Hideki Matsui

Ichiro didn't get it the first time. After he had been traded by the Mariners earlier in the week, visiting Yankee fans at Safeco Field began their familiar Roll Call. The chants of each player's name by the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium are...

No. 2 Yankees: 29th in a series counting down to spring training. Next: Angels. Can we have a mulligan? That's what Hal Steinbrenner or Randy Levine, the Yankees' president, is believed to have asked either Commissioner Bud Selig or Rob Manfred, Major...

First in a series, counting down to the opening of spring training. First up: the Athletics, No. 30 in Phil Rogers' power rankings. Loved the movie "Moneyball." If you weren't touched by Billy Beane's relationship with his daughter, you don't have a...

One of the biggest misconceptions about the book “Moneyball,” the Michael Lewis bestseller about the low-budget Oakland A’s’ pathway to baseball success, is that it was about the triumph of statistical analysis. Now that the book...

Peter Bourjos' injured right hamstring tightened up after he did agility drills and ran wind sprints, and the Angels center fielder was placed on the 15-day disabled list Friday, retroactive to July 8. Utility player Alexi Amarista was recalled from......

Jered Weaver (12-4) gave up two runs and seven hits in 6 2/3 innings, and the Angels held on for a 4-2 victory over the Oakland Athletics on Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader at the Oakland Coliseum.......

Vernon Wells, who was scratched from the lineup Friday night because of a stomach ailment, is back in left field for the Angels for Game 1 of Saturday's doubleheader against the Oakland Athletics. Wells said he could not keep food......

Angels starter Joel Pineiro retired only one of the 10 batters he faced before he was pulled in the first inning Sunday, giving up eight runs -- seven earned -- and four hits and walking four in a 9-1 loss......

Seldom-used third-string catcher Bobby Wilson will make his first start since June 27 on Sunday when the Angels play the Oakland Athletics in the final game of a four-game series. Right fielder Torii Hunter, who played both games of Saturday's......

Rookie first baseman Mark Trumbo, hitless with four strikeouts in his last eight at-bats, and 20-year-old outfielder Mike Trout, who has two hits in his last 25 at-bats, will be on the bench for the start of the Angels' game......

Manager Mike Scioscia said Monday afternoon that Angels right-hander Joel Pineiro "is like night and day from what we saw the last time we were here." Pineiro better be, or it could be a rough night for him and the......

Jered Weaver will attempt to win his career-high 17th game today when the Angels ace opposes the Oakland Athletics in the finale of a three-game series in the Oakland Coliseum. The Angels enter play three games behind the Texas Rangers in the American...