Callaspo’s slam came against Mariners starter Felix Hernandez (4-4) and was the first pinch grand slam for the Angels since Shane Halter hit one against Tampa Bay in 2004. Pujols, who now has seven homers after not hitting any in April, hit a 2-1 fastball from Hernandez over the left-center wall in the fourth inning. Pujols has homered in six of his...

(Reuters) – The Baltimore Orioles signed All-Star outfielder Adam Jones to a six-year contract that runs through the 2018 season, the American League team said on Sunday. Financial terms of the deal were not announced but Major League Baseball’s website reported the deal was worth $85.5 million, making Jones the second highest paid center field...

The retired pitcher Bob Ojeda, at home in Rumson, N.J., would gladly start all over if he could, though maybe with his other arm. Article source: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=8bb75a3d87cebf5460beb7043a066cef

Caleb Lloyd did not take his baseball glove to Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati last Monday. “Every time I bring a glove, I never come close to catching anything, and I’m stuck carrying the glove around everywhere,” Lloyd said. “It’s a hassle.” Lloyd, a junior forward on the soccer team at Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky., did not need a...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Adam Jones signed a six-year, $85.5 million contract with the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, ensuring that the 26-year-old center fielder will stay with the team through 2018. Jones enters Sunday with a 17-game hitting streak and leads the team with home runs and RBIs. Vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette began...

Juergen Klinsmann team’s fifth successive win was a sparkling performance against a woeful Scotland team who were unable to match the speed and creativity of the Americans. The U.S. were 2-0 up inside 11 minutes and never looked back as they produced the kind of high-tempo display their German coach has demanded of them. “We had a...

It was only a friendly against a modest team but coming after the impressively ground-out away win over Italy in February, the team’s fifth successive victory was another positive sign. What pleased Klinsmann the most was the style with which Scotland were taken apart as Landon Donovan helped himself to a hat-trick. “We saw many...

There were no major surprises as Del Bosque discarded the younger players who have been part of the world and European champions’ provisional squad at a training camp in the Austrian Alps. Instead, he included 19 of the players who went to South Africa and won the World Cup two years ago in his 23-man squad. Two of the absentees were enforced...