PHOENIX (AP) — Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Braxton Ashcraft pitched three scoreless innings in his major league debut on Monday. Ashcraft, one of the team's top prospects, was recalled before Pittsburgh's 5-0 loss at Arizona. Right-hander Isaac Mattson was optioned to Triple-A ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ranger Suárez struck out eight over six shutout innings, and the Philadelphia Phillies survived an injury scare to slugger Bryce Harper to beat the Atlanta Braves 2-0 on Tuesday night. Harper left in the first inning after he was hit near the right elbow by a 95.3 mph ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Bryce Harper took a knee and grasped his right arm —- the Phillies' star slugger's elbow was bruised, more than 40,000 Phillies fans stomachs were in knots — and the worst was feared as he took off for the tunnel. "Whenever your top hitters, or your best hitter, gets ...
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Willie MacIver hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning of his major league debut. Minutes later, the 28-year-old catcher threw out a runner trying to steal second for the final out that ended the Athletics' 11-game losing streak. "I woke up hoping for a ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nick Martinez worked seven strong innings and Tyler Stephenson homered to lead the Cincinnati Reds to a 7-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Monday. Martinez (3-5) allowed three singles through six shutout innings and finished seven innings allowing three runs on ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Shohei Ohtani hit a leadoff homer for the second straight game and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cleveland Guardians 7-2 on Monday night. Will Smith also went deep for the Dodgers, who bounced back after dropping two of three games in New York to the Mets. Los ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — There aren't many times when you can say Shohei Ohtani is improving. However, the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar is having a great May after not finding his power stroke until June 1 most seasons. Ohtani has hit a leadoff homer in consecutive games for the second time in his ...
CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Lionel Messi gave Inter Miami a pep talk this week, exhorting his MLS team to be "more united than ever" to get through a recent rough stretch. Motivational speeches sometimes work. Messi being Messi almost never fails. Messi got a rise out of the crowd when he scored ...
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit his 18th homer, then had a tiebreaking, two-run double in the 11th inning that lifted the Philadelphia Phillies to a 9-6 victory Saturday night extending their winning streak to nine and sending the Athletics to their 11th straight loss. Max ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Caleb Durbin and Brice Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the eighth inning to help the Milwaukee Brewers top the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Sunday. Durbin sent a sweeper from Ryan Borucki (1-2) to the track in left field, driving in two and tying it at 5. Turang brought him ...
DETROIT (AP) — Kyle Manzardo and Angel Martínez hit RBI doubles in Cleveland's four-run 10th inning, helping the Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers for the third straight game, 7-5 on Saturday night. Bo Naylor homered and drove in two runs, including a sacrifice fly that was part of the ...
DETROIT (AP) — Tarik Skubal gave up two hits and matched a career high with 13 strikeouts in his first professional complete game, Zach McKinstry had a two-run homer in a five-run fourth inning and the Detroit Tigers beat the Cleveland Guardians 5-0 Sunday to avoid a four-game sweep. The ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Seiya Suzuki and Reese McGuire homered in the eighth inning and the Chicago Cubs rallied for an 11-8 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday. Nico Hoerner and Pete Crow-Armstrong drove in two runs apiece as the NL Central Division leaders took their fourth straight ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — For the first two months of this season, Reese McGuire didn't know when his next opportunity was going to come in the majors. When it arrived on Sunday, he had the game of his career. McGuire was called up by the Chicago Cubs and had his first multihomer game in the majors ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jared Jones' second season in the big leagues is over before it even began. The Pittsburgh Pirates' pitcher underwent surgery to repair the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow on Wednesday and will miss 10 to 12 months. The 23-year-old Jones initially complained ...
EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Facing stiff resistance around the NFL, the tush push managed to move the chains and gain a fresh set of downs. League owners narrowly failed to pass a proposal to prohibit the polarizing short-yardage strategy at their spring meetings in Minnesota on Wednesday, keeping ...
DENVER (AP) — Ranger Suárez pitched into the seventh inning to outduel Germán Márquez, and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Colorado Rockies 2-0 on Thursday to sweep the four-game series. Philadelphia has won seven straight overall and 11 of its last 12 on the road. The Phillies have ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Pirates are reeling, and just about everything is on the table for a last-place team that has already fired its manager and packed a half-decade's worth of public-relations missteps into two months. Well, except for one thing: trading ace Paul Skenes. Asked ...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gavin Williams pitched six strong innings and José Ramírez had three more hits to extend his hitting streak to 14 games as the Cleveland Guardians beat the Minnesota Twins 5-1 on Wednesday. Steven Kwan was 3 for 5 with two doubles and Carlos Santana added his second home ...
Cleveland's Evan Mobley, the defensive player of the year this season, was also the top vote-getter for the NBA's All-Defensive team that was revealed on Thursday. Mobley got 99 first-team votes from a global panel of 100 writers and broadcasters who cover the NBA and cast ballots to determine ...