Michael King isn’t quite back to his old self.

But he’s getting there.

Hours after rotation-mate Nick Pivetta landed on the injured list, King fashioned his second straight quality start, Xander Bogaerts drove in three runs and Mason Miller was dominant again in a 4-1 win over the Mariners on Tuesday night in front of a crowd of 38,152 at ...Read more

Dodgers left-handed reliever Alex Vesia emerged from the bullpen, not closer and former Met Edwin Díaz, in the ninth inning with a one-run lead.

En route to the Dodgers’ 2-1 win over the Mets, Vesia struck out the side. He hopped and fist pumped as the Dodgers formed their handshake line. With the win, the Dodgers ensured at least a series ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — After the Cardinals capitalized on a pair of Guardians fielding mistakes to send them into extra innings, they made the most of a third one to secure a walk-off win Tuesday night at Busch Stadium.

Down 5-4 in the ninth inning after rookie JJ Wetherholt hit a two-run homer to bring them within one run, Yohel Pozo’s double to ...Read more

Rockies’ law — anything that can go wrong, will go wrong — reared its ugly head Tuesday night in Houston.

The Rockies wasted an early 3-0 lead and a two-homer performance by Hunter Goodman in a 7-6 loss to the Astros. Colorado, swept in four games in San Diego, has lost five consecutive games.

Credit Colorado for battling back. Down 7-3 ...Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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