Major League Baseball News

A hanging curveball, a wild pitch and three errors in the final three innings ate away at the Orioles' lead as the Boston Red Sox rallied for a 6-5 victory Sunday night.

In the midst of discussion surrounding his past, right fielder Yasiel Puig demonstrated his present value to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Catcher Buster Posey put the struggling Giants on the board with a two-run homer in the first and Tim Lincecum limited the San Diego Padres to three runs on seven hits over six-plus innings Sunday afternoon as San Francisco snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 win.

Cincinnati Reds starter Homer Bailey delivers a pitch during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Sunday.

With a little more help from his defense, David Hale could have dominated. Instead, the Atlanta Braves fumbled away a chance for a road sweep against an NL East rival.

Josh Donaldson homered and doubled twice to back another solid start by Jesse Chavez, and the Oakland Athletics beat the Houston Astros 4-1 on Sunday to complete a series sweep.

Khris Davis delivered a big hit in a game interrupted by a punch-filled brawl, homering in the 14th inning to lift the Milwaukee Brewers over the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 Sunday.

Denard Span hit a sacrifice fly in the ninth inning and the Washington Nationals, with Bryce Harper back in the lineup, rallied past the St. Louis Cardinals 3-2 Sunday.

Rick Porcello pitched seven sharp innings, and the Detroit Tigers took advantage of four Los Angeles errors in a 2-1 victory over the Angels on Sunday.

Ivan Nova has compiled a 2-2 record this season to go along with an 8.27 ERA for the Yankees.

The New York Yankees placed right-hander Ivan Nova on the disabled list on Sunday with a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.

Lewis allowed one run over 5 1-3 innings for his first win in nearly two years, after elbow surgery and a unique hip procedure, and the Rangers beat the Chicago White Sox 6-3 on Saturday night for their fifth consecutive victory.

Andre Ethier hit a three-run homer and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied from an early four-run deficit to beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-6 on Saturday.

"The slower you throw the better off you are," he said after pitching the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-0 win over the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.

Bruce Chen labored through five innings before the Kansas City Royals' bullpen took over, shutting down the Minnesota Twins the rest of the way in a 5-4 victory Saturday.

Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Russell Martin, left, tags out Milwaukee Brewers' Khris Davis, who tried to score on a hit by Scooter Gennett during the fourth inning of a baseball game in Pittsburgh on Friday, April 18, 2014.

Giancarlo Stanton hit a grand slam with none out in the ninth inning, and the Miami Marlins took advantage of an overturned call on a replay review to beat the Seattle Mariners 8-4 Friday night.

Scott Van Slyke and Juan Uribe each tied the score with a clutch home run for the Dodgers.

Angered by Jed Lowrie's bunt attempt in the first inning of Oakland's 11-3 victory Friday night, Porter left the dugout after Lowrie's flyball in the third and began yelling at the shortstop.

"We have to get these bats going," manager Bruce Bochy said after Tyson Ross pitched the San Diego Padres to a 2-1 victory Friday night.