The light-hitting New York Mets have tried to improve their home run power by agreeing to terms with free agent slugger Jason Bay, the team said on their website Tuesday (http://newyork.mets.mlb.com).
In 151 games with the Boston Red Sox last season, Bay hit .267 with 36 home runs and 119 RBIs. Over his seven major league seasons, Bay has a .
David Eckstein drove in three runs and the San Diego Padres came back from a six-run deficit to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 11-7 on Friday night to win their fourth straight game.
Peavy, the 2007 National League Cy Young Award winner, waived his no-trade clause to allow San Diego to acquire four pitchers from Chicago, just two months after Peavy vetoed a trade to the same White Sox club.
Chris Iannetta and Carlos Gonzalez hit home runs on consecutive pitches leading off the eighth inning to lift the Colorado Rockies to a 5-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.
Franklin Morales got Joey Votto to fly out with runners on first and second and two outs to end the seventh inning.
The Oakland Athletics are hitting the way the once-powerful Boston Red Sox used to.
“It looked like they didn’t finish hitting since (Tuesday) night,” said Mike Lowell, who had five RBIs for Boston. “I guess we ran into them at the wrong time.”
For the second straight night, the Athletics outslugged the Red Sox, winning 8-6 on Wednesday a night after they pounded out 21 hits for a 9-8 win in 11 innings.
For 99 games, the Los Angeles Dodgers avoided losing three in a row. Game No. 100 was a stinker that ended a franchise-record run.
“We’ll be back here tomorrow trying to stop that stuff,” manager Joe Torre said. “We need to score some runs and take a little pressure off the pitchers.”
Adam Wainwright matched zeros with Chad Billingsley for five innings and gained momentum after Billingsley was roughed up in a six-run sixth inning of the St.
Marco Scutaro matched his career high with four hits and the Toronto Blue Jays took advantage of Felix Hernandez’s worst start of the season, beating the slumping Seattle Mariners 11-4 on Monday night.
Seattle, which has lost four straight, remained 7 1/2 games back of the AL West-leading Angels and fell 7 1/2 behind wild card-leading Boston.
Jamie Moyer pitched 6 2-3 shutout innings, Ryan Howard hit a two-run homer and the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 6-2 on Monday night.
Baffling the weak-hitting Diamondbacks with a mix of 80 mph fastballs and even softer changeups, the 46-year-old Moyer (10-7) worked out of jams in each of the first three innings.
David Ortiz jump-started Boston’s sluggish offense with a three-run homer, Adam LaRoche added a two-run shot in his Red Sox debut and Jon Lester pitched into the eighth inning in a 7-2 win over the struggling Baltimore Orioles on Saturday night.
Baltimore, which lost for the 14th time in 18 games, dropped its 11th straight in Fenway Park dating to last July.
Rickey Henderson knew what was expected every time he batted. So, too, did Jim Rice.
Said Rice: “Believe me, I wasn’t paid to walk. I was paid to try to do some damage.”
“Some way, I was going to scratch to get on base to steal that base,” Henderson said. “I steal that base, my day was good. My pride and joy was coming across the plate.
The New York Yankees overcame a lengthy rain delay to rally to a 6-3 victory over the Oakland Athletics and win their seventh successive game on Thursday.
The start of the game was delayed for almost three hours, and once it started Oakland took an early 2-0 lead before Sabathia settled down and gave the Yankees over-worked bullpen some rest.