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

The Dodgers finally solved their recent offensive woes on Monday.

And the answer, it turned out, wasn’t much of a mystery.

Sure, manager Dave Roberts noted in his pregame media address, the Dodgers needed to be more selective at the plate coming off a 3-6 skid over the last two weeks in which they’d hit .218 as a team and averaged barely ...Read more

The pitching staff’s scoreless streak wasn’t going to go on and on and on. The Padres are not going to win every home game this season, either.

That’s what logic says.

But there’s something else powering Mike Shildt’s team these days.

A freshly-shaven Dylan Cease buckled, the Cubs halted the staff’s scoreless streak at 37 innings ...Read more

NEW YORK — After defeating the Royals in the 2024 American League Division Series, the Yankees picked up where they left off with a 4-1 victory over Kansas City on Monday night.

A power surge at Yankee Stadium fueled the Bombers’ series-opening win, as Trent Grisham, Ben Rice and Austin Wells all smoked solo shots off Royals starter Seth ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Manager AJ Hinch was joking about former Detroit Tiger Tyler Alexander before the game.

“He labeled his fastball ‘The Express’ from the get-go,” Hinch said. “I know we have two power lefties going at it tonight.”

That last was in reference to a text exchange Alexander had with Tarik Skubal last weekend. After he found...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. – For the last week, the Boston Red Sox could at least make some excuses for this miserable stretch.

It was horribly frigid and wet at Fenway Park for nearly the entire first homestand, which included a rainout and resulting doubleheader during the opening series with the St. Louis Cardinals, and several extra-inning games. ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — With the team that he turned down in town for a few days, Nolan Arenado gave the Houston Astros an eyeful already of why they wanted him – it just came against them.

Arenado punctuated his three-hit game Monday night at the ballpark he chose to still call home with a solo homer that launched the Cardinals to what almost was a ...Read more