturday centered on 27-year-old Tarik Skubal and how he might someday measure up to Justin Verlander’s legacy.

“One thing that all great pitchers do, all the top, high-end major league pitchers do, is they just ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Many hoped Paul Skenes’ big league debut would be a day to remember. But it’s safe to assume no one could have predicted what unfolded Saturday evening on the North Shore.

There were numerous walks with the bases loaded, towering home runs and a two-plus-hour rain delay — and that was the fifth inning. In the end it was the...Read more

BOSTON — Washington Nationals manager Davey Martinez was in an unenviable spot. With the game tied at 2-2 and a man on second in the eighth, he could have Robert Garcia face Tyler O’Neill, who entered Saturday hitting .323 against left-handers, or he could intentionally walk O’Neill and opt for the lefty-on-lefty matchup.

The only problem...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Saturday afternoon looked to be a rare good day in what has been nearly a month-long stretch of negativity for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Through four innings into their contest against the Chicago Cubs, nearly everything seemed to be going well.

Paul Skenes, last year’s No. 1 overall draft pick and the top pitching prospect in ...Read more

TORONTO — The Twins hammered Blue Jays ace Kevin Gausman, who finished third in Cy Young voting last year and had allowed only two earned runs in his last 24 innings, for seven runs in only three innings on Saturday.

It wasn't enough.

The Jays blasted three home runs, racked up five runs against Twins starter Simeon Woods Richardson and five...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — This is kind of how the Rays drew it up.

Yandy Diaz had his first three-hit game and home run since opening day, and Randy Arozarena had his first multi-hit game since March 30 as the team’s two biggest hitting threats combined to lead the Rays to a 7-2 win over the Yankees in front of an announced 21,308 Saturday at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Christian Scott occupies a locker in a corner near the showers in the Citi Field clubhouse. It’s a quiet corner of pitchers — often pitchers who don’t occupy lockers in the big league clubhouse for extended periods.

The rookie right-hander was mostly left alone before he made the first home start of his career Saturday ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When a save opportunity arose for the Orioles on Friday night, Craig Kimbrel was already in the dugout.

The Orioles’ struggling closer said before the game that he expected to handle the team’s save situations until told otherwise. Yet, manager Brandon Hyde, who two days before said the Orioles would “stick with him” ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The merengue beat starts bumping when the bullpen door opens. Then come the strobe lights that flash from above left and right field. For 15 seconds, maybe 20, a major league ballpark morphs into a dance club.

And that’s when Crelia Lizarzabal understands what she was missing.

“Now I can feel what it was like in the ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Kansas City Royals were down to their last chance. Nothing had gone right all night against the Los Angeles Angels. The offense had hit a cold spell. Royals stars Bobby Witt Jr. and Salvador Perez, who celebrated his 34th birthday, were a combined 0-for-7.

Angels starter Griffin Canning deserved much of the credit. He’...Read more