Shea Hillenbrand

Immediately after finishing off the game of his life, Carlos Zambrano got down on one knee and thrust his arms toward the sky. The emotional right-hander threw the Cubs' first no-hitter in 36 years Sunday night, a 5-0 win over Houston at Miller Park in...

After responding Sunday to manager Ozzie Guillen's message with a 7-5 victory over the Blue Jays, the White Sox moved on to their next challenge. Monday they return to American League Central play against a Cleveland team trying to climb out of a rut...

The Cubs have to be wondering about those so-called Friendly Confines. Fresh off a road trip to the West Coast that featured a 6-1 record, 84 hits and 38 runs, the Cubs came home Monday and scratched out seven hits in a 4-1 loss to Toronto. So the...

Manager Ozzie Guillen reached a boiling point with the White Sox's lack of fundamentals on offense Saturday well before reliever Jeff Nelson surrendered a home run to Shea Hillenbrand with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning to give the Blue Jays a...

Orlando Hernandez dug himself into a first-inning hole Wednesday night, but the White Sox's inability to hit with runners in scoring position made their 4-3 loss to Toronto more frustrating. Six times the Sox put a runner in scoring position but didn't...

Javier Vazquez's sudden meltdown Saturday night became a fifth inning of fury for the White Sox. They saw a four-run lead quickly dissolve and eventually lead to the ejections of manager Ozzie Guillen and pitching coach Don Cooper in a bizarre 8-4 loss...

The immutable law of averages, which seemed to favor the Cubs in Friday's marathon 14-inning victory over Arizona, came back to pay its respects to the visiting Diamondbacks on Saturday. "As good as I felt [Friday] night, I feel just as bad today,"...

Damaso Marte put on quite a show Tuesday. And it came hours before the game's first pitch. The left-handed White Sox reliever moon-walked to Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean," drawing high-fives from teammates D'Angelo Jimenez and Miguel Olivo. Third-base...

Jose Valentin joked that the White Sox should be permitted to cork their bats, given the team's .241 average entering Wednesday night's game. As if that would be enough for a team that had been averaging 2.6 runs over its last five games. "This is the...

It may have been 102 degrees Friday night outside Bank One Ballpark, but Carlos Zambrano definitely was the hottest man in Phoenix. Zambrano came within four outs of throwing a no-hitter in the Cubs' 4-1 win over Arizona before a controversial call...

Derek Lowe's sinker was so effective Monday night the White Sox's lineup looked like it was hitting in super slow motion. Lowe dominated the White Sox for eight innings in Boston's 9-0 victory at Fenway Park, taming the league's second-ranked offense. A...

The 2003 salaries for the 827 major league baseball players on opening day rosters and disabled lists. Figures were obtained by The Associated Press from management and player sources and include salaries and pro-rated shares of signing bonuses and...