With the New York Yankees desperate for a win, Paul Goldschmidt delivered off the bench on Wednesday when Aaron Boone asked the veteran to pinch-hit.

The right-handed hitter replaced the lefty-swinging Austin Wells with Texas Rangers southpaw Robert Garcia on the mound in the seventh inning. With the game tied at two and Texas searching for a ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Trevor Rogers delivered one of his worst performances of the season Wednesday afternoon. He tossed six innings of one-run ball.

His start Wednesday in the Orioles’ 5-1 win over the Phillies served as the latest reminder — as if another was needed — that this is just who Rogers is now. The southpaw didn’t have his best ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Mets have hit rock bottom.

Relying on David Peterson to throw seven innings every 5-6 days while the rest of the rotation only goes five innings clearly isn’t an effective plan. But then again, nearly getting no-hit is also a pretty ineffective plan.

Right-hander Gavin Williams no-hit the Mets through 8 1/3 innings on ...Read more

BOSTON — Roman Anthony isn’t going anywhere.

According to a report by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, the Red Sox have reached an agreement to sign Anthony to an eight-year, $130 million contract extension that will keep the club’s top rookie in Boston through the 2034 season.

Passan reports that the deal will start in 2026 and include significant...Read more

A woman will umpire a major league game for the first time Saturday when Jen Pawol works the bases during Saturday's doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and visiting Miami Marlins at Truist Park.

For Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, that announcement Wednesday brought one response: It's about time.

"That's great. I'll be watching," he said of...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Jerar Encarnacion cannot catch a break.

As the Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-2, on Wednesday afternoon at PNC Park, Encarnacion hit his second home run in as many games but left the game later with an apparent leg injury when trying to beat out an infield single.

After being swept by both the Pirates and New York Mets ...Read more

It might be a cliché this time of year, how injured players who return after the trade deadline can serve as de facto deadline acquisitions themselves.

But in the case of Max Muncy and the Dodgers, the team needed it to be true. Badly.

Immediately after Muncy went down with a knee injury in early July, the club’s lineup entered a deep ...Read more

PHOENIX — The Padres got a big night from their new left fielder, who set them up for a victory.

Then their new relief pitcher allowed a mammoth home run on a blazing fastball.

So they played a little more, scored five runs in the top of the 11th against Jake Woodford, the sixth relief pitcher to work for the Diamondbacks, and held on to ...Read more

Tuesday’s seven-run fourth inning was the kind of breakout performance the Rays have been talking about as a platform to end their extended skid and get back to their winning ways.

After they turned that big inning into a 7-3 win over the Angels, now we’ll see what it leads to.

For the night, anyway, they had reason to be happy, winning ...Read more

Eugenio Suárez hit a mammoth two-run home run — his 37th homer of the season and first since his return to Seattle — and Bryan Woo threw a seven-inning gem to lead the Mariners to a 8-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox in the opener of their three-game series Tuesday night before a crowd of 30,686 at T-Mobile Park.

Dominic Canzone and ...Read more

DENVER — Anthony Molina bombed on Blake Street. That was not a good thing.

Called up from Triple-A Albuquerque as a replacement part for the Rockies’ rickety rotation, the right-hander gave his team a fighting chance for five innings Tuesday night. True, he gave up a solo home run to Nathan Lukes in the third and a two-run blast to Daulton ...Read more

DETROIT – Stepping into a major league batter’s box for the first time in 103 days, Luke Keaschall welcomed himself back with a home run in his first at-bat.

Facing former teammate Chris Paddack at Comerica Park, Keaschall fouled the first pitch he saw Tuesday night. He hammered the next pitch, an 89-mph cutter, and sent the ball sailing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Between now and October, the Dodgers will be evaluating their increasingly healthy pitching staff, trying to identify the best 13 arms for their World Series push.

And for now, they remain hopeful that rookie right-hander Roki Sasaki could be part of that mix; writing an unexpected end to what once seemed like a lost 2025 ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer understood the gamble the organization might be taking when they acquired right-hander Michael Soroka.

Soroka, the only starting pitcher the Cubs traded for, has a lengthy injury history and experienced a significant decrease in velocity in the last four weeks with Washington, ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Giants haven’t had many complete team victories in recent weeks. Their rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at PNC Park certainly qualifies.

Christian Koss, Jerar Encarnacion and Willy Adames homered. Patrick Bailey drove in two runs, and Heliot Ramos reached base four times. Logan Webb pitched six innings of one...Read more

BOSTON — Monday’s series opener with the visiting Kansas City Royals was a slugfest.

Tuesday was largely a pitchers' duel: Ryan Bergert versus Garrett Crochet.

Both were Red Sox wins.

In yet another sold-out show at America’s Most Beloved Ballpark, Boston triumphed, 6-2, Tuesday night to extend the winning streak to seven.

Crochet made...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Never mind that the Phillies acquired only one hitter at the trade deadline. Or that Harrison Bader arrived with better numbers than every outfielder on the roster. Or that he hit his first Phillies homer earlier this week.

Max Kepler still started in left field Tuesday night.

Say this, then, for manager Rob Thomson: He keeps ...Read more