LOS ANGELES (AP) ― Zack Greinke came within one strike of his fifth career shutout, Hanley Ramirez and Yasiel Puig homered, and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Chicago Cubs 6-2 Monday night, ending a two-game skid. The Cubs lost for the eighth straight time to the Dodgers, including a four-game sweep at Wrigley Field earlier this month. The Dodgers equaled their longest winning streak again...

A month after acknowledging only that he made “mistakes,” Ryan Braun admitted taking performance-enhancing drugs during his NL MVP season of 2011. The suspended Milwaukee slugger said he took a cream and a lozenge containing banned substances while rehabilitating an injury. “It was a huge mistake for which I am deeply ashamed and I compounded the situation by not admitting my mistakes immediate...

Jung Sang-chul has been a fan of the LG Twins, a Seoul-based Korea Baseball Organization club, since 1994, the team’s last championship season. In the intervening years, like most other KBO teams, the Twins have had their shares of ups and downs ― mostly downs. In a league where nearly half the teams make the playoffs, the Twins last reached the postseason in 2002, when they lost to the Samsung...

Ryu Hyun-jin of the Los Angeles Dodgers suffered his first loss in Major League Baseball (MLB) in two months, as the Dodgers fell to the Miami Marlins 6-2 here on Monday. At Marlins Park, Ryu gave up three runs on six hits and two walks in 7 1/3 innings to drop to 12-4 in his first big league season. The Dodgers lost consecutive games for the first time since June 20-21. The South Korean left-h...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― Clayton Kershaw pitched eight dominant innings and the seemingly unstoppable Los Angeles Dodgers won their 10th straight Saturday night, beating Philadelphia 5-0 to keep the Phillies scoreless in two games under new manager Ryne Sandberg. Juan Uribe hit a three-run homer, Kershaw had an RBI double and the Dodgers improved to 25-3 after the All-Star break. They have won 19 of...

ST. PETERSBURG (AP) ― Jason Bourgeois came up in the right place at the right time Wednesday night, with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth inning for the Tampa Bay Rays, who needed a win to break a six-game losing streak. The 31-year-old backup outfielder delivered his first hit for the Rays, an RBI single to cap a two-run rally that lifted Tampa Bay over the Seattle Mariners 5-4. “No...

Cho Dong-chan, an infielder for Samsung Lions in South Korea’s top baseball league, will miss the rest of the season due to a left knee injury, local media reported Wednesday. According to Yonhap News, Cho was diagnosed with a fractured left knee and partial damage to the ligament earlier in the day at Saemyung Hospital in Daegu. Doctors expect the treatment to take six weeks, which will force t...