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After homering three times in his first 36 games, the Washington Nationals' Adam LaRoche has launched four in the last three games. The streaky first baseman carries a 14-game hitting streak into Saturday’s matchup with the host San Diego Padres, who...

RHP Thad Weber was designated for assignment on Friday. Weber had two stints with the Padres and was last optioned to Triple-A Tucson on April 24 after being recalled on April 20. The right-hander appeared in two games with San Diego, working a career-...

MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Catcher Yasmani Grandal's 50-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's policy prohibiting performance-enhancing drugs ends May 28. Grandal will be allowed to start playing for Triple-A...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Everth Cabrera heard them. High behind the Padres dugout at Camden Yards on Tuesday night was a group of fans wearing Padres caps chanting "Nicaragua, Nicaragua" every time Cabrera...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Stephen Strasburg had quite the homecoming. Pitching in front of about 50 family members and friends, Strasburg lasted a career-high eight innings against his hometown Padres to snap a seven-start winless streak, and Bryce Harper...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH The Padres could be facing a keep-or-release decision on four players they signed last winter to minor league contracts. The four are currently with Triple-A Tucson and have opt-out...

The Sports Xchange By Elliott Smith, The Sports Xchange Amarista plays big part in Padres' 8-4 win BALTIMORE -- At 5 feet 7, Alexi Amarista has the slight build of a utility player, but Wednesday he showed that big things can come in small packages....

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Alexi Amarista is one of the more intriguing players on the Padres. Known affectionately as "Little Ninja" among his teammates, Amarista checks in (optimistically) at 5-foot-5 and 150...

Cabrera delivers big ninth-inning hit for Padres BALTIMORE -- Everth Cabrera has been struggling at the plate recently, but the San Diego shortstop came through at the right time on Tuesday night. Cabrera lined a tiebreaking single to center off...

2B Jason Kipnis hit his fifth home run in the first inning of the first game of Monday's doubleheader. All five of Kipnis' home runs have come in the first inning. He leads the majors in first-inning home runs this season. RHP Trevor Bauer was recalled...

MLB Team Report - Cleveland Indians - INSIDE PITCH At the start of the season, it was generally agreed that Ubaldo Jimenez was the key to the Indians' starting rotation. However Jimenez pitched in 2013, good or bad, it would likely tilt the Indians'...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Clayton Richard threw a three-inning simulated game Saturday afternoon at Tropicana Field just before Burch Smith's bad debut (six runs allowed in one inning plus seven hitters) in...