NEW YORK — Juan Soto is no closer to returning to action for the Mets, but he’s no further either. The slugger took batting practice outside Wednesday afternoon, facing minor league pitching at Citi Field ahead of the Mets’ game against the Milwaukee Brewers. Soto has been doing only light activities since going on the injured list with a ...Read more

ATLANTA — The gathering on the Truist Park mound kept growing. At first, Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki was visited by pitching coach Mark Prior and catcher Hunter Feduccia, with the help of interpreter Will Ireton. Then, Prior summoned head athletic trainer Thomas Albert. Then, they called out manager Dave Roberts, who eventually made the ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A loss would’ve been perhaps the Orioles’ worst of the season. Instead, the win counts all the same.

After winning by 12 runs Tuesday, the Orioles sprinted out to a seven-run lead in the second inning Wednesday in what looked like another cruise-control victory. But Orioles starter Kyle Bradish lost his command and was hit ...Read more

The Twins’ West Coast road trip started with some hope of the team gaining ground in the AL wild card race.

It ended Wednesday night in Sacramento with a 7-4 loss to the A’s, the fifth defeat on the six-game swing.

The Twins are four games behind in the wild-card standings as they head home to start a series with the White Sox on Friday.

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The Kansas City Royals’ nine-game winning streak came to an end Wednesday night against the Toronto Blue Jays.

The Royals struggled offensively while posting just six hits against the Blue Jays pitching staff at Rogers Centre. Toronto utilized seven pitchers in a bullpen game and registered eight strikeouts.

KC didn’t have many chances.

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LOS ANGELES — An investment firm owned by the two youngest sons of late Lakers owner Jerry Buss has bought into the new ownership group of the San Diego Padres.

Buss Sports Capital, which was started in September by Jesse and Joey Buss, joins a Padres ownership group that includes husband-and-wife controlling owners José E. Feliciano and ...Read more

PHOENIX — Pete Crow-Armstrong was still fuming two hours after the controversial call.

The Chicago Cubs hadn’t done much against Arizona Diamondbacks left-hander Eduardo Rodríguez when Crow-Armstrong doubled to lead off the sixth inning Wednesday. In a scoreless game, Crow-Armstrong advanced to third on a groundout, putting the Cubs in ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The loss that ensured the Angels’ 11th straight losing season was the perfect encapsulation of their latest miserable year.

The starting pitching was good enough, but the offense and the bullpen couldn’t do enough to complete the victory.

Despite taking an early three-run lead and getting quality work from starter ...Read more

SEATTLE — Take a few minutes, maybe Thursday when the Phillies don’t play, and gaze at the numbers.

— .338 average

— .509 on-base percentage

— .600 slugging

— Five homers

— 28 walks

— 19 strikeouts

That’s Bryce Harper in August.

“He’s impressive,” interim manager Don Mattingly said Wednesday — before Harper ...Read more

PHOENIX — The Chicago Cubs hoped right-hander Ben Brown could return to the pitching staff by the end of the season and be a potential multi-inning weapon in the playoffs.

A setback is creating uncertainty for that vision.

Sidelined by a stress reaction in his neck since June 21, Brown threw his live batting practice Tuesday morning at Sloan...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Big hits.

Not a lot of hits. But a couple of the hits they needed.

Those were lacking on Monday and Tuesday. The Padres got them on Wednesday.

The Pirates did not.

Again and again, Padres pitchers escaped messes to preserve the slim lead they had been given early on, and they held on to win the finale of a three-game series ...Read more

NEW YORK — Yankees’ Assistant Director of Baseball Communications Mike Pinsky will compete on the 51st season of CBS’s “Survivor.”

His addition to the long-running reality TV competition was announced by the program on Wednesday.

“I don’t do anything for second place,” he says in a video previewing his appearance. “I’m here...Read more

Oswaldo Pirela, a San Diego Padres minor league coach who was taken into custody by ICE on Aug. 16, was released on bond Monday "pending his removal proceedings," according to the Dept. of Homeland Security.

The Padres confirmed that Pirela is home in Peoria, Ariz., with his wife and two daughters. However, the Venezuelan native still faces ...Read more

Freddy Peralta on Wednesday finally looked like the pitcher the Tampa Bay Rays had hoped they were getting.

Peralta worked six shutout innings to earn his first win in five outings since being acquired in an Aug. 2 trade, as the Rays beat the Tigers 3-0 in Detroit.

The Rays won their first series since Aug. 10-12, improving their American ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — TWG Global — the holding company of Dodgers owner Mark Walter — rejected allegations of financial impropriety in the purchase and operation of the Dodgers and reiterated the team is not for sale.

At a time insurance regulators and federal investigators are looking into allegations that insurance companies under Walter's ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jason Heyward didn't give Freddie Freeman the heads up that he'd secured a job in the Dodgers' front office. He hadn't told any of his former Dodger teammates. But Freeman, who's known Heyward for two decades, now says he'd heard rumblings. He was just going to let his longtime friend break the news himself.

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ANAHEIM — An early five-run lead with one of their best starters on the mound should have been an easy victory for the Angels.

But nothing is easy this season.

Walbert Ureña couldn’t get out of the fourth inning, and the Angels gave up the lead by the fifth. They also surrendered a one-run lead in the eighth, and lost, 8-6 in 10 innings, ...Read more

Furious George returned in the best way.

But the seething anger that fueled and at times engulfed George Kirby during his early days in a Mariners uniform due to walks, missed calls, cheap singles, bad innings and really anything that hindered his outing never appeared when he was on the mound of T-Mobile Park on Tuesday night.

Facing a left-...Read more