Troy Percival

Paul Sullivan returns from an extended separation from his Tribune e-mail box in a special, Soriano-free edition of Ask Paul. I'm excited to witness that the team has developed, step by step, without a lot of us noticing, a killer instinct they didn't...

Cliff Floyd doesn't care if some think he's crazy for thinking about a World Series matchup that would be too surreal for most rational people to contemplate. Before he homered Tuesday night to help Tampa Bay beat the Cubs, his former team, 3-2 in the...

IN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...

Yankees (74-64) vs. Rays (84-52) Carl Pavano (2-0) 3.27 ERA 6 SO vs. Edwin Jackson (11-8) 3.81 ERA 90 SO The Yankees are still clinging to playoff hope as they go for the sweep in Tampa. The Red Sox won......

Not even Mariano Rivera could pitch the Yankees to a win last night. Rivera allowed the first run he had given up all season, that in the 11th inning against the Rays, who walked off 2-1 winners and climbed into......

Hey Yankee fans! After Monday???s 7-1 loss to Tampa Bay (22-16), Chien-Ming Wang will try to get the Yankees (19-20) back on track by snapping the Rays franchise-record 10-game home winning streak. The 28-year-old right-hander is 6-1 on the season......

Pregame chatter Yankees (20-21) at Tampa Bay Rays (23-17), 4:10 p.m. Starters: Ian Kennedy (0-2, 8.37) for the Yankees and Scott Kazmir (1-1, 2.70) for the Rays. Hello, It's Me: Kennedy gets a second chance to make a better impression.......

ANAHEIM, Calif. - There must be some mistake. The real Magic Kingdom has always been a couple of miles farther up Katella Avenue, and it was always some sports hero in another city who got to shout about going there after the World Series. Never the...

Cal Ripken's first major-league hit came against Dennis Lamp of the Chicago White Sox on Aug. 16, 1981. His last hit came against Frank Castillo of the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of a doubleheader on Oct. 5, 2001. Ripken finished his career with 3,184...

The weather was perfect, the scenery beautiful and the hotel pool was heated. But after being swept away in California for the second time in two weeks, the White Sox can honestly say, "Wish we weren't here." Troy Glaus' RBI single off Keith Foulke with...

Perhaps the White Sox were tempted to sip champagne on their flight to Dallas after Thursday's night game in Anaheim. What, you don't think the Sox had anything to celebrate after getting drubbed by the Angels 5-1 before 35,056 fans at Edison...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...