Today, the Mariners’ J.A. Happ (4-5, 3.93 ERA) is a -114 favorite over the Tigers’ Anibal Sanchez (7-7, 4.65), and despite separate good stretches over the season, both pitchers have been prone to going OVER the total this season . Happ is 9-7 to the OVER, and Sanchez is 10-6 O/U. MLB odds: Current baseball betting lines June 16 was the last UNDER game the Tigers played, a 5-2 loss at home against the Reds....
Manager Dave Roberts spotted the frustration and pulled his first baseman aside to give him a little reminder. “Listen,” Roberts told Bellinger in the dugout after his third-inning at-bat, “you picked us up all year. We’ll get you right here and next at-bat don’t try to do too much.” “So,” Bellinger said, “I took that and ran with it." Q&A: Bellinger talks to SN about Dodgers, ‘Seinfeld’ and that swing...
If you’re a fan of one of the 10 teams that advanced to the postseason, your allegiance is clear. On the other hand, fans of those other 20 teams might be left wondering what to do until opening day 2018. FAGAN: How to pick your World Series winner You may not have a horse in the postseason race, but if you’re looking to hitch your wagon to a team this postseason, we offer this rankings, presented from lowest to highest based on “root factor....
— If necessary American League wild-card game Royals 9, Athletics 8, 12 innings National League wild-card game Giants 8, Pirates 0 American League Division Series 1 Game 1: Royals 3, Angels 2, 11 innings Game 2: Royals 4, Angels 1, 11 innings Game 3: Royals 8, Angels 3 (Royals win series 3-0) American League Division Series 2 Game 1: Orioles 12, Tigers 3 Game 2: Orioles 7, Tigers 6...
It was a devastating setback for the Astros, which looked to be completely in control behind brilliant showings from youngsters Carlos Correa and Lance McCullers. Now we’ll see how the Astros respond to a do-or-die Game 5 in Kansas City on Wednesday. MORE: Best photos from the ALDS | Texas governor denies jinxing Astros | Conger does the robot Here are our five takeaways from Game 4: The Royals look like they’ve been there before....
Madison Bumgarner tossed a complete-game shutout to help his team earn a trip to the NL Division Series against the Cubs. Bumgarner was cool, calm and collected most of the game, but he was fired up by the umpires a couple times and tossed the ball into the crowd after getting out of the eighth inning. MORE: Top 50 players in the playoffs Conor Gillaspie gave Bumgarner the support he needed with a three-run home run off Mets closer Jeurys Familia in the top of the ninth....
Throughout the 2019 MLB season, the Braves and Dodgers were widely accepted as the National League’s two best teams but neither will play in the NL Championship Series. No, the Cardinals and Nationals will face off starting Friday and there is plenty to talk about with both of these teams since so much attention was devoted to the two-time defending league champ the Dodgers and the up-and-coming monster that is the Braves....
In 2022, baseball is bringing back the automatic runner in extra innings after support of the rule by players and managers. The rule was a byproduct of the COVID-19-affected 2020 and 2021 seasons, and places a runner on second base to begin each half-inning from the 10th inning onward. The idea is to put a runner in an advantageous – but not automatic – position to score in order to bring extra-inning games to a quicker resolution....
Burnett, who turns 37 in less than a month, may retire after 15 seasons in the big leagues. He pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates the past two seasons, going 10-11 with a 3.30 ERA and 1.215 WHIP in 2013. His strikeouts-per-nine led the NL, and his 2.80 FIP was fifth in the league. The Orioles met with Burnett's reprsentatives at last week's winter meetings, Kubatko reports. They want to have further talks if Burnett opts to pitch in 2014....
But the rumors are out there, and now word comes that the five-time All-Star's reps met with Mariner execs in Seattle on Tuesday. — SN selects Public Enemy No. 1 for every MLB team “The meeting went very well,” a source told the New York Post. So will the M's, who have had four straight losing seasons, be able to lure Cano away from the New York Yankees? Based on a report Wednesday in the New York Daily News, they're doing their darndest to make it happen....
That’s why, in 2012 when he was a 27-year-old minor-league starter who had been traded for cash—“Probably a bucket of baseballs,” Layne jokes—and demoted from Triple-A to Double-A within the first two months of the season, he didn’t quit. PHOTO GALLERY: MLB’s top all-time lefty pitchers Layne, who’s now 29 and with the Red Sox, has a story familiar to lefties across baseball. Randy Choate, for example, reached the majors for the first time when he was 24, but bounced up and down and didn’t retire a single big-league hitter in either his age 31 or age 32 seasons....
Hisashi Iwakuma has found his groove in August. MORE: Pitch-by-pitch look at baseball’s most dominating pitchers | Jersey Confidence Index, MLB edition Following a pair of quality starts to begin the month, the Mariners pitcher no-hit the Orioles in a 3-0 victory at Safeco Field. Iwakuma struck out seven batters while walking three as he recorded the first no-hitter in the American League since Iwakuma’s teammate Felix Hernandez hurled a perfect game against the Rays nearly three years ago....
The league handed down one-year suspensions to the Houston Astros’ manager (A.J. Hinch) and general manager (Jeff Luhnow) for an electronic sign-stealing accusation that was further investigated and deemed true. Alex Cora was a bench coach for the Astros during their 2017 World Series run, and then he was the manager of the Red Sox when they won the title in 2018. The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday asked MLB to void the titles won by those clubs and award them to the Los Angeles Dodgers, who lost the Fall Classic in both of those years....
Over the last several years, the Phillies ace has taken the hot stove rumors in stride, and that’s especially true now with a trade seemingly on the horizon. MORE: 11 best trade destinations for Hamels | Phillies trade Papelbon to Nationals The Phillies set in motion a potential deal Tuesday, pushing Hamels’ next scheduled start back one day until after Friday’s 4 p.m. ET deadline. This came after they reportedly told teams they have until Wednesday to put forth their “best” offers....
Although there have been whispers of a potential fire sale in Toronto, GM Ross Atkins has offered the most convincing evidence yet that the Blue Jays won’t be tearing things down anytime soon. MORE: MLB trade rumors: Latest news, rumored deals Atkins spoke with Buster Olney on the “Baseball Tonight” podcast a few weeks back and addressed many things, including the Blue Jays’ trade deadline approach. Atkins reiterated that the club isn’t looking to tear things down ahead of the July 31 non-waiver trade deadline....
"We have no intentions of trading Ryan," general manager Doug Melvin told the Journal Sentinel. "There's absolutely no truth to that. We've never contacted any team about Ryan." But four or five teams have asked Milwaukee about the five-time All-Star, Melvin acknowledged. "I told them no." Braun, 30, has been one of baseball's top performers since winning NL Rookie of the Year in 2007. The left fielder has averaged 36 home runs and 22 stolen bases while posting a slash line of ....
Prior to MLB’s July 31 trade deadline is like the month leading up to Christmas for baseball fans, and you know what that means: no shortage of rumors and high levels of anticipation for all. KORY: Tigers should blow up roster to get younger, better All eyes are are on a quality group of starting pitchers: the A’s Sonny Gray, the Pirates’ Gerrit Cole and the Tigers’ Justin Verlander....
