ST. LOUIS -- After making headlines with their shirtless celebrations during the Cardinals’ walk-off win on Friday night, the boys from the Stephen F. Austin club baseball team returned to Busch Stadium on Saturday afternoon. But despite the generous offer from the Cardinals manager to buy out a block of

DENVER -- The D-backs scored their first run in Saturday afternoon’s game against the Rockies at Coors Field in a unique way: they stole it. As in, they stole home in the second inning thanks to a perfectly executed double steal by Lourdes Gurriel Jr. and Jose Fernandez. Gurriel, who

CLEVELAND -- Sal Stewart remained confident that the first prolonged hitting slump of his big league career will eventually end, but the Reds' rookie first baseman certainly isn't enjoying it. That was crystal clear during Friday's 7-6 win over the Guardians.

Every lineup deals with its share of slumps and injuries. When top players aren’t producing, clubs need unexpected sources of production to step up. The players below have done that and then some. With more than a quarter of the season gone, here are nine of the most surprising names

ST. LOUIS -- It was the Stephen F. Austin club baseball team that made waves at Busch Stadium on Friday night, congregating in a sparsely-populated section in the 200 level of the stands -- and owning the night with their shirtless cheering and celebrations that helped propel the Cardinals to

DETROIT -- It took 10 innings, too many of which were completely empty, but the Blue Jays finally scraped out a win Saturday against the Tigers. Daulton Varsho drove in the go-ahead run in the 2-1 win with a line-drive single in the top of the 10th, one of three

Division rivalries, city rivalries, state rivalries and Interleague rivalries are on tap this weekend for the second annual Rivalry Weekend presented by Booking.com. Watch select out of market games free on the MLB app. Through Sunday, you can watch every game for free on MLB.TV (excluding Apple TV games on

ST. PETERSBURG – Marlins No. 4 prospect Joe Mack is known for his arm, but even he couldn’t believe the accidental trick he pulled off in Friday night’s 7-2 loss to the Rays at Tropicana Field. When Mack threw down to second baseman Xavier Edwards in the middle of the

Justin Verlander is one of the few pitchers to have performed during the entire pitch-tracking era of Major League Baseball. He broke into the big leagues in 2005, which is well before Statcast debuted in 2015, and even before Pitchf/x began in '08. He once cruised. Earlier in his career,

PITTSBURGH – The orange traffic cones, which have become a whimsical rallying point for the Pirates this season, went to a whole other level on Friday night at PNC Park. When Marcell Ozuna hit a two-run home run into the Pirates’ bullpen in right-center field to cap a six-run third

WASHINGTON -- Three days after Dylan Beavers hit the injured list with a right oblique strain, the Orioles found a way to add to their organizational outfield depth. Baltimore is signing Tommy Pham to a Minor League deal, a source told MLB.com on Saturday. The club has not confirmed the

DETROIT -- Casey Mize returned from the injured list and gave the injury-depleted Tigers exactly what they needed, tossing six scoreless innings to keep the Tigers in a Saturday afternoon pitchers' duel at Comerica Park, before Detroit fell, 2-1, to Toronto in 10 innings. Mize had quietly put together a

PITTSBURGH -- Designated hitter Kyle Schwarber put himself in the Phillies' record book as his team came back from a six-run deficit and defeated the Pirates, 11-9, in 10 innings at PNC Park on Friday night. “That was a wild one,” Phillies manager Don Mattingly said. It was the bottom

NEW YORK -- A Mets team already decimated by injuries endured a nightmare scenario late Friday night, when the club learned that starting pitcher Clay Holmes suffered a fractured right fibula and will “be down for a long time,” according to manager Carlos Mendoza. Holmes was placed on the 15-day

ATLANTA -- The struggling Red Sox now have another injury to deal with. Shortstop Trevor Story was placed on the 10-day injured list with a sports hernia prior to Saturday’s game against the Braves. In a corresponding move, the club recalled utility infielder Nick Sogard from Triple-A Worcester.

DETROIT -- José Berríos will undergo right elbow surgery on Wednesday, the Blue Jays announced, but we won’t know just how serious this procedure is until the doctors begin to operate. Dr. Keith Meister will perform the surgery after meeting with Berríos over the past week to examine the stress

NEW YORK – The Yankees’ dream pairing of Max Fried and Gerrit Cole atop the rotation never materialized during their first season as teammates. That anticipated one-two punch appears to be delayed this year, too. Fried was placed on the 15-day injured list with a left elbow bone bruise, which

NEW YORK – All these years later, there’s still a palpable jolt of energy when the Subway Series rolls around. Manhattan’s avenues were flooded by rivalry caps as the weekend closed in, and by dusk, each pitch could be seen on an ultra-high-definition Times Square billboard that spanned an entire

ST. LOUIS -- Yohel Pozo did so much hooting and hollering while running the bases during his three-hit game in West Sacramento on Thursday, that by the time he delivered a walk-off hit at Busch Stadium on Friday night, he hardly had enough voice left to celebrate audibly.

MINNEAPOLIS -- It looked like a game-saving play by Twins infielder Brooks Lee. Moments later, the tying and winning runs for the Brewers had scored and Minnesota manager Derek Shelton had been ejected. A 3-2 Brewers win over the Twins on Friday night at Target Field turned in the blink

CHICAGO -- The Cubs fans who flocked to Rate Field on Friday night did what they could to make their presence known. The backdrop was different and the hometown rivalry revved up the atmosphere, but the chants when Pete Crow-Armstrong stepped to the plate in the seventh inning were familiar.

DENVER -- When Merrill Kelly took the mound at Coors Field in the D-backs’ series opener against the Rockies on Friday night, he had made 177 starts in his Major League career and 382 professional starts overall.

ATLANTA -- Growing up in suburban Boston as the grandson of Red Sox legend Carl Yastrzemski, Mike Yastrzemski adopted the Braves as his favorite National League team. His fandom was so strong that he went through a portion of his childhood sleeping with a baseball glove that Bobby Cox gave

HOUSTON -- Spencer Arrighetti started the season in Triple-A Sugar Land, and he admits that, “it felt like a kick in the face in the moment, but I never got discouraged.”

NEW YORK -- Juan Soto ticked off his list of ailments in a matter-of-fact manner: “The hand, calf, elbow, everything.” The start of the season has not been kind to Soto, who landed on the injured list back in April and hasn’t quite been 100% since. Soto did manage to