ANAHEIM — Perhaps Ryan Johnson has finally found his role.

One of the Angels’ top pitching prospects, Johnson has been bounced between the bullpen and the rotation for most of his two professional seasons, without much success in either role.

On Tuesday night, Johnson had his best major league moment to date, pitching six scoreless innings...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – A sellout crowd of 40,043 saw the embattled Giants snap their latest losing streak Tuesday night with a 3-1 win over their former Bay Area neighbor, the A’s.

Robbie Ray’s dominant pitching – two-hit ball through eight innings — was supported by the heart of the Giants’ batting order, with Jung Hoo Lee supplying a ...Read more

The Padres have a serious issue in their starting rotation.

That reality brazenly slapped them in the face again Tuesday.

And then it became a side story, at least for the night.

That is how crazy things got between the Padres and Braves.

The Padres won 7-6 when Mason Miller worked two scoreless innings and Manny Machado grounded a walk-off ...Read more

NEW YORK — When 2026 Kodai Senga is on the mound, runs are rarely prevented.

The Chicago Cubs rocked Senga on Tuesday night at Citi Field, handing the Mets a 9-6 loss. The right-hander threw 98 pitches over only 3 2/3 innings, and to make matters worse, star slugger Juan Soto also left the game with tightness on the side of the left part of ...Read more

The pitcher's duel that began with starters Kyle Leahy and Eduardo Rodriguez swapping scoreless innings and continued through the start of the ninth inning came undone by former Cardinal Nolan Arenado's double that lifted his current team past his former team.

Tied 0-0 with one out in the ninth inning, Cardinals reliever Matt Svanson allowed ...Read more

Sonny Gray wrote a unique line for himself in the franchise history books Tuesday night, when he became the first Red Sox pitcher ever with double-digit strikeouts at Colorado’s Coors Field.

The veteran right-hander punched out 11 Rockies batters, surpassing his previous season-high of nine on May 18, in the 5-2 Red Sox victory.

For the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The sky over Target Field darkened again in the sixth inning, but the clouds refrained from a second dousing of rain.

And through the gloom, the Los Angeles Dodgers claimed a series victory with a 12-3 win against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday.

The game began in a 28-minute rain delay. The Twins pitched a bullpen game, after ...Read more

MIAMI — When it comes to the most strikeouts in Miami Marlins history, Sandy Alcantara stands alone.

With his fourth strikeout Tuesday — to the Texas Rangers’ Kyle Higashioka in the seventh inning of Miami’s eventual 6-4 win at loanDepot park — Alcantara set the Marlins’ franchise record with 1,002 career strikeouts. He surpassed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Phillies were down to their very last strike.

After Jorbit Vivas’ homer in the bottom of the eighth — just his second of the year — had completely erased the Phillies’ three-run rally in the top of the inning, it felt like the Nationals had all the momentum.

Brad Lord started the ninth with back-to-back strikeouts to...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — If you bought stock in Kansas City Royals standout Jac Caglianone, you would be in line for a massive payout right now.

On Tuesday, Caglianone turned Tropicana Field into his personal playground. And it’s fitting considering the Tampa, Fla., native grew up going to Rays games as a kid.

Caglianone stamped his ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The small pocket of fans sitting just behind the first-base dugout — a group of 25 that included his parents, other relatives and even his high-school baseball coach — immediately rose in hopeful anticipation as the ball left Cole Young’s black Marucci bat.

It sounded like a hit on impact, looked like a homer in its ...Read more

NEW YORK — Fruit flavored candy on the outside? Bubblegum on the inside?

That’s a Blow Pop, and Aaron Boone was not happy that Jazz Chisholm Jr. ate one while playing second base during Monday’s 5-3 loss to the Tigers. With the Yankees down, 4-1, in the fifth inning, YES Network cameras showed Chisholm sucking on and fiddling with a green...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — President of baseball operations Buster Posey offered an opening statement to more than two dozen members of the Bay Area media on Tuesday afternoon about the team’s Pride Night controversy, but declined to discuss the matter further despite numerous follow-up questions.

“I’d like to recognize that the organization has ...Read more

His peak?

As he’s discussed the ups and downs of regaining his feel after an injury-riddled season, Michael King has quibbled — in his good-natured way — with the notion that what he did to the Atlanta Braves in Game 1 of the 2024 NL Wild Card Series was a top-end performance.

A 12-strikeout effort in a postseason win is awfully hard to ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — After winning two straight games over the best team in baseball, the Orioles made the quick drive to Orange County to play the American League’s worst team.

The result was the same.

The Orioles played Monday the same way they had Sunday when they dominated the Dodgers for a 12-1 win. Their victory Monday over the lowly ...Read more

By all accounts the Boston Red Sox had this one in the bag.

Facing a terrible Colorado Rockies team who came into Monday with the worst record in MLB, the Red Sox held a 2-0 lead and watched as the Rockies ran themselves out of a potential eighth inning rally after recording two outs on the base paths. With Aroldis Chapman coming on for the ...Read more

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred penned a response to a United States senator regarding the San Francisco Giants’ Pride Night controversy on Monday afternoon, referring to the team’s communication with its players as being “inadequate and not clear.”

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had written Manfred in the days following the ...Read more