After losing his first two starts against Houston this season, Seattle's Hisashi Iwakuma got the better of the Astros on Saturday with one of his best performances of the season. Iwakuma limited Houston to two hits in seven innings, Robinson Cano provided the only scoring ...
Giancarlo Stanton wore out Petco Park with a record display of power in the All-Star Home Run Derby on Monday night, peppering every landmark from the left field corner to center field. Stanton hit 20 homers in the final round to best defending champion Todd ...
Robinson Cano forgot how many outs there were and failed to turn a double play to end the seventh inning. It was the type of play that could have left the door open for the Astros to get back into Tuesday night's game. Instead, Mariners ...
The MLB-Japan All-Star Series show will go on, but it'll be without its leading man. Seattle Mariners second baseman Robinson Cano was lifted from Game 3 on Saturday after being struck in the foot by a pitch from Yuki Nishi and was diagnosed with a ...
Takahiro Norimoto didn't have any problems during his matchup against a lineup of major league hitters. Yuki Nishi didn't have many either, nor did Kazuhisa Makita or even Yuji Nishino. No problems for the Japanese pitchers equaled no hits for the major league batters. Norimoto retired ...
In a game featuring six-time MLB All-Star Robinson Cano, three-time All-Star Evan Longoria and 2006 AL MVP and four-time All-Star Justin Morneau, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks' Yuki Yanagita shone brighter than all of them. Yanagita drove in four runs and was a home run away ...
As the Nichibei Yakyu extravaganza returns for the first time in eight years, Major League Baseball looks set to bring a serious squad to Japan come November. Three-time National League MVP Albert Pujols, currently of the Los Angeles Angels, and six-time All-Star Robinson Cano of ...
The Yankees had plenty of praise for Robinson Cano, just not the money he wanted. "Bouquets. Bouquets. Bouquets. I'll throw him bouquets all he wants," general manager Brian Cashman said, "But I couldn't throw him $235 million." Cashman and Yankees officials spoke Friday, a day after ...
Robinson Cano seemed to be next in line as the player to wear pinstripes for his entire career, all set to follow the path laid before him by mentors named Jeter, Posada and Rivera. And then the Seattle Mariners blew him away with an offer ...
Fernando Rodney bounded around on a hastily assembled stage with a fresh World Baseball Classic winner's medal and a plantain that was more than a few days past its expiration date both dangling around his neck. Hat tilted to the side, Rodney shot imaginary arrows ...
The Dominicans insist they're not motivated by revenge. The Dutch are adamant that the past is the past. Nevertheless, the memory of the 2009 World Baseball Classic refuses to dissipate ahead of Monday's semifinal showdown between the two nations in the 2013 WBC. An underdog Netherlands ...
