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BOSTON – David Ortiz’s wife says he has moved out of intensive care. Tiffany Ortiz said in a statement distributed by the Red Sox on Saturday that the ex-Boston slugger remains hospitalized and in good condition, almost two weeks after he was shot in the back while at a club […]

NEW YORK – Booed and banged up during a frustrating season, Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton muscled his way to a breakthrough performance Saturday night. A couple inches the other way, it might’ve been the Houston Astros’ turn to exhale. Stanton hit a pair of go-ahead, two-run singles — both off […]

It’ll essentially be winner-take-all for this season’s interleague title. The Yomiuri Giants made sure of that. Shun Yamaguchi remained hot on the mound, Yoshihiro Maru remained hot at the plate and the Kyojin remained in contention for the interleague crown with a 7-2 victory over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks on […]

CHICAGO – Chicago Cubs starter Yu Darvish got his 10th straight no-decision Friday in a 5-4 loss to the New York Mets, tying a major league record. The 32-year-old right-hander twice surrendered homers after his lineup had given the Cubs the lead. Darvish left the mound after six innings with […]

NEW YORK – A season full of All-Star potential for Oakland Athletics pitcher Frankie Montas was drastically cut short Friday when Major League Baseball suspended him 80 games after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance. Montas pitched well Thursday night and is 9-2 with a 2.70 ERA in 15 starts. […]

Pinch hitter Shuhei Fukuda broke a 2-2 tie with a sixth-inning grand slam to lift the interleague-leading Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to an 8-3 come-from-behind victory over the Yomiuri Giants on Friday. Hawks starter Kodai Senga (7-2) allowed two runs as he scattered six hits and four walks over six innings, […]

NEW YORK – The Ex-Rays? Starved for fans despite success on the field, the Tampa Bay Rays have been given the go-ahead by Major League Baseball to look into playing a split season in Montreal. No timetable for the possible plan was announced. An idea under consideration is for the […]

Two-time Central League MVP Yoshihiro Maru proved to be a one-man wrecking crew Thursday, driving in four runs in the Yomiuri Giants’ 4-2 come-from-behind interleague win over the Orix Buffaloes. Maru tied the game 2-2 in the sixth inning off right-hander Kohei “K” Suzuki (1-4), who had limited the Giants […]

CHICAGO – Willson Contreras went 2-for-3 with two home runs and five RBIs, and the Chicago Cubs pulled away for a 7-3 win over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night. Contreras clubbed a grand slam and a solo homer to help the Cubs split a two-game series with their […]

SANTO, DOMINGO – The Dominican Republic’s lead prosecutor said on Wednesday that former Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was not the target of a shooting in a nightclub in his hometown on June 9. Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez said the target was another man, dressed similarly to Ortiz, who […]