On days the right-hander takes the mound, his teammates don’t score runs. That negative pattern continued Saturday when the Miami Marlins managed only three hits in a 2-0 loss to the Cleveland Indians. Sanchez (2-2) held the Indians to two runs in eight innings, but continued to be plagued by a lack of offensive support. The Marlins have...

Alex Cobb won his first start of the season, Matt Joyce hit a grand slam and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Atlanta Braves 5-2 on Saturday. Delgado (2-4) lasted just four innings, allowing four runs, three hits and five walks. After Tampa Bay loaded the bases on a pair of a walks and a single in the third, Joyce put the Rays up 4-2 when he sent a 2-0...

The last two times he’s taken the mound, the young left-hander has given up a pair of two-run homers in each outing. Andrew McCutchen did the damage Saturday, going deep twice to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 4-3 win over Smyly and the Detroit Tigers. “He got the ball up a little bit too much and he paid for it,” Detroit...

Butler homered to left-center in the third with Alcides Escobar aboard. Butler also drove in Jarrod Dyson with a sacrifice fly in Kansas City’s two-run fifth. Butler’s eight home runs and 31 RBIs lead the Royals. Moustakas sent his sixth homer of the season into the right-field bullpen in the fourth. Chen, who has won three straight...

The White Sox made it two in a row over the Cubs and played without star first baseman Paul Konerko, who’d been hit near the left eye with a pitch Friday and had to leave the game. Konerko had a shiner Saturday, but tests revealed no major damage and he hopes to play again Tuesday. Danks (3-4) got his first win since April 22, allowing three hits in 6...

Jones had three hits as the AL East leaders improved to 15-5 on the road. Washington lost its third in a row. Jason Hammel (5-1) pitched 5 1-3 innings for the win, allowing four runs and six hits. Baltimore relievers Luis Ayala, Troy Patton and Pedro Strop combined for 2 2-3 scoreless innings. Orioles closer Jim Johnson allowed two-out home run in...

The 26-year-old Australian won the 2007 crown with Ducati and the 2011 title with Honda, and currently leads the world standings by one point ahead of Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo heading into the fourth race of the season this weekend. “After a long time thinking, a lot of time talking with my family and my wife, this has been coming for a couple of years...

The 2010 world champion, fourth on the grid, mastered the rainy conditions to finish 9.905 seconds ahead of Italy’s Valentino Rossi, who had his best result so far for the Ducati team after a tense battle with Casey Stoner in the final laps. Stoner, who announced this week that he will retire from the sport at the end of the 2012 season, took third...