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Nick Hundley homered to start the comeback and drove in the tiebreaking run with an eighth-inning single off Rafael Betancourt, and the San Diego Padres dealt the NL wild card-leading Colorado Rockies a disheartening 5-4 loss Thursday night. The Rockies' cushion in the wild-card race was trimmed to 3 1/2 games over idle Atlanta, and [...]

The Washington Nationals' 100th loss had plenty of elements from the first 99. A starter who needed five batters to record an out and was gone before the fourth inning. An unearned run in an inning that included both an outfielder's error and a wild pitch. A comeback that went for naught because the bullpen [...]

Jimmy Rollins capped a six-run fifth inning with a three-run homer and Ryan Howard drove in two runs to help Philadelphia Phillies rookie J.A. Happ earn his 11th win, 9-4 over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday night. Pedro Feliz had three hits, scored twice and drove in a run for Philadelphia, who amassed 14 hits [...]

Rafael Furcal hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning Thursday night, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat Washington 7-6 to hand the Nationals their 100th loss of the season. Furcal's drive off Ron Villone (4-6) was his fourth hit of the game. Ramon Troncoso (5-4) pitched 1 1-3 innings to get the win, and [...]

Justin Verlander pitched the Detroit Tigers closer to a division title and pushed the Cleveland Indians within one loss of matching a franchise record for futility with a 6-5 win on Thursday night. Verlander struck out 11 in seven innings and Carlos Guillen had three hits and an RBI as the Tigers handed Cleveland its [...]

Felix Hernandez had a season-high 11 strikeouts, Josh Wilson hit a tiebreaking two-run triple in the eighth inning and the Seattle Mariners beat the Toronto Blue Jays 5-4 on Thursday night. Hernandez (17-5) allowed four runs, three earned, and seven hits in eight innings to improve to 5-0 with a 1.57 ERA in his last [...]

Kansas City Royals ace Zack Greinke has been ejected for yelling something from the bench against the Boston Red Sox. Greinke, who doesn't pitch again until Sunday, was ejected by home plate umpire Greg Gibson with one out in the third inning Thursday night. Greinke apparently said something after a 1-2 pitch by Royals starter [...]

Indians manager Eric Wedge gave his team a pep talk before Thursday night's game against the Detroit Tigers, opting for an encouraging message with Cleveland mired in a 10-game skid. Wedge, who doesn't know if he'll be retained for the final year of his contract next season, said he told his team to keep its [...]

Jack Cust homered to help rookie Brett Anderson win his fourth straight start, Cliff Pennington hit a two-run triple and the Oakland Athletics salvaged a split of their four-game series against the Texas Rangers with a 12-3 rout Thursday. Eric Patterson drove in three runs, Adam Kennedy doubled twice among his three hits and Rajai [...]

The Detroit Tigers and Minnesota Twins are taking their fight for the AL Central right to the finish. Several important players on both teams have been injured, and others have slumped. The Kansas City Royals and Cleveland Indians were supposed to be better than this. The Chicago White Sox made several moves this summer while [...]