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Nationals use three home runs to halt Angels’ winning streak at three

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Angels pitcher Michael Lorenzen is not a familiar opponent to most American League teams. Prior to this season, he was a hybrid reliever-slash-outfielder for the Cincinnati Reds, a power arm who could throw a strike from the outfield or from the pitcher’s mound.

Tribune News Service

The Mariners’ Offense Is the Key to Ending Their Playoff Drought

Seattle nearly made the postseason last year with an abysmal offense. Now its lineup is raking and still getting better.

Sports Illustrated

Logan Gilbert continues dominant start to season, helps Mariners end skid in Miami

MIAMI — The American League’s best pitcher in April, at least by statistics and likely by MLB award, started off May in similarly dominant fashion while pulling his team from its losing ways.

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Unforced errors in every phase shows Rangers must learn how not to lose before starting to win

ARLINGTON, Texas – The Rangers will be beat often enough this year. Despite their offseason investment, they are still short of much of the American League when the game comes down to talent vs. talent. That is known and accepted.

Tribune News Service

MLB Power Rankings: The Mariners Crack the Top 10

Seattle’s offense has it on the rise, while the White Sox and Braves suffered the steepest declines.

Sports Illustrated

Angels’ Mike Trout marvels at Miguel Cabrera reaching 3,000 hits: ‘It’s incredible’

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mike Trout is in his 11th full big league season. He has won three American League most valuable player awards, eight Silver Slugger awards and made nine All-Star teams, and he’s not even halfway to the milestone Miguel Cabrera reached Saturday, when the Detroit Tigers slugger notched…

Los Angeles Times

Mariners sign shortstop J.P. Crawford to 5-year contract extension

MINNEAPOLIS — When the 2021 season came to an end, Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto called J.P. Crawford to let him know that he was their shortstop of the future regardless of any rumors he might here in the upcoming offseason.

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Angels Star Shohei Ohtani Pictured on TIME Magazine Cover on Opening Day

The reigning American League MVP will have his first career Opening Day start on Thursday.

Sports Illustrated

MLB 2022 predictions: Is the championship heading to Canada this year?

The Dodgers are as dangerous ever but will the Blue Jays emerge from the stacked AL East. Our team of writers have their say

The Guardian - US

Bill Shaikin: Is this the end of the National League as we know it?

LOS ANGELES — Joe Maddon selected an adjective usually applied to a gallon of milk. Then again, for all the romance that surrounds the sport, baseball is a consumer product too.

Los Angeles Times

Angels' Shohei Ohtani is ready for the 2022 season: 'Aim higher and higher'

TEMPE, Ariz. — It took only a few days with his new club for Angels pitcher Noah Syndergaard to grasp the eminence of Shohei Ohtani, the two-way phenom who was a unanimous choice for American League most valuable player last season.

Los Angeles Times

One Big Question for Every American League Team

Let’s take a look at the crucial query for each club in the Junior Circuit.

Sports Illustrated

Yankee catcher Kyle Higashioka once modeled his swing after Josh Donaldson’s, now they are teammates

TAMPA, Fla. — Back in 2015, Kyle Higashioka felt like his offense was going nowhere. The catcher looked at the big leagues to find someone who he could imitate to remodel his swing. The American League MVP that year was a slight infielder who showed incredible power, so Higashioka started…

Tribune News Service

Cubs-White Sox always packs a punch

Since the 1906 World Series, there’s been no shortage of unforgettable moments between crosstown rivals.

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Yankees trading Gary Sanchez, Gio Urshela to Twins for Josh Donaldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa

TAMPA, Fla. — The Yankees landed a much-needed shortstop, a former American League MVP and ended their on-going struggles with catcher Gary Sanchez in one move late Sunday night. The Bombers acquired Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Josh Donaldson from the Twins for Gary Sanchez and Gio Urshela, an industry source confirmed.

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