Casto's homer upheld by replay Watch Guzman's RBI single Watch Montz's RBI Watch PHILADELPHIA -- After acquiring Lastings Milledge, Elijah Dukes and Paul Lo Duca last offseason, Nationals general manager Jim Bowden believed the team would be better

Casto's homer upheld by replay Watch PHILADELPHIA -- Instant replay made its debut on Friday night at Citizens Bank Park, when a home run call on a ball hit by the Nationals' Kory Casto was upheld. With the Phillies leading, 7-3, with two outs in the

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WASHINGTON -- Thursday's game between the Nationals and Marlins was canceled because of rain. There will be no makeup date. The cancellation means that Washington finished its first season at Nationals Park with a 34-46 record. The club will travel to

WASHINGTON -- Nationals right-hander Collin Balester was scheduled to pitch against the Marlins on Thursday at Nationals Park, but the game was rained out. Balester will now pitch on Friday against the Phillies, while left-handers John Lannan and

MILWAUKEE -- Even on a day when he didn't pitch or talk publicly, the big news was Big Z again Friday. In a curious move, Cubs manager Lou Piniella slotted his most inconsistent starter of the last two months, Carlos Zambrano, into the No. 2 spot of his

It looks like the Cubs will finish their regular season with one more up-close look at the Milwaukee Brewers' 1-2 pitching punch of Ben Sheets and CC Sabathia, who will take their best shot at sending Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers to Chicago

The Chicago businessman who sued his father's 84-year-old pal over Cubs playoff tickets walked out of court Friday guaranteed to see at least one postseason game at Wrigley Field. Laurence Wright, 51, settled his suit against Jerry Slavin of Skokie

DETROIT OF Carl Crawford was activated off the disabled list Friday, entered in the ninth as a pinch-runner and received permission to take batting practice today. But Rays officials remain at best only cautiously optimistic he could return to the

Andrew Brackman, laid up since before the 2007 draft, finally gets to show what he's got on the mound in Hawaii Winter Baseball.