Kyle Schwarber hit a tying double with two outs in the ninth inning, Alec Bohm delivered with his glove and bat in the 10th, and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the San Francisco Giants 6-5 to sweep their split doubleheader
May 01, 2026
Luke Weaver thinks losing is weighing on the Mets and New York is being suffocated by its poor play
May 01, 2026
The St. Louis Cardinals have been able to do what most other major league teams have not: beat Pirates ace Paul Skenes consistently
May 01, 2026
Javier Sanoja singled in the go-ahead run with two outs in the eighth inning, lifting the Miami Marlins over the Los Angeles Dodgers 3-2
April 30, 2026
From baseball to bees, Chesapeake's Velez doesn't let Parkinson's stop him
April 30, 2026
Shohei Ohtani struck out nine in six effective innings Tuesday night and did not bat for the Los Angeles Dodgers, his second start on the mound this season without hitting
April 29, 2026
The NL Central has reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes
April 28, 2026
Aaron Judge allowed Ben Rice to match his home run total for only a few pitches
April 28, 2026
Trevor Bauer has thrown a no-hitter for the Long Island Ducks against the Lancaster Stormers in the Atlantic League
April 27, 2026
Rob Refsnyder successfully challenged a third-strike call, and then hit a go-ahead solo home run in the ninth inning to lift the Seattle Mariners to a 3-2 win against the St. Louis Cardinals
April 27, 2026
Dansby Swanson hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the ninth inning, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 6-4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers
April 25, 2026
The Athletics got off to a fast start against Texas on Friday night, hitting three solo home runs in the first inning and adding two later in their 8-1 win over the Rangers
April 25, 2026
Paul Skenes had a perfect game into the seventh inning, Konnor Griffin hit his first career home run on his 20th birthday and drove in three runs to help the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-0 on Friday night
April 25, 2026
Michael Harris II delivered a two-run double as a pinch-hitter after being scratched from the starting lineup with an ailing quad, and the Atlanta Braves piled more misery on Philadelphia with a 5-3 victory
April 25, 2026
Peyton Gray has made his big league debut at age 30 after an eight-year journey through the minors, independent and winter leagues
April 24, 2026
JR Ritchie made a memorable major league debut for the Atlanta Braves
April 24, 2026
Mark Vientos blooped a tiebreaking single in the eighth inning and the New York Mets snapped their 12-game losing streak, beating the Minnesota Twins 3-2 after getting one superstar back only to see another exit with a similar injury
April 23, 2026
Yordan Alvarez of the Houston Astros leads the majors in homers and several other offensive categories
April 23, 2026
Embattled Mets closer Devin Williams allowed a tiebreaking RBI single to Luke Keaschall in the ninth inning, and New York lost its 12th consecutive game, falling 5-3 to the Minnesota Twins
April 22, 2026
A mechanical issue with their charter plane forced the Toronto Blue Jays to bus from Phoenix to Southern California on Sunday night, a six-hour drive on a dark desert highway that got the team to its Orange County hotel at around 12:30 a.m. Toronto manager John Schneider said he was informed by Blue Jays traveling secretary Rodney Hiemstra of the mechanical problem at about 4 p.m. on Sunday, as the Blue Jays were finishing a 10-4 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks
April 21, 2026
Mike Trout’s home run binge in New York this week was a flash of the outfielder’s slugging ability
April 20, 2026
Nico Hoerner hit a sacrifice fly off Craig Kimbrel in the 10th inning, and the Chicago Cubs sent the New York Mets to their 11th consecutive loss by rallying for a 2-1 victory
April 20, 2026
Moisés Ballesteros, Nico Hoerner and Ian Happ homered, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Mets their ninth straight loss, pounding New York 12-4
April 18, 2026
Former Angels outfielder Garret Anderson has died
April 17, 2026
Baltimore Orioles manager Craig Albernaz says he has more than a half-dozen fractures in his cheek area and a broken jaw after being hit by a foul ball, but he's relieved to avoid surgery and says he doesn’t need his jaw wired
April 15, 2026
Aaron Judge and Trent Grisham both homered twice and the New York Yankees scored on a game-ending wild pitch in a three-run ninth inning to overcome Mike Trout’s two homers and five RBIs in an 11-10 win over the Los Angeles Angels that stopped a five-game losing streak
April 14, 2026
It could be argued that the Automated Ball-Strike system has been the MVP of Major League Baseball through the season’s first 2 1/2 weeks, creating a game-within-the-game that’s producing winners, losers and some dramatic moments
April 13, 2026
Shohei Ohtani has surpassed Ichiro Suzuki for the longest on-base streak by a Japanese-born player
April 11, 2026
The Chicago White Sox are expanding their tribute to Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and longtime fan of the baseball team
April 11, 2026
Atlanta Braves pitcher Reynaldo López and Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler were ejected after getting into a brawl Tuesday night
April 08, 2026
Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras had a warning for the Milwaukee Brewers after he was hit on the hand by a pitch from right-hander Brandon Woodruff
