Brayan Pena

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chris Davis, Adam Jones and Steve Pearce homered yesterday as the Baltimore Orioles shut out the Minnesota Twins 6-0. Wei-Yin Chen pitched five strong innings for the Orioles before leaving with a strained oblique. Twins starter...

|TODAY| |HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING|  Flandreau Quadrangular |HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS’ BASKETBALL|  Aberdeen Central at Watertown, 7:30 p.m.  Aberdeen Christian vs. Hitchcock-Tulare at Tulare, 6:30 p.m.  Aberdeen Roncalli vs. Mobridge-Pollock at...

|TV SPORTS| |THURSDAY|  Men’s College Basketball — Kentucky at Notre Dame, 6 p.m. (ESPN2); Western Illinois at South Dakota, 7 p.m. (MSN); Marquette at Florida, 8 p.m. (ESPN2).  Women’s College Basketball — Virginia at...

|TV SPORTS| |WEDNESDAY|  Soccer -- UEFA Champions League, Anderlecht vs. AC Milan, 1:30 p.m. Real Madrid at Manchester City, same-day tape, 7 p.m. (FSN).  Men’s College Basketball -- Maui Invitational, fifth place, 4 p.m.; third place, 6:30 p....

Doug Fister set an AL record by striking out nine straight batters and the Detroit Tigers kept their lead in the Central, beating the Kansas City Royals 5-4 Thursday on Alex Avila's grounder in the ninth inning.     The Tigers began the day with a one-...

Yu Darvish retired the first 17 batters, Texas hit five home runs and the Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 8-4 Monday in a game that turned testy. Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz homered on consecutive pitches in the sixth inning. Cruz watched his drive...

MINNEAPOLIS - Heading into his team's day-night doubleheader against Kansas City, one of Ron Gardenhire's top priorities was protecting Minnesota's taxed bullpen. Scott Diamond and Cole De Vries eased their manager's concerns. Diamond began the day...

Trevor Plouffe homered twice, Josh Willingham and Drew Butera had one each and the Minnesota Twins came back from four runs down to take a big lead, then held on to beat the Kansas City Royals 10-8 Sunday. With one run already across in the sixth,...

MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Mauer will be representing the Minnesota Twins at the All-Star Game. Josh Willingham, however, might be the team’s most valuable player at this point. He came through again in the clutch Sunday. Trevor Plouffe homered...

The size of the crowd at Camden Yards on Friday night even surprised Orioles manager Buck Showalter. Some of it could have been attributed to the beginning of the Memorial Day weekend. The postgame fireworks promotion probably brought a few out as well....

Bruce Chen outdueled Francisco Liriano to make a lone run scored in the second inning stand up Tuesday night, giving the Kansas City Royals a 1-0 victory over the Minnesota Twins.     Chen (5-5) allowed four hits without a walk to win for the fifth...

Andrew McCutchen homered and drove in three runs, A.J. Burnett won his fifth consecutive start and the Pittsburgh Pirates finished their first sweep of an AL team in more than a decade by beating the Kansas City Royals 3-2 Sunday. McCutchen hit an RBI...