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ANAHEIM, Calif. — The Major League Baseball world was upended Saturday. That’s what happens when a player of Juan Soto’s caliber is said to be on the trade market.

SAN DIEGO — During my halcyon days, when I gorged on so much halcyon my mom had to remove it from the larder, I loved baseball's All-Star Game.

LOS ANGELES — Pull up to Dodger Stadium on Tuesday and you’ll watch the best baseball players in the world on the same field for Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game. Shohei Ohtani. Aaron Judge. Mookie Betts. Mike Trout.

ARLINGTON, Texas — For two days, J.P. Crawford sat and stewed, staring at his swollen index finger and cursing the baseball gods for letting such annoyance keep him from playing.

Pit the most anemic offensive team in baseball against a future Hall of Famer and the end result is what happened to the Athletics Saturday in a 5-0 road loss to the Houston Astros.

TORONTO — Kansas City Royals rookie slugger Vinnie Pasquantino had blistered baseballs to the warning track multiple times and to different parts of the field in Rogers Centre the previous night. He smoked baseballs, but came away with nothing to show for it.

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw's eight-inning, six-strikeout performance against the Angels on Friday was imperfect, but it was perfect in its excellence and efficiency and the enthralling drama he created on a warm summer night that was made for baseball and generous dashes of the improbable.

How much knowledge do you have about the Midsummer Classic? The results won’t lie.

NEW YORK — To baseball fans across America, the time-honored cry of summer is this: Kill the ump!

NEW YORK — On July 8, 1980, the day of the last All-Star Game played at Dodger Stadium, the No. 1 song in America was Paul McCartney’s “Coming Up.”

As Major League Baseball agreed to pay $185 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the league had violated federal wage laws in compensating minor leaguers, an advocacy group called the settlement a "first step" toward overhauling the minor league pay structure.