April 07, 2026
Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh, who led the major leagues with 60 home runs last year, hit his first of the 2026 season Monday night following a 10-game drought
April 07, 2026
Cedric Mullins, Jonathan Aranda and Junior Caminero homered and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Chicago Cubs 6-4 in their first game at Tropicana Field in 561 days
April 07, 2026
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees are off to good starts — and their MVPs are finally starting to hit
April 06, 2026
A sellout crowd will welcome the Tampa Bay Rays back to renovated Tropicana Field on Monday for the first time in 18 1/2 months
April 05, 2026
Pittsburgh Pirates shortstop Konnor Griffin is eager to stop being a prospect and start being a big leaguer
April 04, 2026
Shohei Ohtani, Kyle Tucker, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman — the first four hitters in the Los Angeles lineup — all homered in a 13-6 win over the Washington Nationals
April 04, 2026
Texas Rangers unveil giant "rally sombrero" snack, a 24-inch shareable showstopper, for home opener
April 03, 2026
Former Cy Young winner Trevor Bauer has signed with the Long Island Ducks of the Atlantic League and is scheduled to pitch opening night on April 21 for the minor league team
April 02, 2026
Sandy Alcantara never stopped believing in himself
April 02, 2026
Paul Skenes quickly shrugged off the shortest start of his dominant major league career
April 02, 2026
Shohei Ohtani dominated in his first start on the mound this season as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 in drizzly conditions
April 01, 2026
Baseball’s RoboUmps are entertaining because of the humanity they put on display
April 01, 2026
Austin Wells’ only swing of the bat put the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic record book and the semifinal round
March 14, 2026
The robot-umpire system for overturning ball/strike calls is going to be used in regular-season games in the majors this year
March 13, 2026
The official report from MLB's replay review says a critical play in the Los Angeles Dodgers' wild Game 7 World Series win last year was determined by feet, not inches
March 11, 2026
Venezuelan fans are turning the World Baseball Classic in Miami into a celebration
March 07, 2026
Shohei Ohtani put on a giant show in batting practice hours before he hit a grand slam in the second inning as Japan hammered Taiwan 13-0 in Pool C at the World Baseball Classic
March 06, 2026
Max Scherzer says the note his daughter composed that asked the Toronto Blue Jays to re-sign the three-time Cy Young Award winner arose as his kids were writing letters to Santa Claus in December
March 04, 2026
San Francisco Giants ace Logan Webb will start on the mound for Team USA in its first World Baseball Classic game Friday night against Brazil, manager Mark DeRosa said Monday
March 03, 2026
Max Scherzer is returning to the Toronto Blue Jays
February 26, 2026
How Negro Leagues star Mahlon Duckett's legacy is being kept alive on Pennsylvania Turnpike
February 25, 2026
Cal Raleigh has already gone deep this spring
February 25, 2026
Nick Kurtz isn't changing much in his second big league season
February 22, 2026
Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89
February 21, 2026
Just over half the ball/strike challenges were successful on the first day of spring training games as Major League Baseball prepared for the first regular-season use of the automated ball-strike system — the so-called robot umpires
February 21, 2026
Minnesota right-hander Pablo López will have season-ending Tommy John elbow surgery
February 20, 2026
Right-hander Zac Gallen has agreed to a $22,025,000, one-year contract to return to the Arizona Diamondbacks, a person with knowledge of the deal confirmed on Friday night
February 14, 2026
The Philadelphia Phillies say their relationship with outfielder Nick Castellanos ruptured when he angrily brought a beer into the dugout after being pulled from a game last season
February 13, 2026
Shohei Ohtani is a five-time All-Star, a four-time Most Valuable Player, a two-time World Series winner and a World Baseball Classic champion, giving him a sparkling baseball resume that no current player can touch
February 13, 2026
For those worried robots are about to take over Major League Baseball, Colorado Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer has some experience with the Automated Ball/Strike system that’s coming to stadiums this summer
February 13, 2026
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is optimistic that major leaguers will be able to participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
February 12, 2026
The Chicago Cubs are coming off a 92-win season, return much of a productive and athletic lineup, have a deep group of talented pitchers and signed three-time All-Star third baseman Alex Bregman during the offseason
February 11, 2026
Justin Verlander is going back to his first big league team, agreeing to a $13 million, one-year contract with the Detroit Tigers
February 10, 2026
Isiah Kiner-Falefa wishes he had taken a bigger lead off third base in the ninth inning of World Series Game 7 last year
February 10, 2026
Tony Vitello walked up the dugout stairs to meet with reporters about 15 minutes later than expected because of a team meeting that went longer than planned
February 10, 2026
Pitchers Graham Ashcraft and Edwin Uceta have won their salary arbitration cases, improving players to 5-0 this year
