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Jhonny Peralta delivered one tiebreaking hit, and reasoned he could do it again. Peralta hit a game-ending RBI single Saturday night to give the Cleveland Indians a wild 9-8 win over Baltimore, extending the Orioles' losing streak to nine games. "I went up there thinking about getting go-ahead hits," said Peralta, who had broken a [...]

Matt Holliday celebrated another playoff clincher at Coors Field, only this time it was with the St. Louis Cardinals and not the Colorado Rockies. Jason LaRue, subbing at catcher for injured All-Star Yadier Molina, homered off Ubaldo Jimenez to break a seventh-inning tie and the Cardinals clinched the NL Central crown when they beat the [...]

Denard Span had four hits and a career-high six RBIs, leading the Minnesota Twins past the Kansas City Royals 11-6 on Saturday night for their 11th victory in 12 games. The surging Twins remained two games behind first-place Detroit, which beat the Chicago White Sox 12-5, in the AL Central. Minnesota was in third place [...]

The Los Angeles Dodgers are back in the playoffs. Manny Ramirez, Joe Torre and the Dodgers clinched at least the NL wild-card berth with their 8-4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday night. It's the third time in four years that Los Angeles has reached the postseason. The Dodgers also reduced their magic number [...]

Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer off reliever Tyler Walker in the ninth, giving the Milwaukee Brewers a 7-5 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday. It was Braun's 30th home run of the season and second career game-ending homer. The loss went to Walker (2-1), one of the pitchers the Phillies were considering as [...]

Miguel Cabrera got four hits and drove in four runs, giving him at least 100 RBIs for the sixth consecutive season, and the Detroit Tigers rallied from a five-run deficit to beat the Chicago White Sox 12-5 on Saturday night. Curtis Granderson, Placido Polanco and Gerald Laird each had three of Detroit's 20 hits, including [...]

Dodgers manager Joe Torre is facing a math problem as the playoffs approach: 6 into 4 won't go. Torre plans to go with a four-man rotation if the Dodgers reach the playoffs, but they're currently using six: Randy Wolf, Clayton Kershaw, Hiroki Kuroda, Jon Garland, Vicente Padilla and Chad Billingsley.

The San Francisco Giants have played themselves right out of the playoff race. "It's getting down to a miracle," manager Bruce Bochy said. "I think we've made it real, real difficult." Aramis Ramirez homered, Jake Fox hit a two-run single and the Chicago Cubs beat the Giants 6-2 on Saturday for their sixth win in [...]

CC Sabathia combined on a two-hitter to become the major leagues' first 19-game winner, Robinson Cano hit a tiebreaking, opposite-field homer off the top of the left-field fence and the New York Yankees closed in on the AL East title with a 3-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Saturday. Sabathia (19-7) allowed just [...]

Aramis Ramirez homered, Jake Fox hit a two-run single and the Chicago Cubs beat the San Francisco Giants 6-2 on Saturday for their sixth win in seven games. Chicago's victory again kept the Cardinals from clinching the NL Central. St. Louis had a magic number of one and could capture the division with a victory [...]