SEATTLE — After receiving a major scare when Kade Anderson took a line drive off his throwing arm, forcing him out of the game, Jose A. Ferrer made a mockery of the sixth inning, blowing a four-run lead by allowing four runs. The Seattle Mariners, however, answered with four runs in the seventh inning to pick up an 8-4 victory over the Angels ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Jogging up the first base line in the fourth inning, Manny Machado tracked the 99 mph ball off his bat as it arched toward the short porch in right field.

The 34-year-old veteran peered into his dugout after it cleared the wall, raising his right index finger toward a pink-and-navy Picasso sky as he reached first base.

Machado’...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox play in two of the oldest and most iconic ballparks in the world.

Fans come from near and far to pay pilgrimage to Wrigley Field and Fenway Park, and this weekend’s final regular-season series at Fenway was circled on calendars as soon as the schedule was released in 2025.

But stuff happens...Read more

NEW YORK — As a nor’easter barreled through the tri-state area, the New York Yankees made several changes to their weekend plans.

A day after moving up CC Sabathia’s long-awaited number retirement ceremony, the Yanks made another change. Sunday’s game against the Baltimore Orioles has been moved up to 1:05 p.m. ET, the team announced on...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The only real negative for the Tampa Bay Rays from Saturday’s 12-1 win over the Phillies was the pain in the right side of Griffin Jax’s back.

Jax was hit by a 104 mph line drive off the bat of Trea Turner in the third inning, and it looked to sting, as he bent over and then walked gingerly off the field.

The ball caromed ...Read more

DETROIT — He delayed his exit as long as he could, longer than anyone anticipated. Justin Verlander pitched through the third inning, then the fourth and the fifth, the crowd rising and roaring with each at bat and each strikeout.

It was Vintage JV, frozen in time, his first start in nearly six months and his final start after 21 years. These...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The team that has as much experience in close games as any other this season ran into the team with the most experience winning this season, period.

The St. Louis Cardinals continued their season-long knack for squeezing their way into one-run games against opponents of all standings, both contenders and not. They grabbed an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — After sitting through a rain delay that lasted two hours and one minute, the Minnesota Twins didn’t have many highlights that were worth the wait.

Bailey Ober, making his final start of the 2026 season, allowed 10 hits and six runs in five innings, including two homers. The Twins watched the Texas Rangers reel off six ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The result of Blake Snell's final pitch Saturday, a fastball that San Francisco Giants third baseman Shay Whitcomb lined into left field, mattered far less than the fact that the left-hander had passed the 75-pitch mark without incident.

Dodgers left fielder Teoscar Hernández threw out Whitcomb at second. And Snell walked off...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This is the 60th anniversary of the 1966 World Series, in which the losing team did not score for the final 33 innings of the series.

That losing team was the Los Angeles Dodgers. Over the final three games of the series, Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker and Dave McNally of the Baltimore Orioles each pitched a complete-game shutout.

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WASHINGTON — New York Mets manager Andy Green had some very pointed comments for Jonah Tong ahead of his final start of the season Saturday at Nationals Park: Show us you belong in the big leagues today, and then show up in spring training and show us again.

The right-handed rookie tossed five innings in the Mets’ penultimate game of the ...Read more

DETROIT — This day will not soon be forgotten. If ever.

Justin Verlander, at age 43 and in the 557th and last start of storied career, took the mound at Comerica Park wearing the Old English D for the first time in 3,125 days — a span of nine years and 37 days dating to Aug. 20, 2017.

He hadn’t pitched competitively, because of hip and ...Read more

Good eye, good eye, everybody.

You knew Shohei Ohtani wasn't right. You could see it.

And what do you know now that Ohtani has been reinstated from the 15-day injured list?

He's back, but is he back?

After the second of a five-game snippet to find his rhythm and timing before the Dodgers play Game 1 of the National League Division Series on ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The Phillies lost. The Cubs lost twice.

All the Padres regular position players volunteered to play Friday, a night after clinching a playoff spot and celebrating heartily.

A video montage from the previous evening’s postgame festivities had just played on the video boards at Petco Park. The Padres had taken the field. The ...Read more

CHICAGO — Sean Burke wasn’t too worried about the Chicago White Sox bouncing back after celebrating clinching a playoff spot Thursday.

“We’ve got a lot of guys who went to college on this team,” the starting pitcher said. “We know how to turn it up at night and then turn it back the next day.”

The Sox responded with a 6-1 victory...Read more

KANSAS CITY -- For 58 years, Kansas City Royals broadcaster Denny Matthews welcomed generations of fans with his dulcet voice across radio airwaves.

From his catbird seat, Matthews had seen it all.

Matthews, 83, opened the doors to Kauffman Stadium in 1973. He later narrated the Royals’ 1985 and 2015 World Series titles.

If that wasn’t ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Orioles’ game Friday night might have been their last of the season.

A nor’easter will soon pummel New York City and make it difficult for the Orioles and Yankees to play their regular season finale Sunday. The storm is so bad that the teams made the rare move to have a Friday doubleheader, featuring a 10-2 Orioles win in ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — It didn’t matter that Tarik Skubal’s heater zipped across the middle of the plate, belt high to San Francisco Giants rookie Bo Davidson. The Dodgers left-hander had been unhittable all inning, and the 100-mph fastball he reached back for to end the fourth was no exception.

It was just the third time Skubal had touched 100...Read more