Yonder Alonso News

Johan Santana tossed his ninth career shutout and first in close to two years as the New York Mets blanked the San Diego Padres, 9-0, in the third test of a four-game set at Citi Field.

You may not know him yet but Reds prospect Donnie Joseph could end up in a big league uniform before the season is out.

Louis got into JFK at 3 a.m. EDT, the team bus arriving at a Manhattan hotel at 4:15 a.m. A car awaited Yonder Alonso a little after noon, taking him to Secaucus, N.J., where he was interviewed by the MLB Network tag-team of Larry Bowa and Matt Yallof for a national baseball-talk show.

It was his first shutout victory since Aug. 6, 2010, and third in his career. Wainwright , who missed 2011 with elbow ligament replacement surgery, struck out nine and walked one while throwing 111 pitches.

After holding relatively steady for the past couple of weeks, we have some shuffling in the NL Rookie of the Year rankings.

Our Padres were so close last night , but in the end they couldn't pull it off. But that's just how it goes sometimes and we are certainly used to having winning streaks cut short after just two consecutive wins.

San Diego Padres first baseman Yonder Alonso has declared a truce with Petco Park.

The Waiver Wire is here to offer up the choicest cuts of waiver wire goodness, paying attention to mixed, as well as AL- and NL-only leagues.

I still think there's time for the Cincinnati Reds to become the contender they were purported to be, but they need to make one move before that will happen: turn reliever Aroldis Chapman into a starter.

Let's begin with a correction. St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Lance Lynn led our NL Rookie of the Year rankings last week.

Carlos Ruiz and John Mayberry both hit a two-run homer and an RBI single on Friday and the Phillies defeated the Padres, 7-3, in the opener of a three-game series.

Every Thursday, we at Chicken Friars will pick the two best Padres performers over the past week and analyze what they accomplished.

The 2008 draft was one the worst draft in the history of the Marlins ' franchise.

First baseman Yonder Alonso is batting .283. He has at least one hit in 10 of his last 11 games.

Yes, Bryce Harper is receiving the majority of the attention now, despite playing in many fewer games than the other top rookie candidates.

Yonder Alonso drove in two runs for San Diego, which became the last NL team to get to 10 victories.

Jonathan Sanchez had ample opportunity to ponder his start Monday night, and the beleaguered Royals starter came to the conclusion that he didn't pitch that badly against the Boston Red Sox.

Another week of the MLB season is in the books, and again there was a good deal of movement in the upper portion of this week's power rankings.

With the Padres, closer Huston Street has five saves in as many attempts with a 1.00 earned run average in nine games.

After yesterday's game, a friend of mine mentioned how he was glad the Reds wound up winning-in spite of Mat Latos .