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Outfielder Tommy Pham returns to major leagues with the MLB-worst White Sox

Apr. 26, 2024 19:35 PM EDT

CHICAGO (AP) — Outfielder Tommy Pham is back in the major leagues, joining the MLB-worst Chicago White Sox on Friday for their series-opening game against the Tampa Bay Rays. The 36-year-old Pham was in Chicago's lineup in center field after being recalled from Triple-A Charlotte....

Mead hits 1st homer of the season and Rays beat Tigers 7-5 to avoid the 3-game sweep

Apr. 24, 2024 22:09 PM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, (AP) — Curtis Mead hit his first home run of the season and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Detroit Tigers 7-5 on Wednesay night to avoid a three-game sweep. Ben Rortvedt collected his second RBI of the game with a single and scored on Mead's two-run drive off Will...

Riley Greene homers twice and Mark Canha goes deep to power Tigers past Rays 4-2

Apr. 23, 2024 22:10 PM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Riley Greene went deep twice for his first multi-homer game, Mark Canha added a homer and the Detroit Tigers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 on Tuesday night. The Tigers have won the first two of the three-game set to clinch their fifth unbeaten road series...

Skubal has 9 strikeouts in 6 innings, Canha and Meadows homer as Tigers beat Rays 7-1

Apr. 22, 2024 22:12 PM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Tarik Skubal struck out nine over six scoreless innings, Mark Canha and Parker Meadows homered, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 7-1 on Monday night. The Tigers improved to 9-3 on the road this season. Skubal (3-0) scattered...

Rays place struggling closer Pete Fairbanks on injured list with nerve-related issues

Apr. 22, 2024 17:50 PM EDT

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Rays placed struggling closer Pete Fairbanks on the 15-day injured list with nerve-related issues before Monday night's game against the Detroit Tigers. Fairbanks has experienced numbness in his fingers at times over the past few years, and...

The Mets' bullpen with a healthy Edwin Díaz has helped New York rebound from a rough start

Apr. 22, 2024 06:08 AM EDT

Edwin Díaz's season-ending knee injury in March 2023 was probably the first sign the season wouldn't go as planned for the high-priced New York Mets. Now he's back, leading a bullpen that has helped the Mets recover nicely from a poor start. New York has won 12 of 16...

Luis Gil gets 1st big league win in 3 years, pitches Yankees over Rays 5-4

Apr. 21, 2024 19:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Luis Gil struck out a career-high nine over 5 2/3 innings for his first major league win in three years, and the New York Yankees took advantage of Adam Civale’s control problems in a four-run fifth to beat the Tampa Bay Rays 5-4 on Sunday. Civale walked three...

Yankees pitcher Luis Gil gets 2nd big league win, 993 days after beating Orioles in debut

Apr. 21, 2024 19:09 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — On the 993rd day after Luis Gil won his major league debut, he got win No. 2. Now 25 and nearly two years after Tommy John surgery, the right-hander struck out a career-high nine over 5 2/3 innings Sunday in the New York Yankees' 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays....

Dave McCarty, 11-year MLB veteran and member of the 2004 Red Sox championship team, dies at 54

Apr. 20, 2024 23:46 PM EDT

BOSTON (AP) — Dave McCarty, a member of the Boston Red Sox championship team in 2004 who played with seven MLB teams in an 11-year career, has died. He was 54. The Red Sox announced McCarty's death in a statement, saying the former first baseman and outfielder died Friday after...

Yankees' slugger Aaron Judge strikes out four times, hears boos on promotional bobblehead day

Apr. 20, 2024 17:58 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees captain Aaron Judge was booed by New York fans on his bobblehead day after he struck out for the fourth time in Saturday's 2-0, 10-inning loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. “I’ve heard worse and I’d probably be doing the same thing in their situation,”...