Nick Hundley

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...

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...

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 pounds. But the...

Buck Showalter's first glimpse of closer Jim Johnson inside the Orioles clubhouse moments after his remarkable consecutive-save streak came to an sudden end Tuesday night was the sight of Johnson working up a sweat on the exercise bike in the training...

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...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Padres 3, Orioles 2 Padres 3, Orioles 2: Everth Cabrera hit a go-ahead RBI single to cap a come-from-behind rally in the top of the ninth inning as visiting San Diego snapped a three-game slide. The Padres used four singles and...

The Sports Xchange By Jeff Seidel, The Sports Xchange Padres 3, Orioles 2 BALTIMORE -- Everth Cabrera capped a two-run San Diego rally in the top of the ninth inning with a tiebreaking RBI single off Baltimore closer Jim Johnson to give the Padres a 3-...

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...

SportsDirect Inc. Recap: Rays 4, Padres 2 Rays 4, Padres 2: Yunel Escobar knocked in the go-ahead run in the sixth inning and James Loney homered for the second straight day as host Tampa Bay finished a three-game sweep. Loney had a pair of hits to...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Even before the Padres were swept by the Tampa Bay Rays over the weekend in Florida, there were warning signs that their recent run of success -- 11-3 in the 14 games leading into...

RHP Jeremy Hellickson took a no-decision for the third start in a row, though he has led in each of his last five starts. The Rays had a 7-0 lead in his last start before losing 8-7 to Toronto; on Saturday he had a 6-2 lead in the seventh inning only to...

"In high school, report cards came out and our entire infield failed, so I had to go play short. That's a true story." — Vernon Wells, 34, on his last infield appearance before playing third base for the New York Yankees last Wednesday. "You...