PITTSBURGH (AP) — Michael Busch greeted Paul Skenes with the fourth leadoff home run of his career and the Chicago Cubs moved to the brink of their first playoff berth in five years with a 4-1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night. The Cubs winnowed their magic number to one ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After Shohei Ohtani pitched five hitless innings for the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Philadelphia Phillies' Rafael Marchon hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer off Blake Treinen with two outs in the ninth inning for a 9-6 win on Tuesday night. Brandon Marsh had a two-run homer ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Ian Happ homered and drove in three runs, and the Chicago Cubs clinched their first postseason berth since 2020 with an 8-4 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Wednesday. Chicago has won four in a row and seven of eight overall. It leads the NL wild-card standings with an ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Michael McGreevy pitched seven sharp innings, Thomas Saggese hit a two-run homer and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Cincinnati Reds 3-0 on Tuesday night. It was another costly defeat for Cincinnati, which has lost four of five and dropped three games behind the New York ...
DETROIT (AP) — Steven Kwan, Angel Martinez, José Ramírez and Kyle Manzardo combined to give Cleveland four extra-base hits in an extra inning for the first time in 64 years, and the Guardians beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 in the 10th on Tuesday night for their 10th win in 11 ...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Spencer Steer homered and drove in five runs, helping Brady Singer and the Cincinnati Reds beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 on Wednesday. The Reds (76-76) used 11 hits to take the rubber game of the three-game series. They are hoping to rally into the third NL wild card in ...
DETROIT (AP) — Gavin Williams struck out nine in five innings, Bo Naylor hit a two-run single and the Cleveland Guardians won their season-best sixth straight game, 4-0 over the Detroit Tigers on Wednesday night. Cleveland, which has won 11 of its last 12, is now 4 1/2 games behind the ...
Willie Fritz began his coaching career more than four decades ago at Pittsburg State, a Division II school tucked into the corner of Kansas, where he had played defensive back in the late 1970s and early '80s. In other words, the current Houston coach has seen just about everything in college ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — James Wood scored the go-ahead run from first base when center fielder Oneil Cruz misplayed Dayton Lile's eighth-inning double, and the Washington Nationals overcame a three-run, first-inning deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-3 on Sunday. Pittsburgh (65-85) finished ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — George Holani saw the ball bouncing toward the Pittsburgh end zone, wondered why Steelers kick returner Kaleb Johnson turned his back on a live football, and kept right on running. All the way to the first touchdown of the Seattle Seahawks special teamer and running back's ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies clinched their fourth straight postseason berth despite wasting a two-run lead Sunday in a 10-3 loss to the Kansas City Royals, who got a three-run homer and five RBIs from Salvador Perez. Philadelphia became the second team assured of a playoffs ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The goal for the Philadelphia Eagles is to be playing their best at the end of the season. Like they were in February, when they beat the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. They were far from perfect on Sunday, but they were good enough to beat the Chiefs in the ...
CLEVELAND (AP) — Bo Naylor drove in all three Guardians runs, including a go-ahead home run in the seventh inning, and Cleveland beat the Chicago White Sox 3-2 Sunday for a series sweep. The Guardians have won four straight and nine of 10. They are 2 1/2 games behind Houston for the AL's ...
BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens finished this game better than they started it. That was their most encouraging sign on a day they were expected to win comfortably and did. Lamar Jackson threw four touchdown passes and Baltimore's defense harassed Joe Flacco throughout his return to ...
CINCINNATI (AP) — Jake Browning and the Cincinnati Bengals turned a nightmarish first half — including an injury to Joe Burrow — into a dream finish. Browning relieved Burrow and scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 1-yard sneak with 18 seconds remaining to give the Bengals a 31-27 win ...
LARAMIE, Wyo (AP) — Devon Dampier led four consecutive touchdown drives in the second half, and No. 20 Utah beat Wyoming 31-6 on Saturday night in the rivals' first meeting since 2010. Dampier completed eight straight passes on Utah's third-quarter scoring drives, finishing 27 of 41 for 230 ...
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — Bryson Barnes accounted for five touchdowns to help Utah State beat Air Force 49-30 on Saturday night in the Mountain West Conference opener for both teams. Barnes was 17-of-22 passing for 287 yards and three touchdowns and ran TDs of 7, 11 and 7 yards. Braden Pegan caught ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Bubba Chandler took a perfect game into the sixth inning, Andrew McCutchen and Nick Yorke had two-run singles in the eighth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Washington Nationals 4-1 on Saturday to snap a seven-game losing streak. Jared Triolo capped the scoring ...
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Drew Allar threw for 209 yards and a touchdown and No. 2 Penn State got another near flawless effort from its defense in a 52-6 win over Villanova on Saturday. Nicholas Singleton ran for two touchdowns, Kaytron Allen added another, Trebor Peña caught a touchdown, ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Kyle Schwarber hit his 51st home run, Brandon Marsh also went deep and the Philadelphia Phillies won their sixth straight game with an 8-6 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Saturday night. Harrison Bader contributed three hits for the Phillies, who can clinch their ...