Jeff Francis

|TV SPORTS| Major League Baseball--New York Mets at Chicago Cubs, 1:10 p.m. (WGN); Boston Red Sox at Minnesota Twins, 7 p.m. (FXSP) Soccer--Spanish Pimera Division, Copa del Ray, Championship, Atletico Madrid at Real Madrid, 2:25 p.m. (ESPN) College...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Colorado Rockies - INSIDE PITCH The Rockies could be faced with a difficult decision if closer Rafael Betancourt ends up on the 15-day disabled list: Who replaces him? Betancourt threw two pitches in the dirt to...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - Colorado Rockies - INSIDE PITCH The Rockies on Sunday completed a 10-game stretch with the Diamondbacks and Giants with seven of those games at Coors Field. Colorado went 6-4, disappointing because it lost the last...

PITTSBURGH — The Cubs have a new tactic, and so far it's working. They have decided to try leading every inning because that's a lot more fun than being behind every inning, as it seemed they were a year ago. One game down, only 161 to go. Yeah,...

With Zack Greinke, the latest big-name pitcher traded, going to the Angels and Francisco Liriano moving to the White Sox, the market for the Cubs' Ryan Dempster and Matt Garza — perhaps even Paul Maholm — has narrowed. So who's still...

Tyler Colvin homered twice off Stephen Strasburg to back a masterful pitching performance by Drew Pomeranz and lead the Colorado Rockies past Washington 5-1 Friday night, ending the Nationals’ four-game winning streak. Colvin hit a solo shot in the...

Gio Gonzalez knew he wasn’t going back to the mound after throwing 102 pitches in 101-degree heat. The game was tied in the middle of the sixth inning, so if Gonzalez was to get his 12th win of the season, the Washington Nationals needed to score...

After nine straight scoreless frames, during which both teams stranded nine runners and the Tribe saw three runners thrown out at the plate, Indians right fielder Alex Presley ripped a triple with one out in the 15th inning before trotting home on a walk-...