Spring Training

Chicagao, Ill. -- Chris Sale struck out seven in 7 2/3 innings and Tyler Flowers homered as Chicago edged visiting Kansas City on opening day. Sale (1-0), who was given a five-year, $32.5 million extension during spring training, scattered seven hits and...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Stan Musial, one of baseball's greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the St. Louis Cardinals for more than two decades, died Saturday. He was 92. Stan the Man won seven National League batting titles, was a three-time MVP and...

Nate Tenbrink did something Sunday that gave him reason to gloat. He hit a home run with such authority, the ball disappeared over a madrona tree beyond Cheney Stadium's right-field wall. The tree, it should be pointed out, does not hug the wall....

One of San Jose City Hall's three recently born falcon fledglings slammed into a wall and died Sunday, apparently while trying to land while carrying a pigeon for lunch. The 7-week-old fledgling succumbed to one of the many hazards of avian adolescence....

RHP Cole De Vries has been reinstated from his rehab assignment and optioned to Triple-A Rochester. De Vries made the opening season roster but came away from his last spring training outing with tightness in his forearm. His rehab has gone well,...

RHP Brandon Beachy, coming back from Tommy John surgery, had his scheduled rehab start with Triple-A Gwinnett rained out Sunday and threw a limited simulated game indoors instead. He was slated to pitch three innings after working two innings during an...

3B Freddy Galvis, making his fifth start of the season at the position Sunday, hit the game-winning home run off Reds closer Aroldis Chapman in the bottom of the ninth. It was his first career walk-off homer. Galvis, hitting .298 with three homers and...

INF Logan Forsythe, who has been out since spring training with plantar fasciitis in his right foot, is expected to begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tucson later this week if all goes well when he runs the bases Wednesday afternoon. He has been...

RHP Juan Nicasio was paired for the first time this season with veteran C Yorvit Torrealba, and the move paid huge dividends. Nicasio limited the Giants to three singles in six innings in the Rockies' 5-0 win. The right-hander got 11 outs on ground balls,...

The internal fortitude that makes Josh Conway a tough competitor is being tested again, much to his chagrin. On May 15, 2012, the former Smithsburg star had Tommy John surgery for a complete tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Miami Marlins - INSIDE PITCH Veteran righty Jon Rauch's tenure with the Marlins didn't last very long. Rauch was designated for assignment May 17 after allowing two runs in an inning, jacking his ERA to 7.56 in 15...

MLB Team Report - Arizona Diamondbacks - INSIDE PITCH The long dry spell is over. Brandon McCarthy won his first game since being struck in the head by a line drive on Sept. 5, 2012, and posted his first shutout since almost exactly a year before...