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Phillies' Alec Bohm seeks injunction ordering his parents to return $500,000
PHILADELPHIA — Phillies third baseman Alec Bohm has asked a Philadelphia court for a preliminary injunction that would prevent his parents from using more than $500,000 he alleges they took from him in March.
The request, filed last week in Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia, also asks that a Florida-based arbitration case related to the ...Read more
Angels hit 5 solo homers against Yankees on way to 7-1 victory
NEW YORK — It was the worst of times, and then it was the best of times for Ryan Weathers, who logged a bizarre start in the Yankees’ 7-1 loss to the Angels on Tuesday night.
The southpaw set two season highs for the pinstripers’ pitching staff, surrendering four home runs but also striking out 10 hitters over five innings. Weathers, ...Read more
Disastrous sixth inning dooms the Phillies in a 10-4 loss to Cubs
PHILADELPHIA — It was a pre-planned day off, Rob Thomson maintained, designed to prevent Edmundo Sosa from rusting after being out of the Phillies’ lineup for a week.
Surely, though, it was about Alec Bohm.
Off to a 9 for 58 start, removed from the cleanup spot, and dealing with turmoil in his personal life stemming from the lawsuit that ...Read more
Mitch Keller struggles as Pirates fall short against Nationals
PITTSBURGH — A day after a 16-run explosion, the Pirates came up a run short on Tuesday night, falling, 5-4, to the Washington Nationals at PNC Park. The winning run reached base in the ninth inning, but Oneil Cruz and Nick Yorke, who had pinch hit for Brandon Lowe in the seventh, were retired to end the game.
The Pirates fell behind 5-1 ...Read more
Byron Buxton's hitting, Mick Abel's pitching power Twins past Red Sox
MINNEAPOLIS — Byron Buxton, one day after he became the sole home run leader in Target Field’s history, decided to show all the different ways he can dominate a game.
Want more power? Buxton hit two more home runs, the 18th multi-homer game in his career.
Want more speed? Buxton hit a leadoff single in the first inning, advanced on a balk,...Read more
Shane McClanahan gets 1st win since June 2023 as Rays beat White Sox
CHICAGO — In colorfully discussing the frustrations of his two-seasons-plus injury absence and the first two starts of his comeback this season, Shane McClanahan has dwelled on an overarching theme: that he wanted to win.
Tuesday, despite a somewhat untidy performance, he did just that, working the first five innings of the American League ...Read more
Giants score one run against Reds en route to third straight loss
CINCINNATI — Even at the hitter-friendly confines of Great American Ball Park, the San Francisco Giants’ offense remains stagnant.
The Giants (6-11) dropped their third straight game with a 2-1 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday evening, their third straight game in which they’ve been held to two runs or fewer.
Shortstop Willy Adames...Read more
Tigers slip past Royals for 2-1 victory
DETROIT — A pair of top-tier lefties took the air out of the baseball for six and a half innings at Comerica Park Tuesday night, before the Tigers found a way to scratch out a 2-1 win over the Royals at Comerica Park.
Down 1-0 in the bottom of the eighth, Zach McKinstry doubled, went to third on a ground out by Gleyber Torres and, with two ...Read more
Orioles fall to Diamondbacks, 4-3, as one bad inning does Trevor Rogers in
BALTIMORE — The Orioles seemed like a freight train that couldn’t be stopped.
They came back from down six runs on Monday to beat the Diamondbacks, their sixth victory in seven games. Their manager inspired the ballclub by showing up to work with a broken jaw and a black eye from taking a line drive to the face the night before. And the ...Read more
Justin Wrobleski's eight shutout innings, Andy Pages' homer lead Dodgers over Mets
Dodgers left-hander Justin Wrobleski threw a gem in the Dodgers’ 4-0 win over the Mets on Monday.
He held the Mets to two hits in eight scoreless innings, the longest start of his pro career. He carried a perfect game into the fifth inning, with his defense backing up his efficient effort.
