Coming into a game during extra innings as a pitcher is such an immediate disadvantage. The automatic runner at second base makes it nearly impossible to walk off the mound with that runner never advancing.

Unless you do what Gabe Speier did on Monday night.

Speier was dominant pitching a perfect 10th inning and set the stage for Cole Young’...Read more

PHOENIX — The “Beat L.A.” chants at Chase Field seemed to rise organically, celebrating Diamondbacks rookie Tommy Troy’s trip around the bases after tying the score with his first career home run.

Then the massive videoboard in center field prompted another surge from the home fans. And the Diamondbacks followed through, as the Dodgers...Read more

ANAHEIM — The Angels had a chance to make up more ground following a recent run of success, but the worst team in baseball sprinted past them at the finish on Monday night.

With six victories in their previous nine games, while returning home to where they last recorded a three-game sweep, the Angels ran out of gas on the mound as the ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — With a chance to prevent Rangers starter Jacob deGrom from securing the 100th win of his career, the Cardinals grinded the right-hander's pitch count high enough to get him out of the game with the minimum number of innings to qualify for a win. However, they could not scratch across enough offense to play spoilers.

The Cardinals ...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — These games just keep getting harder and harder to fathom.

The Tigers slugged five home runs Monday night. They scored more runs than they had since April 16. They had leads of 6-0, 8-2 and 10-5.

And they had to hold on for dear life. Will Vest, after some heroic work to get out of the eighth inning with a lead, closed...Read more

The Kansas City Royals came out swinging in an attempt to snap their six-game losing streak Monday night against the Cincinnati Reds.

In the first inning, Royals outfielder Lane Thomas belted a two-out grand slam off Reds right-handed pitcher Lyon Richardson. He turned around a 95.7-mph fastball that was elevated atop the strike zone.

Thomas ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Tristan Gray put a pair of balls in play during the middle innings Monday, and they both were impressive for different reasons.

Gray smacked a grand slam in the fourth inning, then hit a sacrifice fly to the third baseman as part of a five-run fifth inning as the Twins ended their five-game losing streak with a 9-6 victory over ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Giants’ defensive configuration in the bottom of the eighth inning was the equivalent of a white flag.

The bench was emptied. Matt Chapman and Willy Adames had long been pulled. Buddy Kennedy, a position player, was pitching.

And Daniel Susac, who essentially had no experience in the field aside from catching, was playing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Tanner Scott redemption story took a dark, twisted turn Saturday night.

Not because the Dodgers reliever gave up three runs in the eighth inning to the Philadelphia Phillies, blowing a save opportunity and getting tagged with his first loss of the season. Getting knocked around happens.

But comments directed toward Scott's ...Read more

The routine recently for Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh was pretty mundane and repetitive down in Arizona away from his teammates.

Treatment, rehab, more treatment, more rehab and maybe a little bit of basic baseball activity. And then more rehab.

“Getting home early, you don’t really know what to do with yourself just waiting for the games ...Read more

The Giants, searching for ways to jumpstart what’s so far been an abysmal season, brought one of their top Double-A hitters to Coors Field on Sunday, promoting outfielder Jonah Cox from Richmond to the major leagues.

Cox made his big league debut as a pinch runner in the eighth inning and doubled in the ninth as San Francisco snapped a five-...Read more

The Cardinals' ability to do what the Cubs couldn't when a scoring chance presented itself in the first inning of a Sunday night series finale between longtime division rivals made all the difference in the box score in a rubber match at Busch Stadium.

After seeing starter Matthew Liberatore work around two singles to keep the Cubs scoreless in...Read more

Farewell, to the Mariners piggyback … for now. You were awkwardly executed and oddly effective.

The Mariners ran out their pitching combo of Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo for the final time — for the time being— Sunday afternoon in the series finale against Arizona. And like the previous two times the Mariners used this odd pairing, it ...Read more

Not a cake or a ribbon-wrapped present, but the Dodgers celebrated manager Dave Roberts’ 54th birthday with a 9-1 win over the Phillies on Sunday. The Dodgers ended their homestand with a 5-1 record despite their six-game winning streak ending the night before.

“You’re gonna get beat at times, it’s gonna happen,” Roberts said. “But ...Read more

Willy Adames fouled off the first, fourth and sixth pitches of his seven-pitch at-bat against Zach Agnos in the fifth inning. He patiently watched three more balls land outside the zone, waiting for the pitch he wanted.

When he got the offering he was looking for, a 96-mile-per-hour fastball down the middle of the plate at Colorado’s Coors ...Read more

Garrett Crochet suffered a setback in his rehab progression and will press pause on his progression, Boston Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy told reporters in Cleveland on Sunday morning.

Crochet faced live hitters in a one-inning simulated game at Fenway Park on May 26. He was scheduled for a multi-inning facing live hitters on Tuesday, but ...Read more

The Orioles on Sunday kicked a fan out of Camden Yards after they threw a ball from the stands that struck a Blue Jays player.

Blue Jays right fielder Jesús Sánchez exited Sunday’s game in the sixth inning after the ball hit him in the wrist during a mound visit.

“We have identified the fan and removed them from the ballpark while we ...Read more

After hitting a baseball into the Allegheny on the fly, Oneil Cruz — fittingly wearing a T-shirt with an image of an explosion — said it feels normal for him.

“It feels good for sure, but I guess I'm getting used to it,” Cruz said, with major league coach Stephen Morales translating, “because I'm not feeling the same emotions I felt ...Read more

The Yankees were on some type of mission in the third inning on Sunday afternoon in Sacramento.

With the Bombers trailing 3-0 — after Will Warren’s rough first inning — the Yanks exploded for 13 runs in the third inning in their X-X win over the Athletics to take the three-game series. They became the first team to score 10-plus runs in ...Read more

The Pirates made two injury moves on Sunday, getting one key piece back but placing one on the injured list in his place.

The Pirates activated first baseman/outfielder Ryan O’Hearn from the 10-day injured list, but placed shortstop Konnor Griffin on the 10-day IL.

O’Hearn (right quad strain) was expected to miss four weeks, but returned ...Read more