MLB News
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MLB: Skubal survives a brutal first to earn his first Dodgers win
Three runs before he recorded three outs Pittsburgh hung three on Tarik Skubal in the first inning. Dodger Stadium went quiet in the way it does when a very expensive acquisition looks like it might not work. Then he retired 20 of the next 23 hitters. Seven innings, 11 strikeouts, three runs, five hits, one…
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MLB: JJ Bleday hits for the cycle as Reds bury Diamondbacks
Four hits, four boxes ticked Twenty-four hours earlier, the Reds had scraped together four singles and lost 9-0. That was the 13th time this season Cincinnati failed to score at all. Then Phoenix happened. Sixteen hits, an 11-5 win over the Diamondbacks, and JJ Bleday putting together the kind of night that ends up in…
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MLB: Painter and Schwarber push Phillies to eight in a row
Andrew Painter went seven strong innings, Kyle Schwarber hit his MLB-leading 38th home run, and Philadelphia made it eight wins in a row with a 12-3 rout.
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MLB: Bleday hits for the cycle as Reds rout Arizona
JJ Bleday collected the eighth cycle in Reds history overnight in Phoenix. Elly De La Cruz, who owns the previous one, finished a triple short of his own.
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MLB: Royals chase a seventh straight win over Detroit
Bottom of the AL Central, 18 games under .500, and winners of six in a row. Kansas City host a Detroit side that has scored six runs in three games.
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MLB: Alonso gets to 30 homers for a sixth straight year
Thirty. For the sixth time Pete Alonso launched his 30th ball over the wall on Friday night. That makes six straight seasons with at least 30 homers. Some players put together good years. He stacks up decades. The homer came at the right time. Baltimore had dropped four straight. The Orioles beat Tampa Bay 5-3…
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MLB: Leo Rivas walks it off as Mariners edge Cubs
A pinch runner with the lightest bat on the field settled a four-homer night in Seattle. The Cubs led 3-0 after one inning and still lost in the 10th.
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MLB: Dodgers not for sale, Stan Kasten shuts the door
Mark Walter has just cashed out of the Lakers and is facing federal scrutiny. The Dodgers, says team president Stan Kasten, are going nowhere.
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MLB: Wild throw hands Texas a walk-off win over the Angels
Texas and Los Angeles went nine innings without a run in Arlington. Then Denzer Guzman doubled, Wyatt Langford answered, and a wide throw settled it.
