Masahiro Tanaka threw seven-plus strong innings and had a major league career-high 13 strikeouts Friday, but it was not enough to stop the New York Yankees from falling 4-1 to the Oakland Athletics. Tanaka (5-4) was able to bounce back from two rough starts, allowing ...
Hisashi Iwakuma is still looking for his first win of the season after another unsuccessful attempt Friday in the Seattle Mariners' 3-1 defeat to the Oakland Athletics. In his fourth start of the season, Iwakuma gave up three runs and five hits, including two home ...
Elvis Andrus had been dealing with flu symptoms and kept his celebration rather subdued after the Texas Rangers clinched the AL West, so he asked manager Jeff Banister afterward to please put him in the lineup again Saturday. He promised to be ready to ...
TSSSSSSSUP! That, friends, is the ear-splitting sound of the fun being sucked out of sports by sabermetricians and analyticals. And an annoyed MAS finds his senses assaulted far too often these days by their ilk. He is constantly bombarded in print, on his computer and over the ...
The uniform is different. The flowing locks of shaggy brown hair that once protruded from his cap are gone. He's lost a little zip off his fastball, too. Even so, "The Freak" came back as a force. Tim Lincecum made a winning return to the majors, ...
Texas Rangers veteran Colby Lewis, formerly a staff ace for the Hiroshima Carp, took a no-hit bid into the ninth inning against the Oakland Athletics before giving up a pair of doubles in his team's 5-1 win on the road on Thursday. Lewis, who holds ...
The Texas Rangers trailed by five runs against a resurgent All-Star pitcher, and found a way to rally for a win. That's how things have been going for them lately. Robinson Chirinos and Rougned Odor both homered twice to lead Texas to a 7-5 win ...
With his surgically repaired right elbow no longer throbbing in pain, Masahiro Tanaka is back to pitching the way the Yankees envisioned when they outbid several teams to lure him from Japan two years ago. Tanaka allowed one run over seven innings to get his ...
Khris Davis surprised himself with his first career grand slam, putting the finishing touches on his sensational performance at the plate and a wild ninth inning against Texas. Davis hit a game-ending slam with two outs in the bottom of the ninth for his third ...
Hisashi Iwakuma felt the game was on the line when he faced a bases-loaded situation in the second inning. After getting through it unscathed, the offense came alive to give him some breathing room. Robinson Cano, Kyle Seager and Leonys Martin hit home runs, Iwakuma ...
The Yokohama BayStars have given up on their bid to acquire Matt McBride from the Oakland Athletics' Triple-A affiliate, it was learned Thursday. The BayStars had reached a broad agreement with McBride, according to club officials, but the deal was scuppered when the 30-year-old infielder/outfielder ...
Tony Phillips, an infielder and outfielder who made the final defensive play in the Oakland Athletics' sweep of the Giants during the earthquake-interrupted 1989 World Series, has died. He was 56. Oakland did not provide a cause of death Friday in announcing Phillips' passing, which ...