Shortstop Miguel Rojas fully laid out to his left in...Read more
Trent Grisham bails out Yankees' bullpen in walk-off win over Angels
NEW YORK — The Big Sleep picked the perfect night to wake up, as Trent Grisham’s two home runs helped the New York Yankees snap a five-game losing streak with an 11-10 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night.
With the Bombers swept in Tampa Bay over the weekend, the center fielder tied the game at 10 with a two-run shot off Angels ...Read more
Cardinals undone by walks, ragged defense, absent offense in loss to Guardians
ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Cardinals put together a mashup of mishaps and missed opportunities Monday night for their arguably clunkiest loss of the season.
Against a Cleveland club that was twice routed in Atlanta over the weekend, including emphatically by a dozen runs on Sunday night before their charter to St. Louis, the Cardinals bunched ...Read more
Kyle Schwarber homers twice as Phillies ride early barrage for 13-7 win vs. Cubs
PHILADELPHIA — Brandon Marsh looked toward the Phillies dugout and nodded, as he handed his batting gloves to the bat boy on second base.
He’d just punched a double between two Chicago Cubs outfielders, coming through with the bases loaded to drive in two runs. Just the day before, he ended a potential Phillies rally by running into a ...Read more
Twins hit four home runs, knock out Garrett Crochet in second inning in 13-6 victory over Red Sox
MINNEAPOLIS — What presented itself as a concerning weakness now appears to have become an indomitable strength,
How can you conclude something otherwise when Detroit’s Tarik Skubal and Framber Valdez were tamed last week and, on Monday, Boston’s Garret Crochet was ambushed and taken to the woodshed?
Suddenly, the Twins can hit left-...Read more
Orioles complete wild comeback to beat Diamondbacks, 9-7
BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles were drawing dead.
They were down six runs. Their pitchers had surrendered four homers. Their manager was hit in the face by a line drive. Their bats had managed only one run in five innings.
Then, somehow, they won the game.
Jeremiah Jackson, whose foul liner struck skipper Craig Albernaz in the face, ...Read more
Skenes dominates, Pirates explode for 16 runs in win against Nationals
PITTSBURGH — There were fireworks crackling, traffic cones hoisted and a welder’s helmet worn in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ dugout.
After a 10-run sixth inning, the club’s first since 2017, and first at home since 2009, all the celebrations were necessary.
Paul Skenes walked off the mound after the top of the sixth inning to a standing ...Read more
Mariners turn early struggles around with huge four-game sweep of Astros
SEATTLE — The once-bullied are now the bullies.
After usurping the Houston Astros’ reign atop the American League West late last season in Houston, sweeping the perennial divisional winner in front of their own fans in three games at Daikin Park, the Seattle Mariners validated their expected dominance over their longtime nemesis over the ...Read more
Whatever happened to Julio Urías? 'Teams ask me about him all the time.'
LOS ANGELES — The only player twice suspended under baseball's domestic violence and sexual assault policy has yet to decide whether he wants to resume his career, according to his agent.
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías, whose second suspension expired last July, has not signed with any team since then.
Scott Boras, the agent...Read more
Vahe Gregorian: Royals' urge to move began with dreams of downtown. It's time to revive that focus.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Nearly five years ago now, Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman began speaking publicly about moving the franchise downtown and developing around the prospective new stadium. And that was some three years after it was well understood he’d seek to do so even as he was in the process of buying the club.
At the heart of the...Read more
It's time for Dodgers' Roki Sasaki to take next step
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Roki Sasaki got up to 94 pitches Sunday and limited the Texas Rangers to two runs. What a showing, right?
Well, there was a major caveat. That pitch count only got him through four innings.
“It’s not that many,” Sasaki said through Japanese interpreter Kensuke Okubo after the Dodgers’ 5-...Read more
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- Cardinals undone by walks, ragged defense, absent offense in loss to Guardians
- Justin Wrobleski's eight shutout innings, Andy Pages' homer lead Dodgers over Mets
- Trent Grisham bails out Yankees' bullpen in walk-off win over Angels





