Baseball

Minnesota Twins ace right-hander Kenta Maeda underwent Tommy John surgery on his pitching arm Wednesday, ending his season prematurely and shelving him well into the 2022 campaign. Twins manager Rocco Baldelli shared the news with media members before the team’s Wednesday night home game against the Chicago Cubs. Baldelli intimated […]

anaheim, California – Shohei Ohtani stole two bases — including a steal of home — but the hero of the night for the Angels was journeyman reliever Jake Petricka, whose eighth-inning performance helped Los Angeles hang on for a 6-4 victory over the New York Yankees on Tuesday in Anaheim, […]

Jo Adell delivered his second four-RBI game in a week to help the visiting Los Angeles Angels earn a 14-8 win on Tuesday night and send the Baltimore Orioles to their 19th consecutive loss. It’s the longest losing streak in the majors since the Kansas City Royals also dropped 19 […]

Toronto – Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera became the 28th MLB player to hit 500 career home runs with a milestone blast in the sixth inning of the Tigers’ 5-3 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday. Cabrera, the first player to get to the 500-homer milestone as a Tiger, […]

Tatsuhiro Shibata played hero in both the field and at the plate on Saturday as the Yokohama DeNA BayStars earned a 7-2 Central League win over the second-place Yomiuri Giants. Despite the loss at Tokyo Dome, the Giants remained 1½ games behind the league-leading Hanshin Tigers, who lost to the […]

KYODO – Shohei Ohtani went 2-for-3 and took his season tally to 112 hits, his best in four MLB seasons, as the Los Angeles Angels came from eight runs behind to beat the Detroit Tigers 13-10 on Thursday. The two-way star, who on Wednesday night hit his major league-leading 40th […]

The Yomiuri Giants on Friday acquired Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters slugger Sho Nakata, who was indefinitely suspended from all top team and farm team games by the Pacific League club for an act of violence against a teammate. The Fighters said on Aug. 11 that the 32-year-old infielder engaged in […]

Detroit – Shohei Ohtani hit his major league-leading 40th home run of the season and pitched a career-high eight innings in the Los Angeles Angels’ 3-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday at Comerica Park. Ohtani became the first to 40 homers this season while also becoming the first […]

Sendai – Kodai Senga’s troubled season showed signs of turning around on Wednesday, as he went six innings in the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks’ 3-0 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles in the Pacific League. Senga (2-1) was named to Japan’s Olympic team despite being hurt most of the season. The […]

Detroit Tigers color commentator Jack Morris apologized Tuesday after using a racist accent while discussing how the team should pitch to Los Angeles Angels superstar Shohei Ohtani. In the top of the ninth inning of the Angels’ 8-2 win over Detroit, play-by-play announcer Matt Shepard asked Morris — a Hall […]