SAN DIEGO — One loss was enough.

A day after dropping a game for the first time at Petco Park this season, the Padres beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Wednesday afternoon to bring to a close their second homestand of 2025.

The victory improved the Padres’ major league-leading record to 15-4.

Nick Pivetta was outstanding for a third straight ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — To Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jackie Robinson's legacy is as important now as it has ever been.

And on Tuesday, as the guest speaker at the Dodgers' annual celebration of Jackie Robinson Day, he made the reason he believes so abundantly clear.

"Trump wants to get rid of DEI, and I think it's just a ruse to discriminate," Abdul-Jabbar...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Detroit Tigers’ right-hander Keider Montero continues to be a tease.

You see the high-revolution spin on both his slider and knuckle-curve and the crisscrossing action with his four-seam fastball and sinker, you see the ugly swings and strikeouts.

And then you look up at the scoreboard and he’s allowed four runs in three ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — With his club held scoreless through their last 14 innings following a shutout loss on Tuesday night, Cardinals left fielder Lars Nootbaar’s swing in the fifth inning Wednesday vs. the Astros gave his club their first runs since Monday and a lead they held onto for a series win.

Standing in the box against Astros starter Ronel ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Byron Buxton saw Ty France hit a line drive to center and didn’t hesitate, sprinting around third base to score the game-winning run in a 4-3 victory in 10 innings Wednesday.

It didn’t matter that New York Mets center fielder Tyrone Taylor came close to catching the ball. Not with the way the Twins ran the bases aggressively...Read more

Two sloppy tendencies — one involving gloves, the other bats — repeatedly cost the Dodgers during a slipshod 10-game stretch that followed their 8-0 start to the season: Uncharacteristic defensive miscues and an inability to lay off pitches out of the strike zone.

Both were solved early and emphatically in a 6-2 victory over the Colorado ...Read more

The Padres got the kind of gift that seemed fitting considering how historically well things have gone for them at the start of this season.

They took advantage, which also seemed right for a team that has done so time and again through the season’s first three weeks.

But on this night, where they would fall a victory short of more history, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jasson Domínguez’s early-season splits were extreme.

Entering a pivotal at-bat in Tuesday night’s sixth inning, the switch-hitting Domínguez was just 1 for 20 against left-handed pitchers, compared to 12 for 30 against righties.

But the biggest blow in the Yankees’ 4-2 win over the Kansas City Royals on Jackie Robinson Day...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Turns out the best way to cool a broiling offense is to douse it with some heat.

A day after the Cardinals peppered his teammate with 10 hits, five doubles and seven runs, Houston Astros starter Hunter Brown sped through St. Louis' lineup. With a one-two punch of a fastball that touched 99.1 mph and a sinker that scurried off his ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins lost two key members of their lineup Tuesday, ran into an out on the basepaths to end an inning and popped up a bunt attempt when they considered a squeeze play.

Add it up and the Twins matched their highest run total in a game since April 6.

Go figure.

The Twins scored runs in five consecutive innings to earn a 6-3 ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Yusei Kikuchi deserved a better fate.

The Angels left-hander finally pitched the way they hoped when they signed him over the winter, but he got no support and the Angels lost, 4-0, to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night.

Kikuchi gave up one run in six innings, the best of his four starts this season. He took the loss ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Alec Bohm took a wide turn around first base, and upon retreating to the bag, he looked into the Phillies’ dugout and clapped his hands three times.

It was a moment three weeks in the making.

Bohm lined the first pitch from Justin Verlander into left field to knock in a run with a hit for the first time since … checks ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Orioles, as they often have this season, failed to solve a left-handed starting pitcher.

Cleveland’s Logan Allen carried a no-hit bid into the fifth inning Tuesday night in the Orioles’ 6-3 loss that pushed Baltimore to 6-10 on the season. The Orioles added two runs in the eighth, but after another dismal start by Charlie ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. – Finally, on Tuesday night, the ship righted itself.

After getting beaten up by the Toronto Blue Jays, Chicago White Sox and Tampa Bay Rays over the last week, it was finally the Boston bats’ turn.

Led by Alex Bregman, who had his first career five-hit game, the Red Sox tallied 12 knocks in a 7-4 victory over the Rays on ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The first question that had to be answered Tuesday night was whether the Detroit Tigers were going to manage a base hit.

Milwaukee Brewers’ right-hander Quinn Priester kept the hit column empty for five innings, though he did walk three and took the mound in the sixth at 81 pitches.

Gleyber Torres whacked a 1-1 sinker into the ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The Pirates were shut out and had just two hits on Sunday, then had 10 runs and 14 hits on Monday. With new necklaces and an aggressive offensive approach, they hoped Monday would be the start of something different.

They reverted back to the former on Tuesday.

The Pirates were shut out for the second time in three games Tuesday...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper struck out during his first at-bat Monday night against the San Francisco Giants.

He was probably a bit distracted. Harper and his wife, Kayla, are expecting their fourth child, and the eight-time All-Star had just learned the gender of the baby ... through the color of the custom ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five years ago, America was listening.

That was the year in which George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police officers.

That was also the year in which the Dodgers refused to take the field for a late August game to protest racial injustice in the wake of a police shooting of a 29-year-old Black man in Wisconsin.

The...Read more