MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The Minnesota Twins have designated right-hander Jason Marquis for release or assignment, ending his stint with the team after just seven starts. The move was made on Tuesday before the Twins played the White Sox in Chicago. The contract of right-hander Cole DeVries was selected from Triple-A Rochester, and the Minnesota native will [...]

MIAMI (AP) A major league pitcher who defected from Cuba is being sued for $18 million by a Cuban-American man imprisoned on the communist island. The lawsuit was filed recently in Miami federal court against Aroldis Chapman, a left-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. The lawsuit claims that Chapman falsely accused Danilo Curbelo Garcia of [...]

PHOENIX (AP) After two Tommy John elbow surgeries, a 6-1 start to the season is especially sweet to Chris Capuano. ”I couldn’t be having any more fun playing the game right now,” he said. Matt Treanor, Andre Ethier and James Loney homered to give Capuano more than enough support and the Los Angeles Dodgers won [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) Star-struck at 11 when he saw pitching great Roger Clemens, a 25-year-old man became a witness for prosecutors seeking to convict the former baseball player of lying to Congress. At issue was a 1998 gathering at player Jose Canseco‘s house that Clemens denied attending – one of the false statements prosecutors allege Clemens [...]

CINCINNATI (AP) Mike Leake was a sophomore at Arizona State the last time he got to round the bases at his own pace. Three years later, he finally got to do it again in the major leagues. The right-hander hit his first career homer – the first of three solo shots in a row – [...]

ST. LOUIS (AP) Perennial prospect Tyler Greene is finally getting a full shot with the St. Louis Cardinals. Opening some eyes, too. Greene capped his third three-hit game of the month with a go-ahead two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth, trumping Jesus Guzman‘s two-run double in the top half, as the Cardinals beat [...]

SEATTLE (AP) Ichiro Suzuki and the Seattle Mariners chased Texas‘ Yu Darvish after just four innings in his shortest start of the season, and the Mariners rolled to their fourth straight win in a 6-1 victory over the Rangers on Monday night. Felix Hernandez (4-3) rebounded from consecutive poor starts to hold the top offense [...]

NEW YORK (AP) With every out the New York Yankees made and every run they gave up, the boos from the sparse crowd got louder. New York’s 6-0 defeat to the Kansas City Royals on a misty, dreary Monday night was the Yankees’ sixth loss in seven games, dropping them into last place in the [...]

BALTIMORE (AP) Down by three runs in the sixth inning, the Boston Red Sox desperately needed a spark to get back into the game against the Baltimore Orioles. With one mighty swing, David Ortiz launched a ball out of Camden Yards and sent the Red Sox on their way to an uplifting 8-6 victory Monday [...]

SEATTLE (AP) Neftali Feliz will be shut down for at least a month because of inflammation in his right elbow, the Texas Rangers said Monday while putting their closer-turned-starter on the 15-day disabled list. The AL West leaders made the move three days after wildness cut short Feliz’s latest outing in the fifth inning. Just [...]