ANAHEIM — José Soriano has spent the season tantalizing the Angels with how good he can be and puzzling them with how bad he can be.

He was both in the Angels’ 13-1 loss to the Texas Rangers on Tuesday night, a game so ugly that infielder Kevin Newman pitched the final three innings.

Soriano began the game with three scoreless, hitless ...Read more

Jackson Merrill brought a ball back from beyond the wall in center in the fifth inning. Fernando Tatis Jr. did the same in right field in the eighth.

In between all that robbery, Luis Arraez of all people muscled up for a home run that was all the Padres needed on Tuesday in a 1-0 win over the Diamondbacks.

Arraez’s fifth homer of the season...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — The Giants have been no stranger to the walk-off win this season. This one might top them all.

The Giants stunned the Philadelphia Phillies with a 4-3 win on Tuesday night at Oracle Park on Patrick Bailey’s walk-off, three-run, inside-the-park home run, a mad dash that evoked memories of Ángel Pagán’s feat more than a ...Read more

After inclement weather on Tuesday pushed the start of their series opener vs. the Nationals back by two hours and 19 minutes, the Cardinals’ responded quickly to an early deficit vs. Washington and had their bullpen hold tight in their return to Busch Stadium following a three-city road trip.

Down 2-0 in the bottom of the third inning after ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Put the word out: The Mets are back up.

They were down, then up, then down big before tying the game with four runs in the top of the eighth inning. On a night when stifling heat and humidity enveloped Camden Yards, the Mets came into Baltimore on Tuesday night like The Wire’s Omar Little and caused havoc after the home team ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Pirates lost their fifth consecutive game on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium, falling 4-3 to the Royals on a walk-off single from second baseman Nick Loftin. Dennis Santana took the loss, dropping to 2-2, while Royals closer Carlos Estevez got the win to improve to 3-2.

Santana, coming out for his second inning of ...Read more

BOSTON — Brayan Bello was perfect through 3 1/3 innings in his first career game against the Colorado Rockies, pouring on the strikes as if they could quench the steamy weather that blanketed Fenway Park on Tuesday evening.

Perfection didn’t last, but Bello did. He tossed the first complete game of his big-league career, in a 10-2 Red Sox ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins scored two runs in the second inning and six more in the eighth to beat the National League Central’s best, the Chicago Cubs, 8-1 Tuesday at Target Field.

Byron Buxton continued his All-Star summer by starting the party with a hit that became a run.

Buxton was coming fresh off a weekend when he was named to the ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — The game plan, manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday afternoon, was simple.

As the Los Angeles Dodgers prepared to face Milwaukee Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski, a hard-throwing and supremely talented right-hander making just his fifth career MLB start, the club’s manager repeated one key multiple times during his pregame address...Read more

NEW YORK — The Mariners’ pitching staff entered the Bronx on fire, as Seattle had thrown three consecutive shutouts, a franchise first, prior to Tuesday’s game against the Yankees.

Giancarlo Stanton, meanwhile, had been ice cold. The designated hitter, only 16 games into his season after battling tennis elbow injuries, took a .222 average...Read more

DETROIT — Colt Keith, fresh off a huge night Monday, provided the big hits again Tuesday, breaking a 2-2 tie with a long, two-run homer to right field, giving the Tigers a second straight win over the Tampa Bay Rays at Comerica, 4-2.

Keith, who doubled twice and slugged a solo homer in the 5-1 win in the opener, singled in the tying run in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Ray Montgomery is just three weeks into his interim tenure as Angels manager. And as his responsibility grows, he’s well aware that so does the pressure.

“All blame, no credit,” he said Monday as the Angels began a seven-game homestand before the All-Star break. “And I get that. That’s just how it goes.”

Since ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Yankees have made it official: Cam Schlittler will make his big league debut when he starts against the Mariners in the Bronx on Wednesday.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone confirmed the expected news during his weekly appearance on the Talkin’ Yanks podcast. Meanwhile, pitching coach Matt Blake wasn’t sure if this will be an ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In what has been an up-and-down year overall, Pirates slugger Oneil Cruz will get the opportunity to showcase the most entertaining part of his game later this month in front of the entire baseball world. Cruz announced Tuesday he will be participating in this year’s Home Run Derby. The event, which will take place at ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — What would a baseball team in Los Angeles want from a retired artist and designer in New York?

Janet Bennett wasn't sure.

Generations of Angelenos are familiar with her signature project. You probably have walked right past it. Those colorful tile mosaics that decorate the long corridors toward baggage claim in five terminals ...Read more

Manny Machado wasted no time making history.

With singles in his first two at-bats against the Diamondbacks’ Zac Gallen, Machado reached 2,000 hits in his career.

A single off the glove of diving Diamondbacks shortstop Geraldo Perdomo leading off the fourth inning is the hit that got Machado to the historic mark, and it brought the crowd at ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO – Before the Giants can finally welcome the Dodgers to Oracle Park this season on their way into the All-Star break, the National League East-leading Phillies came first as a three-game undercard.

It’s a high-powered homestand, and it got off to a victorious, tension-filled start Monday night with the Giants prevailing 3-1 ...Read more

ANAHEIM — The Angels got the clutch hits they were missing all weekend, and a clutch walk to end it.

After a nightmare series of one-run losses and missed offensive opportunities, the Angels beat the Texas Rangers, 6-5, on Monday night, on Nolan Schanuel’s game-ending bases-loaded walk.

Luis Rengifo led off the bottom of the ninth with a ...Read more

SEATTLE — He’ll be in Atlanta with three of his teammates next week, and if you’re a Mariners fan, you’re all for it.

The selection certainly beefs up a résumé that may be on the brink of the Hall of Fame when he’s retired, but if you’ve been watching him this season, you have to wonder.

For the third time in his four-year career...Read more

BOSTON — Colorado Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle raced back, back, back, but the Fenway Faithful already knew what he was about to be forced to accept.

Roman Anthony’s first Fenway home run was long gone.

418 feet, at 106.4 mph, to be precise.

The Red Sox rookie’s second big-league blast, but first at the ballpark he finally gets ...Read more