NEW YORK -- The Cardinals and Mets found themselves in a pitchers’ duel on Sunday afternoon at Citi Field. It took 11 innings to settle the score as New York won the game, 4-2. It was a game in which Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol couldn’t use his top three relievers

NEW YORK -- When Mark Vientos arrived at Citi Field on Saturday for the first time this season, Carlos Mendoza approached him for a chat. The manager told Vientos to be ready for every opportunity. He urged him not to worry about the awkwardness of the circumstances, the fact that

SAN FRANCISCO -- Bryan Reynolds barely had time to get his high fives in the dugout before he watched Ke'Bryan Hayes make flush contact with a Taylor Rogers sweeper. Reynolds had just given the Pirates their first lead of this Giants series off a similar sweeper two pitches earlier, pulling

CHICAGO -- White Sox hitting coach Marcus Thames spoke of his desire for a struggling Andrew Benintendi to focus on being a good hitter and to not think about power just a few days ago, when the team was playing at Target Field. Following an 8-7 walk-off victory over the

MILWAUKEE -- Clay Holmes has yet to allow an earned run this season, though the Yankees closer has admittedly navigated some traffic to keep that mark spotless. That was not the case on Friday, when the right-hander fired a dominant 10-pitch ninth inning, sending his team on to extra innings.

MILWAUKEE -- The season won’t stop while the Brewers figure out how to piece together a pitching rotation. And if they are going to play, it appears they are intent on continuing to find a way to win. Willy Adames delivered an RBI single in the 10th to extend the

BALTIMORE -- So far this season, no team has been more reliant on the home run than the A’s. More than half -- 53.2 percent -- of the A’s runs have come via the long ball, by far the most in baseball. But the offense, as a whole, has been

NEW YORK -- It's not easy to shut out the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, but Zach Eflin dominates the Bronx Bombers. And with Eflin back at the top of his game Saturday, the Rays did it. After a pitchers' duel between Eflin and Nestor Cortes, José Caballero's RBI double broke

NEW YORK -- Aaron Judge shook his head as he walked toward the dugout in the ninth inning Saturday, hearing boos from the Yankee Stadium crowd after his fourth strikeout of the afternoon -- and on his own bobblehead day, no less. Nestor Cortes offered an excellent start, but Judge

ST. LOUIS -- If you squinted hard enough at Busch Stadium on Friday night, you could almost see a cloud of dust at home plate in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, the coastal town west of Caracas where the Contreras brothers grew up. Maybe they played out the same scenario as boys,

HOUSTON -- Jeremy Peña removed his helmet with two hands after he hit into a game-ending double play on Wednesday afternoon and slammed it to the ground. Alex Bregman sat in the dugout for a few minutes after the final out and stared out at the field. Disbelief and frustration

HOUSTON -- Ronald Acuña Jr. took a couple of steps out of the batter’s box and prepared to slam his bat to the ground before realizing he had finally homered. It had been a while for the reigning National League MVP. Acuña tallied 65 at-bats before finally erasing the zero

PHILADELPHIA -- Cristian Pache hopped up and down, waiting for his teammates to meet him between first and second base. Brandon Marsh got there first, then J.T. Realmuto. A mob of Phillies teammates pushed Pache into right field, where they celebrated Monday night’s 2-1 walk-off victory over the Rockies in

PHILADELPHIA -- Odd circumstances left Kyle Freeland, the Rockies No. 1 pitcher, but pinch-runner for a night, trying to score the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning on Monday. Freeland rolled around the dirt near the plate in pain, favoring his non-throwing right arm and shoulder, after

CLEVELAND -- If you needed a good way to describe what the Guardians’ season has been like, you couldn’t find a better example than Sunday’s come-from-behind victory. The stats tell you the Guardians shouldn’t have beaten the Yankees, 8-7, in the bottom of the 10th at Progressive Field. Baseball Savant

CLEVELAND -- The 10th inning on Sunday started with pure jubilation for the Yankees. After Anthony Volpe tied the game in the ninth inning with an RBI double off Emmanuel Clase, the Yankees gained the lead in the 10th on a two-run single from Anthony Rizzo that put them in

DETROIT -- With the Minnesota offense in such rough shape while down two of its stars, manager Rocco Baldelli noted that the club would simply need to rely on the talent left in the clubhouse -- and Ryan Jeffers seized the moment. Instead of letting the disappointment of the Carlos

BOSTON -- With a talented, youthful lineup, it’s only fitting that in the early goings of the season, the Orioles have morphed into the comeback kids, picking up their sixth such win on Thursday night to complete a three-game sweep against the division-rival Red Sox. In the series finale, Baltimore’s

CLEVELAND -- For the first 12 games of the 2024 season, the White Sox have seemingly been one hit away from changing the tenor of their season. Wednesday’s rubber match against the Guardians was no different, as the Sox failed to take advantage of golden scoring opportunities in the eighth

CLEVELAND -- Josh Naylor was sitting on the bench, watching his younger brother, Bo Naylor, stand in the box with the bases loaded and the game tied in the bottom of the 10th inning. Josh kept mumbling to himself, “You're born for this moment. Be ready. You're prepared.” How did

TORONTO -- The Mariners needed a hero, badly. After dropping three straight contests and sporting a 1-4 record on the road trip, Seattle needed someone to step up and clot the bleeding. Cal Raleigh delivered just that in the 10th inning of the Mariners’ 6-1 win over the Blue Jays

NEW YORK -- The last time the Tigers started a season 4-0, they were four-time defending AL Central champions. That was in 2015. The last time they opened a season with four consecutive road wins, they were riding Chris Shelton’s hot bat to a torrid start and an eventual playoff

PHILADELPHIA -- Spencer Steer doesn't do anything flashy and isn't the type to play with emotions on his sleeve. But the Reds’ left fielder, who always seems to be in the middle of the offensive action, couldn't help but let out an emphatic yell as he rounded first base in

NEW YORK -- Sean Manaea gets it. He's been here before. In 2021, Manaea’s A’s lost their first six games and seven of their first eight, before reeling off 13 consecutive wins and finishing the season 10 games over .500. Joey Wendle gets it, too. In 2018, Wendle’s Rays went

PHOENIX -- Getting his lead off second base with Gabriel Moreno at the plate, Evan Longoria could almost see what was going to come next. So often, Longoria and his D-backs teammates have watched Moreno go the other way and hit the ball to right field. So with Moreno down