CLEVELAND – There’s nothing left to compare to last year. The Guardians know they face a tougher battle than they were 50 games into the 2022 season. Now they just have to figure out how to get out. Cleveland’s bats were silenced against White Sox starter Michael Kopech, who allowed just two hits in seven … Read more
Once Miller took to the mound for the first time as a big leaguer, the fiery personality that everyone loved was on full display. The talented right-hander made sure to leave the first impression after five one-running innings in the Dodgers’ 8-1 win over the Braves on Tuesday night. “He feels good. I was really … Read more
WASHINGTON — Returning to his first major league home game Tuesday afternoon, Juan Soto took the field early at Nationals Park so he could catch up with some of his former teammates and coaches. They all did a little reminiscence. Soto also had a message for them. “When it’s game time, I play for the … Read more
ST. PETERSBURG — Bang. The balloon finally burst. For a nightmarish week, everything that could go wrong has gone wrong for the Blue Jays. But Tuesday night at Tropicana Field, All That Could Go did just that in one of the biggest offensive outbursts in franchise history, as Toronto cruised to a 20-1 victory over … Read more
Gary Cohen, the Mets’ play-by-play man on SNY, has finally called this “Never Say Die Week” for the Mets, after they started looking like they were dying a bit, in what s It had turned into a lost month of May for them. It was late Friday night, after the Mets improbably beat the Guardians, … Read more
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Oakland Athletics broadcaster Glen Kuiper has been fired by NBC Sports California after he used a racial slur on a television broadcast while describing a trip to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Kuiper was suspended by the network following his slur aired during a pregame segment of an A’s game against … Read more
The season is just over a quarter away, and while a few teams have climbed to the top of their division standings with dominating leads, no one has separated themselves from the competition with a double-digit advantage. Even the Rays, who if they continue like this could threaten the single-season winning record, have only a … Read more
NEW YORK — It would be hard to find a Mets player more in need of a hit than Starling Marte. Going into the eighth inning of Game 1 of Sunday’s doubleheader at Citi Field, Marte had gone 107 consecutive streaks without an extra hit — by far the longest streak of any active major … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO — The two new Giants reached major milestones in a 7-5 win over the Marlins on Sunday afternoon at Oracle Park. Catcher Patrick Bailey threw his first career home run in just his second start, while right-handed reliever Ryan Walker picked up his first win after working a scoreless sixth inning on his … Read more
ST. LOUIS — When the Cardinals concluded they needed to find a way to fit the gigantic power and emerging bat of Nolan Gorman into the roster on a daily basis — even against the left-handed pitchers they protected him from early on of the season – manager Oliver Marmol had a direct and rather … Read more
