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After clinching playoff spot, Brewers rally past Cards in 10
Caleb Durbin ripped a game-tying RBI double in the 10th inning then scored the winner on Andruw Monasterio's single as the host Milwaukee Brewers topped the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8 on Saturday.,The Brewers celebrated their 11th walk-off victory of the season hours after they officially clinched thei...
Athletics take control late to defeat Reds
Jacob Wilson broke a seventh-inning tie with a double, Carlos Cortes hit his third home run in two days and the Athletics dealt the Cincinnati Reds' postseason hopes another blow with an 11-5 triumph Saturday night in West Sacramento, Calif.,Nick Kurtz chipped in with a late grand slam and Brent Roo...
Shohei Ohtani's 49th HR highlights Dodgers' hit parade in rout of Giants
Shohei Ohtani launched his 49th home run of the season, Teoscar Hernandez and Ben Rortvedt contributed two-RBI doubles in a six-run fifth inning and a classic pitching matchup of Clayton Kershaw against Logan Webb turned into a slugfest as the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the San Francisco...
Brewers stage comeback in 9th, walk off Cardinals in 10th
Caleb Durbin ripped a game-tying RBI double in the 10th inning then scored the winner on Andruw Monasterio's single as the host Milwaukee Brewers topped the St. Louis Cardinals 9-8 on Saturday.,The Brewers celebrated their 11th walk-off victory of the season hours after they officially clinched thei...
Bryan Woo stellar again as Mariners down Angels for 8th straight win
Bryan Woo posted his American League-leading 21st quality start of the season and struck out a career-high 13 batters as the Seattle Mariners defeated the visiting Los Angeles Angels 5-3 on Saturday night.,J.P. Crawford homered as the Mariners (81-68) won their eighth in a row to remain tied with Ho...
Padres slug 4 homers, overpower struggling Rockies
Manny Machado homered for the second straight game, Fernando Tatis Jr., Jackson Merrill and Bryce Johnson also went deep, and the host San Diego Padres beat the Colorado Rockies 11-3 on Saturday night.,Machado, Tatis, Elias Diaz and Luis Arraez finished with two hits each for San Diego (81-68). Arra...
D-backs let late lead slip away, then top Twins in 10
Alek Thomas hit a two-run homer, Blaze Alexander doubled and drove in a pair and the Arizona Diamondbacks outlasted the Minnesota Twins for a 5-2 win in 10 innings on Saturday night in Minneapolis., ,Gabriel Moreno also drove in a run for Arizona (74-75), which evened the series at one victory apiec...
Struggling Astros pick up rare consecutive wins
Hunter Brown threw 6 2/3 quality innings, Jeremy Pena and Christian Walker each drove in two runs, and the Houston Astros posted a 6-2 victory over the host Atlanta Braves on Saturday.,Brown (12-7) allowed two runs on four hits while striking out two and walking one for Houston (81-68), which won co...
Dodgers place All-Star catcher Will Smith (hand) on 10-day injured list
The Los Angeles Dodgers placed All-Star catcher Will Smith on the injured list Saturday because of a right hand contusion.,The move to the 10-day IL is retroactive to Sept. 10. In a corresponding move, the Dodgers recalled catcher Chuckie Robinson from Triple-A Oklahoma City.,Smith, 30, was struck b...
Red-hot Phillies beat Royals, move to brink of clinching NL East
Brandon Marsh drove in three runs and Kyle Schwarber belted his 51st homer to highlight the Philadelphia Phillies' 8-6 win over the visiting Kansas City Royals on Saturday., ,With its ninth win in 10 games, Philadelphia (89-60) lowered its magic number to one to clinch the National League East. The ...
Parker Messick, surging Guardians down White Sox
Parker Messick won his third straight decision to begin his career and CJ Kayfus and Jhonkensy Noel each homered as the Cleveland Guardians beat the visiting Chicago White Sox 3-1 on Saturday night.,The victory allowed Cleveland (77-71) to pull within three games of the third and final American Leag...
Marlins walk off Tigers in extras on Troy Johnston's homer
Troy Johnston hit a walk-off two-run home run in the 11th inning -- his second homer of the game - to give the host Miami Marlins a 6-4 come-from-behind win over the Detroit Tigers on Saturday.,The Marlins (70-79) won their fourth straight and assured themselves of winning the three-game weekend ser...
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (3 RBIs) backs Max Fried (17th win) as Yanks top Red Sox
Jazz Chisholm Jr. went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs to help lift the visiting New York Yankees to a 5-3 win over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday.,The Yankees (83-65) scored twice in the first inning and never relinquished a 4-0 lead it had built by the fifth inning, though Jarren Duran's pi...
Pirates rally in eighth against Nationals, snap 7-game losing skid
Andrew McCutchen and Nick Yorke each hit two-out, two-run singles with two outs in the eighth inning to lift the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates to a 5-1 win against the Washington Nationals on Saturday, snapping a seven-game losing streak.,Jared Triolo added a solo homer in the ninth.,Pirates starter B...
Alejandro Kirk’s late-game heroics lead Blue Jays past Orioles
Alejandro Kirk hit a sacrifice fly to cap a three-run ninth and the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the visiting Baltimore Orioles 5-4 on Saturday afternoon.,Kirk, who had an RBI single as a pinch hitter in the eighth, hit the decisive fly to center against Yennier Cano (3-7).,Addison Barger hit a solo h...
Nick Fortes' homer in 9th lifts Rays over Cubs
Tampa Bay's Nick Fortes hit a leadoff home run in the top of the ninth inning, and the visiting Rays held on for a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.,Bryan Baker (4-4) picked up the win in relief, and Pete Fairbanks collected his 26th save with a scoreless ninth despite the tying run get...
Tigers LHP Tarik Skubal feeling better after injury scare
The Detroit Tigers avoided the worst-case scenario with the abdominal injury to left-hander Tarik Skubal and the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner is being lined up to make his next start.,Skubal, 28, exited his start Friday against the Miami Marlins after 3 1/3 innings with tightness i...
Cubs return OF Owen Caissie to major league roster
The Chicago Cubs recalled outfielder Owen Caissie from Triple-A Iowa in advance of Saturday's home game against the Tampa Bay Rays.,To make room on the active roster, outfielder Kevin Alcantara was optioned to Triple-A.,Caissie, 23, made his major league debut Aug. 14 as right fielder Kyle Tucker wa...
Reds seek to convert opportunities in rematch vs. A's
The Cincinnati Reds look to rebound from a night of missed opportunities when they face the Athletics in the middle contest of a three-game series on Saturday night at West Sacramento, Calif.,Cincinnati missed the chance to gain ground on the New York Mets in the National League wild-card race as th...
Giants continue fight for wild-card berth against Dodgers
The San Francisco Giants will have a chance to move into a playoff spot when they host the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday in the middle game of a three-game series. ,The Giants (75-72) moved a half game out of a National League wild-card spot in dramatic fashion Friday when Patrick Bailey hit a gam...