MLB News
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MLB: Dodgers bury Cincinnati 14-1 for a seventh straight win
Seven in a row, and two stars watched from the dugout Shohei Ohtani did not play. Freddie Freeman did not play. Los Angeles still hung 14 runs on Cincinnati and walked off with a seventh consecutive win, their longest run of the year, to move to 89-57. The sweep was the whole point. Three games,…
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MLB: Mets survive 15-14 in Miami after blowing an 8-0 lead
Eight runs up, then nothing The Mets were up 8-0 in the third inning in Miami on Tuesday night. They won 15-14. In between, just about everything went wrong. The Marlins scored three runs in the fourth, then five in the sixth to tie it up. New York hit back with six in the seventh,…
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MLB: Lombard, 21, slams the Yankees past Colorado
George Lombard Jr. is 21 years and 99 days old. Only Mickey Mantle has hit a grand slam younger in a Yankees uniform.
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MLB: Yamamoto strikes out 10 as Dodgers bury Reds
Ten strikeouts, three hits allowed and a career-high 13th win. Yoshinobu Yamamoto handed Cincinnati a 14-1 defeat and pushed the Dodgers’ winning run to seven.
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MLB: Denzel Ward buys into the Guardians
The Browns cornerback has taken a stake in Cleveland’s baseball team. He is the second NFL player to join the Guardians ownership group this year.
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MLB: Astros run into Cristopher Sanchez in Philadelphia
Houston took the opener 6-5 in Philadelphia. Now they run into Cristopher Sanchez, one of the best arms in baseball, with the AL West lead sitting on the table.
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MLB: Chourio’s four-hit night drags the Brewers past the Cubs
Four hits, and one of them changed everything Jackson Chourio came to the plate in the ninth with two outs and Milwaukee down 3-2. He was already 3-for-4 on the night. Then he turned on a Jacob Webb pitch and put two runs on the board, and a game the Brewers looked ready to hand…
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MLB: Rangers bury Seattle 10-5 and hang on in the wild-card race
Five runs in one inning, and T-Mobile Park emptied out early Corey Seager did not wait. First inning, first real swing of consequence, and Bryce Miller’s pitch was gone. Texas beat Seattle 10-5 on Tuesday night, and the shape of the thing was set before most of the crowd had settled into their seats. The…
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MLB: Back-to-back homers carry Toronto past the A’s
Josh Smith and Kazuma Okamoto went back-to-back in the second, Jose Soriano handled the rest, and Toronto stayed within a game of the wild card.
