CLEVELAND — Spencer Jones finally demonstrated his impressive pop in The Show on Tuesday, drilling his first major league home run in the Yankees’ 3-2 win over the Guardians.

Jones got the Yankees on the board in the second inning when he launched a two-run blast off Cleveland starter Slade Cecconi. A no-doubter, the ball traveled 443 feet ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Give the Mariners’ fill-in infielders the save in this one.

The Mariners’ late-game relief woes resurfaced in another excruciating ninth inning Tuesday night, forcing the Mariners to turn to rookie right-hander Nick Davila in the 10th inning just a few hours after he was recalled from Triple-A Tacoma.

Officially, Davila ...Read more

TORONTO — For most of the season, when Jhoan Duran made the jog from the bullpen to the mound, the result of the game seemed like a foregone conclusion.

Duran had been perfect in his first 16 save opportunities entering Tuesday, but Toronto managed to end that streak, walking him off, 3-2, in the ninth inning.

The first two batters Duran ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Dodgers have taken their scoring sprees to a new level in recent days.

En route to a 12-3 win Tuesday against the Pirates, the Dodgers put together a 10-run seventh inning. It was the second time in three games that the Dodgers had scored nine or more runs in an inning, racking up nine against the Angels on Saturday.

It ...Read more

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — With the Rays trying to build on Monday’s win and get back to their recently successful ways, Nick Martinez tried to take matters into his own hands.

After seven masterful innings and holding a three-run lead, he faltered a bit in the eighth, allowing two singles and an RBI double that tucked just inside the first ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – The Giants sent out their best pitcher to face the National League’s top offense on a cloudy, drizzly Monday night at Oracle Park.

Something had to give with Logan Webb on the mound going against James Wood and CJ Abrams’ powerful Washington bats.

Webb’s eight-inning, seven-strikeout gem kept the visitors quiet, but it ...Read more

ANAHEIM — Defensive execution in the 10th inning was the difference between the Angels and the Houston Astros.

The Angels didn’t make the plays they needed to make, while the Astros did, in what turned out to be a 5-4 loss on Monday night.

The Angels took a one-run lead into the ninth inning, when Kirby Yates gave up the tying run, and ...Read more

Things came together in one inning about as well as they have in a month for the Padres.

They scored just two runs to flip a one-run deficit into a one-run lead in the seventh inning Monday night, and their fun ended with a whimper. But they got big hits and executed small ball.

And a team that had lost 11 of 13 and scored three runs just ...Read more

Aaron Boone was working out of his office at Yankee Stadium when pitching coach Matt Blake relayed the biggest news of the Bombers’ offseason.

“Cody’s back,” Blake told Boone and staffer Ryan McLaughlin, who was also on the scene.

Boone responded with excitement, as the Yankees had come to terms with a player who had posted a 125 wRC+ ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays got back Monday to some of what worked earlier this season, piecing together a well-pitched game (by six relievers) and scoring just enough runs in different ways to also get back to winning.

The 3-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox was just their fourth over a 14-game span but also what they hope will be a ...Read more

TORONTO — Cristopher Sánchez glanced at the Phillies dugout and signaled, one more.

He was already at 101 pitches in the seventh inning, and Orion Kerkering had already warmed up in the bullpen. The Toronto Blue Jays had just brought switch-hitting catcher Brandon Valenzuela in the game as a pinch-hitter with two runners on.

Interim manager...Read more

DENVER — From their loft in LoDo, diehard Rockies fans Jeff and Ashley Moerke can peek into Coors Field. They often assess the size of the crowd.

Jeff, a Colorado native, began attending Rockies games as a kid growing up in Arvada. He says he can name the starting lineup for the 1995 team that christened Coors Field. Jeff even got to play a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Let's go Dodgers. High fives all around.

Because this time, with the newest historical exhibit at Dodger Stadium, the team got it right.

Amid all the historical installations and tributes in the open-air museum that is the Centerfield Plaza, and just a few feet from a Fernando Valenzuela mural, a new display honors Glenn Burke ...Read more

CHICAGO — A day after losing in 10 innings, the San Francisco Giants concluded their three-city, 10-game trip with a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs in 10 innings on Sunday Night Baseball.

Third baseman Matt Chapman gave San Francisco a one-run lead in the top of the 10th with an opposite-field single that drove in pinch-runner Jonah Cox, ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Everyone in the ballpark, from the Cincinnati Reds infielders to the “Tarps Off” crowd in the bleachers to any of the other 31,335 still in attendance, knew Victor Scott II was going to bunt.

Only one person, however, had to actually make the play.

Consecutive singles to open the eighth inning against Reds lefty Sam Moll put ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Angels unleashed five games’ worth of frustration on the Dodgers.

After getting outscored by 36 runs in losing the first five games of the Freeway Series, the Angels rode a mind-boggling performance from the bottom of their order to a 13-5 victory on Sunday afternoon.

Jo Adell, Nick Madrigal, José Siri and Sebastian ...Read more