Troy Percival

Not even Mariano Rivera could pitch the Yankees to a win last night. Rivera allowed the first run he had given up all season, that in the 11th inning against the Rays, who walked off 2-1 winners and climbed into......

Hey Yankee fans! After Monday???s 7-1 loss to Tampa Bay (22-16), Chien-Ming Wang will try to get the Yankees (19-20) back on track by snapping the Rays franchise-record 10-game home winning streak. The 28-year-old right-hander is 6-1 on the season......

Pregame chatter Yankees (20-21) at Tampa Bay Rays (23-17), 4:10 p.m. Starters: Ian Kennedy (0-2, 8.37) for the Yankees and Scott Kazmir (1-1, 2.70) for the Rays. Hello, It's Me: Kennedy gets a second chance to make a better impression.......

Carlos Zambrano will fly to Chicago on Thursday to have his right shoulder examined after leaving Wednesday night's game in the seventh inning with shoulder discomfort. As Zambrano left the field during the 5-4 loss to Tampa Bay, the Cubs' season flashed...

Cliff Floyd doesn't care if some think he's crazy for thinking about a World Series matchup that would be too surreal for most rational people to contemplate. Before he homered Tuesday night to help Tampa Bay beat the Cubs, his former team, 3-2 in the...

Paul Sullivan returns from an extended separation from his Tribune e-mail box in a special, Soriano-free edition of Ask Paul. I'm excited to witness that the team has developed, step by step, without a lot of us noticing, a killer instinct they didn't...

IN the big inning, there was Koufax. Baseball cradled in his left hand, his flinty eyes staring down another strikeout victim, he was the quintessential Los Angeles sports superstar of the mid-20th century, a larger-than-life mythic figure to a city...

X-rays on Paul Sullivan's head proved negative, so he's back to answer your questions about the closer conundrum, Dubois' playing time, Z's ejections and the Randall Simon factor in a super-sized edition of Ask Paul. Well, Paul, I never thought I'd say...

Question: What's smaller than small ball? Answer: What the White Sox's offense did Friday night in a 3-2, 11-inning loss to the Detroit Tigers. Small ball was more like atom ball, as the Sox squandered seven hits, 11 walks, a hit batter and two Tigers...

The Angels and closer Troy Percival parted ways today, the second time in five days the team has decided to replace a World Series hero and free agent with a younger and cheaper replacement. Percival, 35, earned $7.5 million last season. The Angels...

The Anaheim Angels have come to expect this kind of production from Vladimir Guerrero and Garret Anderson. Anderson hit a tiebreaking two-run single in the eighth inning and Guerrero had a three-run homer, leading the Anaheim Angels to a 7-5 victory over...

Perhaps the White Sox were tempted to sip champagne on their flight to Dallas after Thursday's night game in Anaheim. What, you don't think the Sox had anything to celebrate after getting drubbed by the Angels 5-1 before 35,056 fans at Edison...