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Out for more than a year, German Marquez gets nod for Rockies
The Colorado Rockies have waited more than 14 months for German Marquez to return from Tommy John surgery.,On Sunday afternoon, he'll get an immediate opportunity to re-establish himself as the Rockies' stopper when Colorado tries to avoid being swept by the host New York Mets in the finale of a thr...

MLB-best Phillies eye series win over A's before break
The Philadelphia Phillies look to move a season-high 30 games over .500 on Sunday when they host the Oakland Athletics in the teams' last contest before the All-Star break.,The Phillies avenged a 6-2 setback to the Athletics in the series opener on Friday by belting four homers in their 11-5 romp on...

MLB roundup: Tigers rally in 9th, beat Dodgers in 10th
Gio Urshela blasted a two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning as the Detroit Tigers rallied from a five-run deficit in the ninth to stun the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-9, on Saturday afternoon.,Colt Keith drove in four runs and capped Detroit's rally in the ninth with a two-run homer. W...

Short on arms, Dodgers & Tigers turn to 'pens in finale
There is one thing for certain about Sunday's game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers. Both managers will make plenty of pitching changes.,Both teams will treat the series finale in Detroit as a bullpen day, with the Tigers naming right-handed reliever Beau Brieske as their opener wh...

Corbin Carroll (2 HRs, 6 RBIs) leads D-backs past Jays
Corbin Carroll smacked two homers and drove in a career-high six runs and Jose Herrera reached base four times on three hits and a walk to help the Arizona Diamondbacks notch a 12-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night at Phoenix.,Yilber Diaz (1-0) made his second major league start ...

Corbin Carroll (2 HRs, 6 RBIs) leads D-back past Jays
Corbin Carroll smacked two homers and drove in a career-high six runs and Jose Herrera reached base four times on three hits and a walk to help the Arizona Diamondbacks notch an 12-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night at Phoenix.,Yilber Diaz (1-0) made his second major league start...

Rece Hinds, Reds strive for series win over Marlins
Rece Hinds is off to one of the hottest starts in major league history, and the rookie right-fielder for the Cincinnati Reds will try to keep it going in the finale of a three-game series against the visiting Miami Marlins on Sunday.,Hinds has five home runs in six games since he was recalled from T...

Angels' early lead holds up in 2-1 win over Mariners
Jose Soriano recovered from a shaky opening frame to deliver a six-inning quality start, and the bullpen held firm over the final three frames to help the Los Angeles Angels to a 2-1 win against the visiting Seattle Mariners on Saturday.,Soriano (5-7) allowed one run on five hits, walked four and st...

Orioles look to snap skid, reclaim AL East lead over Yankees
Entering play Tuesday, the Baltimore Orioles led the New York Yankees by three games in the American League East and hoped to sail into the All-Star break with a multi-game lead.,But suddenly, the Orioles have lost five straight contests, are trying to figure out how to score, and find themselves in...

Late rally pushes Cards past Cubs for sweep of twin bill
Nolan Arenado hit the decisive two-run single in the eighth inning as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied past the visiting Chicago Cubs 5-4 Saturday night to complete a doubleheader sweep.,The Cardinals won the first game 11-3 behind a nine-run first inning.,Masyn Winn and Willson Contreras hit home ru...

Padres' Dylan Cease fans 11 in win over Braves
Dylan Cease allowed only one hit and struck out 11 over six shutout innings on Saturday as the San Diego Padres snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-0 win over the visiting Atlanta Braves.,Cease (8-8) walked three while giving up just one hit in a start of at least six innings for the fourth t...

Twins take lead in 6th, then 'pen stifles Giants
Carlos Santana broke a sixth-inning tie with a home run and the Minnesota Twins won a battle of bullpens for a 4-2 victory over the host San Francisco Giants on Saturday afternoon.,Santana's homer, his 13th of the season, came off the Giants' second pitcher, Taylor Rogers (1-3), after a pair of rook...

Twins take early lead, then 'pen shuts down Giants
Carlos Santana broke a sixth-inning tie with a home run and the Minnesota Twins won a battle of bullpens for a 4-2 victory over the host San Francisco Giants on Saturday afternoon.,Santana's homer, his 13th of the season, came off the Giants' second pitcher, Taylor Rogers (1-3), after a pair of rook...

Padres' Dylan Cease fans 11 Braves in 7 shutout innings
Dylan Cease allowed only one hit and struck out 11 over six shutout innings Saturday as the San Diego Padres snapped a five-game losing streak with a 4-0 win over the visiting Atlanta Braves.,Cease (8-8) walked three and struck out 11, the fourth time this year he has given up just one hit in a star...

Royals acquire RHP Hunter Harvey from Nats
The Kansas City Royals bolstered their bullpen on Saturday, acquiring right-hander Hunter Harvey from the Washington Nationals in exchange for prospect Cayden Wallace and a competitive balance pick (No. 39 overall) in this year's MLB draft, which begins Sunday. ,Harvey, 29, is 2-4 with a 4.20 ERA in...

Aaron Judge sets Yankees mark for HRs before All-Star break
With his major-league-leading 34th home run on Saturday, Aaron Judge set a New York Yankees record for homers before the All-Star break.,In New York's 6-1 win over the host Baltimore Orioles, Judge broke the mark he shared with Roger Maris, who hit 33 before the break en route to a then-single-seaso...

Report: Dodgers RHP Dustin May won't pitch this season
Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Dustin May won't pitch at all this season after having surgery this week to fix an esophageal tear, according to a report on Saturday.,May, 26, had been rehabbing from surgery in 2023 to repair a torn flexor tendon in his pitching arm and had not appeared in a game t...

Bryan Reynolds (4 hits, 4 RBIs) propels Pirates past White Sox
Bryan Reynolds rapped four hits, including a tiebreaking two-run single in the seventh inning, as the visiting Pittsburgh Pirates earned a 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Saturday afternoon.,Reynolds entered hitless in his previous 10 at-bats and in a 3-for-17 slump in his previous four ga...

Mets beat Rockies for fifth straight victory
The slumping Jeff McNeil laced a two-RBI double to cap a four-run second inning Saturday afternoon for the surging New York Mets, who beat the visiting Colorado Rockies 7-3 in the middle contest of a three-game series.,The Mets have won the first five games of a six-game homestand to improve to 9-4 ...

Nationals get two-run homer in ninth to upend Brewers
CJ Abrams had a two-run homer in the ninth inning as the visiting Washington Nationals completed a comeback from an early five-run deficit to defeat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-5 on Saturday.,Luis Garcia Jr. singled to open the ninth off closer Trevor Megill (0-2), who had converted 18 of 19 save opport...