At some point, the Dodgers hope, they will be able to field a fully healthy lineup.

A late scratch on Wednesday to catcher Will Smith, however, meant it would have to wait at least a couple more days.

Despite activating Tommy Edman from the injured list pregame, and proceeding to sweep the Colorado Rockies with a 9-0 win that stretched their ...Read more

The longest night of the season had the strangest of endings for the Mariners.

Leo Rivas hit a walkoff, two-run home run on the first pitch of the bottom of the 13th inning, sending the Mariners to a 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night at T-Mobile Park.

It was the first plate appearance of the night for Rivas, who ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The Padres are dragging at what would seem to be the wrong time.

Maybe it will turn around. Virtually every team that has played in a World Series could look back at a stretch in the waning months of the regular season that they simply had to survive.

Maybe it won’t turn around. A five-game cushion with 16 games remaining is ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Just imagine if these games mattered in the standings.

The magic is back in Baltimore, and the Orioles are hardly losing. And they can’t stop winning in walk-off fashion.

The Orioles did it again Wednesday. For the fourth time in five games, the Orioles won on a walk off. This time, it was a single from rookie Dylan Beavers in ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Harrison Bader has played for the Phillies for all of 41 days, and already, he has a catchphrase.

What a gift.

It’s a gift, Bader said, that the Twins traded him before the July 31 deadline — and to the Phillies, no less. After four months with a noncontending team that will be at home in October, he’s poised to return ...Read more

NEW YORK — As Gleyber Torres prepared for his first game back at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, the Tigers’ second baseman said that he didn’t harbor any ill will for his former employer.

“I know it’s a business,” Torres said when asked if was disappointed that the Yankees didn’t extend him an offer in free agency this past offseason....Read more

CHICAGO — A team that says it’s going all out to win every game in a bid to make the postseason can’t load the bases on three walks to start the second inning and not get any runs.

Nor can that team allow five runs in the bottom of the inning by letting six of seven batters, and five straight, reach base.

Nor get two runners into scoring...Read more

NEW YORK — With President Trump scheduled to attend Thursday night’s game in the Bronx, the Yankees are introducing enhanced security measures.

As such, the Yankees laid out a series of guidelines for fans who plan to attend the series finale against the Detroit Tigers.

“Ticketed guests are strongly urged to arrive as early as possible ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Call me crazy.

Call me delusional.

Call me the last optimist standing.

Call me the only one who believes Orlando’s longshot bid to bring the Tampa Bay Rays to Orlando was actually enhanced earlier this week when major investor Dr. Rick Workman defected to an ownership group that already has a deal in place to buy the Rays....Read more

CLEVELAND — When Kansas City Royals outfielder Jac Caglianone went on his rehab assignment with Triple-A Omaha, there was a clear goal in mind.

Caglianone, who struggled with his plate discipline, needed to improve the selection of pitches that he swung at. Simply put, the Royals wanted Caglianone to work counts and get in advantageous ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — With a looming three-game series against the Los Angeles Dodgers, a clean sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks would’ve been a boon for the San Francisco Giants as they chase down the New York Mets for the final NL wild-card spot.

They’ll have to settle for two of three.

Carson Seymour recorded four outs and surrendered four...Read more

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mike Trout is finding other ways to contribute during his home run drought.

Trout drove in the first and last runs of the day for the Angels in their 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday afternoon.

His two-out single in the third put the Angels on the scoreboard. In the eighth, he snapped a tie with a sacrifice...Read more

Entering Wednesday Aroldis Chapman hadn’t so much as given up a hit since July 23, a stretch of dominance covering 17 appearances. So when the veteran lefty got the ball after the Boston Red Sox tied the game in the top of the ninth, the club had to like its chances.

Unfortunately for Boston, it turns out Chapman is still human.

The All-Star...Read more

CHICAGO — Anthony Rizzo will retire as a Chicago Cub and join the organization as a team ambassador, the team announced Wednesday.

Rizzo, one of the stars of the 2016 championship team that ended the historic, 108-year drought, will be feted Saturday at Wrigley Field before the Cubs game against the Tampa Bay Rays.

After being acquired from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Roki Sasaki topped 100 mph a half-dozen times in four shutout innings of a rehab start for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Tuesday, pushing himself back into the conversation for a spot on the Dodgers' postseason pitching staff.

"We've all got to huddle up and figure out what's the next plan," manager Dave Roberts said. "I personally ...Read more

The Padres got a win before they lost Tuesday night.

If not for the return of the pitcher who started opening day for the Padres and was arguably their best pitcher a year ago, a loss would simply be a loss at this point in the season for a team in a playoff race.

But even before Tyler Stephenson’s two-run homer off Robert Suarez broke a tie...Read more

ANAHEIM — Maybe the Angels just needed to start with something totally out of the box in order to snap out of their funk.

Zach Neto, in just his second major league start in the No. 3 hole, dropped down a surprising bunt in the first inning.

Although baseball analysts would say that was the wrong move, it nonetheless led to the Angels ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Another game closer.

Led by a three-run homer from Willy Adames and Patrick Bailey’s second solo homer in as many games, the Giants beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-3 on Tuesday night at Oracle Park, their 13th win over their last 16 games.

San Francisco (74-71) now sits just two games back of the final NL wild card spot ...Read more

It was team picture day at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday, one of those quaint baseball traditions that has endured long past its usefulness.

So the team set up three rows of aluminum risers in shallow center field and the players, wearing impossibly bright white uniforms, filed out of the clubhouse just before 3 p.m., passing up batting practice to...Read more

Four minutes later and 2,000 miles away, Randy Arozarena completed one of the biggest swings of the season in the American League West.

Arozarena belted a mammoth three-run home run to give the Mariners the lead in the third inning, just minutes after the Houston Astros blew a two-run ninth-inning lead in a what turned into a walkoff loss to ...Read more