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Four pitchers combine to stifle Marlins as Tigers salvage finale
MIAMI — Talk about stepping up.
The Detroit Tigers’ bullpen was paper thin, having covered 11 innings the two previous nights. And Sunday was a scheduled bullpen game.
“We’ll be fine,” manager AJ Hinch said Saturday night.
His crystal ball must have reflected a clutch five-inning performance by Keider Montero.
The Tigers right-...Read more
Cardinals walk Brewers, hit batters and blow 5-run lead to eventually lose in 10th
MILWAUKEE — A concentrated dose of dominance from starter Sonny Gray and a steady stream of offense was not enough to firewall the Cardinals from their own generosity in the late innings.
Hit batters and walks plunged the Cardinals into extra innings against the Brewers, and the division leaders are ones to turn down the assistance.
Andruw ...Read more
After Clayton Kershaw's shaky start, Dodgers go on scoring spree to beat Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — Teoscar Hernández pumped his fist. Ben Rortvedt let out a scream. Mookie Betts put some oomph on the end of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ arm-waving, hip-shaking, hit celebration.
After struggling for so long in high-leverage situations, the team’s offense finally had reason to celebrate.
For weeks now, the Dodgers have ...Read more
Bryan Woo strikes out 13, M's beat Angels for eighth straight win
SEATTLE — For a guy who has one of the most valuable fastballs in all of baseball, it felt a little incongruous that Bryan Woo threw a sweeper for his breakthrough pitch Saturday night.
It certainly caught the Angels’ Sebastián Rivero by surprise.
On a 1-2 count, Rivero took the sweeper right down the middle for strike three in the fifth ...Read more
Padres homer early, often, enjoy rout of Rockies
SAN DIEGO — This was the laugher the Padres needed.
A string of uninspired offensive performances had prompted their manager to declare they needed to enjoy themselves more after Friday night’s loss to the worst team in the major leagues.
On Saturday, the Padres had the kind of game that lifts spirits.
Home runs by Fernando Tatis Jr., ...Read more
Big inning doesn't come for White Sox in 3-1 loss to Guardians
CLEVELAND — The Chicago White Sox already had scored once in the first inning Saturday against the Cleveland Guardians. They were in position for more, with runners on first and second and just one out.
Mike Tauchman hit a liner to second baseman Brayan Rocchio, who made the catch and quickly threw to second to double off Edgar Quero to end ...Read more
Twins mathematically eliminated from playoffs after 10-inning loss to Diamondbacks
MINNEAPOLIS — Long before their 5-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 10 innings, the Twins were resigned to their fate as a team that would miss out on the playoffs.
On Saturday night, it became official. The Twins were mathematically eliminated from the postseason, the fourth time they haven't qualify for the American League playoff field...Read more
Phillies rally for 8-6 win vs. Royals, reduce NL East-clinching magic number to just one
PHILADELPHIA — Just before Kyle Schwarber came up to the plate in the fifth inning on Saturday and launched a game-tying home run against the Royals, over in Queens, the Mets were collapsing against the Texas Rangers.
The Mets’ 3-2 loss initially reduced the Phillies’ magic number to win the division to two. And the Phillies soon did ...Read more
Mets' bullpen implosion squanders Brandon Sproat's gem vs. Rangers as losing streak reaches 8
NEW YORK — The future may look bright for the Mets, but the present continues to get more and more bleak.
The Mets got six scoreless innings from standout rookie Brandon Sproat on Saturday in his second career start, only for their bullpen to implode in a back-breaking 3-2 loss to the Texas Rangers.
Wyatt Langford’s two-out RBI single ...Read more
Tigers cough up lead to Marlins in 11th, lose on walk-off homer
MIAMI — This one will leave a mark.
A double by Wenceel Perez in the top of the 11th broke the 3-3 tie. But the Tigers had the bases loaded and no outs and didn't push another run across.
And they paid for it. Troy Johnston ended the game in the bottom of the 11th with a home run off Rafael Montero.
Final score, Marlins 6, Tigers 4.
