April 15, 2013

(Updates after late game) April 14 (SportsDirect) – Highlights of games in Major League Baseball on Sunday: Yankees 3, Orioles 0 Hiroki Kuroda surrendered five hits in his fifth career shutout as New York blanked visiting Baltimore. Brett Gardner bange…

The Orioles offense was held to five singles by Hiroki Kuroda and lost 3-0 to the New York Yankees.

In their first appearance on ESPN’s "Sunday Night Baseball" since 2008, the Orioles’ bats were silent as they lost 3-0 to Hiroki Kuroda and the New York Yankees. This game was the decisive in the series, and with a win,…

The 2013 Blue Jays are the only team since 2009 to make three or more waiver claims in April, R.J. Anderson of Baseball Prospectus notes. The Jays have claimed Casper Wells, Edgar Gonzalez and Mauro Gomez this month. The Jays are typically very active on the waiver wire, frequently claiming players and then trying to sneak them through waivers again in an attempt to build depth in their minor-league system. (Toronto also claimed four players in the last half of March: Todd Redmond, Guillermo Moscoso, Alex Burnett and Clint Robinson. Moscoso and Burnett were lost after other teams claimed them.)…

NEW YORK – Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen is shutting out the New York Yankees on two hits over the first four innings, which is the good news. Chen is receiving the usual run support, which his the bad news. The game…

In March, the ESPN "Sunday Night Baseball" crew touted the Orioles as contenders

Buck Showalter didn’t seem surprised when he learned the news that Conor Jackson retired on Sunday.

April 14 (The Sports Xchange) – San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin dropped his appeal and began serving his eight-game suspension on Sunday when the Padres faced the Colorado Rockies. That means Quentin will miss a three-game series in Los Ange…

A look at Kuroda against the Orioles and Matt Wieters’ recent offensive struggles

San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin dropped his appeal and began serving his eight-game suspension on Sunday when the Padres faced the Colorado Rockies.