MILWAUKEE — Just taking the mound and pitching in a major league game for the first time in 2 1/2 years made Tuesday a success for Rays lefty Shane McClanahan.

His actual results were really good, at least until the end.

McClanahan didn’t allow a hit through his first four innings, but the fifth got a little messy. He allowed two walks and...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A Cardinals pitching staff that showed some stability Monday after getting bruised for 11 runs the day before held tight Tuesday to shut out a star-studded Mets lineup.

Starting with Andre Pallante’s five innings in his season debut, the Cardinals held the Mets scoreless and to three hits in a 3-0 win at Busch Stadium. Behind ...Read more

CHICAGO — Perhaps no one on the Los Angeles Angels needed that moment more than Logan O’Hoppe.

The Angels catcher came through with a two-run single in the sixth inning, providing all the runs in a 2-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.

O’Hoppe was not only the last Angels regular to pick up an RBI this season,...Read more

This season hasn’t gotten off to a good start, and the Red Sox bats in particular have struggled to find their groove.

Needless to say, the last person this ice-cold lineup needed to see was Hunter Brown.

The Houston Astros ace, who finished third in the American League Cy Young Award vote last year behind Detroit’s Tarik Skubal and Boston...Read more

BALTIMORE — The biggest concern about the Baltimore Orioles entering the season was their unproven bullpen.

Tuesday’s loss proved why.

Baltimore’s bullpen collapsed in the middle innings, allowing six runs in three innings as the Orioles fell, 8-5, to the Texas Rangers. Big hits from Pete Alonso and Gunnar Henderson put the ballclub in ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The first games of the newborn baseball season have channeled more than enough obsessing over balls and strikes, due no doubt to the long-anticipated introduction of ABS technology, or officially, the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System Brought to You by Some Corporate Tech Behemoth.

As long as there have been arguments over ...Read more

A fastball up and off the plate to Guardians left-handed hitter Steven Kwan was an inauspicious beginning to Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki’s season debut.

The arm-side miss fell in line with a persistent spring-training pattern for Sasaki, who struggled with command from his first Cactus League start through his Freeway Series appearance ...Read more

The Tigers just about took future Hall-of-Famer Justin Verlander off the hook Monday night.

Things didn’t exactly go according to script in Verlander’s first start as a Tiger since Aug. 30, 2017. The Arizona Diamondbacks ruined that with five runs in the first two innings, highlighted by Corbin Carroll’s RBI triple and 403-foot, three-run...Read more

SAN DIEGO — For the first time in the Tony Vitello era, the Giants have a win.

Behind Landen Roupp’s six brilliant shutout innings and production from the bottom of the order, the Giants defeated the San Diego Padres 3-2 on Monday evening at Petco Park.

For Roupp, who struck out seven batters, Monday marked his first start since Aug. 20, ...Read more

A day off?

No, just a little early rest to allow him to win the game at the end.

Out of the starting lineup for Monday’s series opener vs. the Yankees, an unusual occurrence for this early in the season, Cal Raleigh watched the early innings, trying to stay warm on an impossibly frigid night at T-Mobile Park.

But as the two teams struggled ...Read more

Beyond Garrett Crochet and Roman Anthony on Opening Day, and Wilyer Abreu, in general, not much is going right for the Boston Red Sox in the first games of the 2026 season.

After dropping the last two games of their opening series in Cincinnati, the underwhelming road trip moved on to Houston, where two Red Sox offseason pitching additions were...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The Tampa Bay Rays did a lot of good things on Monday that led to a 3-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers:

— Yandy Diaz hit a leadoff homer as part of another multi-hit night.

— Nick Martinez became the latest veteran to show a bad spring training doesn’t mean much, delivering a solid six-inning outing.

— Jonny DeLuca hit a...Read more

CHICAGO — The clean games the Los Angeles Angels played to start the season with two victories seem far in the rear-view mirror now.

Since then they’ve dropped three in a row because of sloppy pitching, defense and decision-making, culminating with an ugly 7-2 loss to the Chicago Cubs on Monday night.

Most of the trouble on this night came...Read more

The Denver Rockies turned Toronto Blue Jays fans into boo birds on Monday night at Rogers Centre.

Despite landing in Toronto at 3 a.m. after their flight was delayed by nearly six hours in Miami, the Rockies beat up the defending American League champions, 14-5, rapping out 17 hits. After getting swept by the Miami Marlins in three one-run ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Chris Bassitt and the Baltimore Orioles’ bullpen gave them a chance.

The right-hander had a tough time putting hitters away and was 50 pitches in before he recorded his fifth out Monday against the Texas Rangers, but the veteran starter gritted through 4 1/3 innings with four runs allowed in his Orioles debut, and the bullpen ...Read more

Bo Bichette didn’t get the moment he wanted at Citi Field in front of New York Mets fans over the weekend, but his two RBI on Monday night in St. Louis gave the fans watching on TV something to cheer about.

One day after getting booed by the Mets faithful, Bichette drove in two of the Mets’ four runs in a 4-2 win over the St. Louis ...Read more