Oakland A's Top Texas Rangers, 3-2
Jed Lowrie hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 3-2.
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Jed Lowrie hit a tiebreaking double in the seventh inning and the Oakland Athletics beat the Texas Rangers 3-2.
Manaea has a 3-2 record - the A's scored only one run total in his two losses - with a 1.23 ERA. Opponents are only hitting .130 against him.
Sean Manaea's father is from American Samoa, where he grew up playing cricket and rugby and didn't really know anything about baseball.
Mac Williamson hit a two-run homer in his first big league game this season after being called up from the Sacramento River Cats in an 8-1 win over the Angels.
Hunter Pence is on the 10-day disabled list with a sprained right thumb and outfielder Mac Williamson was from the Sacramento River Cats.
The teams combined for 555 pitches, 33 hits and 18 walks -12 by Chicago pitchers - in a game that lasted 5 hours and 48 minutes.
Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell pleaded guilty Friday to disorderly conduct in an incident in which he was accused of pointing a handgun at the head of a woman who delivered food to his home in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Stratton allowed San Diego's only hit, a one-out single in the third inning by pitcher Clayton Richard, who was pinch-hitting.
Goldschmidt and John Ryan Murphy hit home runs, and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Giants 7-3 on Wednesday to take two of three at AT&T Park.
A person familiar with the situation tells The Associated Press that Dodger Stadium will host the 2020 All-Star Game.
Cody Bellinger overcame a bout of food poisoning to score the go-ahead run on Kyle Farmer's pinch-hit double in the 10th inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the San Francisco Giants 2-1 on Sunday.
The Giants' Andrew McCutchen hit a three-run homer to cap a 12-pitch at-bat in the 14th inning and #BeatLA 7-5.
The crowd of 10,132 was the largest of the series, which attracted 34,613 total for the four games.
Texas left-hander Martin Perez had to get a little crafty to keep things from getting out of hand in his first start of the year.
Pablo Sandoval splashed a three-run homer into McCovey Cove while making a rare start, and Johnny Cueto earned his first win of the season.
Tarik El-Abour is not a Major League Baseball player yet, but his signing by the Kansas City Royals marks a historic first for the national pastime.
San Francisco became the first team in major league history to score its first three runs of the year on solo homers by the same player
The Sacramento River Cats and CBS13/CW31 have announced that they will partner to broadcast nine Saturday home games during the 2018 regular season. The games will be available locally in the Sacramento market on CW31, home of Good Day Sacramento.
The Giants won by an identical score in Thursday's season opener on Panik's solo shot off Clayton Kershaw.
The "Save America's Pastime Act" included on page 1,967 of the $1.3 trillion spending bill signed by President Trump last week appears to pre-empt a lawsuit filed four years ago
It was the first run allowed this year by Kershaw, including spring training. The seven hits given up by the left-hander are the most off him on opening day, when he is 5-1.
Marcus Semien singled into an empty center field with one out in the 11th inning, beating Los Angeles' five-man infield to lift the Oakland Athletics over the Angels 6-5 on opening day Thursday.
The daily routine that had become part of some players' DNA - the bantering, the batting practice, the games - is replaced by chauffeuring kids, helping around the house and some golf.
The Giants said X-rays showed the 28-year-old fractured the fifth metacarpal on the outside of his left hand.
The Angels Shohei Ohtani struggles on the mound and at the plate; Astros Jose Altuve signs a lucrative contract extension.
