The Athletics took the opener of their four-game series with the Houston Astros, thanks to yet another huge home run from rookie first baseman Nick Kurtz.

He is now 3-2 with a 1.74 earned run average and a 1.13 walks plus hits per innings pitched. He has allowed 23 hits and 12 walks with 39 strikeouts in 31 innings pitched, excellent. The Mets have ...

I tend to view WHIP, or walks plus hits per innings pitched, as my preferred method for gauging pitching quality. Baseball can be both easy and difficult to quantify as some statistics carry a lot ...

Ohtani put the Dodgers on the board first with a leadoff homer off Landen Roupp, who left a 91 mph cutter up high in the strike zone. Roupp caused more trouble for himself in the second inning, ...

Nolan Arenado delivered a pinch-hit RBI double in the ninth inning and the St. Louis Cardinals stifled the Los Angeles ...

and fifth-best walks and hits per inning pitched (1.088). On Thursday, he made his return after a year and a half away. “Sandy was great,” McCullough said. “I mean, you think about ...

Adolis García delivered his his sixth career walk-off hit with an RBI single with two out in the 11th inning to give the ...

Cubs starter Shota Imanaga tossed 69 pitches in four no-run, no-hit innings of ... three hits and one walk on the night Tuesday. Last season, they had four or fewer walks plus hits just four ...

“He used his fastball effectively, stayed on the attack, but I think the main thing was just his secondary pitches ... six hits with three walks and seven strikeouts over four-plus innings ...

Joey Bart was exhausted from squatting behind the plate for 13 innings, but with the bases loaded and a full count, the Pittsburgh Pirates catcher didn’t hesitate to swing for the fences.

Leipsic responded with two runs in the bottom of the third when Nick Schroeder started the rally with an infield single, plus ... 5 hits, 6 strikeouts, 2 walks) pitched the first seven innings ...