ANAHEIM, Calif. — Those ugly batting averages on the scoreboard won't change overnight, but Carlos Santana and Kyle Farmer showed their importance at the bottom of the Twins lineup Saturday

Santana homered for the third consecutive game, scored three times and drove in four runs. Farmer, hitting behind Santana in the lineup, reached base four...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — A pair of lousy sliders from Taylor Rogers sank the Giants in extra innings on Saturday night.

Rogers replaced closer Camilo Doval in a tie game in the 10th inning, then allowed back-to-back home runs on back-to-back hanging sliders to Bryan Reynolds and Ke’Bryan Hayes as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Giants, 4-3, in ...Read more

SEATTLE — On a night where the Seattle Mariners celebrated the 1990s, George Kirby, who was born in 1998, delivered a brilliant pitching performance, featuring pinpoint command and thread-the-needle accuracy that was reminiscent of the greatest pitcher of that decade.

Only Greg Maddux wasn’t pumping 99-mph four-seam fastballs and 96-mph ...Read more

Aaron Boone made a significant lineup change on Saturday night and it paid dividends immediately. Alex Verdugo moved all the way up into the cleanup spot of the order and announced his presence in the top half with a big swing.

Verdugo clubbed a three-run homer to right field in the top of the first inning giving the Yankees a lead that they ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Rays had a lot going on in Saturday’s game against the White Sox.

Richie Palacios had a breakout performance in the leadoff spot, hitting a homer and reaching base six times. Austin Shenton hit his first big league home run. Randy Arozarena had an actual big hit. Jose Siri was unexpectedly removed from the game.

Ben Rortvedt ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Trea Turner shattered his bat on the 97-mph fastball that he dropped into right-center with one out in the first inning. Two batters later, Alec Bohm ambushed a first-pitch slider and yanked it over the wall in left.

The proverbial bloop and a blast.

That’s all it took to knock Dylan Cease off his game.

The second and third ...Read more

DETROIT — They will frustrate you, even infuriate you at times. But, you have to know by now that they aren’t going to stop fighting.

The Tigers kicked the ball around for the first six innings, repeatedly failed to get a hit with runners in scoring position and looked to be in bad shape down 3-1 entering the bottom of the seventh.

Then ...Read more

MIAMI — The Marlins lost just twice against the Washington Nationals all of last season.

It’s a safe bet the Marlins aren’t going to have that same success in 2024 as Washington beat the Marlins, 11-4, on Saturday.

After going 2-11 against the Marlins last year, the Nationals are 2-0 against Miami this season. The teams will play again ...Read more

BOSTON — Chicago Cubs third baseman Christopher Morel’s all-out effort to snag a popup down the left-field line at Fenway Park nearly ended in disaster.

Morel’s pursuit of a shallow fly ball off the bat of Red Sox center fielder Jarren Duran in the bottom of the seventh inning Saturday took him toward the left-field stands in fair ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sonny Gray just might be human after all, but the Cardinals bullpen continues to look super-human and a six-run lead is a considerable cushion for a pitching staff.

Despite some self-inflicted wounds that helped spark a New York Mets rally and a very strong effort from the Mets relief corps, the Cardinals held on for a 7-4 series-...Read more

TORONTO — For the first time in his debut Dodgers season, there seemed to be a brief injury scare for starting pitcher Tyler Glasnow on Saturday.

After six stellar, suffocating, scoreless innings in a 4-2 Dodgers win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre, Glasnow returned to the mound in the seventh inning hoping to put the finishing ...Read more

TORONTO — It all started with a tweet.

Two of them, actually.

On Dec. 8 last year, during a Friday afternoon in the thick of MLB's offseason, Toronto-based freelance photographer — and proud Blue Jays fan — Carlos Osorio was scrolling through X (formerly Twitter) when he saw a flurry of social media speculation centered on Shohei Ohtani....Read more

PHILADELPHIA — At 3:32 p.m. in Cleveland on April 28, 2012, Mike Trout led off a game for the Los Angeles Angels after his last call-up from Triple-A. Six hours later at Dodger Stadium, Bryce Harper made his major league debut for the Washington Nationals.

How’s that for a red-letter day in 21st century baseball?

“I didn’t know the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Art Schallock has the easy laugh of someone as delighted with his current circumstances as he is with his memories.

"I'm still alive and I'm healthy," he said, prefacing the words with a chuckle.

Schallock, the oldest living former Major League Baseball player, certainly has had the last laugh. He celebrated his 100th birthday ...Read more

SEATTLE — Mitch Haniger earned the fastball in the strike zone.

With the bases loaded and no outs in the sixth inning, right-hander Scott McGough was simply trying to survive a situation he didn’t expect to be in, having replaced injured Arizona Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen two batters earlier.

Haniger knew McGough was searching for a ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Calamity followed the San Diego Padres home.

A day after losing a five-run lead in the eighth inning in Colorado, the Padres went down big early and lost 9-3 to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday night at Petco Park.

The Phillies battered Joe Musgrove from the start, with Kyle Schwarber leading off the game with a high fly ball ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It took the Los Angeles Angels 10 batters before one reached base against Bailey Ober on Friday and 17 batters before they produced their first hit.

Ober seemingly presented hitters with two options: Swing early in the count, when he often produced weak contact, or hitters could take their chances trying to hit his changeup,...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – With one swing, Patrick Bailey belted the ball over the right field wall and should have erased any doubts that San Francisco made the right choice when deciding to roll with Bailey as the everyday catcher.

With one-time catcher of the future Joey Bart watching from the Pittsburgh Pirates dugout in his return to Oracle, it was...Read more

Nothing is imminent, but The Martian is getting closer to game action.

Aaron Boone said that Jasson Domínguez, recovering from UCL surgery, is now throwing from 135 feet, according to NJ.com’s Max Goodman. He’s also been taking batting practice.

Boone added that Domínguez is “a few weeks” away from getting in games, though the ...Read more