MLB News: Scores, Standings, Stats, Trades, Rumors (2024)

As we head toward the stretch run of the 2024 season, clubs around the Majors are surely beginning to formulate their plans for the upcoming offseason. While last year’s Hot Stove was dominated by a pair of players who wound up together in Los Angeles – Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu

Dodgers infielder's second-half surge continues with unusual long ball vs. Mariners

LOS ANGELES -- Gavin Lux was sure he’d homered. His high fly ball off Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller in the fourth inning of the Dodgers' 6-3 win on Tuesday night cleared Dodger Stadium’s right-center-field wall, evading the glove of Victor Robles. Third-base umpire Dan Iassogna signaled that it was gone.

SAN DIEGO -- Sometimes the Padres are down. They are almost never out. San Diego rallied for its 32nd comeback win of the season in dramatic fashion on Tuesday night, with late homers from Manny Machado and Jurickson Profar sparking a 7-5 victory over the Twins at Petco Park.

Every once in a while, when a baseball is hit very hard and very far, you might hear an announcer say, that ball hasn't come down yet. That's never been more true than on Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park, when a double off the bat of Shay Whitcomb quite

Making the playoffs can change the way the entire baseball world sees you, in essentially every possible way. Ask the 2023 D-backs, after all: They went from a team with a negative run differential that most people assumed would be marched out of the playoffs to a feisty NL pennant

'It's pretty cool to be No. 23 for this club,' says veteran outfielder after late heroics

LOS ANGELES -- With an assortment of players returning from the injured list in recent weeks and Mookie Betts moving from shortstop back to right field, Jason Heyward has become something of an odd man out for the Dodgers. Manager Dave Roberts has noted that starts for the veteran outfielder

Pinch-hit double ignites six-run frame in first signature moment for Trade Deadline addition

NEW YORK -- The Guardians and Yankees are built completely differently, but they have a lot in common. Both entered Tuesday’s series opener in first place and with nearly identical records. Both have excellent pitching to fall back on when things get tough. So it was little surprising when the

KANSAS CITY -- It’s almost impossible to make Bobby Witt Jr. look lost at the plate. The American League leader in hits (177) and batting average (.352) has been a menace to opposing pitching all season long in his quest for an AL MVP. But Ben Joyce had other plans.

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NEW YORK -- The Mets are still paying James McCann … to beat them. The Orioles’ catcher -- whom the O's acquired from the Mets on Dec. 21, 2022, for a player to be named later and cash -- slugged Baltimore to victory against his old team on Tuesday night

ATLANTA -- Actions speak louder than words. That’s why Braves manager Brian Snitker was feeling pretty good after his injury-depleted team continued to show resolve during a 3-1 win over the Phillies on Tuesday night at Truist Park. “We kind of started the game with a little bit of downer,

Red Sox CF, Casas combine for 2 HRs and 5 RBIs in win over Houston

HOUSTON – All-Star outfielder Jarren Duran was perfect out of the leadoff spot for the Red Sox, and that helped rally Boston to a much-needed 6-5 victory over the Astros to even up a three-game series Tuesday night at Minute Maid Park. “We had to grind,” manager Alex Cora said.

ST. LOUIS – In a battle between the top Trade Deadline acquisitions between the two of the top three teams in the NL Central on Tuesday, Frankie Montas came out victorious over Erick Fedde. Montas pitched his deepest into a game as a Brewer, and in an homage to legendary

WAPPINGERS FALLS, N.Y. -- Fourteen years ago, they were playing on a small stretch of concrete in Bhutan, the small, mountainous country to the south of Tibet otherwise known as "The Last Shangri-La." This week, they were playing on the finely groomed turf at Heritage Financial Park, home of the

MLB Pipeline updated its various prospect rankings last week, and that’s given us numerous ways to slice and dice the new editions. We recapped the new Top 100. We gave overviews on the new Top 30s for every organization. We ranked the game’s farm systems from 1-30. We broke down

MIAMI -- To D-backs first-base coach Dave McKay, the details matter. Each day, home or road, Arizona outfielders find a sheet of paper on their chairs when they arrive that shows them what their defensive metrics were in the previous game. How good was their first step in going for

NEW YORK -- The imposing power tandem of Juan Soto and Aaron Judge flexed their muscles once again in the first inning on Tuesday, belting back-to-back home runs off Guardians left-hander Matthew Boyd. Soto lifted a drive into the short right-field porch at Yankee Stadium for his 35th home run

Blue Jays' power surge shows how crucial long ball will be to success in 2025

TORONTO -- Five home runs for the Blue Jays? That sounds like a good week. In their 10-3 blowout win over the Reds on Tuesday night, they did it in just five innings, turning rookie Carson Spiers into their own batting practice pitcher for the evening. This is the Blue

SAN FRANCISCO -- Robbie Ray rebounded from his shortest start of the season by delivering his longest yet for the Giants. The veteran left-hander pitched into the seventh inning for the first time since returning from Tommy John surgery, carrying the Giants to a 4-1 win that clinched a series

As we enter the stretch run and postseason races heat up, so do races involving individual honors like the Most Valuable Player Award, the Cy Young Award and others. One particular honor that has been coveted in recent years is selection to the All-MLB Team. We’ve asked MLB.com experts to

OAKLAND -- It’s pretty rare these days to see two pitchers get through seven innings without the bullpen getting up. But that happened Tuesday at the Oakland Coliseum as Tampa Bay’s Shane Baz and Oakland’s Joey Estes matched pitch-for-pitch through seven innings. But Estes blinked first. The A’s right-hander gave

It’s been about a month since the All-Star break, and MLB’s postseason picture has undergone some noticeable changes in that time. A number of pre-break contenders have faltered since the second half got underway, while other clubs have soared up the standings and put themselves in a solid position entering

NEW YORK -- The Orioles' starting rotation took another hit on Tuesday when right-hander Zach Eflin was placed on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to Saturday) with right shoulder inflammation. But the Orioles are hopeful that Eflin's injury is a short-term issue and that the 30-year-old right-hander -- who has

ST. LOUIS – Stressing that the slumping Cardinals have not “played up to our expectations” and that the season so far is “definitely not what we’ve envisioned,” president of baseball operations John Mozeliak shuffled his team’s roster again on Tuesday by releasing veteran infielder Brandon Crawford and swapping prized prospect

ARLINGTON -- After back-to-back subpar outings, Pirates starter Mitch Keller righted the ship Tuesday night with one of his most impressive starts of the season, blanking the Rangers for seven-plus innings in an 4-0 victory at Globe Life Field. Keller posted a 15.00 ERA and a .357 opponents’ batting average