There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:Athletics Come Back From Down 7The Athletics and Angels had one wild Friday night. Through three innings, the A’s were already up 4-0, but that’s when Los Angeles began to take control. In the top of the fourth, first baseman Nolan Schanuel walked, then second baseman Oswald Peraza doubled. DH Christian Moore then hit a sac fly…

There is always baseball happening — almost too much baseball for one person to follow themselves.Don’t worry, we’re here to help you by figuring out what you missed but shouldn’t have. Here are all the best moments from last night in Major League Baseball:The Juan Soto GameThe Mets have been a disaster at times in 2026, but there is still a reason to hope: the team has been plagued by injuries, and, despite basically everything suffering the worst-case scenario all the time, New York is still just five games back of a wild-card spot. Catcher Francisco Alvarez is already back.…

Andrew Benintendi launched a pinch-hit grand slam off Camilo Doval in the eighth inning Thursday night and the Chicago White Sox ended a nine-game losing streak at Yankee Stadium with a 5-1 victory over New York.Benintendi batted for Randal Grichuk and was Chicago’s third pinch hitter of the inning. He snapped a 1-all tie by driving Doval’s first pitch, a 100 mph sinker, into the right-center seats.It was the fourth career slam for Benintendi, who played 33 games for the Yankees in 2022, and his second pinch-hit homer.Benintendi went deep after pinch-hitter Sam Antonacci doubled off Fernando Cruz (4-2). Tim…

The Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and the Astros’ Yordan Alvarez are the leading vote-getters for the National League and American League, respectively, in the first update of the 2026 MLB All-Star ballot.Ohtani leads all players with 1,165,133 votes. If that holds, it would be the first time the two-way superstar has topped all of baseball in All-Star balloting. He leads Alvarez by more than 149,000 votes for the MLB lead. Alvarez has tallied 1,015,768 votes and leads by a staggering 692,000-plus over the rest of the AL DH field. Both are on track to earn automatic starting spots as their league’s…

NEW YORK – Last year, the Atlanta Braves were the answer to a trivia question nobody wanted to be: Which of Major League Baseball’s most consistent franchises finally fell apart? After winning the National League East in six consecutive seasons from 2018-23 and capturing the 2021 World Series, the Braves finished 2025 with a mediocre 76-86 record. They missed the postseason for the first time since 2017 — unacceptable for an incredibly talented team in an expanded playoff format. Longtime manager Brian Snitker, the dugout leader of their triumphant era, stepped down into an advisory role. Walt Weiss, Snitker’s bench coach…

From Ben Rice and Cam Schlittler with the Yankees to Miguel Vargas and Davis Martin with the upstart White Sox, some of the most productive MLB players at their respective positions this season have never been All-Stars before. That should change soon. All-Star voting is underway, and we’re a month away from this year’s All-Star Game in Philadelphia. With that in mind, in this week’s Power Rankings we look at the potential first-time All-Stars on every team. Mickey Moniak hasn’t played in more than three weeks due to ankle tendinitis, and yet he still leads the team in fWAR. The former top overall…

Several top pro athletes and their surgeons say a modern version of an old tool is shaving weeks off the recovery time for certain injuries. And some top doctors think this is only the beginning.Cy Young Award winners Tarik Skubal and Blake Snell let doctors use the instrument on their prized elbows. Connor Hellebuyck, the 2025 Hart Trophy winner as NHL MVP, trusted it to address issues in his knee. Several NFL players have turned to it, too.It’s called the NanoNeedle scope 2.0, a miniaturized, flexible version of the traditional arthroscope. It’s very early — there is little published research…

Yoshinobu Yamamoto was inches away from perfection. Yamamoto struck out seven hitters while throwing 109 pitches over 8 1/3 innings. The Dodgers ace came four outs from a perfect game and three from a no-hitter, while leading the Dodgers to a 7-1 victory against the White Sox on Saturday. He was through 7 2/3 innings when White Sox infielder Chase Meidroth hit a ground ball at Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts, who failed to field it cleanly, allowing Meidroth to reach base on an error. Yamamoto still took a no-hitter into the ninth inning, but conceded a solo home run to Tristan Peters,…

History was a matter of when, not if, for Jacob Misiorowski. The moment came during the first inning of the Milwaukee Brewers’ game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday. Misiorowski clocked 105 miles per hour on the radar gun when he blew a pitch passed Phillies’ leadoff hitter Kyle Schwarber, striking him out. Misiorowski’s 105 mph pitch set the record for the fastest pitch thrown by an MLB starting pitcher. Misiorowski has been flirting with this milestone since the Brewers promoted him to the majors in June 2025. He averages 100 mph on his four-seam fastball. He’s clocked at least 10 pitches…

The Los Angeles Dodgers are cruising atop the National League West with an eight-game cushion, but they may have to navigate a brief scare involving Shohei Ohtani. The two-way superstar was removed from Thursday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates.He was diagnosed with left knee inflammation after being pinch-hit for in the seventh inning. Ohtani hit his 13th home run of the season in the third inning and also added a single and two walks, reaching base in all four of his plate appearances. It was not immediately clear when he first began to feel discomfort in his knee.This isn’t the…