February 06, 2026
Eugenio Suárez and the Cincinnati Reds have agreed on a $15 million, one-year contract, two people familiar with the negotiations tell The Associated Press
February 02, 2026
Free agent infielder Luis Arraez and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $12 million, one-year contract, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations
February 01, 2026
Freddy Peralta says he's willing to consider a multiyear contract with the Mets before reaching free agency, but he wants to get settled in New York first
January 27, 2026
Free agent outfielder Harrison Bader and the San Francisco Giants have agreed to a $20.5 million, two-year contract
January 27, 2026
The New York Mets have acquired center fielder Luis Robert Jr. in a trade with the Chicago White Sox
January 21, 2026
President Donald Trump has made lots of promises during the first year of his second term in the White House
January 17, 2026
Jason Kidd had to choose basketball over baseball 30-plus years ago when it became clear the whiz kid of a point guard would be one of the top picks in the NBA draft
January 15, 2026
Right-hander Pierce Johnson and the Cincinnati Reds have completed their $6.5 million, one-year contract
January 15, 2026
The Chicago Cubs have acquired right-hander Edward Cabrera in a trade with the Miami Marlins in their first major offseason move
January 07, 2026
Before he moved from Japan to the big leagues, Kazuma Okamoto put the logos of all 30 MLB teams in front of his daughter and asked which one she liked most
January 06, 2026
Chicago White Sox general manager Chris Getz calls Munetaka Murakami “one of the most prolific power hitters on the planet” and expects the 25-year-old Japanese slugger to make an immediate impact on his rebuilding team next season
December 22, 2025
Sports were turned upside down 50 years ago Tuesday by a man who never threw or kicked a ball
December 22, 2025
Philip Rivers and Lindsey Vonn’s middle-age comebacks are defying age. One of baseball’s modern marvels details what it takes
December 21, 2025
Clay Holmes is sad over the departure of New York Mets stars Pete Alonso, Edwin Díaz and Brendan Nimmo, noting their strong connection with fans
December 18, 2025
A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that Luke Weaver has agreed to a $22 million, two-year contract with the New York Mets, joining Clay Holmes and Devin Williams as former Yankees on a rebuilt pitching staff
December 17, 2025
Shortstop Ha-Seong Kim is returning to the Atlanta Braves
December 16, 2025
Edwin Díaz won’t receive all of his $69 million from the Dodgers until 2047, with the closer’s deal raising deferred payment obligations for the two-time World Series champions to more than $1.06 billion due to nine players
December 15, 2025
Veteran starting pitcher Merrill Kelly has agreed to return to the Arizona Diamondbacks on a $40 million, two-year deal, according to a person familiar with the move
December 14, 2025
A person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press that reliever Edwin Díaz has agreed to $69 million, three-year contract with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers
December 09, 2025
Shohei Ohtani has won The Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for the fourth time, tying with Lance Armstrong, LeBron James and Tiger Woods for most among male honorees
December 09, 2025
Devin Williams could be the closer for the New York Mets next season
December 05, 2025
Former Angels and Rangers manager Ron Washington is returning to the Bay Area to become infield coach for the San Francisco Giants on new manager Tony Vitello’s staff
December 04, 2025
Free agent reliever Devin Williams has agreed to a contract with the New York Mets, a person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press
December 02, 2025
Free-agent pitcher Dylan Cease and the Toronto Blue Jays have agreed to a $210 million, seven-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press
November 27, 2025
The Colorado Rockies have made Warren Schaeffer the club's full-time manager
November 24, 2025
Former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry says God set him free when he was pardoned by President Donald Trump
November 23, 2025
Hall of Fame left-hander Randy Johnson will have his No. 51 retired by the Seattle Mariners during a pregame ceremony on May 2, 2026
November 20, 2025
The Atlanta Braves have addressed one of their offseason priorities by re-signing closer Raisel Iglesias to a $16 million, one-year contract
November 20, 2025
ESPN and Major League Baseball have reworked their media rights deal
November 19, 2025
Major League Baseball says it will comply with a Senate committee's request for documents on gambling investigations
November 19, 2025
Former San Diego Padres left-hander Randy Jones has died
November 19, 2025
‘All right, we’re doing this?’: Nationals new manager details how he became a dad and an MLB skipper in the same day
November 19, 2025
Electric cars became cheaper in Germany despite rising average prices
US launches Iran strikes for ninth day as another American confirmed killed
FDA says Taylor Farms cyclospora finding was a false positive
Soccer-Boos as Trump and Infantino enter the field for World Cup trophy ceremony
Iran war, Myanmar crisis and South China Sea rifts under the spotlight in ASEAN ministerial talks
Joey Logano ends victory drought in NASCAR points return to North Wilkesboro
Soccer-Spain unites in joy at second World Cup crown