Kyle Farnsworth

The NL East-leading Atlanta Braves have acquired outfielder Rick Ankiel, reliever Kyle Farnsworth and cash from the Kansas City Royals in a five-player deal. Atlanta sent pitchers Tim Collins and Jesse Chavez and outfielder Gregor Blanco to Kansas City...

Jeff Francoeur hit a go-ahead solo home run in the ninth inning off Braves closer Billy Wagner and the New York Mets snapped a two-game losing streak with a 3-2 victory over Atlanta on Tuesday night. The Braves have lost three of four and now lead...

AMERICAN LEAGUE CENTRAL CLEVELAND INDIANS (81-81, 3rd) MANAGER: Eric Wedge (7th season) PAYROLL: $80 million X-FACTOR: Matt LaPorta, the key piece in last summer's CC Sabathia deal, could be up early in the year to claim left field. BEST CASE: Carl...

Someday Mark Buehrle will earn the 100th victory of his successful White Sox career. But it already has been six weeks since Buehrle won his last game, an astonishing development that became more curious Tuesday night in a 7-3 loss to the New York...

The White Sox received no firm reward for spoiling Randy Johnson's no-hit bid Wednesday night and coming within 90 feet of wiping out all of a seven-run deficit. But despite a furious comeback, the Sox fell into third place in the American League Central...

Along with all that rainwater Wednesday, the White Sox's sunny statistics and Cell superiority went down the drain. Detroit's 8-6 victory defied all lopsided logic and also dented the Sox's reputation for overcoming any adversity. Talk about overcoming....

The Cubs may be frighteningly dreadful, but at least they probably won't be remembered as one of those ridiculed teams that goes into "one-of-the-worst-ever" categories. Rookie Rich Hill's 4-0 victory over the Reds on Saturday pretty well took care of...

After consulting with his new personal astrologer, Paul Sullivan returns to answer all your questions about the Cubs, their uniforms, their ballpark, their fans, and their brand new set-up man. With the Cubs team getting progressively worse over the...

It's becoming perfectly clear why the Cubs are likely to spend the month of September playing out the string. Poor fielding, a lack of clutch hitting and some old-fashioned bad luck have been recurring factors in their sub-.500 record. One bad throw,...

The clutch hitting that vaulted the White Sox to 57 first-half victories melted away in the Bronx. And it remains to be seen if they can revive that success when they open an important American League Central showdown at first-place Detroit on Tuesday...

Howdie, folks. I'm Stephen Haynes, your friendly neighborhood reporter (we're all neighbors in cyberspace). I'll be your Yankees blogger for the afternoon. Getcha popcorn ready. Yankees (23-25) at Seattle Mariners (18-31), 1:05 p.m. The Yankees beat the...

Neither Kyle Farnsworth nor Andy Pettitte proved able to hold a lead or a tie tonight in Minnesota. Farnsworth gave up the winning run. He has allowed seven earned runs in 7 1/3 innings since May 17th. Pettitte was given......