TAMPA, Fla. — Both the Tampa Bay Rays and the Chicago White Sox made two errors and collected at least nine hits in Sunday’s getaway game. But while Chicago runners crossed home plate in a neverending carousel, Tampa Bay stalled out for a 9-1 loss.

The Rays’ mistakes accrued from the first at-bat. Ryan Vilade, who started at second base, ...Read more

CINCINNATI — The Pittsburgh Pirates ended a gloomy trip to Cincinnati with a dud.

The Cincinnati Reds, who project as sellers at Monday’s trade deadline, hammered the Pirates, 10-2, on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Great American Ball Park. The Reds took three games in the four-game series.

The Pirates snapped a four-game losing streak on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Stock is up for Robert Stock.

The New York Mets’ pre-trade-deadline rotation shuffling created an unexpected opportunity for Stock, a 36-year-old right-hander, to make his first MLB start since 2021.

Stock was sharp in Sunday afternoon’s 2-0 loss to the Miami Marlins at Citi Field, allowing one run over five innings with four ...Read more

CHICAGO — The New York Yankees, in need of a bat, are acquiring Luis García Jr. from the Washington Nationals, a source confirmed to the New York Daily News on Sunday.

The hope is that García will give the Yankees’ injury-riddled offense a boost. The second-place club is currently without Aaron Judge (fractured rib), Giancarlo Stanton (...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Chicago White Sox will look to lean on Luis Castillo’s vast experience after acquiring the right-hander Saturday night in a trade with the Seattle Mariners.

“His reputation within the league is excellent,” Sox general manager Chris Getz said during a videoconference call on Sunday. “The leadership qualities,...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays found the starter they had been seeking to add to their rotation, acquiring veteran right-hander Freddy Peralta from the New York Mets on Sunday afternoon.

The deal, which has yet to be announced by the teams, is for three minor leaguers: outfielder Aidan Smith, infielder Emilien Pitre and right-hander Gary ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Detroit Tigers formally announced the trade that was reported late Saturday night.

All the physicals were passed, all the paperwork finalized: Two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal is now a Los Angeles Dodger.

The Tigers have assigned the three players they got in return to three different levels of their system.

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DETROIT — It stinks for Detroit Tigers fans. It stinks for the rest of baseball, forced to watch the Los Angeles Dodgers gorge themselves, helping push the game toward a work stoppage. It stinks that Tarik Skubal is taking his marvelous left arm to the West Coast, but there was no stopping it.

The Tigers traded their two-time Cy Young winner ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Your team could have done this.

Is baseball headed for a lockout this winter? Yes.

Because the Dodgers traded for Tarik Skubal? No.

The Dodgers play a video before each home game, which includes these words from a sinister-sounding voice: “You need teams like us to point your finger and say, ‘That’s the bad guy.’ ”

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LOS ANGELES — Tarik Skubal is a Dodger.

The five words every baseball soul outside of Los Angeles dreaded hearing.

The Dodgers are going to three-peat.

The six words that every baseball soul everywhere must now acknowledge.

It's over. The chase for baseball's best pitcher, the hunt by baseball's best team, the pennant race, the World ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tarik Skubal’s reign in Detroit is over.

The Tigers traded the two-time Cy Young winner to the Los Angeles Dodgers Saturday night in exchange for right-handed pitchers River Ryan and Brady Smith and outfield prospect Zyhir Hope.

Multiple sources confirmed the trade to the Detroit News.

Skubal and Casey Mize, also a ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Angels are slogging toward the trade deadline, trying to compete while certainly aware that some of their best players could be gone any day.

The Angels’ 3-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night was their eighth loss in the last nine games.

Left-hander reliever Samy Natera Jr. gave up the tie-breaking run ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers are acquiring the biggest name of the trade deadline season, adding Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal in a blockbuster deal that bolsters their starting rotation and sent shock waves across Major League Baseball on Saturday night.

The deal, according to people with knowledge of the trade not authorized to speak...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Tigers continue to just put their collective heads down and plow ahead as the trade winds continued to howl.

Homers by Kevin McGonigle (11), Gleyber Torres (6) and Max Clark, his first in the big leagues, sent the Tigers to an 8-6 win Saturday night, their second straight against the Athletics at Sutter Health Park.

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LOS ANGELES — Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s start Saturday would have been dominant if it weren’t for Red Sox center fielder Ceddanne Rafaela.

Rafaela’s pair of home runs accounted for most of Boston’s damage against Yamamoto in the Dodgers’ 3-2 loss. Yamamoto held the Red Sox to three runs and four hits through eight ...Read more

BALTIMORE — J.T. Realmuto slid to his left and blocked a sinker in the dirt in the sixth inning Saturday night.

It might have been the play of the game.

The record will reflect a low-stress 5-0 Phillies victory over the Orioles behind Cristopher Sánchez to halt a four-game skid and square a three-game series. But if Realmuto doesn’t knock...Read more

CINCINNATI — The Pirates have ended their losing streak. It took a lot of rain and a long reliever to do so.

In a game largely played in a rainstorm, the Pirates capitalized on wet conditions for a 4-1 victory against the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night at Great American Ball Park. Cincinnati starter Andrew Abbott walked four batters in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers won’t be sad to see Ceddanne Rafaela go when this weekend’s series is over.

A day after hitting the go-ahead home run in Friday’s win, Rafaela went deep again in each of his first two at bats on Saturday, powering the Boston Red Sox to a 3-2 win over the two-time defending World Series champions.

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DENVER — The Kansas City Royals are limping towards the end of their 10-game road trip.

On Saturday, the Royals dropped their third consecutive game with a 12-6 loss to the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field.

The loss compounds a rough stretch for the club. The Royals were walked off twice against the Minnesota Twins in the previous series and ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Padres continued to find ways to win at a point in the season when they almost have to do so.

Jake Cronenworth drove in the winning run with a walk-off single in the ninth inning after the Padres had lost the lead in the eighth.

Saturday’s 6-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants kept the Padres a game behind the...Read more