Major League Baseball News

DJ LeMahieu belted a three-run homer and Charlie Blackmon hit two doubles, driving in one run, to lift the Rockies to their season-high fifth straight win, a 4-1 victory over the Cubs on Thursday night. [...]

Gary Sanchez cracked two homers off David Price and Michael Pineda struck out eight over seven dominant innings as the Yankees defeated the Red Sox, 9-1, on Thursday night at Yankee Stadium, taking two of three games in a showdown of American League East rivals. The win increased New York's lead over second-place Boston to three games. [...]

Kevin Kiermaier exited Thursday's game against the White Sox in the fifth inning after crossing first base awkwardly [...]

Colby Rasmus' eighth-inning home run provided Alex Colome an extra run to work with while preserving Tampa Bay's 7-5 series-clinching win over Chicago at Tropicana Field on Thursday. [...]

R.A. Dickey completed his most best start of the season, leading Atlanta to a 3-1 win Thursday over the Phillies at SunTrust Park. [...]

Griffin Canning isn't a phenom who throws 100 mph. He isn't a hulking specimen on the mound. But as everyone in baseball knows, there's more than one road to the first round of the MLB Draft. [...]

There was no no-hitter hangover for Edinson Volquez on Thursday night. The Marlins right-hander followed up his 10-strikeout gem on Saturday with another scoreless outing against the Pirates, allowing just three hits over seven innings and leading Miami to a 7-1 win over Pittsburgh at PNC Park. [...]

Mets starter Noah Syndergaard told a New York radio station Thursday that he has "no regrets" about declining to undergo an MRI on his right shoulder shortly before suffering a torn lat that has since kept him on the disabled list. [...]

After pitching to a combined 14.14 ERA in his past two starts, Nationals right-hander Joe Ross broke out of his slump against the Orioles on Thursday night. Ross allowed one run and recorded a career-high 12 strikeouts in 7 1/3 innings to lead the Nationals to a 6-1 win at Nationals Park in a makeup of a May 11 rainout. [...]

Maikel Franco is known to lose his helmet taking healthy swings, but he lost his bat taking an aggressive cut Thursday. [...]