LOS ANGELES -- Sunday's starting pitcher for the Dodgers walked off the mound after a scoreless first inning. A couple of minutes later, he was standing in the batter's box to lead off the bottom half of the frame. That's just the beginning of what amazes the Dodgers about Shohei

CHICAGO -- Cal Raleigh cannot be stopped. The Mariners’ catcher crushed another massive home run in Sunday afternoon’s 14-6 win at Wrigley Field, ambushing the first pitch he saw and sending it 414 feet to straightaway center field for a two-run blast in the top of the first inning.

The rest of the NL West was starting to sneak up on the Dodgers over the last couple of weeks, but even with their usual batch of pitcher injuries, they’re starting to look like themselves again -- as you can tell from Shohei Ohtani’s back-to-the-halcyon-days-of-Anaheim double-duty game on Sunday. Can

Yandy Díaz is, in a word, strong. His workout routines have been featured in muscle magazines, he crushes broken-bat home runs and when you sit in front of him and, very carefully, ask him questions about how he's gotten so huge ... his answers are hardly surprising. "I try to

NEW YORK -- Churning around third base, Jazz Chisholm Jr. was slipping and sliding inside his left cleat, the perspiration from a summer Bronx afternoon already having soaked through his Yankees-issued socks by the second inning. When the laces came loose, there was no time to turn back. His shoe

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies knew the National League East wasn't going to be won or lost in one June series against the Mets. They do, after all, still have more than half of the season left to play.

The LSU Tigers are once again the kings of Division I college baseball. The sixth-seeded Tigers used a four-run fourth inning and a solid performance from starting pitcher Anthony Eyanson (MLB Pipeline's No. 66 Draft prospect) to defeat 13th-seeded Coastal Carolina on Saturday, 5-3, and secure the program's second College

SAN DIEGO -- Jac Caglianone didn’t feel the ball hit his glove. Jackson Merrill crushed a hanging changeup from Royals reliever Lucas Erceg. As the bail sailed over right field, it looked destined to clear the fence for a two-run homer that would have broken the deadlock that the Royals

Had Royals outfielder Drew Waters pulled this off, it would have been one of the great plays at the plate in recent memory. With Kansas City and San Diego tied at two in the ninth on Sunday afternoon, Freddy Fermin knocked a base hit into the right-center-field gap, and Waters

NEW YORK -- A wild collision at the plate on Sunday afternoon resulted in an early departure for Orioles catcher Maverick Handley at Yankee Stadium. Handley exited the O’s 4-2 loss in the series finale against the Yankees in the bottom of the second inning after he was hit hard

At some point this week, every MLB team is scheduled to play its 81st game of the year. Yep, we are already halfway through this season. During this first full week of summer, we'll be treated to a matchup between two red-hot teams in first place as well as two

When MLB.com senior club reporter Jason Beck outlined five questions facing the Tigers ahead of the offseason, he led with the most-pressing one: Where can Detroit upgrade its offense? The story of the 2024 Tigers was one of “pitching chaos,” with Tarik Skubal and a cavalry of relief arms steering

PHILADELPHIA -- Francisco Alvarez, the talented, affable 23-year-old catcher who once rated as the No. 1 prospect in baseball, is going to work out his issues in the Minors. Before their 7-1 loss to the Phillies on Sunday at Citizens Bank Park, the Mets optioned Alvarez to Triple-A Syracuse and

SAN DIEGO -- The Padres signed Jose Iglesias precisely for a day like this. The veteran infielder played only three innings on Sunday afternoon. But did he ever make those three innings count?

DENVER -- Diamondbacks outfielder Corbin Carroll was out of the lineup for the third straight game on Sunday and will undergo an MRI on his left hand Monday when the team arrives in Chicago for a three-game series with the White Sox. Carroll was hit on the hand Wednesday night

TORONTO -- Nearly three months since he made his debut with the Blue Jays, Max Scherzer is back. Scherzer is officially listed as the Blue Jays’ starter for Wednesday in Cleveland, what the Blue Jays hope will be the end of a long, challenging battle against his pesky right thumb.

TAMPA -- Clutch hitting, shutdown pitching and superb defense. The recipe seemed familiar for the Tigers on Sunday afternoon, when they defeated the Rays, 9-3, at George M. Steinbrenner Field to snap a three-game losing streak and salvage the series finale.

ANAHEIM -- Angels superstar Mike Trout is still dealing with some soreness in his left knee, which has kept him from playing right field since his return from the injured list three weeks ago, but it hasn’t affected his ability to impact games as a designated hitter. Trout, who suffered

In the nightcap of Sunday’s AUSL doubleheader, fans at Love’s Field were greeted with a familiar sight: Sam Landry pitching in the circle. Landry -- a second-team All-American during her senior season at Oklahoma -- had a homecoming for the Volts on Sunday night, returning to familiar confines. She completed

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Heliot Ramos put the Giants in an early hole with a costly defensive miscue in the first inning. But the 25-year-old outfielder ultimately made up for it with his bat. Ramos went 2-for-4 with four RBIs, and Casey Schmitt, Mike Yastrzemski and Willy Adames each homered to

MINNEAPOLIS -- Most of the time, to see an avalanche you have to be in a frigid climate. But in sub-tropical conditions this weekend, the Brewers buried the Twins with an avalanche of hits. Caleb Durbin had three of the Brewers’ 17 hits on Sunday as Milwaukee completed a three-game

ANAHEIM -- After Sunday’s 8-7 series-clinching victory over the Angels, the Astros head back to Houston with an MLB-best 14-6 record in June, including nine wins in a run of 13 straight games without an off-day. “We’re never out of a game,” manager Joe Espada said after the Astros held

While Chase Burns was considered to be among the top arms in the 2024 Draft class, one with premium athleticism and power stuff, there was a question mark hanging over him as a pitching prospect that made some teams pause. His fastball.

Backed by a historic partnership with Major League Baseball, the Athletes Unlimited Softball League has launched its inaugural season and will be pitting its four teams against each other until the championship weekend in late July. Thanks to the widest broadcast distribution of any season in any sport under the