American League News

Rookie right-hander Dan Straily pitched seven scoreless innings and Yoenis Cespedes homered as the Oakland Athletics won their fifth straight game, 1-0 over the Texas Rangers and Yu Darvish on Tuesday night.

Boston was coming off a miserable and tumultuous 69-93 season. New York entered this year with injuries to stars Derek Jeter, Mark Teixeira, Alex Rodriguez and Curtis Granderson.

Those cliches about it being a six-month season are based in reality. But so is this: The Royals, right now, are flat-lining after Monday’s depressing 6-5 loss to the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park.

The former Blue Jays shortstop, whose brief time on the city's sports scene will be remembered only for the homophobic slur he scrawled into his eyeblack stickers for one game last September, added to his villainous reputation on Monday by goading the Rogers Centre crowd after he hit a ninth-inning homer off Jays closer Casey Janssen.

Starting rotation Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen was on his way to his second strong performance in a row when he grabbed at his side and exited Sunday's game with a right oblique strain.

'Best game I've ever been a part of,' said Perez. 'It was the craziest, most fun ... obviously, it stunk to give up a home run, but it was still fun.' Yan Gomes hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning as the Indians, revived by Seattle fielding errors in the final two innings, beat the Mariners 10-8 on Monday to complete a four-game sweep and ... (more)

Drawing on his experience with talent, attitude, and success in professional baseball, hall of famer Cal Ripken, Jr.

Jon Lester tries to stay undefeated on the season and pitch the Boston Red Sox to a sixth straight victory on Monday night in the opener of a three-game series with the Chicago White Sox.

After ending their recent struggles in Oakland, the Texas Rangers try to secure their MLB-leading 30th victory of the season on Monday night when they host a rematch with the A's. The Rangers begin this three-game series with the best record in baseball at 29-15. They have won 12 of their last 16 games, taking two of three in Oakland from May ... (more)

The Baltimore Orioles try to put the brakes on a five-game losing streak Monday when they begin a three-game set with the New York Yankees at Camden Yards.

And here, all along, you were thinking the Rangers' chief competition in the AL West was Oakland or Los Angeles.

OAKLAND – It has become custom at O.co Coliseum to temporarily turn off the scoreboard and video monitors above the stadium's upper levels when A's closer Grant Balfour enters a game.

Yoenis Cespedes has been playing in the big leagues for less than a season and a half, but his eight years' worth of experience playing in Cuba before that helped engineer the A's 4-3 win Sunday over Kansas City, completing a three-game sweep of the Royals.

Matt Moore pitched seven innings of five-hit ball to stay unbeaten, Luke Scott and Matt Joyce homered and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Baltimore Orioles 3-1 Sunday for a three-game sweep.

Brantley hit a three-run homer in the second inning off Hernandez , who failed to go at least six innings for the first time this season.

Minnesota starter Scott Diamond stayed out of trouble against David Ortiz and the Boston Red Sox batters at Fenway Park 11 days ago.

After a red hot start by the Boston Red Sox , they have been in a bit of a slide as of late.

New York Yankees starting pitcher David Phelps throws a pitch to the Toronto Blue Jays in the first inning of their MLB American League game at Yankee Stadium in New York, May 18, 2013.

David Ortiz homered twice and drove in six runs to torment his former team once again, leading the Boston Red Sox to a 12-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Saturday night.

In fact, he dislikes baseball so much that he wanted nothing to do with the round object hurled at him on a daily basis.