Chase Utley didn't play on Wednesday, when the Philadelphia Phillies held on for their third consecutive win over the first-place New York Mets. (And thankfully for Phils fans, he was ... Read More

What's happened to the Milwaukee Brewers isn't a free-fall. As a stock analyst might tell you, it's a "correction." It looks as if Brewers were baseball's version of a company with ... Read More

When Detroit Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski pulled the trigger on sending three prospects to the Yankees for Gary Sheffield, this can't be his vision. The Tigers also opened the checkbook ... Read More

The Baltimore Orioles announced that manager Dave Trembley will return for the 2008 season on Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday evening, his team took a 3-0 lead after three innings. Then the ... Read More

I have mixed feelings about the popularization of the Little League World Series. This week, the annual baseball tournament from South Williamsport, Pa., will be all over ESPN and ABC, with ... Read More

It's very rare when pitchers get on a roll the way Brandon Webb is pitching now. One shutout is rare enough, as there have been just 33 this season in the ... Read More

Jose Offerman, a 15-year major-league veteran attempting a comeback with the Long Island Ducks of the independent league, was arrested and charged with two counts of second-degree assault after attacking ... Read More

Thoughts on Hall of Fame shortstop Phil Rizzuto, the Yankees' player-turned-broadcaster who died Tuesday at age 89: "He was the guts of those great Yankee ballclubs. He did things that Pee ... Read More

Randy Johnson, their most famous player, barely pitched all year before having back surgery. Sometimes more than four rookies are in their starting lineup. They've been outscored this season by ... Read More

Diehard Yankee fans will tell you it was just a matter of time. The rest of the American League shudders at the thought. The New York Yankees woke up at the ... Read More

Disney hasn't optioned the rights yet, but aspiring writers might be starting on a screenplay. The story of Rick Ankiel is movie-ready. And it has a weird similarity to The Natural, ... Read More

Barry Bonds was back in the lineup Wednesday night, and No. 757 took flight into McCovey Cove beyond the right-field wall at AT&T Park in San Francisco, adding to his ... Read More

The wait is over. Barry Bonds finally connected on No. 756 on Tuesday in San Francisco, hitting a pitch by the Washington Nationals' Mike Bacsik over the center-field wall at ... Read More

Entering the weekend, there were 22 pitchers with 300 career victories and 21 hitters with 500 career home runs. Today it's 23 and 22. But don't expect the pitchers to ... Read More

It came to me in a dream, a transcript from an MLB.com broadcast on August 18, 2015: Studio: "Let's send it out to Los Angeles, where Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully, in ... Read More

Thursday's Royals-Twins game was postponed because of the horrific bridge collapse in Minneapolis on Wednesday. But a four-game series against the Indians at the Metrodome - just eight blocks from ... Read More

The Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers made the biggest deal at the trade deadline, and they both came out smelling like a rose. The fact that Mark Teixeira hit a home ... Read More