SAN FRANCISCO — If the Giants are going to have any shot at being competitive, they’re going to need to find a way to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Fresh off a series victory against the Chicago White Sox, San Francisco dropped a fourth straight game to Arizona with a 6-2 loss on Memorial Day at Oracle Park.

The straits turned on the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Orioles played 31 innings in the span of 31 hours.

In the 31st inning Monday, they came through with their most gritty win of the season, defeating the Rays in extra innings, 9-7. And for the second straight day, the game ended on a Colton Cowser walk-off home run.

The marathon, back-and-forth roller coaster of a contest ...Read more

Rays shortstop Wander Franco was found guilty for a second time on charges of sexual and psychological abuse of a minor on Monday, although the court granted him a judicial pardon.

The ruling means Franco will not serve prison time because judges ruled he was both defendant and victim in the case, according to Dominican lawyer and journalist ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Hours before his club faced Milwaukee Brewers high-velocity phenom Jacob Misiorowski for a fourth time in his career, manager Oli Marmol referred to the matchup as “a really good test.”

“Really good” does not begin to describe Misiorowski on Monday.

The lanky right-hander from Missouri who grew up an Adam Wainwright fan ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — In nearly 40 at-bats during the month of May, Henry Davis tallied only four hits — translating to a .105 batting average.

His slump has been no secret, but Davis made that fifth hit count. He launched a solo home run in the seventh inning Monday afternoon to power the Pirates to a 2-1 win against the Chicago Cubs at PNC Park to...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Even though Reid Detmers didn’t get the victory he deserved for his masterpiece on Sunday, at least the Los Angeles Angels did.

The Angels’ left-hander retired 24 of the 25 batters he faced through eight innings, with 14 strikeouts.

After Detmers was done, the Angels beat the Texas Rangers, 2-1, scoring the winning run ...Read more

The best thing that happened to the reeling Colorado Rockies on Sunday happened in Las Vegas.

Right-hander Ryan Feltner pitched five strong innings for Triple-A Albuquerque in a rehab start and should be returning to the big-league club soon. The Rockies desperately need him because their starting rotation is in a shambles.

Feltner, who was ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After his walk-off home run Sunday afternoon, Colton Cowser was asked if the exhilarating victory, the Baltimore Orioles’ second straight, could ignite the ballclub to go on a winning streak.

“Absolutely,” Cowser said. “I feel like you’re always just a couple wins away from getting on a roll. I feel like we have the ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Welcome to Slam Francisco.

An afternoon after Harrison Bader hit his second grand slam in a week, Rafael Devers powered the Giants to an 8-5 win over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park with San Francisco’s third grand slam in the last eight days.

This marks the first time since 1924 that the Giants ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — There is no supposed to in baseball.

The game doesn’t work that way. Most times this season, the San Diego Padres can be thankful for that.

They hit less often than any team, yet they have won more often than just a handful of teams.

On Sunday, though, the vagaries of the game worked against them and deprived them of a series ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Failure and defeat are embedded into a baseball season. It’s the nature of a 162-game schedule and the avalanche of opportunities afforded players over the accumulation of all those games.

While defeat is an undesirable outcome in any game, it also isn’t unexpected given that nearly every team will lose a minimum of 60...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Looking back, Alex Vesia can say that when he was traded from the Miami Marlins to the Los AngelesDodgers with fellow pitching prospect Kyle Hurt in 2021, he had “no idea” what it actually meant to trust the process.

Sure, it’s a cliche, and one most strongly associated with the Philadelphia 76ers’ rebuild in the NBA a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — It’s Memorial Day, the time of year when baseball front offices typically shift from gauging what they have on the roster to figuring out how to improve upon it.

Go ahead, then, and peek at the standings.

See the Phillies? They’re smack dab in the middle, after a 3-1 loss at home Sunday to the Cleveland Guardians dropping ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Tampa Bay Rays had several solid chances to take a lead Sunday, but failed to convert any.

That cost them in the end, as Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer off Kevin Kelly in the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 2-0 win.

Kelly has been one of the Rays’ top relievers, but gave up a leadoff walk to Trent Grisham then ...Read more

TORONTO — As the Pittsburgh Pirates looked to avoid a sweep, it was crucial that they got off to a good start. Spencer Horwitz made sure they did.

Horwitz hit the very first pitch of the ballgame for a homer, Oneil Cruz added a solo shot off Dylan Cease in the second, and the Pirates beat the Toronto Blue Jays 4-1 on Sunday afternoon at ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After Colton Cowser’s bat made contact with the ball, he watched it fly for a second just to make sure what he felt with his hands was true.

Then he looked toward the Baltimore Orioles’ dugout, flung his bat in excitement and screamed out a year’s worth of frustration. Cowser, who lost his job as the club’s starting center...Read more

NEW YORK — Taking a quick break from talks with Tampa and Hillsborough County officials to attend to the more fun part of the job — watching his majors-best team beat the Yankees on Friday — Rays CEO Ken Babby said there is still “a lot of work to be done” in finalizing agreements to fund construction of a new ballpark.

But he made ...Read more

Romy Gonzalez can finally “see the light at the end of the tunnel” after what he calls the worst offseason of his life.

“I started swinging last week, but today was my first day of flips, that was really good, and yeah, just kind of stacking days right now, getting closer,” Gonzalez told the Herald Saturday afternoon, after he worked ...Read more