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Mookie Betts and company jumped all over Jason Hammel. It was more than enough with Chris Sale on the mound. Sale struck out 12 in six innings, Betts, J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts homered, and the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 10-5 on Friday night. Continue to Article

July 07, 2018 1:28:am EST

Willson Contreras homered and drove in three runs, Javier Baez stole home for the second time this season, and the Chicago Cubs extended their winning streak to six games by downing the visiting Detroit Tigers 5-2 on Wednesday afternoon. Contreras' seventh homer this season broke a 2-2 tie. David Bote smashed his first career homer. Continue to Article

July 04, 2018 10:23:pm EST

Since divisional play began in 1969, only three times has a division had two teams with at least 100 wins. The Yankees, Red Sox, Astros and Mariners are all on pace to win over 100 games, and they've created tight races atop those two divisions. With two wild cards in each league, those four teams have some breathing room in the race for the postseason, but there should be plenty of incentive to win the division title and avoid the one-game, winner-take-all scenario that the wild cards have to deal with. Continue to Article

July 02, 2018 3:03:am EST

First, it was third-string catcher Kyle Higashioka getting the silent treatment in the dugout after a home run. Then, the same for Aaron Hicks when he hit homer No. 3. On a 91-degree night with the pennant race heating up, the New York Yankees enjoyed some more yucks against their biggest rival. Continue to Article

July 02, 2018 2:12:am EST

Aaron Hicks hit three homers as the New York Yankees rolled to an 11-1 rout of the Boston Red Sox on Sunday night at Yankee Stadium. Hicks hit two of New York's six homers off David Price (9-6) while batting from the right-handed side of the plate with a two-run homer in the second and a solo drive in the fourth. It was New York's first three-homer game by one player since Alex Rodriguez on July 25, 2015, at Minnesota. Continue to Article

July 01, 2018 11:34:pm EST