Topic: Manager Dusty Baker

Players spilled out of both dugouts before a large on-field melee during the seventh inning of a game between the Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros in Oakland.

Major League Baseball gave Los Angeles Dodgers reliever Joe Kelly an eight-game suspension Wednesday for his role in a benches-clearing incident with the Houston Astros a day earlier.

Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander has disputed a report that he's done for the remainder of the 2020 season with an elbow injury.

Houston Astros star pitcher Justin Verlander resumed throwing as he continues to recover from groin surgery last month.

Houston Astros second baseman Alex Bregman says the team has "one thing" on its mind this off-season: helping manager Dusty Baker get over the hump to win his first World Series.

Rob Mendez, recipient of the Jimmy V Award for Perseverance at the 2019 ESPY Awards, gave the Houston Astros a motivational speech at spring training Wednesday in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Houston Astros star players Jose Altuve and Alex Bregman offered public apologies for their roles in the team's illegal sign-stealing scheme used in 2017 and 2018.

Major League Baseball teams report to spring training this week, with games starting Feb. 21.

Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo was named National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday.

The Nationals have yet to reach the National League Championship Series.

CHICAGO -- Stephen Strasburg threw seven scoreless innings and struck out 12 and Michael A. Taylor hit an eighth-inning grand slam to draw the Washington Nationals even at two games apiece in the National League Division Series with a 5-0 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.

The Boston Red Sox fired manager John Farrell on Wednesday, two days after his team was eliminated from the playoffs.

The Washington Nationals may now start right-hander Stephen Strasburg in Wednesday afternoon's Game 4 of the National League Division Series against the Chicago Cubs.

After being rained out, the Cubs and Nationals will resume their playoff series Wednesday in a potentially clinching game for Chicago.

CHICAGO -- If the Chicago Cubs hope to close out the Washington Nationals in the National League Division Series, they will have to wait a day.