DETROIT — After a tense, 10-inning battle the night before, the Detroit Tigers scored an early-round TKO Wednesday to sweep the three-game set with the Houston Astros at Comerica Park, riding a six-run, first-inning barrage against lefty Framber Valdez to a 7-2 win.

It was the Tigers’ seventh win in eight games and their American League ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani was four weeks into his major league career when former Dodgers owner Frank McCourt pitched a gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium. Ohtani, then a rookie with the Angels and now a global superstar with the Dodgers, was 23.

Today, Ohtani is 31, and McCourt still has no official response to his pitch.

In an ...Read more

ANAHEIM — Kenley Jansen’s rough ninth inning spoiled a night that should have belonged to Jo Adell.

Adell hit a pair of homers in the seventh and eighth innings to help the Angels erase a three-run deficit, only for Jansen to give up two runs in the ninth in a 6-4 loss to the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night.

Jansen gave up two hits, ...Read more

Nick Pivetta survived another Giants ambush.

Then he got back to doing what he does best: playing stopper.

The fiery right-hander tied a season-high with 10 strikeouts over six strong innings, Manny Machado ended a 14-game RBI drought and the Padres beat the Giants 5-1 in front of a sellout crowd of 40,624 to snap a four-game skid.

The Padres...Read more

SEATTLE — Let’s start by acknowledging the obvious.

No, Victor Robles should not have hurled his bat at Las Vegas Aviators pitcher Joey Estes on Sunday, after a rising fastball ricocheted off the swinging, spinning Robles’ front shoulder. No, Robles should not have barreled toward the mound, causing benches to clear, before finally being ...Read more

DENVER — The Dodgers re-asserted the parameters for their relationship with the Rockies on Tuesday.

A night after the Rockies walked off Los Angeles to snap a 10-game losing streak against the NL West juggernauts in a performance in which Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said his team “let our guard down,” Los Angeles crushed Colorado, 11-4, ...Read more

DENVER — Mookie Betts was the first Dodger position player out on the field Tuesday, walking to spot near the third-base foul line and kneeling on a mat before a coach, who began hitting soft ground-balls to his right and left.

It’s a drill Betts does regularly to improve his defense. Betts’ defense, however, really isn’t a problem for...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When manager Rob Thomson walked to the mound to pull Cristopher Sánchez with one out in the seventh inning, fans began to stand and cheer. The starter handed Thomson the baseball, headed toward the dugout, and tipped his cap. One man in the Hall of Fame section yelled, “We love you.”

The response felt like more than an ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — A short start from Mitch Keller put the Pirates in a hole they couldn’t dig out of in a 7-3 loss to the Blue Jays on Tuesday night at PNC Park. The Pirates have lost eight of their last 10 games.

Keller allowed five runs on seven hits and three walks in 3 1/3 innings. The Pirates trailed 3-0 after five batters and 5-0 after two...Read more

DETROIT — A pitchers' duel was expected. A scoreless game after nine innings? That seemed unlikely.

But there were the Tigers and Astros, playing in the 10th inning Tuesday night with nary a run on the board.

Somebody had to score at some point, right?

And when Will Vest exalted off the mound after stranding the free runner at second base ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Royals All-Star starter Seth Lugo was having a rough month.

After signing a lucrative contract extension with the Royals, Lugo had looked pedestrian across his last three starts. The underlying numbers fluctuated each time out, and that led to an elevated earned run average in August.

Prior to Tuesday’s start...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Ryan removed his cap and ran his right hand through his hair as he trotted off the mound after a 39-pitch fourth inning Tuesday, in which three unearned runs scored, and then he sat on the dugout bench for the next several minutes reviewing his pitches on an iPad.

There haven’t been many moments this season when Ryan didn�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The message the Mets have been trying to rally around might as well have come from Crash Davis himself: One game at a time.

They’ve now won three in a row after opening a series against the Washington Nationals with an 8-1 win Tuesday night at Nationals Park. All of the ground lost in the NL East and wild-card races amid a ...Read more

MIAMI — A night after the St. Louis Cardinals combined for 10 hits to help power them to a series-opening win over the Marlins, the offense swung that momentum from Monday into Tuesday.

That effort began four pitches into Tuesday’s matchup.

Kicked off by a hard-hit single from leadoff hitter Lars Nootbaar, the Cardinals scored one run in ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Yankees manager Aaron Boone offered a notable update on Tuesday morning when he told WFAN that Aaron Judge, still rehabbing a right flexor strain, will likely be compromised when throwing for the rest of the 2025 season.

“We’re trying to get through where he can let it go with ease and be able to protect himself, obviously,�...Read more