Jordany Valdespin began the night on the bench and ended it partying at home plate.

For the Detroit Tigers, it felt like 2011 again.

Atlanta coach Larry Drew tried desperately to send his players a message.

The Kansas City Royals had Max Scherzer on the ropes Wednesday night. Problem was they couldn't finish him off.

Two bad pitches and an error on Brennan Boesch were enough to beat Andy Pettitte.

After getting blown out three nights earlier, the Houston Rockets were down 15 points in the fourth quarter and facing the long odds of needing to make a comeback against the Western Conference's top team without starting point guard Jeremy Lin.

Offensive tackle Eric Fisher could be the top pick

Indiana had everything covered Wednesday night.

Russell Westbrook relishes the moments when an opponent challenges him and his Oklahoma City Thunder teammates and it becomes time to respond.

Squandered chances cost the Philadelphia Phillies a chance to win another strong outing by Roy Halladay.

Here’s the latest in the series of UW’s “mic’d up” videos, featuring coaches at work. This one spotlights offensive coordinator and receivers coach Eric Kiesau:

After yesterday’s post on the top five breakout players of the spring, a few readers chimed in with thoughts of some others who they thought deserved some recognition. With that in mind, here are five other players who made some moves this spring: RB Dwayne Washington — Washington was sw

Robert Andino has been installed as the team's starting shortstop for now.

First draft together for Pete Carroll and John Schneider considered quite successful

The Astros, shown above after today’s 10-3 victory over the Mariners, don’t get to celebrate too often, but they’ve now done so four times in six games against the Mariners. So much for that meme about the M’s cleaning up on lowly Houston as a means to a better record in 2013

Sacramento Bee columnist Ailene Voisin wrote today on what may be ahead in the Seattle/Sacramento tussle over the Kings. And included in the column is the news that Kings’ employees have been told to “hang tight” and begin preparing marketing and season ticket plans for the 2013-14

Pinch hitter Brandon Inge hit a tiebreaking RBI single in the eighth inning and the Pittsburgh Pirates rallied to beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-3 Wednesday night.

Alex Cobb scattered three hits over 8 1-3 innings, Ben Zobrist drove in two runs and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the New York Yankees 3-0 on Wednesday night.

The Seahawks signed former Texas A&M quarterback Jerrod Johnson on Wednesday. Johnson, who wasn’t drafted in 2011, is the team’s fourth quarterback. Johnson, 24, starred at Texas A&M and entered his senior season as preseason Big 12 offensive player of the year. But Johnson (6 feet 5, 25

There is a new look to the team at shorstop today as Robert Andino replaces Brendan Ryan on a more permanent basis. Raul Ibanez is back in there today. This is Eric Wedge’s way of trying to get him going. The Mariners could have a decision to make on Ibanez at some point once Franklin