Adam Dunn hit his 15th homer, A.J. Pierzynski and Dayan Viciedo both went deep for the second time in as many nights, and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Indians 9-3 on Friday for their seventh win in eight games. “It was not a pretty game,” Indians manager Manny Acta said. “I continue to feel we haven’t been playing our...

The rut has been far harder to shake for the starting pitchers, and until that happens, the Twins figure to be stuck at the bottom of the division. Anthony Swarzak delivered another disappointing performance for a Twins starter, giving up six runs on nine hits in 3 2-3 innings of a 10-6 loss to the Detroit Tigers on Friday night. Swarzak (0-4)...

Gallardo (3-4) held the Diamondbacks to one run and five hits through 7 1-3 innings to improve to 6-0 in six career starts against Arizona. That doesn’t count a victory over the Diamondbacks and Ian Kennedy in last year’s divisional playoffs. Kennedy (3-5) was the loser Friday night, too. The Arizona right-hander, a 21-game winner last season,...

Albert Pujols homered for the second straight game, a three-run shot in the sixth inning on a 0-2 pitch from Seattle starter Blake Beavan. His sixth homer of the season accounted for all of the Angels offense until the ninth-inning rally against Seattle’s shaky closer. With Seattle holding a 4-3 lead heading to the top of the ninth, League (0-4)...

Their World Series celebration took place Oct. 8, 1956, at the dramatic conclusion of Game 5 against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. Larsen, a strapping right-hander, retired all 27 Dodgers he faced, striking out seven, including pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell, who looked at a third strike to end the 2-0 Yankees victory. Larsen, who remains the only...

Matt Wieters made a comment this March that sounded so naïve, it was almost charming. It was spring training, when even the lowliest teams can be optimistic. But Wieters, the catcher for the Baltimore Orioles, seemed to push the limits of the plausible. “There’s been teams that go worst to first before,” he said by his locker in Sarasota, Fla. “We...

With their first Group B match just two weeks away on June 9 against Netherlands, Denmark coach Morten Olsen will be no doubt reviewing their defensive operation after his players conceded by gifted the ball to Brazil three times in the first half. The touring South Americans will also play three friendlies in the United States in the coming weeks as coach...

Long scored the winner in the 78th minute after being picked out by winger Aiden McGeady and the home side nearly doubled the lead with a succession of shots by Jon Walters in the closing minutes. “I think we deserved to win because the possession (we had in) the first and also the second half,” coach Giovanni Trapattoni told reporters. ...