LOS ANGELES (AP)Don Mattingly will resume his duties as hitting coach after the All-Star break. Mattingly, hired as part of new manager Joe Torres staff during the offseason, asked to be switched from hitting coach to major league special assignment

In 2005, the San Diego Padres won the National League West with a record of 82-80, the kind of accomplishment a division never lives down. It was the worst record ever for a division champion, and it was embarrassing, but it was also not likely to be

PITTSBURGH - It was perfectly sunny during batting practice Thursday at PNC Park, not a blip of rain on the radar. Joe Girardi, the Yankees manager, thought back to the last time the Yankees tried to play here, and how that game began against the

It's not going to happen, apparently, but dropping Barry Bonds into the mix would add much-needed intrigue to the slow-speed chase that is the National League West race between the Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks. . . . Nobody seems willing to take a

Mariano Rivera isfar more likely to close Tuesday's All-Star game than to start it. American League manager Terry Francona didn't sound enamored of the idea that the closer should open the final All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium. 'You are expected to

Washington, DC (Sports Network) - Stephen Drew went 3-for-6 with two doubles and the go-ahead RBI in the top of the 11th inning, as Arizona overcame two comeback rallies from Washington to upend the Nationals, 7-5, in the rubber match of a three-game

Admit it, there were some of you that still held out hope that Mark Prior would experience a renewed vitality in San Diego. I'll admit it. I was so bowled over by Prior during his first couple seasons in the league that I've had a really hard time

Jay Bruce just may be the new Ryan Braun, so it was only fitting that while Bruce was setting the league on fire in his first week with Cincinnati, Braun was making sure everyone knew that he's hardly yesterday's news he's hitting .455 with two home runs

Owning Rich Harden is like dating a beautiful stripper. There's obvious perks to such an arrangement, but you know going in that you're going to have to set the expectation level pretty low if it's going to work. Same thing with owning Harden. He's about

Cubs catcher Geovany Soto is in the midst of an outstanding rookie season.