LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers have desperately needed some good news regarding their depleted starting rotation. Yoshinobu Yamamoto's return came at the perfect time. Yamamoto took the hill in Tuesday's game against the Cubs after missing nearly three months with a right shoulder injury. The Japanese right-hander delivered another impressive

PHILADELPHIA -- Nick Castellanos sensed trouble. He has played enough baseball to know when a pitcher might throw at a batter intentionally. He figured he might be next. He had just watched Rays right-hander Edwin Uceta implode in the Phillies’ 9-4 victory on Tuesday night at Citizens Bank Park. Uceta

SEATTLE -- Manny Machado is alone atop the Padres' home run leaderboard. His sixth-inning drive against the Mariners on Tuesday night was the 164th home run of his six-year Padres tenure, moving him past slugger Nate Colbert into the top spot.

BOSTON -- For quite some time, Cedric Mullins was focused on trying to return to his 2021 form. That was the year the Orioles’ center fielder was an All-Star and a Silver Slugger while setting career highs in nearly every offensive stat, including homers (30), OPS (.878) and more. Mullins

WASHINGTON -- There haven’t been many starting pitchers more effective when healthy this season than Reynaldo López, and few teams have relied more on their rotation during the stretch run than the Braves. Now, Atlanta may find itself fighting for its seventh straight postseason appearance without López and his 2.03

MINNEAPOLIS -- As the final batting practice group wrapped up before Tuesday’s game against the Angels, Kyle Farmer signed a few autographs and bantered with three reporters at the end of the dugout, as he often does. But then, before disappearing down the tunnel into the clubhouse, he gestured at

CHICAGO -- At this point in the season, the Guardians know they can’t afford to lose another starting pitcher. So, to say the group breathed a sigh of relief when they learned that Ben Lively was OK after taking a comebacker off the leg would be quite the understatement. The

PHILADELPHIA -- Kyle Schwarber is an imposing force atop the Phillies’ lineup. They hope they haven’t lost him to an injury. He hit his 14th leadoff home run of the season on Tuesday night against the Rays at Citizens Bank Park, setting an MLB single-season record. Schwarber had been tied

NEW YORK -- Baseball fans at Yankee Stadium saw firsthand why Royals right-hander Seth Lugo is considered among the front-runners for the American League Cy Young Award. He was dealing on Tuesday, helping the Royals blank the Yankees, 5-0. Kansas City remained in possession of the second AL Wild Card

The final month of the regular season is here, and you know what that means: Every game takes on greater importance in the race for the postseason. Will the Orioles overtake the Yankees and win back-to-back AL East titles? Who will win the AL Central? You can catch all these

SAN FRANCISCO -- Tuesday’s 3-2 win over the Giants at Oracle Park began a segment of the schedule that will test these Brewers. It was the first of 13 games in 13 days, finishing with 10 in a row against two teams -- Arizona and Philadelphia -- Milwaukee could very

Good pitching can be hard to find -- look at the flurry of activity at the Trade Deadline for evidence -- so clubs that can develop talents on the mound themselves can get a considerable leg up on the competition. Think of where the Phillies would be without homegrown talents

DETROIT -- Keider Montero became the first Tiger to throw a shutout since Spencer Turnbull’s no-hitter in 2021, supported by three runs and three RBIs from Parker Meadows in the Tigers’ 11-0 win over the Rockies on Tuesday. The Tigers’ largest shutout win at Comerica Park since 2022 continued their

PHOENIX -- Jacob deGrom’s long road back to a Major League mound has been highly anticipated, a journey that has kept the Rangers eagerly waiting throughout an arduous season. That wait is about to come to an end. deGrom is set to return from Tommy John on Friday in Seattle

This story was excerpted from AJ Cassavell’s Padres Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. SAN DIEGO -- "Everybody hates strikeouts," Luis Arraez says. That’s true, I counter, but surely you hate them more than anybody else -- right?

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SEATTLE -- With 17 games left in the regular season and the Padres atop a tight NL Wild Card race, Padres manager Mike Shildt opted for a new-look solution to the club’s shortstop issue. Rather, it’s an old-look solution: Xander Bogaerts started at his former position on Tuesday night for

SEATTLE -- Luis Castillo joked on Tuesday afternoon at T-Mobile Park that if anyone saw him dancing in the coming days, that would be the sign that he’s doing just fine. But unfortunately for “La Piedra” and the Mariners, Castillo's good spirits didn’t prevent him from landing on the 15-day

Major League Baseball will continue its tradition of honoring the victims of Sept. 11, 2001, with a series of tributes planned for Wednesday, 23 years to the day after the attacks. In addition to teams holding pregame tributes around the league, all players, managers and coaches for the Mets and

TORONTO -- You can’t count on lightning to strike twice. Two games and one extra-base hit into the series at Rogers Centre, the Mets are back where they started, tied with the Braves in the National League Wild Card race after a 6-2 loss to the Blue Jays on Tuesday

NEW YORK -- The Yankees were stymied by Royals Cy Young candidate Seth Lugo on Tuesday, setting up a rubber game in Wednesday's series finale at Yankee Stadium. New York fell, 5-0, to Kansas City in the second game of the matchup between American League playoff contenders. A day after

HOUSTON -- The A’s dropped down three consecutive bunts against reliever Héctor Neris to start the 12th inning, enabling them to push across a pair of runs, to beat the Astros, 4-3, in the opener of a three-game series Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park.

BOSTON -- After an eruption by the bats on Monday night, the Red Sox thought the rejuvenation of their recently slumping offense was finally about to take place, and just in time for the critical final weeks of the regular season. But on Tuesday, the bats reverted back to a

The Brewers, entering Monday with the largest divisional lead of any team in the Majors, weren’t expected to be here. After all, the heroes of their recent success – pitchers Corbin Burnes, Brandon Woodruff, and previously Josh Hader, as well as long-time manager Craig Counsell – have all either moved