PHILADELPHIA – As Freddie Freeman struggled to close the door during his prestigious Braves tenure, Matt Olson faced pressure to replace him in Atlanta. But as the season’s midway point approaches, he looks like a suitable successor. Olson lifted his second multihomer game in eight days and helped the Braves to a 5-3 win over […]
Phyllis star Bryce Harper suffered a fracture to the thumb of his left hand on a hit-by-pitch on Saturday night, requiring an immediate injury list. He underwent further tests over the past two days to determine the next steps in his treatment, and it appears that the ruling NL MVP is likely to go under […]
MILWOOKY – Xander Brown wanted to meet his favorite ex-Blue Jay on his fifth birthday. Rowdy Telez gave him more than that. The Brewers ’10-3 win over the Blue Jays at American Family Field on Sunday had a meeting, a signed jersey and two home runs from Tellez, giving Milwaukee a winning homestand and an […]
SAN DIEGO – When Bryce Harper lost a few games in mid-May at the end of the Dodgers series in Los Angeles after receiving an injection to treat a torn ligament in his right elbow, Kyle Schwarber noticed something. Phillies was pressing. The hitters were trying to be someone they weren’t – Bryce Harper – […]
Anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani follows strict rules in almost every aspect of his life. When his latest mound start was delayed by 12 minutes at the Angels’ pregame ceremony honoring the 2002 World Series champions, his meticulous preparation took a big hit before he could throw the pitch. The slightly rough start was the […]
Swing, and a miss. Major League Baseball tried to jump on the Yankees bandwagon and a mistakenly filled tweet deserves a hearty Bronx cheer. Read “Next Stop 60,” a tweet from sluggers Aaron Judge and Gleber Torres, pictured exiting a graffiti-smear train. “First 50 wins,” reads a caption on the photo. Two erroneous calculations were […]
Tampa – So does it end that way? With a frame-by-frame breakdown of a deadly goal, like Abraham Zapruder shooting from a haystack? All the good times, all the memories, all the glory, do you want to raise your voice in collective anger? Is it possible that Lightning was finally done with a conspiracy of […]
HOUSTON – Astros pitcher Justin Verlander wasn’t in the mood to say no, and who could blame him? The White Sox hit a total of eight shots in the third and fourth innings at Minneapolis Park on Saturday afternoon, knocking him out of the game after his second-shortest starting 3 2/3 innings in the Astros […]
CHICAGO – Hall of Fame manager Bobby Cox has always said, “You play the schedule.” In other words, you don’t change your perspective based on whether the current part of the schedule is easy or difficult. Well, the Braves have justified themselves by spending the last few weeks cruising through the simplest part of their […]
Houston Astros slugger Jordan Alvarez was not in his team’s lineup for the final of the series against the Chicago White Sox on Sunday night due to a hand injury and is considered day-to-day, manager Dusty Baker said. “Hopefully those will be just a few days,” Baker said before his team’s 4-3 victory. “The diagnosis […]