Mike Mussina and Bobby Abreu gave the New York Yankees the kind of sharp game the Chicago White Sox needed. Abreu homered twice and drove in six runs, Mussina kept up his hopes for a 20-win season and the Yankees drubbed the AL Central-leading White Sox 9-2 Thursday night. The White Sox have lost seven [...]
Alexi Casilla homered in Minnesota’s five-run ninth inning and the Twins rallied for an 11-8 victory over Tampa Bay on Thursday night that ended a four-game losing streak and pulled then within 1 1/2 games of the Chicago in the AL Central. The White Sox lost 9-2 at New York. Evan Longoria had three home [...]
Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and wife Cynthia have settled their multimillion-dollar divorce case, the New York Daily News reported Thursday. “Cynthia and Alex Rodriguez have amicably resolved their dissolution of marriage proceedings,” the player’s lawyer, Alan Kluger, said on the newspaper’s Web site.
In the past three months, the Baltimore Orioles have found no comfort in being close. Jose Bautista homered, pinch-hitter Gregg Zaun doubled home the tying and go-ahead runs in the sixth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 3-2 on Thursday night. The last-place Orioles have lost 19 of 22 games and dropped their [...]
Toronto Blue Jays righthander Shaun Marcum will not pitch again this season and could miss the start of the 2009 campaign, pending the results of an MRI he underwent Thursday.
Blue Jays right-hander Shaun Marcum got an MRI exam Thursday, and the team said he won’t pitch again this season. Marcum, 9-7 with a 3.39 ERA in 25 starts, left Tuesday’s game against Baltimore after two-plus innings with a sore arm and numbness in his pinkie. The results of his MRI were being sent to [...]
Bob Gibson can still project an aura of menace, even 40 years after he intimidated batters en route to a ridiculously low 1.12 ERA. For instance, Gibson says he’s still considering legal action against Major League Baseball for lowering the mound after his feat. He’s joking, of course, but for a split second you wonder.
Injured Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling said former teammate Manny Ramirez’s behavior in Boston was a drain on his teammates and disrespectful to manager Terry Francona. Speaking on a Boston radio station Wednesday, Schilling said Ramirez’s “level of disrespect to teammates and people was unfathomable.” Although he was the first Red Sox World Series MVP [...]
The Tampa Bay Rays are making believers out of the Boston Red Sox. The AL East-leading Rays beat the Red Sox 10-3 Wednesday night, moving closer to their first playoff berth with another “star-less” effort that’s become their signature. The victory moved Tampa Bay two games in front of Boston in the division.
On a night Evan Longoria hit three home runs for Tampa Bay, an unlikely source of power upstaged the Rays’ rookie slugger. Alexi Casilla went deep during Minnesota’s five-run ninth inning Thursday night, helping the Twins rally for an 11-8 victory that stopped a four-game losing streak and pulled them within 1 1/2 games of [...]
