Matt Maloney

There are times when you should just slow down and smell the roses (I hate coffee). Monday night I wrote in my IronPigs story that only Joe Savery (16 in 2009), Ryan Madson (16 in 2002), Rich Hunter (19 in 1995) and Jay Davisson (16 in 1983) have had...

SEATTLE - Felix Hernandez and Steve Delabar combined on a one-hitter and the Seattle Mariners shut out the Minnesota Twins 7-0 on Saturday. Kyle Seager went 2 for 4 with a homer and four RBIs to pace the Mariners offense. Denard Span had the only...

SARASOTA, Fla. -- One week from Wednesday, the Minnesota Twins' charter leaves for Baltimore, site of the April 6 season opener, marking the end of one of the most important spring camps in recent team history. The Twins are coming off a 99-loss season...

Jason Hammel didn’t begin the scoreboard watching until the end of the sixth inning Sunday afternoon. The right-hander took his seat in the Orioles dugout and thought to himself how quickly his first start of the season was going. He had thrown...

In a back-and-forth Majors Division game, the Orioles scored the winning run in the sixth inning to pull out a 5-4 victory over the Angels in Ocean View Little League action. The Angels pulled into a 4-4 tie after Jacob Hathcock scored, but Nick Daniel...

FORT MYERS, Fla. - In desperate need of a bullpen upgrade, the Twins took a chance on righthander Joel Zumaya, a pitcher blessed with incredible power but cursed with fragility. They began to look forward to games in which Zumaya would enter in the...

CINCINNATI — Dusty Baker had a lot to think about on his flight from California to Arizona to open spring training, managing a Cincinnati team coming off a breakthrough season. The Reds broke their long drought of misery last season, pulling off...

Chicago lost a hefty 200,000 residents in the last decade, most of them African-Americans, while suburban counties grew dramatically in numbers and diversity, according to 2010 census data released Tuesday. People continued to spread out far from the...

TV SPORTS Tennis-French Open, 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Major League Baseball-New York Mets at Chicago Cubs, 7 p.m. (WGN); Seattle Mariners at Minnesota Twins, 7 p.m. (FXSP) NBA Basketball-Playoffs, Chicago Bulls at Miami Heat, 7:30 p.m. (TNT) NHL Hockey-...