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PITTSBURGH — Sunday’s game went about as well as a game could go for the Phillies. They won, 8-2, completing a four-game sweep of the Pirates. Aaron Nola pitched another gem, finishing his day at six innings, six hits, one run, one walk and eight strikeouts. Interim manager Rob Thomson…

Hi NL team,

I listened to the first two episodes of Yeh Bhi Theek Hai podcast and, frankly, I found them quite underwhelming. Particularly, the flow of discussion did not feel coherent. In the second episode, the topic of respecting elders was just odd and not interesting at all. This might just be…

As any newcomer from the minors or another major-league club makes his way for the first time from the players’ parking lot to the Cardinals clubhouse, he is enveloped in history and greeted by its expectation.

The Braves are not a sure thing to make the postseason. There’s no such thing as certainty in baseball (though this year’s Yankees may come close). Still, it’s already safe to say the defending World Series champions again will play in the postseason. The Braves won’t have to rely on…

The All-Star break is an abbreviated one for the Giants, who are one of eight teams that open the second half on Thursday, rather than Friday, with a four-game set with the Dodgers. Playing the first games at Dodger Stadium since the midsummer classic, they could use whatever pixie dust…

Even for a win-now, splurge-“Mo”-splurge guy like myself, the idea of the Cardinals trading for Juan Soto is a tough one to back.

LOS ANGELES — A sensation he had around the Cardinals clubhouse a year ago continued this week when Paul Goldschmidt returned to the All-Star Game for the first time in four years. More than his jersey had changed, but it was hard to explain what.

Giancarlo Stanton's two-run homer in the fourth inning of Tuesday night's All-Star Game traveled 457 feet and landed toward the back of the left-field pavilion in Dodger Stadium, not far from where the former Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High star usually sat when he attended Dodgers games as a kid.