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With a white-hot Odubel Herrera and his five-game home run streak leading the way, the young Phillies are proving to be a threat in the NL East.

Playing in his first rehab game while recovering from a mild ACL sprain in his left knee, Braves rookie Ronald Acuna Jr. was hitless in two at-bats Friday.

Major League Baseball has suspended Toronto closer Roberto Osuna 75 games without pay for violating Major League Baseball's Joint Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Policy.

While some players have said they'll decline participating in this year's Home Run Derby if invited, Nationals slugger Bryce Harper confirmed his commitment to the event on Friday, assuming he's named to the NL All-Star team.

Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will skip a scheduled rehab start and instead will start for Los Angeles on Saturday against the Mets in New York.

Archie Bradley and Jeremy Jeffress probably won't be playing in D.C. on July 17, but they should have a place in the All-Star conversation.

A couple of wins over the hapless Orioles can't mask a season-long problem for Washington: The bats simply haven't been good enough.

Injuries to Brandon Morrow and Carl Edwards Jr., plus a tough stretch of games, will put fill-in relievers such as Randy Rosario to the test.

Ichiro Suzuki, now a team executive with the Mariners, took in a bit of Thursday's game against the Yankees from the dugout wearing a fake mustache, sunglasses and gray hoodie.

Angels center fielder Mike Trout played in his 1,000th career game Thursday, but he served as the designated hitter again while nursing what he called "a pretty painful" sprained right index finger.

Giants closer Hunter Strickland, who is expected to be out six to eight weeks after breaking the pinkie on his pitching hand when he punched a door after blowing a save, apologized Thursday and said he'd consider anger management counseling.

Shelby Miller, 14 months removed from Tommy John surgery, will return to the Arizona Diamondbacks' rotation Monday against the Miami Marlins.

Scientists have used ultra-high-resolution cryo–electron microscopy to capture the most detailed portrait ever of an opioid drug triggering the biochemical signaling cascade that gives it its power.

Marlins pitcher Dan Straily has been suspended for five games for intentionally throwing at the Giants' Buster Posey. Marlins manager Don Mattingly also was suspended one game.

The Tigers and Royals will play a game in Omaha ahead of the 2019 College World Series, an initiative that MLB commissioner Rob Manfred says is good for the sport.

St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha was put on the disabled list Thursday with an oblique strain.

The Twins' Eduardo Escobar was hit in the elbow by a pitch from Boston's Rick Porcello in the first inning and later left the game.

UCSF researchers quantified the effects of Prop 47, which reclassified drug possession offenses from felonies or “wobblers”.

Sick of seeing pitchers hit? Love NL strategy? Either way, the argument is good for baseball. Plus, a Jeff Luhnow Q&A and Verlander's next milestone.

A so-called “jumping gene” that researchers long considered either genetic junk or a pernicious parasite is actually a critical regulator of the first stages of embryonic development.