Kenny Lofton

The Seattle Mariners embark on a 9-game road trip beginning Friday in Los Angeles. Before that, they can celebrate a little bit on finishing their current homestand at 5-1. Ichiro Suzuki lined the 29th leadoff homer of his career into the right-field...

In 1959 Mayor Richard J. Daley switched on the city's civil defense air-raid sirens when the White Sox clinched the pennant, sending Russian-fearing non-baseball fans into a frenzy. The Sox, up three games to one over the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in...

Lou Piniella stood in his office for the entirety of his postgame news conference after Thursday's 6-5 loss to Texas, wondering aloud when his team was going to get on a hot streak. "It should have started a month ago," Piniella said, laughing. "We're in...

Ask Paul returns from hibernation to address burning issues such as Felix Pie's playing time, Big Z's velocity and, of course, whether Soriano should be leading off. So much for our starting pitching surplus! Paul, do you think we messed up by not...

After the White Sox rearranged their rotation Wednesday night, they were forced to scramble more than they imagined. It meant Jose Contreras making his first regular-season relief appearance in nearly four years. A.J. Pierzynski came off the bench in the...

Moments after the Dodgers ducked into their clubhouse for the last time, the New York Mets celebrating on the field and a sellout crowd filing out of Dodger Stadium, General Manager Ned Colletti patted rookie catcher Russell Martin on the shoulder and...

Most Angelenos have spent at least part of a day at one of these six locations in the Southland. Some are no longer in use, some have seen their best days, and some look as nice as the day they were built, but they all remain landmarks of life in Los...

Sleepwalking while playing baseball is never a good idea, particularly when you are in a race for a postseason spot. But the Cubs looked more like pretenders than contenders Wednesday night in Citizens Bank Park, giving away a game to Philadelphia that...

The Cubs changed directions again Sunday with a lineup that included Corey Patterson on the bench instead of in the leadoff spot, ending a brief experiment. But the results weren't any different for the floundering Cubs, who rallied twice to tie...

In the summer of 2002, with the White Sox 13 games out of first place, general manager Ken Williams unloaded Ray Durham, Kenny Lofton, Sandy Alomar Jr. and Bob Howry in a seven-day stretch in late July, purging the clubhouse of players who weren't in...

The Cubs-Dodgers rivalry is one of the most evenly matched in baseball history, dating back to their first meeting in Brooklyn in 1890. Heading into Tuesday night's game at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers had won 1,003 games in the 116-year-old series to 1,...

Paul Sullivan answers (almost) all your questions about the future of the Cubs, in a special, Dusty-free edition of Ask Paul. Paul, if Jim Hendry does wise up and begins the fire sale, what teams might we expect him to deal with and can we expect players...