The ...Read more
Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. closes in on 30-30 in series-securing win over Red Sox
BOSTON — Of all the pitchers with at least 10 starts against the Yankees in the last 25 years, no one had a better ERA against the Bombers than Brayan Bello.
The Red Sox righty entered Saturday’s game with a 1.95 mark over 10 outings and 60 innings. Bello had been especially dominant this season, holding the Yankees scoreless and striking ...Read more
Bubba Chandler's no-hit bid, Andrew McCutchen's 2-run single lead Pirates to streak-snapping win vs. Nationals
In the last seven games — and all season, really — the Pirates have been hurt by an inability to get runners in, come up with one big hit and capitalize on strong starting pitching.
On Saturday afternoon against the Nationals, their leader came up with that big hit, then a September call-up came up with another. Designated hitter Andrew ...Read more
Orioles suffer 5-4 walk-off loss to Blue Jays as Yennier Cano blows save
TORONTO — The Baltimore Orioles needed four relievers to get nine outs.
The fourth couldn’t get the final two.
With a two-run lead, Yennier Cano entered with one runner on and one out in the ninth inning and allowed the first four batters he faced to reach base as the Blue Jays tied the game. The fifth, Alejandro Kirk, hit a sacrifice fly ...Read more
Rays rally to beat Cubs on late HRs by Junior Caminero, Nick Fortes
CHICAGO — Saturday was looking like another one of those kinds of days for the Tampa Bay Rays.
They rallied from an early three-run deficit only to see arguably their best reliever, Garrett Cleavinger, give up a two-out homer in the seventh to Michael Busch.
Then, after Junior Caminero got them even by hitting his 43rd homer to lead off the ...Read more
Kyle Schwarber's bet on himself paid off. And how he did it boosts his value -- even as a DH
Six months ago, before Kyle Schwarber went for his first lap around the bases this season, his agents had talks with the Phillies about a contract extension.
“Obviously,” Schwarber said in July, “they didn’t progress.”
So, the Phillies slugger did what most professional athletes do when they’re going into the last year of a ...Read more
Can the Dodgers fix their ailing offense? It starts with better health -- and team at-bats
To Andrew Friedman, something like this was a virtual impossibility.
“If you had said that we would have a six-week stretch where our offense would rank 30th in baseball, I would have said there was a zero percent chance,” the Dodgers president of baseball operations said last month.
“I would have been wrong,” he quickly added.
Over a...Read more
Yoshinobu Yamamoto shines, but Dodgers' offense goes missing in walk-off loss to Giants
SAN FRANCISCO — Before first pitch Friday night, the San Francisco Giants’ in-game stadium host made a declaration.
“This,” he informed the crowd in a scoreboard address, “is the most important game at Oracle Park this season.”
In a 5-1 walk-off win over the Los Angeles Dodgers, the San Francisco Giants certainly played that way, ...Read more
Mariners win 7th straight to keep pace in AL West race
SEATTLE — Their run of unexpected hitting heroes and their win streak continued again Friday night.
Two nights ago it was Leo Rivas with the unlikely walkoff homer to beat the St. Louis Cardinals in the bottom of the 13th inning. Less than 24 hours earlier, rookie Harry Ford hit a walkoff sac fly in his fourth MLB plate appearance to beat the...Read more
Brewers turn Cardinals' messy inning into early lead, continue barrel roll toward playoffs
MILWAUKEE — For a team that admits it must play detailed-oriented and hiccup-free baseball to have a chance to win, the Cardinals proved that point Friday night.
They did not play that precision game.
And, as a result, they weren’t as close as the score wound indicate.
On their way to a seventh playoff berth in the past eight years, the ...Read more
Kody Clemens hits three home runs as Twins survive wild ninth inning for walk-off 9-8 victory over Diamondbacks
MINNEAPOLIS — Kody Clemens hit three homers and drove in five runs, almost singlehandedly carrying the Twins offense Friday, and yet he wasn’t the guy who teammates piled onto after a zany 9-8 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.
After Trevor Larnach drew a tying bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning, Luke Keaschall drove in the winning ...Read more
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