Every fifth day, starting pitchers in the MLB are summoned to perform one of the most difficult balancing acts in all of sport: shutting down an opposing club ...

The Houston Astros still salvaged the finale of an arduous series against the Seattle Mariners it seemed they almost had to have. With an 11-3 rout, they avoided a sweep by their closest AL West ...

Facing Ryan Pressly in the seventh, it was Wilyer Abreu that struck the big blow. Pressly left a 95-mph fastball middle-middle and Abreu positively demolished it to turn a one-run deficit into a 2-1 ...