LOS ANGELES — A baseball card autographed by Shohei Ohtani and featuring a piece of the pants the Dodgers' superstar wore while becoming the first MLB player to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season has sold for more than $1 million.

The one-of-a-kind Topps Dynasty Black card that features an on-card signature in gold ink by Ohtani ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar, the team’s biggest offseason signing, tested positive for the performance-enhancing drug Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG), which is a substance in violation of MLB’s Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program. Profar is suspended for 80 games without pay, MLB said.

Profar’s suspension is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A few minutes past 3 o’clock Monday, “Fly, Eagles Fly” boomed through the speakers in Citizens Bank Park, and Brandon Graham and Saquon Barkley walked on the field, the Lombardi Trophy in tow.

How on earth were the Phillies supposed to top that?

If we’re being honest, that’s the loudest it was ever going to get all ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The last time the Orioles played a game at Camden Yards, fans arrived anxious and departed apoplectic.

With hopes of a World Series run, the Orioles were again swept out of the postseason. Baltimore lost both wild-card series games to the Kansas City Royals, extending its playoff losing streak to 10 games. Another season with ...Read more

MILWAUKEE — Kansas City Royals superstar Salvador Perez stamped the club’s 11-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers with his first home run.

And it was a no-doubter.

It came in the seventh inning of Monday afternoon’s fourth game of the 2025 MLB season. Perez launched a hanging slider 418 feet into the left-field seats at American ...Read more

CHICAGO — I was sitting in the parking lot of the Jewel-Osco on Friday morning when my iPhone started pinging madly.

Somehow I inadvertently had been added to an unknown group text string labeled CHI BASE OPS, along with two individuals with the initials JH and CG.

It seemed like a frank discussion of the upcoming Chicago baseball seasons ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When their moment came to show the world what they were about, they were served a fastball over the middle of the plate.

And the Dodgers whiffed.

Stupid me, thinking they'd overcome their penchant for choking when they won the World Series last season.

The Dodgers have accepted an invitation from President Trump to visit the ...Read more

PHOENIX — It wouldn’t be a trip to Chase Field without a frustrating loss for the Chicago Cubs.

They were on the verge of taking three of four games against the Arizona Diamondbacks when an eighth-inning meltdown by the bullpen thwarted those efforts in a 10-6 loss Sunday.

Kyle Tucker’s three-run home run off a first-pitch curveball from...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago White Sox had a lead or were tied entering the eighth inning in each of the three games of the season-opening series against the Los Angeles Angels.

But they have a 1-2 record to show for it after falling 3-2 in Sunday’s rubber match in front of 19,591 at Rate Field.

Angels center fielder Kyren Paris homered leading ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The Padres are 4-0 for the just second time in their 57 years of being a Major League Baseball team.

In that 97.5% of this season remains, it is far more significant how they got there.

They did it with four days of nearly flawless baseball, or about as close as a team can come in a game in which perfection over any length of ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Baseball is back in Kansas City.

The Royals played host to the Cleveland Guardians for a three-game series at Kauffman Stadium on Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Both teams made the playoffs last season, but it was the Guardians who took the American League Central crown.

And this season-opening series: The Royals fell 6-2 ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A clubhouse that bounded out of spring training convinced it knew more about its ability than any pundit, press clipping or public promotion of lower expectations did not keep the reasons for such enthusiasm to itself for long.

The St. Louis Cardinals punctuated a decisive, season-opening sweep of the Minnesota Twins with a ...Read more

NEW YORK — As reporters asked various Yankees hitters whether they were into the torpedo bats some members of the team have been using, Aaron Judge questioned why he would bother.

“Why try to change something if you’ve got something that’s working?” the reigning American League MVP, fresh off the third three-homer game of his career, ...Read more

SEATTLE — Wind?

Marine layer?

When you are capable of hitting the ball hard as Julio Rodriguez, those thing don’t really matter.

With his team trailing by a run, the offense looking ineffectual and another frustrating loss to start the 2025 season closing in, Rodriguez changed it all with one swing.

Rodriguez jumped on a first-pitch ...Read more

TORONTO — The Baltimore Orioles had their chances to come through with the big hit Sunday but stranded nine base runners and finished 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position in a 3-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.

Baltimore starter Tomoyuki Sugano, making his first career MLB appearance, exited with cramps after warming up for the bottom of ...Read more