Baseball

San Diego – The Tampa Bay Rays are unanimous in their praise of Randy Arozarena, who is living up to his nickname, “The Cuban Rocket.” Arozarena homered for the third straight game and Kevin Kiermaier and Michael Perez also went deep for the Rays, who beat the New York Yankees […]

Houston – Ronald Acuna Jr. made history with a leadoff home run to start things off for the Atlanta Braves in their NL Division Series opener against Miami. And another hit — once more by the Marlins, this time with Sandy Alcantara’s fastball to the left hip — fired up […]

Eleven members of the Chiba Lotte Marines, including seven top-team players, tested positive for COVID-19 in testing done in the aftermath of pitcher Daiki Iwashita’s positive test on Sunday, the team announced Tuesday afternoon. Takashi Ogino, an All-Star last season, Ikuhiro Kiyota, Takashi Toritani and Katsuya Kakunaka were among the […]

San Diego – Giancarlo Stanton hit a grand slam in the ninth inning for New York’s fourth home run of the game, and the Yankees beat the Tampa Bay Rays 9-3 on Monday in the opener of their AL Division Series at Petco Park. Stanton homered to straightaway center field […]

Chiba – Several Chiba Lotte Marines players and staff have tested positive for the new coronavirus, sources close to the matter revealed Tuesday, but it will not affect the club’s scheduled evening game against the Orix Buffaloes. Marines right-hander Daiki Iwashita and a staff member assigned to the club’s top […]

It’s been a long time since there were Chunichi Dragons games worth getting excited about this late in a season. Here we are though, with every Central League team with fewer than 31 games left to play and Chunichi sitting fourth in the standings — prime position for a run […]

Los Angeles – Josh Reddick and the rest of the Houston Astros heard the “cheaters” chants and banging on garbage cans as the team’s buses pulled into Dodger Stadium for a series last month. They were greeted by Dodgers fans still angry that the Astros illicitly stole signs during the […]

A day after Yu Darvish pitched his final game of the year for the Chicago Cubs, his first pro manager on Saturday called it the right-hander’s best performance in the majors. Darvish allowed two runs on five hits and a walk, while striking out six over 6⅔ innings, but that […]

After Charlie Blackmon of the Colorado Rockies completed a stretch of six multiple-hit games in August, his batting average ballooned to .500 after 17 games. Nolan Arenado marveled at his teammate’s otherworldliness. “The zone you dream of,” Arenado said at the time, “is the one he’s in right now.” Blackmon’s […]

Philadelphia – Matt Klentak’s inability to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to the postseason or even a single winning season cost him his job as general manager. Klentak stepped down after a third straight September collapse left the team out of the postseason for the ninth consecutive season. The 40-year-old will […]