ANAHEIM, Calif. — Angels pitchers finally got some of the big outs that have been so hard to come by during this frustrating season.

The Angels escaped three bases-loaded jams, allowing them to hang on to a 5-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday night.

Angels starter Walbert Ureña got out of two bases-loaded jams with strikeouts of ...Read more

TJ Rumfield played drought-buster, but that wasn’t enough to lift the Colorado Rockies to a win in the desert on Saturday night.

Another poor start from veteran right-hander Michael Lorenzen, and hitting 1 for 9 with runners in scoring position cost Colorado in a 5-4 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

Rumfield led off the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Lucas Giolito expects to throw harder as he wades into the season. He expects to throw better, too.

He was just good enough Saturday.

Giolito danced in and out of trouble through five shutout innings in his second start as a San Diego Padre, his offense was more patient than potent and that was a formula that managed to work in a...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Teoscar Hernández backpedaled up the line as he watched the flight of his deep fly ball down the left-field line.

It clanged off the left-field foul pole to give the Dodgers the lead for the first time in a game they’d win 11-3.

The three-run shot was Hernández’s seventh home run this season and first off a left-handed ...Read more

CINCINNATI — Two power-packed comebacks and some extra-innings sleight of hand weren’t enough for the Cardinals to overcome the Reds and complete a doubleheader sweep of their hosts Saturday.

Riley O’Brien muscled through the 10th inning to preserve a tie game and leave two Reds stranded in scoring position, the potential walk-off runner...Read more

Zack Wheeler turned and watched a fly ball land in left fielder Brandon Marsh’s glove, then turned again and walked off the field.

Cool. Calm. Emotionless.

Just like always.

How does a Phillies pitcher follow Cristopher Sánchez‘s eight scoreless innings? If it’s Wheeler, he sits through a two-hour rain delay, then blanks the Guardians ...Read more

Comeback kids these 2026 Boston Red Sox are not.

Saturday’s 4-2 loss to the Minnesota Twins marked the 26th game in which their opponent scored first. The Red Sox have only won five of them.

The Red Sox have largely been able to hang their baseball caps on pitching and defense as their offense has struggled in the early months of the season,...Read more

After being knocked around in Friday’s series opener against the Seattle Mariners, the Kansas City Royals threw the first punch on Saturday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium.

And they kept swinging.

In the first inning, the Royals scored three runs against Mariners right-handed starter George Kirby. Maikel Garcia lead off the game with a double,...Read more

Liam Hicks, who quickly got off to one of the best starts at the plate in MLB this season, has had a relatively quiet May. He entered the Miami Marlins game against the New York Mets hitting just .217 in the calendar month, an extended stretch that dropped his overall batting average for the season by more than 40 points. More than one-quarter ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — If the Giants had to name a standout performer from Saturday’s 10-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox, they wouldn’t have any shortage of deserving candidates.

The most obvious choice would be center fielder Harrison Bader, who hit his second grand slam in a week. There’s also rookie Bryce Eldridge, who reached base ...Read more

TORONTO — Paul Skenes’ first trip north of the border did not go as planned.

Skenes was charged with four runs and allowed nine hits, including five extra-base hits, in the Pirates’ 5-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday afternoon at Rogers Centre. Both hit totals are career-highs.

The Pirates are once again a .500 team at 26-26. ...Read more

CINCINNATI — The Cardinals continued to add on to their lead – first steadily, then strongly, and finally emotionally – and Andre Pallante pitched as if they did not at all.

Stung by a leadoff home run in the second inning, Pallante did not allow a baserunner after that inning and led the Cardinals to a 8-1 victory in Game 1 of a ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – Trevor McDonald hustled his way through three perfect innings Friday night, pitching like the stopper the on-again, off-again San Francisco Giants desperately needed to open their homestand.

Then the Chicago White Sox struck for nine runs — in just the fourth inning — to trigger a 9-4 Giants loss before an Oracle Park ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The consensus belief is that the San Diego Padres have to start hitting a lot more in order to maintain winning at anywhere the pace they have through the season’s first 50 games.

For now, the team with the major leagues’ lowest batting average and its fifth-best record is just making its hits count.

The Padres continue to ...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Apparently Wade Meckler is the answer to the Angels’ problems.

An Anaheim native, Meckler made his Angels debut on Friday night, and he made an immediate impact with his glove and his bat to spark a 9-6 victory over the Texas Rangers.

The left fielder slammed into the wall catching a foul ball to end the top of the first....Read more

MILWAUKEE — Something about American Family Field in the regular season disagrees with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

They began this road trip with a pair of statement series, sweeping the Los Angeles Angels and edging out the San Diego Padres. But their momentum came to a grinding halt when they fell 5-1 to the Brewers on Friday in Milwaukee.

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TORONTO — The good news was Bubba Chandler was much improved, striking out a career-high 11 batters.

The bad news? Those strikeouts came in just five innings and he was still charged with the loss. Chandler’s defense committed three errors in the first three innings, leading to three runs, and the Pittsburgh Pirates lost 6-2 to the Toronto ...Read more

NEW YORK — The majors-best Tampa Bay Rays knew better than to think things would be easy as they headed north to face the American League team closest to them in the standings.

Especially when the New York Yankees brought ace Gerrit Cole back early from his rehab assignment to make the start Friday on a cool and loud night at the big stadium ...Read more

Austin Martin lofted a go-ahead, two-run homer in the seventh inning, his fourth home run in 188 career games, and the Minnesota Twins bullpen pitched five hitless innings.

Call it the night of the improbable in the Twins’ 8-6 comeback victory over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday. The Twins trailed by four runs after the first ...Read more

BALTIMORE — There’s no place like home.

Jackson Holliday made his Camden Yards season debut Friday and greeted Orioles fans with a go-ahead, two-run home run in the fourth inning to help lead Baltimore to a 7-4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Holliday, who reached base three times and scored twice, put Baltimore (22-29) ahead for good with his...Read more