Author: Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY

For the next five weeks, the AL East may very well play host to a compelling four-team jamboree, with teams vying for division and wild card.

Perhaps receiving a boost from their superstitious practices, the Orioles rallied to defeat the Angels and snap their 19-game losing streak.

Owners will aim to suppress salaries as much as possible. Players are distrustful and bent on regaining lost ground.

While the wild-card race will be a drawn-out and bare-knuckled affair, the Blue Jays are at long last enjoying comfort, and kinship.

In the two-plus weeks since Major League Baseball’s trade deadline, buyers and sellers have gone on to assume clear-cut roles.

Lewis Brinson hopes that a Rockies fan is not inappropriately castigated after hearing that fan might have shouted the mascot name rather than a slur.

The Rockies said Monday that the fan was shouting to get the attention of the club’s mascot, Dinger, rather than an offensive epithet.

The Rockies are investigating an incident during their game Sunday in which an unidentified fan directed racial slurs at the Marlins’ Lewis Brinson.

Anthony Rizzo, who chose not to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, tested positive for the coronavirus, New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Sunday.