Mason Miller has been untouchable all season. And so have the San Diego Padres lately. Miller’s scoreless streak now stands at 32 ⅔ innings, just one shy of the Padres’ franchise record. And perhaps most impressive is that the game’s best closer has struck out 27 of 38 batters faced this season, his 71.1% strikeout…
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ramon Laureano hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the fourth inning and Manny Machado hit a two-run homer for the San Diego Padres, who rallied from an early 4-0 deficit to beat the Colorado Rockies 9-5 on Saturday for their fourth straight victory. Mickey Moniak hit two home runs and Edouard…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Reigning National League Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes made his second straight solid start, holding San Diego hitless into the sixth inning of the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 7-1 victory over the Padres on Tuesday night. Skenes (2-1), who was shaken during an opening day loss to the New York Mets, struck out…
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Germán Márquez is a winner with the San Diego Padres. The right-hander pitched five effective innings in Monday night’s 5-0 win at Pittsburgh. He allowed six hits, struck out four and walked one in his second start with his new team. Advertisement Márquez, 31, is trying to rebuild his career with San…
Aaron Judge just played his first game of the World Baseball Classic and is already comparing the atmosphere to that of baseball’s biggest stage. Team USA beat the Dominican Republic 2-1 at LoanDepot Park in Miami on Sunday, and Judge had a day. He fired at Fernando Tatis Jr. trying to turn a hit into…
MIAMI (AP) — On a night when All-Stars and future Hall of Famers thrilled fans and each other until the final out, Aaron Judge proclaimed that the World Baseball Classic had become the biggest event in sports. “It’s bigger and better than the World Series,” the United States captain said after a 2-1 semifinal victory…
Dominican Republic World Baseball Classic schedule: Dates, times, channels, live streams to watch all WBC 2026 games originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as your preferred source by clicking here. In 2023, the Dominican Republic had a disappointing run in the World Baseball Classic, failing to advance from the group stage…
MIAMI — Before the revelry, before the madness, before the deafening three-hour baseball game that was Dominican Republic vs. Venezuela, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Juan Soto gathered in the gardens to say hello. At that moment, just a few minutes before the first pitch, the stands were almost full. Many of the 36,230 rum-soaked customers…
