MLB News

There’s a series starting Monday between two playoff contenders in St. Louis that looks to be all kinds of fun. The 86-51 Dodgers are one game out in the NL West and holding a gigantic cushion for the top wild card spot. The 69-66 Cardinals are three games out in the fight for the second […]

For the first time in more than two years, the Baltimore Orioles have won a series in Yankee Stadium. The O’s erased a three-run deficit in the seventh inning Sunday afternoon to beat the Yankees (BAL 8, NYY 7) and clinch the three-game series win. Baltimore is 7-9 against the Yankees this year. They have […]

The San Francisco Giants will look to continue their recent dominance over the Los Angeles Dodgers and regain sole possession of the National League West Division lead when the rivals meet for the last time during the regular season on Sunday Night Baseball. The teams have split 18 games this season, but the Giants have […]

The Kansas City Royals fell to the first-place White Sox on Saturday evening (CHW 10, KC 7), but notable in the losing effort was veteran catcher Salvador Perez, who homered twice to give him 40 for the season. Here’s a look at No. 40:  With those two blasts, the seven-time All-Star, in his age-31 season, […]

The 2021 Major League Baseball season is entering its final month, and the playoff picture is starting to take shape. While some teams, like the White Sox and Brewers, appear to have their divisions wrapped up, there are going to be plenty of fascinating races in September. Who will win the Dodgers vs. Giants tussle in the NL […]

The Oakland Athletics had a six-run lead with two outs in the eighth inning. The Toronto Blue Jays ended up winning the game, 11-10. It was quite the scene at Rogers Centre.  The A’s took a 4-2 lead in the fifth, 6-2 in the sixth and 8-2 in the seventh. It appeared to be in […]

Five days ago the New York Yankees were riding a 13-game winning streak, their longest since Sept. 1961. They followed that up with four straight losses, making them the first team to follow a 13-game winning streak with a four-game losing streak since the 1982 Braves. The Yankees went from one extreme to the next. […]

For seven innings, the night looked like a special one for Padres left-hander Blake Snell. He had one of the best outings of his career and had gotten through seven innings without having allowed a hit. He wasn’t efficient, however, which can be a staple of good Blake Snell outings. Snell needed 107 pitches to […]

Early in Tuesday’s Red Sox-Rays bout in St. Petersburg, Red Sox shortstop Xander Bogaerts was removed and it didn’t appear to be via injury. Here’s the broadcast discussing it:  Immediately, the thought went to COVID, as the Red Sox have had a bit of an outbreak. Sure enough, a few innings later, the Red Sox […]

After getting hit by a pitch on Saturday, Shohei Ohtani will skip his scheduled Tuesday start but his bat will remain in the lineup. That bat homered for a league-leading 42nd time on Monday as the two-way superstar continued his MVP trajectory. Ohtani has also swiped 20 bags this season as he’s been a fixture […]