Kevin Millwood

It’s one of those baseball statistics that’s hard to believe. I checked it a couple times to make sure I hadn’t missed anyone. And I really believe I haven’t. According to baseball-reference.com, there are 44 active major...

The World Baseball Classic is coming back next spring, and it's time for the U.S. to remember who invented the game. While the chance to play against the best players in the world is a huge deal for the competitors and fans in places like Japan, Korea,...

With several American League East opponents on the spring schedule, Orioles manager Buck Showalter has chosen to pitch some of his starters in minor league games at Twin Lakes Park. Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen got his work in during a Class-A game Monday....

It was almost as if White Sox manager Robin Ventura wasn't sure how he should feel after Sunday's bizarre 4-3, seven-inning, rain-shortened victory over the Mariners. He didn't show the joy of a manager whose team had just completed only its seventh...

Kevin Millwood pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Jesus Montero hit a two-run homer and the Seattle Mariners beat the Kansas City Royals 4-3 on Saturday. Millwood (4-8) gave up one unearned run and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. He struck out...

Admittedly, Chris Davis is not really a fan of being a designated hitter. But he is a fan of playing regularly. And now that Jim Thome is on the shelf for roughly a month, Davis is back at DH, and he's getting used to it. In the 10 games that Thome has...

As the Orioles' improbable run of success continues this year, as this upstart, patchwork club keeps churning out victories, the comparisons to the Orioles' 1989 “Why Not?” season become inevitable. On Wednesday night, in a 9-2 clubbing of...

A Mariners team desperate for a clutch hit got a big one from Casper Wells on Monday night, as the center fielder ripped a three-run double in the seventh inning to lift Seattle to a 6-3 win over the Orioles. The Mariners had scored just nine runs in the...

It wasn't supposed to be like this. The Mariners limped into Denver at the end of a long, unwinding road trip with one win to show for their last 13 away games. They faced a Rockies club that has always been dominant at Coors Field, but was damaged from...

Frustration in the Mariners clubhouse was as thick as the muggy air on a 93-degree night at Rangers Ballpark on Monday after Seattle lost its fifth straight game, this time a 4-2 decision to Texas. Lack of offensive progress, compounded by a critical...

Chris Sale had just finished explaining his fourth straight victory — this one a complete-game 4-2 manhandling of the Mariners on Sunday — when he was asked if he knew he had won the American League Pitcher of the Month Award for May. "I do...

The Mariners needed Kevin Millwood to give them some innings Sunday in the wake of a bullpen-draining 12-inning victory the night before. Unfortunately, no sale. Or more to the point, Chris Sale, as the White Sox's young ace was the one delivering the...