ARLINGTON, Texas — Rookie right-hander Logan Evans surrendered six runs in a never-ending third inning, and the Texas Rangers ended the Seattle Mariners’ six-game winning streak with a 8-1 victory Sunday afternoon at Globe Life Field.

Making his second major-league start, the 23-year-old Evans was tagged for 11 hits (all singles) in five ...Read more

BOSTON – After the Minnesota Twins piled up low-scoring, close losses throughout the past week, they finally figured out a way to change the formula.

The Twins scored four runs against the Boston Red Sox bullpen Sunday, which included a go-ahead RBI double from Harrison Bader off the Green Monster in the eighth inning, and they earned a 5-4 ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The San Diego Padres completed a sweep of a bad team on Sunday.

They finish a nine-game, 10-day trip next weekend against a horrible team.

It is on the bones of such clubs that good teams climb to the postseason.

So a 4-0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates, which precedes three games in New York against the American League ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas Royals love playing low-scoring games at Camden Yards. Entering Sunday, the two teams combined to score only 23 runs across their previous six contests in Baltimore, including Kansas City’s postseason sweep in October.

So, naturally, the Orioles and Royals combined to blast 11 homers — 10 of ...Read more

NEW YORK — With rain falling in the Bronx before and during the Yankees’ delayed series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, the Bombers lost at home, 7-5, on Sunday.

The defeat marked the first-place Yankees’ second straight series loss to a divisional opponent, as the last-place Orioles took 2 of 3 from them in Baltimore earlier this week...Read more

The New York Mets nearly crawled their way back, but they were stopped short.

Trailing 6-3 entering the eighth inning, the Mets added two runs on an RBI-single by Francisco Lindor to pull within one. Juan Soto walked to load the bases for Pete Alonso with one out. With the way Alonso has swung the bat this season, you couldn’t have drawn it ...Read more

ATLANTA — The national anthem had been sung. A sold-out crowd was in its seats. The field was raked, chalked and ready for baseball.

More than three hours later, the first pitch was finally thrown.

What was scheduled as a 7:15 p.m. local start at Truist Park in Atlanta on Friday didn’t actually kick off until 10:21 p.m., with the Dodgers ...Read more

ANAHEIM -- Got him again.

The sixth inning is turning into Jack Flaherty’s biggest nemesis.

He cruised into the sixth inning Saturday, allowing only an unearned run, flummoxing hitters with a nasty knuckle-curveball. He struck out the side in the fifth, that was how good he was throwing.

Then, facing the top of the order for a third time, ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Rowdy Tellez’s pinch-hit single drove in Jorge Polanco for the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning, and the Seattle Mariners won their sixth straight game with a 2-1 victory over the Texas Rangers on Saturday.

Andrés Muñoz closed it out in the bottom of the ninth. He’s 12 for 12 in save opportunities and hasn�...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Fernando Tatis Jr. woke up and decided he was OK to play baseball.

A few hours later, he willed a victory.

Tatis led off Saturday’s ninth inning by creating a double out of a ground-ball to left field that he had no business turning into a double.

With one out, he stole third base.

With two outs, he ran home on a wild pitch ...Read more

BOSTON – Kody Clemens, the son of a seven-time Cy Young Award winner who won a Most Valuable Player award and pitched in a World Series as a member of the Boston Red Sox, accomplished something his dad never did at Fenway Park.

Clemens, playing in his first game at the ballpark Saturday, hit a home run.

With his dad, Roger Clemens, in the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Kavan Markwood, the 20-year-old who fell over the 21-foot right-field wall onto the field at PNC Park on Wednesday, is “awake and continuing to work toward making his body stronger each day,” per a post on Instagram by his girlfriend Alonna Brown. The post went up around noon on Saturday.

A similar update was posted to the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Across his first six starts of the year, Aaron Nola received six runs total in support from the Phillies offense. But by the end of the third inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Saturday, they scored six more.

Scattered rains and lightning flashing in the distance didn’t dampen the Phillies’ bats. Max Kepler and J.T....Read more

It has been eight years since the Houston Astros cheated their way through a year that included a World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. It has been five years since commissioner Rob Manfred publicly detailed the scandal and sanctioned the Astros and their leaders, if not their players.

Does A.J. Hinch, the manager of those Astros, ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — On the afternoon of May 4, 2024, Kendrick Lamar, to the shock of the music industry, released the diss track “Not Like Us,” the victory lap to his historic rap beef with Drake. The song became omnipresent, a true instant classic. Matt Chapman made it his walk-up song shortly after, and the record continues to blare ...Read more

CHICAGO — Davis Martin went all out during a fourth-inning showdown with Jake Meyers.

The Chicago White Sox starter began with two fastballs to get ahead 0-2. Meyers then fouled off a slider and fastball.

Martin threw a changeup in the dirt for a ball. Another fastball followed, which the Houston Astros center fielder fouled off again. ...Read more

BOSTON — The Red Sox lineup will be without Triston Casas for the remainder of the season after the first baseman ruptured his left patellar tendon in Friday night’s game against the Minnesota Twins.

They’ve selected Abraham Toro from Triple-A, reinstated left-hander Brennan Bernardino from the bereavement list and optioned right-hander ...Read more

NEW YORK — Austin Wells had given the Yankees something to sink their teeth into.

Hours after the catcher debuted his new signature burrito at select Yankee Stadium concession stands, Wells slugged a go-ahead home run in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays.

But the Rays did just enough to spoil the afternoon.

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