Day: May 28, 2022

The rookie lined three two-baggers and drove in two runs in the Royals’ 7-3 victory at Target Field, setting up a chance for Kansas City to take the four-game series if it wins Sunday’s finale. “Yeah, that was the goal: Just hit some doubles today,” Witt said nonchalantly postgame. The last time a Royal managed […]

This story was excerpted from Todd Zolecki’s Phillies Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. It was late August 2008. Charlie Manuel just got another question about Carlos Ruiz, who hit .219 that season. He had been answering questions about Chooch for months. Why […]

PHOENIX — It hasn’t been the season that Dodgers All-Star infielder Max Muncy ever envisioned. Muncy, who suffered a torn UCL on his left elbow on the last day of the regular season in 2021, is off to his worst start since joining the Dodgers, hitting .150 with three homers in his first 133 at-bats […]

ST. LOUIS — For the Brewers to get their offense in gear on Saturday at Busch Stadium, they needed to make one simple adjustment: start facing a right-hander. By the time Cardinals starter Matthew Liberatore departed the game after five solid innings, the hole was a little too deep in what would become an 8-3 […]

WASHINGTON — Victor Robles has been waiting for a day like this. Robles crushed a three-run shot, his first homer of the season, to lift the Nationals past the Rockies 13-7 in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Nationals Park. The Nationals have won a season-high three games in a row. Robles blasted a line […]

Ace throwing up to 135 feet, with pitching off mound next step