BALTIMORE — With runners on the corners and the Yankees hoping for a two-out rally in the first inning, Giancarlo Stanton drove the 450th home run of his career over Camden Yards’ towering right-field wall on Saturday night.

The three-run jack sparked the Bombers’ offense in a 6-1 win that coincided with the Blue Jays’ fourth loss in a ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals entered Saturday’s action with just two home games remaining at Kauffman Stadium this season.

After scoring 20 runs on Friday night, the Royals gave their fan base another reason to celebrate this weekend. Early arriving fans got a chance to meet their favorite players and take a special photo on ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Chandler’s first start at PNC Park was a disaster. His second was one of the better outings any pitcher on his team has delivered all season.

In just his third career start as a major leaguer, Chandler followed up a stellar performance last week with an equally impressive showing Saturday evening, throwing five scoreless ...Read more

CHICAGO — The San Diego Padres took one more step toward the inevitable and one more step toward having to make some decisions.

Their tiptoed march to the postseason continued on Saturday with a 7-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox.

It was the Padres’ second victory in five games on the season’s final road trip, which ends Sunday.

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Kyle Harrison warmed up for his ninth start of the season.

Then, he waited over three months to throw its first pitch.

On June 15 the left-hander, 24, had been minutes away from taking the mound when the San Francisco Giants pulled him off the field and told him they were trading him for Rafael Devers. Wanting him to build a stronger ...Read more

HOUSTON — The magic number to win the American League West is six.

This is not a drill.

When Victor Robles made a ridiculous diving catch in shallow right-center to rob Carlos Correa of an RBI single and then fired the ball to second to double off Jake Meyers at second, it secured a dramatic 6-4 victory over the Astros.

With the win, the ...Read more

DENVER — An epic milestone and an emotional finale colored the Angels-Rockies game on Saturday night at Coors Field.

Mike Trout, the Angels’ future Hall of Famer, hit the 400th home run of his career, crushing reliever Jaden Hill’s 3-1, 97.8 mph fastball 485 feet to left-center. The homer was the fireworks to the Angels’ 3-0 victory.

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ST. LOUIS — With the top of their lineup due up and an automatic runner at second base to begin the bottom of the 10th inning after the Brewers took a one-run lead in the previous inning, a costly baserunning error quieted the Cardinals' chances to draw even with Milwaukee Saturday night at Busch Stadium.

On a ground-ball All-Star Brendan ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers catcher Will Smith has a hairline fracture in his right hand and is doubtful to return before the end of the regular season, according to manager Dave Roberts.

The Dodgers are "hopeful" Smith will be available for the postseason, but whether he will be ready for the very start of the playoffs — which likely will be ...Read more

NEW YORK — Just when it looked like the Mets might finally win a game in which they trailed after eight innings, the unthinkable happened.

Daylen Lile’s two-run inside-the-park home run in the top of the 11th proved to be the improbable tiebreaker in the Mets’ 5-3 loss to the Washington Nationals at Citi Field on Saturday.

With a runner ...Read more

BALTIMORE — At 6-7, 282 pounds, it’s no surprise that Aaron Judge has won a few home run titles.

However, the Yankees’ captain is more than just a hulking slugger, as he entered Saturday’s game against the Orioles with a major league-leading .327 average. With eight games left in the regular season, Judge has a strong shot at becoming ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On the scoreboard in right field, it was 7:08 p.m. in the City of Angels: Los Angeles. And a crowd of 53,037 was just sitting in Friday to see the greatest pitcher of his generation take the mound at Dodger Stadium, perhaps for the final time.

"Tonight

We are young

So let's set the world on fire

We can burn brighter than the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — When Joe Ryan watched Cleveland Guardians third baseman Daniel Schneeman connect on a 93-mph fastball in the fifth inning, during the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, he dropped to his left knee and turned away.

Ryan, facing one of the hottest teams in baseball for his final home start of the 2025 season, allowed six ...Read more

DETROIT — It's starting to get incomprehensible.

The Detroit Tigers put themselves in position to snap a four-game losing streak Saturday afternoon and slow this month-long free fall they've been in.

Spencer Torkelson, who has been abusing baseballs this entire homestand, delivered what seemed like the most important swing of the season in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — You can say you are building a ballpark, but the anticipation accelerates when the community sees what the ballpark might look like. For the city of Ontario and its architects, the rendering of its minor league ballpark included a team name.

A placeholder, that is. The new team owners did not yet own the team. The name would ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw blew a kiss to his family, pounded a fist in his glove, then made the familiar trot from the Los Angeles Dodgers’ home dugout to the Chavez Ravine mound.

This time, however, he did it alone.

In what was his final regular-season start at Dodger Stadium, coming one day after he announced that he would retire at ...Read more

PHOENIX — For three days this week, Rob Thomson looked on as Alec Bohm took batting practice in Dodger Stadium.

“Pretty good,” he said Friday. “Pretty impressive.”

So, the Philadelphia Phillies stuck to their plan and brought Bohm back from the injured list. They need their third baseman to be a productive middle-of-the-order hitter ...Read more

HOUSTON — What was shaping up to be maybe the best day of the season for the Mariners turned, suddenly and ominously, into its most dreaded.

Bryan Woo, the Mariners’ 25-year-old All-Star right-hander, exited Friday night’s game against the rival Houston Astros with an unspecified injury after throwing several warm-up pitches before the ...Read more