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WASHINGTON (AP) — Major League Baseball says Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Josh Hader will be required to go through sensitivity training after years-old racist and homophobic tweets of his resurfaced during the All-Star Game. MLB announced […]

Racist, homophobic and misogynistic tweets that Milwaukee Brewers reliever Josh Hader sent in 2011 and 2012 surfaced as he pitched in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game at Nationals Park, turning his appearance into an embarrassing stain […]

WASHINGTON — The 1997 All-Star Game took place in Cleveland, but it was a Puerto Rican party. The tiny island in the Caribbean had an outsized impact on the American League and National League rosters […]

WASHINGTON — A certain sense of deja vu will pervade the start of the 89th All-Star Game on Tuesday night at Nationals Park. Washington right-hander Max Scherzer will oppose Boston left-hander Chris Sale in a […]

The head of baseball’s players’ union has strong concerns about the way the sport is being managed from ownership to the dugout, concerns he expects to be a part of the conversation with Major League […]

Editor’s note: This is the secon din a three-part series on the state of Major League Baseball. Our first part looked at how analytics are changing the game. A story on the future of the […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) The St. Louis Cardinals have fired manager Mike Matheny during his seventh season with the team hovering around .500. The Cardinals announced Matheny’s firing after an 8-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds […]

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins were hoping to add a healthy Byron Buxton back to the starting lineup in the near future but his return will be delayed even further after he suffered a setback […]

BOSTON — Normally the ultimate innings-eater, Rick Porcello didn’t live up to his reputation on Friday night at Fenway Park, not even when the Red Sox gave him a generous offensive cushion early on. Porcello […]

“Regardless of the context, I apologize,” Papa John’s founder John Schnatter said Wednesday. (Timothy D. Easley/AP) The fallout from Papa John’s founder John Schnatter’s admission that he used the n-word continued Thursday, as several MLB […]