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HOUSTON (AP) — Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig touted the progress the league has made in racial hiring practices while stressing his desire to increase the number of black players in the sport. Selig spoke Wednesday at the MLB diversity business summit. The league received an A...

NEW YORK (AP) — All the love was for Don Mattingly at the start. All the attention was on the electric rookie Yasiel Puig at the end. Puig made an immediate impression on the New York Yankees, trying to stretch a sure single into an easy out at second base in the first inning. No problem....

Cleveland Indians reliever Vinnie Pestano has a recurring dream. A batter hits a line drive right back up the middle and it's screaming toward his head. He wakes up just before impact. The real thing is a nightmare scenario that happens a couple times a season in the major leagues. "Guys are...

HOUSTON (AP) — With the bases loaded in the second inning Matt Dominguez's long fly ball came up just short and was caught for a sacrifice fly. When he had a second chance with the bases loaded again in the seventh, he didn't miss. Dominguez hit a grand slam and drove in a career-high five...

TORONTO (AP) — Jeff Francis isn't going to worry about his future in the Colorado rotation. Trouble is, there might not be much future left for the struggling Francis. Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer, J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis added back-to-back shots and the Toronto Blue Jays...

NEW YORK (AP) — Back in the 1980s, when the New York Yankees were in a championship drought, there was one player most fans were inevitably drawn to. The gritty first baseman with the thick eye black. The guy who crouched low and then uncoiled that sweet, powerful swing from the left side of...

TORONTO (AP) — Edwin Encarnacion hit a two-run homer, J.P. Arencibia and Maicer Izturis added back-to-back shots and the Toronto Blue Jays won their seventh straight game, beating the Colorado Rockies 8-3 Tuesday night. Toronto has its longest winning streak since a 10-game run in late 2008....

NEW YORK (AP) — The game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees has been postponed by rain, delaying the renewal of their old October rivalry. The game was called Tuesday night about 30 minutes before the scheduled first pitch. It will be made up as part of a day-night...

Editors: The scheduled game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees has been postponed by rain Tuesday night. It will be made up as part of a day-night doubleheader Wednesday, with start times of 1:05 p.m. EDT and 7:05 p.m. EDT.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. collegiate national baseball team will host its Cuban counterpart next month in a five-game international "friendship" series. The Triple-A Iowa Cubs said Tuesday the series will start in Des Moines on July 18. The Americans and Cubans will then play two games...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A bus carrying a minor league team affiliated with the Minnesota Twins was involved in a wrong-way interstate crash in Florida that killed the driver of the other car. Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Dylan Bryan says no one on the Elizabethton Twins bus was injured in...

TORONTO (AP) — Josh Johnson took two extra days off to let a bothersome blister heal, then shut down the Colorado Rockies. Maicer Izturis hit a two-run single in the eighth inning and the Toronto Blue Jays won their sixth consecutive game Monday night, beating Colorado 2-0 behind Johnson and...

TORONTO (AP) — First it was a cut on his middle finger. Then on Monday night, Colorado pitcher Jorge De La Rosa developed a new painful problem. A bruise on the tip of his thumb cut short a brilliant outing by De La Rosa, and the Rockies never managed any offense in a 2-0 loss to Toronto....

Organizers and teams from the Heartland Classic will hold a silent auction that runs through Thursday to benefit tornado victims.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Max Knutson gave up only four hits as Mounds View shut out Rocori of Cold Spring 8-0 for the Class 3A state championship at Target Field on Monday. Knutson struck out nine Spartan batters and yielded only one base on balls during the seven-inning game. He threw 90 pitches,...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joey Hyde pitched a complete game to guide the Kasson-Mantorville Komets to an 8-1 victory over the Perham Yellowjackets in the Class 2A state championship at Target Field on Monday. Hyde scattered five singles over seven innings while striking out five, letting in the lone...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Logan Sandgren's one-hit shutout spurred the BOLD Warriors to a 3-0 victory over the Osakis Silverstreaks in the Class 1A state championship game at Target Field on Monday. Sandgren struck out six over seven innings. He took his no-hitter one out into the sixth inning, when...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Corey Kluber proved a point Sunday. The Indians right-hander was the best pitcher at Progressive Field, outdueling Stephen Strasburg in Cleveland's 2-0 win over the Washington Nationals. Kluber scattered seven hits over eight innings and struck out eight — spoiling...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Pretty much everything about Stephen Strasburg's return from the disabled list went well except the result. Washington's ace right-hander allowed one run and one hit in five innings, but the Nationals' offense did nothing to support him in Sunday's 2-0 loss to the Cleveland...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Twins outfielder Josh Willingham is out of the lineup against the Detroit Tigers after receiving a cortisone shot in his balky left knee. The slugger had the shot after Saturday's game, with the Twins scheduled for an off day Monday. Willingham and manager Ron...