Paul Konerko started the rally with a one-out single. Pinch runner Tyler Greene moved to third when Dayan Viciedo singled off the glove of second baseman Derek Dietrich. After Ryan Webb (1-2) intentionally walked Conor Gillaspie, Keppinger singled to left field. Nate Jones (1-4) pitched two-thirds of an inning for the win. Danks allowed...

Pitchers practice their motions step by step as a coach yells: “Uno! Dos! Tres! Cuatro!” Typical baseball sounds — bats hitting balls, balls hitting leather — compete with the drone of cicadas. The billionaire Alfredo Harp Helú opened this baseball academy, La Academia de Béisbol Alfredo Harp Helú, in 2009, and the sparkling school has seven...

“Left-handed pitchers are sort of like shortstops and catching prospects — they’re hard to get their hands on,” Towers said last week. “People who have them usually don’t want to trade them. It was a great job by Jerry Dipoto.” Dipoto was then the Diamondbacks’ interim general manager, and two months later he ceded the full-time job to...

Gedeon, a Cleveland native, was a three-sport star at Michigan and was aiming for the Olympics in track and field. But the 1940 Summer Games, planned for Tokyo, were canceled because of the war. He turned to baseball instead and signed as an outfielder with the Washington Senators. In five games in 1939, Gedeon had 17 plate appearances, with three singles,...

MILWAUKEE — Brewers manager Ron Roenicke says closer Jim Henderson is expected to be out “a while” with a pulled hamstring. Henderson was injured Friday against the Pirates. Roenicke says the right-hander was limping Saturday and is scheduled to be examined by a doctor. He says the injury might force the team to make a roster move. ...

The Orioles won for the fourth time in five games following a season-long, six-game losing streak. Valencia connected off Dickey with a second-deck drive in the third inning, his second home run of the season — both in the past two days. Jones chased last year’s NL Cy Young Award winner with an even longer drive in the seventh, his ninth of the year...

The teams will resume play with none out in the top of the ninth inning on Saturday at 6:10 p.m. The regularly scheduled game is set to start 7:15 p.m. With rain starting to fall heavily, Gattis put Atlanta up 5-3 with a bases-loaded single off Greg Burke. The Mets tied it in a wet and wild bottom half, taking advantage of center fielder B.J. Upton’s...

Sanchez’s bid was broken up with one out in the ninth inning Friday night when Minnesota’s Joe Mauer hit a clean single up the middle. That was the only hit Sanchez allowed in the host Tigers’ 6-0 victory over the Twins. It was the fourth one-hitter of his career, to go along with a no-hitter he threw as a rookie back in 2006. “It’s not that I go...