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LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers shuffled their pitching staff on Thursday, reinstating Carlos Frias from the disabled list and designating Mat Latos for assignment. Frias has not pitched in the Majors since June 30 and had been on the DL with right-lower-back tightness. The right-hander was 5-5 with a 4.39...

PITTSBURGH (AP) Rookie right fielder Jorge Soler has been activated by the Chicago Cubs from the 15-day disabled list.Soler had been out since Aug 24 with a strained left side. He was not in the starting lineup Thursday when the Cubs played the Pittsburgh Pirates. He had been...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) " Giants pitcher Jake Peavy homered through the low-hovering mist for his first long ball in more than nine years, leading San Francisco past the Cincinnati Reds 5-3 in Major League Baseball on Wednesday. Peavy struck out eight in six-plus innings on the mound and connected for...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) Houston Astros closer Luke Gregerson has left the team for the birth of his first child.Gregerson left the team before Wednesday night's game in Texas after his wife went into labor in Orlando, Florida. She gave birth to a baby boy.Manager A.J. Hinch was unsure...

CHICAGO (AP) — Although he made no official announcement, Barry Zito believed his playing career had concluded with the end of the minor league season earlier this month. That's why he didn't initially know how to react when Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane called Monday and asked if he...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Rangers overtook the Houston Astros for first place in the AL West, winning another tense Texas showdown 6-5 on Mitch Moreland's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning Tuesday night. Adrian Beltre's fourth hit put the Rangers in position to win a night...

BALTIMORE – The Boston Red Sox say right-hander Junichi Tazawa has been shut down for the remainder of the season to get some rest. Tazawa has appeared in 61 games (58⅔ innings). He is 2-7 with a 4.14 ERA. “I just want to make this perfectly clear: There was no injury,”...

NEW YORK (AP) The newcomer in a Miami Marlins uniform sure looked a lot like Christian Yelich - except in the batting cage.Even though they are more than 20 games under .500 as the season winds down, the Marlins had some fun Tuesday evening at Citi Field. They...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — New York Yankees designated hitter Alex Rodriguez has homered in his first at-bat hours after the team learned was playing with a bruised left knee. A-Rod hit his 32nd homer this season and 686th overall, off Jake Odorizzi in the first inning of Tuesday night's...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) The Rangers moved within a half-game of AL West leading Houston when Prince Fielder hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth inning to lead Texas to a 5-3 win over the Astros on Monday in the opener of a pivotal four-game series.Mitch Moreland hit...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) The Rangers moved within a half-game of AL West leading Houston when Prince Fielder hit a tiebreaking, two-run homer in the eighth inning to lead Texas to a 5-3 win over the Astros on Monday in the opener of a pivotal four-game series.Mitch Moreland hit...

Remember all that talk about pace of play? Early this season, baseball's effort to trim the length of games seemed to be a mild success.Tell that to the fans in Detroit on Tuesday.The Tigers and Tampa Bay Rays played for 5 hours, 3 minutes before Detroit finally won 8-7...