ANAHEIM – The Los Angeles Angels’ charter flight back from New York on Thursday should have been loud. The team was fresh off a gritty series against the Yankees, the kind of road trip that usually fuels a boisterous ride home. Instead, as the plane crossed into California, the cabin

WEST SACRAMENTO -- Maybe a short trip to the West Coast was exactly what the White Sox needed to warm up.

It was 25 years ago that a 13th-round Draft pick out of junior college emerged out of nowhere to rip 88 extra-base hits for the Cardinals and the first position player to go from Nippon Professional Baseball to MLB cranked out 242 hits and 56 steals for the 116-win Mariners.

NEW YORK – Mired in an early-season skid that has tested his patience, Ryan McMahon went searching for answers in the cages beneath Yankee Stadium. Out of the lineup and with time on his hands, the infielder estimated he took “probably about a hundred” extra swings on Friday evening. And

DENVER -- Shohei Ohtani wasted no time in extending his remarkable on-base streak to 49 games, ripping a leadoff double down the right-field line in the Dodgers’ series opener against the Rockies at Coors Field on Friday night.

BOSTON -- Sometime around the bottom of the fifth inning Friday night, Red Sox manager Alex Cora told Masataka Yoshida to get ready for a pinch-hitting opportunity. While his turn didn’t come until the bottom of the 10th inning, Yoshida took advantage of it, poking a pinch-hit, walk-off single for

PHILADELPHIA -- Martín Pérez passed through waivers, rejected an outright assignment, became a free agent, signed a Minor League deal and then was slotted right back in the same rotation spot he had been in before the Braves initially designated him for assignment on Sunday. “It worked,” a smiling Austin

Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Coors Field is covered in snow. The Rockies and Dodgers are set to begin a four-game series in Denver on Friday night, but Mother Nature isn't making it easy. On Friday afternoon, snow blanketed the ballpark and created a winter wonderland that made

Is peak Mike Trout back? The early 2026 results appear to indicate so. Through Thursday’s games, the Angels’ star is hitting .246/.416/.594 with seven home runs and is a top 10 player by FanGraphs’ version of WAR (1.0). While there were some preseason indications that Trout could have another prime

WASHINGTON -- Heliot Ramos needed that. With one cathartic swing, Ramos took a big step toward breaking out of his early season slump, launching a three-run home run to spark the Giants’ 10-5 series-opening win over the Nationals on Friday night at Nationals Park.

It's a new era for the longstanding relationship between MLB and ESPN. Though ESPN is no longer the home for “Sunday Night Baseball” (now on NBC) or the Home Run Derby (now on Netflix), the sports broadcasting network is actually bringing fans more baseball than ever.

DENVER -- The temperature at first pitch of the Dodgers’ 7-1 win in their series opener with the Rockies at Coors Field on Friday was 35 degrees, the lowest temperature for any game the Dodgers have played in this century.

PITTSBURGH – You’re unlikely to hear an excuse from Bubba Chandler after a less than stellar outing on the mound. Quite the opposite actually. The right-hander has filed plenty of grievances about his own pitching through the first few weeks of the season, mostly related to struggles with command resulting

CLEVELAND -- Would the Orioles prefer to start swinging the bats better in the early innings of games and generate more offense from the get-go? Of course. And they hope that will begin to happen soon. But let’s admit, it’s been pretty fun to watch this year’s Baltimore squad show

One of the best starting pitchers in baseball right now -- maybe the best -- doesn't even throw a four-seam fastball. But that's how nasty Cristopher Sánchez is. He doesn't need one. That's rarer than you might realize. Nearly every Major League starter has a four-seamer. Only a small handful,

HOUSTON -- So far this season, the Cardinals have been able to win in a number of ways. They mixed it up on Friday night with small ball early before capping it off with the long ball. Nolan Gorman hit a three-run homer and Iván Herrera had a two-run blast

SEATTLE -- The first inning was strenuous. Rangers ace Jacob deGrom took the mound on Friday and quickly was faced with a bases-loaded jam of his own making after a pair of walks -- including a 10-pitch battle with Josh Naylor -- and a double from Mariners star Julio Rodríguez.

DENVER -- When Will Smith hit a broken-bat single to center field to open the third inning of the Dodgers’ 7-1 win over the Rockies at Coors Field on Friday night, the bat “died a hero,” as they say.

PHOENIX -- The Michael Soroka signing at last year's Winter Meetings didn't generate much buzz, but through four starts it's shaping up to be a masterstroke by Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen. Soroka tossed another gem Friday night, holding the Blue Jays to a pair of runs over seven innings

CLEVELAND -- Tanner Bibee laced up his cleats on Friday just as like any other start. Only this time, his uniform configuration for his outing against the Orioles carried extra meaning. Bibee made a special announcement with his cleats on Friday. He donned pink laces, as part of a gender

CHICAGO -- The Cubs spent the first couple weeks of this season searching for consistency within their offense. From manager Craig Counsell to the players, there was a repeated mantra that things were bound to turn around soon, given the list of notable names throughout Chicago’s lineup. Over the past

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. -- That flash in the sky over New York City on Friday night around 6:35 p.m. ET was likely lightning from a passing rain shower, but maybe, for Yankees fans, it was a beacon of hope -- so bright it could be seen from some 49 miles south

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Eyeblack streaked across Malia Bagley’s cheekbones as sweat cut through it. The red seams of a spinning baseball blurred on its way to the plate. She dug her cleats into the dirt and adjusted her stance, a long ponytail slipping from beneath her helmet. Every detail

It’s hard to imagine a more intimidating experience in baseball at the moment than batting against Mason Miller. The Padres’ fireballing closer has faced 30 batters this year, and precisely one of them has gotten a hit. (Luis Arraez, for the record.) Twenty-three of them have struck out. Miller hasn’t