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ANAHEIM, Calif. — AJ Hinch wasn’t accepting any bonus points for enduring a rugged patch of the schedule.

“There is no conceding to the schedule or the rigors or the grind or whatever,” he said before the Detroit ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Rookie right-hander Logan Evans surrendered six runs in a never-ending third inning, and the Texas Rangers ended the Seattle Mariners’ six-game winning streak with a 8-1 victory Sunday afternoon at ...Read more

BOSTON – After the Minnesota Twins piled up low-scoring, close losses throughout the past week, they finally figured out a way to change the formula.

The Twins scored four runs against the Boston Red Sox bullpen Sunday,...Read more

PITTSBURGH — The San Diego Padres completed a sweep of a bad team on Sunday.

They finish a nine-game, 10-day trip next weekend against a horrible team.

It is on the bones of such clubs that good teams climb to the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles and Kansas Royals love playing low-scoring games at Camden Yards. Entering Sunday, the two teams combined to score only 23 runs across their previous six contests in Baltimore, including...Read more

NEW YORK — With rain falling in the Bronx before and during the Yankees’ delayed series finale against the Tampa Bay Rays, the Bombers lost at home, 7-5, on Sunday.

The defeat marked the first-place Yankees’ second ...Read more

The New York Mets nearly crawled their way back, but they were stopped short.

Trailing 6-3 entering the eighth inning, the Mets added two runs on an RBI-single by Francisco Lindor to pull within one. Juan Soto walked to ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Bill Mott rolled out of bed early Sunday morning, his wife asked the winning trainer of Kentucky Derby 151 if he believed it yet.

“I told her it’s starting to sink in,” Mott said Sunday ...Read more

DENVER — Gags to riches.

With the world watching and everyone who matters playing, the Nuggets delivered confirmation of something that has been percolating for a month: They are back.

In a little over two hours ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Mike Tomlin is not afraid to put up a smokescreen or two during the pre-draft process to keep the other 31 teams guessing. Remember his flirtation with Malik Willis a few years ago, when he had the football ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The newest member of golf’s Grand Slam club, recent Masters champion Rory McIlroy, will play in the Truist Championship and defend his title. Xander Schauffele, who holds two major titles — the PGA ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It’s time for the Minnesota Wild to go deeper.

Deeper with their roster, then go deeper in the postseason.

Despite encouraging signs that the arrow is pointing upward for this franchise — it does have...Read more

MORRISVILLE, N.C. — Jesperi Kotaniemi was lying on his back with his eyes closed in the training room, trying to hold still as a team doctor put the top of his right eyelid back together. He could only tell what was ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — You didn’t have to engage in many conversations in the vicinity of First Avenue and North 6th Street this winter to hear a certain refrain.

I heard it from two Minnesota Timberwolves team broadcasters, ...Read more

ATLANTA — The national anthem had been sung. A sold-out crowd was in its seats. The field was raked, chalked and ready for baseball.

More than three hours later, the first pitch was finally thrown.

What was scheduled ...Read more

ANAHEIM -- Got him again.

The sixth inning is turning into Jack Flaherty’s biggest nemesis.

He cruised into the sixth inning Saturday, allowing only an unearned run, flummoxing hitters with a nasty knuckle-curveball. ...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Twelve times Godolphin had attempted to win the Kentucky Derby.

Twelve times Goldophin had failed.

But it wasn’t just the lucky 13 that propelled the global racing outfit to its first Kentucky Derby...Read more

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bill Mott is in the Hall of Fame. He won the Kentucky Derby in 2019, but it was by disqualification. The trainer never got to see his horse cross the finish line first. Until now.

In an exciting ...Read more

ARLINGTON, Texas — Rowdy Tellez’s pinch-hit single drove in Jorge Polanco for the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning, and the Seattle Mariners won their sixth straight game with a 2-1 victory over the Texas ...Read more

DENVER — In all the years of Nikola Jokic, Denver has not witnessed a Nuggets season capable of rivaling the internal tension and turmoil of this one.

Seemingly bursting at the seams with frustration at the low points, ...Read more