MLB News
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MLB: Trey Mancini signs one last day as an Oriole
Trey Mancini will wear the Orioles uniform one last time on Sept. 19. A one-day contract closes a career built around a comeback that had nothing to do with baseball.
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MLB: Rays clear final vote for $2.36 billion Tampa ballpark
A 5-2 county vote pushed the Rays’ $2.36 billion ballpark through, one day after Tampa’s city council backed the project by a single vote.
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MLB: Cubs get Matt Shaw back from the injured list
Two months after spraining his left hand, Matt Shaw is back on the Chicago roster. Kevin Alcantara heads to Triple-A Iowa to make room.
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MLB: Brian Cashman set for a 30th season running the Yankees
Thirty years at the same desk He was 31 when George Steinbrenner hired him. The Yankees owner used to fire executives the way other people change shirts. Brian Cashman stayed put. He is 59 now. According to the New York Post, which broke the story on Friday, he is set for a 30th season in…
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MLB: Nationals hand knuckleballer Matt Waldron a debut
Three organisations in five weeks. Matt Waldron takes the mound in Washington on Wednesday night, and the Nationals cut a four-year veteran loose to make room for him.
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MLB: Waldschmidt’s pinch-hit walk-off sinks the Cubs
Four runs down, two outs, one swing Ryan Waldschmidt came off the bench as a pinch-hitter and walked away as the hero. The Arizona Diamondbacks rookie launched a hanging slider 124 meters into the left-field seats with two outs in the ninth inning, lifting Arizona to a 5-4 win over the Chicago Cubs in Phoenix…
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MLB: Lindor’s dive and a wild throw sink the Brewers
Lindor dove to save the ninth, got picked off seconds later, then scored the winning run in the 10th on a throw that sailed. The last-place Mets took down baseball’s best team.
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MLB: Royals win ninth straight, longest streak since 2017
Nine in a row, a number Kansas City has not seen since July 2017 The Royals beat Toronto 5-3 at Rogers Centre on Tuesday and pushed their winning streak to nine. The last time they ran this hot was July 19-28, 2017. Nothing about it was spectacular. Salvador Perez singled home the go-ahead run in…
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MLB: Alvarez triple downs the Yankees in the Bronx
Brent Headrick had allowed a run in only 11 outings all season. Houston needed one inning to hang four on him. Alvarez, Diaz and a 9-7 night in the Bronx.
