Cleveland closer Chris Perez felt a little stiff while warming up Sunday.

In the quest to give Cole Hamels some run support, the Philadelphia Phillies didn't get very far against Stephen Strasburg.

Baltimore closer Jim Johnson has blown more saves in the past two weeks than he did in all of 2012.

All that talk about spitting had no effect on Alex Sanabia. It was his ailing right groin that made it a very difficult day.

Josh Hamilton started the Angels' comeback when he homered leading off the seventh inning, and Los Angeles beat the Kansas City Royals 5-2 Sunday for its eighth straight win.

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The Minnesota Twins couldn't take advantage of Max Scherzer's brief wildness.

Bartolo Colon struck out a season-high nine in seven scoreless innings, and the Oakland Athletics completed a sweep of the Houston Astros with a 6-2 win Sunday.

Alfonso Soriano hit a tying two-run homer in the eighth inning and Welington Castillo had a go-ahead double in the 10th, helping the Chicago Cubs rally from a four-run deficit in a 5-4 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday that stopped a season-high, six-game losing streak.

Wandy Rodriguez won his fourth consecutive start, Pedro Alvarez had a two-run double and the Pittsburgh Pirates built an early four-run lead before holding off the Milwaukee Brewers 5-4 on Sunday.

Jacoby Ellsbury hit a game-ending, two-run double on Joe Smith's first pitch, capping a four-run, ninth- inning rally that lifted the Boston Red Sox over the Cleveland Indians 6-5 Sunday.

Dayan Viciedo and Alex Rios each threw out a runner at the plate, and the Chicago White Sox beat Alex Sanabia and the Miami Marlins 5-3 on Sunday to sweep their weekend series.

Alex Cobb took a three-hit shutout into the ninth inning and CC Sabathia's winless streak reached five starts Sunday in the Tampa Bay Rays' 8-3 win over the New York Yankees.

Munenori Kawasaki hit a game-ending two-run double in a four-run ninth inning, lifting the Toronto Blue Jays to a 6-5 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.

Go ahead and call the San Antonio Spurs old. They're also experienced enough to know what to do only a win away from their first NBA Finals berth since 2007.

In a showdown of aces with disappointing records, Stephen Strasburg and Cole Hamels matched each other until the Washington Nationals scored five runs in the seventh inning of a 6-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.

Max Scherzer pitched six solid innings to remain undefeated this season, and Avisail Garcia broke the game open with a bases-loaded triple, leading the Detroit Tigers over the Minnesota Twins 6-1 on Sunday.

Justin Smoak reported to Safeco Field today saying that his stiff oblique muscle is feeling better than it did last night. The Mariners are going to hold him off any activity today and then see whether the muscle improves by tomorrow. If not, they may have to put him on the 15-day DL. Mariners manag

The Memphis Grizzlies have made a habit of falling behind in series this postseason.

The Grizzlies want to make sure everyone knows that just because Tony Allen was fined $5,000 for flopping by the NBA, it doesn't mean the key foul he drew in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals wasn't a flagrant.