CHICAGO — Chicago lived up to its “Windy City” moniker on Wednesday.

Winds swirled around 20 mph at Guaranteed Rate Field as the Kansas City Royals faced the Chicago White Sox in Game 1 of a straight doubleheader. The conditions factored into a low-scoring affair.

But they couldn’t stop Salvador Perez.

The Royals captain returned from...Read more

MIAMI — Keaton Winn was in tip-top form, the Giants provided him just enough run support, and they beat the Marlins, 3-1, to clinch their first series win of the season away from Oracle Park.

Now comes the hard part.

“Have we won two games in a row yet?” manager Bob Melvin pondered before first pitch Wednesday morning.

Yes, but just ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Seven years after throwing his last pitch in the major leagues, 34-year-old journeyman Albert Suárez took the ball as a spot starter for the Orioles on Wednesday and threw 5 2/3 scoreless innings to help Baltimore beat the Minnesota Twins, 4-2.

As it turned out, it wasn’t the most dramatic moment of the afternoon contest as ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the word “SWEEP” was written in the sand on the shuffleboard table that sits just inside the entrance of the Mets clubhouse. Call it a premonition or encouragement, whatever it was, it worked.

The Mets finished off a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 9-1 win on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Monday, the Dodgers celebrated the remarkable life and enduring impact of Jackie Robinson, the stories now handed down among the generations. Robinson died 52 years ago. With each passing year, we are increasingly fortunate to hear from someone who can tell firsthand stories of Robinson as a friend and mentor.

Harry Edwards ...Read more

Mookie Betts continued his opening-month rampage with a career-high-tying five hits, and a struggling bullpen closed the game with six scoreless innings to lead the Dodgers to a 6-2 victory over the Washington Nationals in front of a sellout crowd of 52,718 at Chavez Ravine on Tuesday night.

Betts doubled twice, singled three times, scored ...Read more

The offensive numbers weren’t quite as gaudy in terms of runs scored or total hits or a lopsided outcome, the process remained the same for a second straight game. In the end, the outcome of the game — the most important result — was another victory for the Mariners.

With the roof open on a clear but crisp Tuesday evening, and a frigid, ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. – As if tribute to the plucky way Whitey Herzog’s clubs conjured runs when they lacked the power to just simplify things, the Cardinals turned whatever they could muster Tuesday into just enough runs to matter.

It wasn’t the flash of the classic, speedy Whiteyball but it came with a dash of defense as the Cardinals ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Comebacks are exciting. Resilience and fight and all that are nice traits for a team to possess.

Scoring early and playing ahead throughout a game is better. It is ostensibly easier, at least.

For the first time in a while, the Padres went that route Tuesday, scoring four runs before the game’s 10th pitch had been thrown and ...Read more

BOSTON — In their first 17 games of the season, the Red Sox were shut out three times — including twice in the last four days – managed no more than three runs seven times, and went to extra innings three times.

Though they plated the sixth-most runs in the American League last year, the 2023 squad wasn’t much in the way of the round-...Read more

MIAMI — The Giants’ relief corps, maligned for the season’s opening week, had started to turn things around on this road trip. That is, until Jordan Hicks exited his start Tuesday, handing off a tied game to Ryan Walker to begin the bottom of the sixth.

The score didn’t stay even for long.

Walker lived up to his last name, and Taylor ...Read more

TORONTO — The Yankees lost their first series of the season on Tuesday when they fell to the Blue Jays, 5-4.

Like Luis Gil on Monday, Carlos Rodón had a tough time navigating Toronto’s lineup despite limited damage. That appeared evident right away, as the southpaw needed 32 pitches to get through the first inning. Twelve of those were ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Ranger Suárez often talks about pitching through the eighth inning, and even the ninth. He says it’s his job as a starter, but it is not something he does often. He hadn’t pitched more than 7 1/3 innings in 2023 and 2022. He had only pitched a complete-game shutout once in his career, on Sept. 22, 2021, against the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — During the Orioles’ rebuild, the mere thought of nights like Tuesday kept fans hopeful.

Through 100-loss seasons, a 19-game losing streak and baseball so bad the franchise should’ve been paying fans and not the other way around, the dim light at the end of the tunnel only existed because of exciting young prospects and the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The pitching at Citi Field was excellent Tuesday night as the Mets dueled the Pittsburgh Pirates for four scoreless innings. But the Mets are quickly becoming known for their late-inning theatrics and it was no different in their second game of a three-game series, tying the game in the bottom of the seventh.

The Mets broke through...Read more