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.

On May 13, midway ...Read more

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

Taj Bradley became the first pitcher in Twins history to complete an immaculate inning, striking out three batters in nine pitches during the fifth inning, but there wasn’t much else for the Twins to celebrate Tuesday in Sacramento.

Center fielder Byron Buxton left in the seventh inning of a 4-2 loss to the Athletics because of an injury.

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SAN DIEGO — Paul Skenes had his best outing in months. It almost wasn’t enough.

Skenes threw six shutout frames, then Oneil Cruz’s ninth-inning, two-out solo homer off Mason Miller gave the Pirates the run they needed for a 1-0 victory against the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night at Petco Park.

Cruz’s blast was the first homer Miller ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The already lean San Francisco Giants pitching rotation appeared to lose a second member in as many nights on Tuesday.

Starting pitcher Adrian Houser left Tuesday’s game against the Reds after only 1.1 innings and 26 pitches in the Giants’ 3-1 victory over Cincinnati. After his final pitch to Hector Rodriguez, a 93.9 mile ...Read more

Within the next week the Red Sox expect to get Trevor Story, Roman Anthony and Isiah Kiner-Falefa back from injury. When that happens the club will have some tough decisions to make, and in all likelihood a couple of key contributors will wind up being the odd men out.

But Mickey Gasper is doing everything he can to prove he deserves a spot.

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ATLANTA — In right-hander Tyler Glasnow’s first game back from the injured list, he pushed through bad luck, made an adjustment between innings, and showed how big of an impact he can make when healthy.

Even so, the Dodgers fell to the Braves, 4-3, on Tuesday, ending a six-game winning streak, tied for their season high.

“Even with all ...Read more

NEW YORK — The New York Yankees shared encouraging updates on two of their stars before Tuesday’s series-opener against the Houston Astros, as Aaron Judge and Max Fried have both taken steps in the right direction this week.

Judge, out since May 31 with a stress fracture in his first right rib, took batting practice in the cage and ran on ...Read more

DETROIT — Finally, a much needed victory for the Detroit Tigers.

They needed it, having lost six consecutive games and nine of 10, but on Tuesday they scratched out a 4-1 victory over American League-leading Tampa Bay.

A three-run fifth inning, highlighted by Max Clark's second major league home run, sparked the Tigers and erased a 1-0 ...Read more

SEATTLE — Randy Arozarena’s best game as a Mariner made me think about his second-best.

His best came Saturday, not a moment too soon — when the three-time All-Star ambushed David Peterson’s first pitch of the game for a solo home run, scaled the left-field wall to rob Cubs catcher Miguel Amaya of another homer, then banged a walk-off, ...Read more

The bounding ball that slipped through the middle of the infield in the 12th inning in a 3-2 loss on Monday night snapped the Padres’ three-game winning streak.

Yet that is not where Monday’s game was truly lost.

Well before that, the Padres popped up two bunts in innings that began with automatic runners, left the bases loaded in the 11th...Read more

ANAHEIM — The Angels haven’t done much to improve their team this season, but a trade deadline deal they made two years ago continues to show a lot of potential for long-term return after George Klassen delivered another solid outing on Monday night against the Cleveland Guardians.

Though the rookie right-hander didn’t receive the run ...Read more