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

As the Twins snapped their three-game losing streak Monday in Sacramento, a 9-6 victory over the Athletics, rookie shortstop Kaelen Culpepper continued to show his growth entering the third week of his major league career.

Culpepper provided four of the Twins’ 16 hits. He scored a run and produced an eighth-inning RBI on an infield single.

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SAN FRANCISCO – The Giants began the regular season in late March with a rookie manager, new roster pieces in place and at least some internal belief that they could compete for a playoff spot in the National League.

Five months later, those playoff hopes have long been extinguished, and only a small fraction of the 26 players who wore the ...Read more

For most of Monday night, it felt a lot like, well, last season.

The homers, the celebrations … the fun had returned to T-Mobile Park and the Mariners.

Over the course of the 132 games they’ve played in 2026, the Mariners have searched for that feeling of success, overall production and joy from the lineup, unable to replicate or ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox wouldn’t be where they are without Munetaka Murakami and Colson Montgomery.

But to get to where they want to go, they’re going to need a lot more consistency from those two sluggers down the stretch.

Entering Monday’s three-game series with the Texas Rangers — the Sox lost the first game, 11-2 — they...Read more

It was one Houdini act after another for the Boston Red Sox.

Monday night’s series opener against the Miami Marlins was the kind of game the Red Sox realistically had no business winning. The Marlins had runners on base all night and at any point could have broken things open with even one well-timed hit.

But somehow the Red Sox held the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — José E. Feliciano, the new controlling owner of the San Diego Padres, lives in Los Angeles. You know, that place at the end of the Padres' incessant "Beat L.A." chants.

No worries, Padres fans. Feliciano is — make that was — a longtime New York Yankees fan.

"The good thing is," he told me after an introductory news ...Read more

Drew Rasmussen won his seventh straight start as the Tampa Bay Rays posted back-to-back victories for the first time in nearly two weeks by beating the Tigers 4-1 on Monday night in Detroit.

Rasmussen, who last lost on July 9, allowed just one run on three hits over six innings while throwing a career-high 103 pitches, striking out five. He ...Read more

SEATTLE — A rookie season that started with hope and possibility for the Seattle Mariners shortstop of the future will end prematurely due to injury.

General manager Justin Hollander announced on Monday afternoon that shortstop Colt Emerson will undergo season-ending surgery on Wednesday to repair a displaced tendon in his left wrist.

Dr. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First inning, Shohei Ohtani walks, steals second, jogs to third on a single by Freddie Freeman, scores on a grounder by Mookie Betts.

That's great, but is Mark Walter selling the Dodgers ?

Second inning, Blake Snell gives up a one-out single to Spencer Horowitz, who advances to second on a passed ball, but Snell strands him ...Read more

DENVER — Larry Walker fouled off tear after tear. The slugger would catch himself, stepping out of an emotional box with deep breaths and long pauses, stubborn to the last.

Then he looked at his family. At his dad. At Todd Helton. At Fergie Jenkins. At Bob Gebhard. At hundreds of strangers surrounding his black lectern, packed into a tiny ...Read more

SEATTLE — The Chicago Cubs are returning to Williamsport, Pa.

The Cubs will play the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2027 Little League Classic, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced Sunday night. The national game is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 19, 2027, on ESPN. The Cubs, who are slated to be the road team, get the next day off, then play two ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ryan Weathers landed on the injured list Sunday with a left forearm flexor strain, but the Yankees starter expressed optimism that the ailment won’t be season-ending.

Weathers exited Saturday’s loss to the Toronto Blue Jays after 3 1/3 innings and 72 pitches after he experienced discomfort in his throwing arm.

“It’s almost...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — They don’t all get to be fairy tales.

Lefty Andrew Sears’ big-league debut was spoiled by a couple of mislocated sliders in a four-run fifth inning that propelled the Kansas City Royals to an 11-7 win on Sunday, completing a three-game sweep of the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium.

"He will look back on this outing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The heroes for the Dodgers on Sunday needed no introduction.

Fans have known them in blue for entire days.

Alek Thomas. Hunter Feduccia. And a refreshingly rebooted Kyle Tucker, the $60 million-per-year outfielder who for weeks was colder than dry ice.

On a sweltering afternoon when everyone in the seats was using programs to ...Read more

BOSTON — It looked at first like it was going to be a long day for Jake Bennett.

The rookie left-hander has already surpassed his career-high in innings pitched as a professional, and in order to help manage his workload the Red Sox opted to push Bennett’s next start back so that when he took the mound on Sunday he’d be doing so on nine ...Read more

DENVER — A nightmare homestand led to a dubious distinction for the 2026 Colorado Rockies.

After getting swept by the Dodgers earlier this week, the Guardians polished off a three-game sweep of the Rockies on Sunday. Going back to the end of the last homestand when Tampa Bay swept Colorado, that’s nine straight losses in LoDo, the franchise...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Once upon a time, Walker Buehler was considered a big-game pitcher. Likewise, Fernando Tatis Jr. was one of the game’s most dangerous hitters.

Perhaps both are rounding into form at just the right time.

Buehler spun a third straight quality start, Tatis homered twice and the San Diego Padres beat up on the Minnesota Twins’ ...Read more

SEATTLE — For the second time in as many Bryce Miller starts, the Seattle Mariners were bludgeoned by a National League Central team, this time in an embarrassing 19-2 defeat to the Chicago Cubs on Sunday afternoon at T-Mobile Park.

On his 28th birthday, Miller was tagged for six runs after issuing a career-high seven walks. He threw a season...Read more