CHICAGO — Having grown up in Kentucky, Dodgers right-hander Walker Buehler went into the visitors’ clubhouse Saturday eager to watch what would unfold during the Kentucky Derby. On Sunday night, it was the Dodgers’ turn to watch their horse dominate on the mound. Buehler allowed just one run and struck out six over seven innings …
HOUSTON — For the first time in 35 years, the Astros swept a seven-game homestand — and for the first time at Minute Maid Park — getting tremendous pitching from their starting rotation and bullpen and doing just enough offensively to put them on the heels of the first-place Angels in the American League West. …
ANAHEIM — With the Angels on the brink of losing a series to the Nationals and falling to second place in the American League West, Shohei Ohtani and Anthony Rendon had other ideas. Ohtani smacked a game-tying two-run double off Washington closer Tanner Rainey with two outs in the ninth to tie the game at …
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NEW YORK — Gleyber Torres is no stranger to walk-off hits at Yankee Stadium, having one to his name already this season with a ninth-inning single on April 23 vs. Cleveland. But he added to that lore Sunday during the Yankees’ 2-1 win in Game 1 over the Rangers, leading off the ninth with a …
SAN DIEGO — Sometime after Jorge Alfaro learned that he wasn’t in the Padres’ starting lineup on Sunday, he gave his mom a phone call. It was Mother’s Day, after all. Alfaro had already smelled her flowers. Alfaro’s mother, Consuelo Buelvas, watches every game from their native Sincelejo in Colombia. She had a message for …
MINNEAPOLIS — When Royce Lewis lost his entire 2021 season to a torn right ACL, he knew that when he next took the field, he’d have missed two full seasons of competitive professional baseball. Nobody knew what to expect upon his return — except for Lewis himself. “2022 is going to be scary and spooky, …
NEW YORK — Nothing lost. Nothing gained. Now the Braves will spend the next five months attempting to overcome the six-game division deficit they faced after ending a four-game series with a 9-2 win over the Mets on Wednesday afternoon at Citi Field. Though it was good to see these two teams face each other …
NEW YORK — Instead of just brushing this off as another series, Braves manager Brian Snitker acknowledged he was excited to see his team match up against the team with the National League’s best record. “We’ve been seeing the Mets from afar,” Snitker said. “We knew they were a really good team. They did really …
NEW YORK — As the Mets mulled Robinson Canó’s future over the weekend, general manager Billy Eppler gathered all the necessary info and relayed it to team owner Steve Cohen. Eppler told Cohen that his baseball operations department believed the best course of action would be to designate the slumping Canó for assignment. Eppler also …
NEW YORK — Tylor Megill, who began the second no-hitter in Mets history, was unaware of what he had started until long after he left the mound. Drew Smith and Seth Lugo were in the trainer’s room when the television broadcast tipped them off; they rushed out to the dugout for the ninth. So did …
