NEW YORK — There’s no getting around this. The 2025 baseball season in New York has been one of the most exasperating, confounding experiences that anyone can remember for both Yankees and Mets fans.

Maybe one of them has experienced such a roller-coaster ride — think the Yankees in 2017 falling out of first place on Aug. 1, never to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers have won 71 games since Tyler Glasnow earned his last victory.

That was March 31, 152 days ago. The season was six games old then. No other pitcher with at least 13 major league starts has gone longer without a win this season.

Yet Glasnow was never deserving of a better fate than he was Saturday, when he took a no-...Read more

DENVER — The work done by the Rockies' pitchers while in peril was admirable, but how they got there was the problem and they couldn’t escape enough times to scratch out a victory.

Chicago couldn’t find a knockout punch Saturday night, but Kyle Tucker’s run-scoring single in the top of the sixth inning was the difference in a 4-3 win ...Read more

CLEVELAND — The Mariners can continue to “battle” and “show plenty of fight,” but at some point soon, they need to start executing and winning in games not played in T-Mobile Park. Remember, fight and battle aren’t categories for postseason qualification.

And achieving that playoff goal, once almost seeming like a given, is growing ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Trevor Rogers entered August with a 1.49 ERA that was destined to regress.

He’s ending the month with a 1.39 ERA.

Rogers’ miraculous run continued Saturday in the Orioles’ 11-1 win over the Giants, and whether it will end in September is becoming less likely by the start.

The left-handed budding ace twirled seven ...Read more

HOUSTON — The bottom of the order came to the rescue for the Angels.

After getting four hits in the first 17 innings of the series against the Houston Astros, the Angels strung together four consecutive hits to spark a three-run rally in the ninth inning of a 4-1 victory over the Astros on Saturday night.

With one out in a tie game, Luis ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Saturday night looked for a time as if it would be an example of how the San Diego Padres will aim to win playoff games.

Except for the fact they won’t be playing the Minnesota Twins in October.

So that eventually ruined the whole postseason narrative of a starting pitcher grinding for five innings and a stellar procession of...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The thing about trying to beat the Royals, if you don’t score early, you might not score much at all. When they can get to the back end of their bullpen with a chance to win, they generally do.

The Tigers lived that reality Saturday night. Failing to score against John Schreiber, Angel Zerpa, Lucas Erceg and Carlos ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Trea Turner watched the ball scoot through the right side of the infield, and pumped his fist as he rounded first base.

The fifth time was the charm.

With his third hit of the game — in his fifth at-bat — Turner delivered the Phillies a 3-2, 10-inning walk-off against the Atlanta Braves, their third consecutive victory ...Read more

CINCINNATI — Before a pair of home runs took flight to carry the Cardinals to a win there was the starting pitcher who made it possible keeping Cincinnati on the ground.

Michael McGreevy authored his sixth consecutive six-inning start and his third quality start of the month to guide the Cardinals toward a 4-2 victory Saturday night against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When the Nationals surprisingly designated his older brother, Nathaniel, for assignment in mid-August, Rays outfielder Josh Lowe called the situation “interesting,” saying, “I’ll just leave it at that.”

On Saturday Lowe seemed to show the Nationals what he really thought, delivering his first two-home run game in more ...Read more

BOSTON — The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Red Sox 10-3 on Saturday afternoon at Fenway Park, pummeling Boston starter Dustin May (7-11) before cruising. Johan Oviedo allowed two runs in five innings to earn the win, his second since returning from Tommy John surgery.

The Pirates have now won nine of their last 12 and guaranteed themselves a ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Marlins outslugged the Mets on Saturday evening at Citi Field.

David Peterson’s worst outing of the season was too much for the Mets’ offense to overcome, as Miami evened the three-game series with an 11-8 victory. Peterson surrendered eight runs on eight hits in two innings of work, jumping his season ERA to 3.61.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts wanted to set the record straight: Mookie Betts is his shortstop.

"Mookie," Roberts said, "will not go to right field."

Roberts repeated the phrase a couple of times, as if he was determined to quash any speculation about another late-season position change for Betts.

"Mookie," Roberts said again, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For both the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, the assignment over the next few weeks figured to be simple:

Take care of business, and beat the teams you’re supposed to.

After all, the Dodgers are beginning a stretch of 15-straight games against clubs below .500. The Padres, meanwhile, will play 13 of their next 16 ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — Dominic Smith grew up idolizing Barry Bonds. He watched how Bonds sent home run after home run into McCovey Cove, sending awaiting cadres of kayaks into a craze. Now, Smith, too, knows the feeling of sending a long ball into the San Francisco Bay.

Smith’s first Splash Hit — and the 107th in Oracle Park history — was the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just when you thought this trip couldn’t get worse for the Tigers.

They, literally, couldn’t get out of Sacramento quick enough.

But after losing three miserable games to the Athletics in their temporary Triple-A home field, they got stuck at the airport trying to leave.

They were scheduled to fly out of Sacramento ...Read more

HOUSTON — The nights of good pitching have been rare enough for the Angels lately that it was no doubt disappointing to waste one.

The Angels had as many errors as hits — two — in a 2-0 loss to the Houston Astros on Friday night.

One of those errors, by rookie second baseman Christian Moore, led to the game’s first run, in the seventh ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Twins have emphasized running aggressively on the bases, stealing four more bases in Friday’s series opener against the San Diego Padres, but compiling a dozen hits is a good formula to scoring runs, too.

In a three-hour, one-minute game, the Twins offense wore down Padres pitching in a 7-4 victory at Target Field. ...Read more

DENVER — It was a perfect Friday night for baseball at Coors Field. The first-pitch temperature was 73 degrees, there were 33,747 fans in the stands, and six home runs.

Yep, perfect if you were one of the multitude of Cubs fans who turned the LoDo ballpark into Wrigley Field West, saw shortstop Dansby Swanson smack two homers and a triple, ...Read more