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Early in "Boyhood," Richard Linklater's bracingly original, utterly enthralling new film about the passage of time through the lens of one boy's life, we find our characters at a real Houston Astros game.

A verdict has been reached in a negligence lawsuit against the Los Angeles Dodgers and former owner Frank McCourt stemming from the beating of a San Francisco Giants fan in 2011.

Fredi Gonzalez has the same reaction every time he sees umpires putting on the headset to communicate with replay officials at Major League Baseball headquarters.

The All-Star pitcher tossed a low slider to Charlie Blackmon in the third, which the fellow All-Star hit into the right-field bleachers for a two-run homer.

Billy Hamilton breaks his bat on a single to score the winning run in the ninth inning of the second game.

So are the Milwaukee Brewers. Peralta labored through 4 1-3 innings, giving up eight hits and nine runs while throwing 97 pitches as the Milwaukee Brewers dropped a 9-7 decision to the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night.

The first-time All-Star homered and had three RBI and Nick Swisher hit a go-ahead two-run shot in the sixth, leading Cleveland to a 5-3 victory against Masahiro Tanaka and the New York Yankees.

Justin Verlander settled down after a terrible first inning and the Detroit Tigers rallied in emphatic fashion for a 14-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night.

Joining Bautista on the American League team are Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes, who was last year's Derby winner, Baltimore's Adam Jones and Brian Dozier of the host Twins.

The Toronto Blue Jays are struggling so badly, even when they get a huge break, they can't capitalize on it.

Twins stymied by Iwakuma, Mariners in 2-0 loss The Twins were unable to advance a runner past first base through the first six innings Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/sports/2014/07/08/twins-stymied-iwakuma-mariners-loss/12349119/ Seattle Mariners catcher Mike Zunino smiles as he stands on the mound with starting ... (more)

Matzek cruised through five innings but couldn't sustain it, faltering in the sixth and seventh innings as the San Diego Padres beat the Rockies 6-1 on Monday night.

The San Francisco Giants have dominated the baseball headlines in the Bay Area since winning the World Series in 2010 and 2012.

Miles Mikolas has been in the major leagues a little too long to be considered yet another young Texas starter.

After beating the team he grew up rooting for with his first career game-winning hit, Matt Adams couldn't resist a celebratory fist pump just a few steps out of the batter's box.

Curtis Granderson and David Wright are expected to deliver big hits for the Mets.

The White Sox's Dayan Viciedo is congratulated by teammates Adam Dunn and Alexei Ramirez after his three-run, home run off Red Sox starting pitcher Clay Buchholz during the fourth inning Monday at Fenway Park in Boston.

The Chicago Cubs had a runner in scoring position in each of the first six innings and managed only one unearned run on Jay Bruce's error at first base.

Long after Stephen Strasburg did his best to keep Washington on a roll, the Nationals found out why the Baltimore Orioles have climbed to the top of the AL East.

The right-hander sparkled in his return to the stadium where he earned a living for the first seven seasons of his career, limiting the Tampa Bay Rays to three hits and striking out 10 in seven innings to help the Royals beat his former team 6-0 on Monday night.