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Byline: Matt Bonesteel The New York Yankees were scheduled to open their home schedule on Monday at 1:05 p.m. Eastern against the Tampa Bay Rays. Yeah, about that Ǫ At [...]

Byline: Jorge Castillo The Washington Nationals boarded a flight Wednesday afternoon for Cincinnati, where they were slated to begin their season Thursday at Great American Ball Park against the Reds. [...]

Byline: J Walker Glascock Major League Baseball is considering a series of rule changes beginning in 2018 designed to accelerate game play, commissioner Rob Manfred announced at a press conference [...]

The All-Star Game will no longer determine home-field advantage in the World Series. Instead, the team with the better regular-season record will receive the extra home game. The change was [...]

Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night has been moved up an hour, to 7:08 p.m. Eastern, because of the threat of rain in Cleveland. Forecasters are calling [...]

The Chicago Cubs will start Jon Lester, who pitched eight sparkling innings in their playoff opener, in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series. The rest of their rotation [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports Major League Baseball, alarmed by the game's lack of action this season, is considering making the most radical changes to the game in [...]

Byline: Barry Svrluga Major League Baseball announced Tuesday the rosters for next week's All-Star Game in San Diego. The rosters consist of 17 starters voted in by fans - eight [...]

The pomp, circumstance and great expectations that typically accompany the Yankees on opening day were all in order for Monday. Or perhaps Tuesday. With rain expected to fall throughout the [...]

For his historic trip to Cuba, President Obama took two guests sure to make a strong connection with baseball-crazed fans on the island: Rachel Robinson, the widow of Jackie Robinson, [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes CHICAGO -- The Nationals knew one thing for certain after their 2-1 loss to the Cubs on Monday evening. They must win Game 4 on Tuesday to [...]

Byline: Scott Allen The Dodgers and Padres could play a regular-season series in Mexico City next year, Major League Players Association chief Tony Clark told the Los Angeles Times on [...]

Byline: Dan Stillman Nationals vs. Cubs 7:05 p.m., Wednesday, June 28, Nationals Park [How the Nationals make high-pressure weather decisions] First pitch: Mostly sunny, mid- to upper 70s. 9th inning: [...]

Byline: Ian Livingston Nationals vs. Padres 4:05 p.m., Saturday, May 27, Nationals Park [How the Nationals make high-pressure weather decisions] First pitch: Variably cloudy. Shower possible. Low-to-mid 70s. 9th inning: [...]

Byline: Chelsea Janes With thunderstorms due Thursday night, the Washington Nationals decided to move their series finale with the Seattle Mariners to 12:05 p.m., a somewhat surprising move, though an [...]

Byline: Dan Stillman Nationals vs. Mariners 7:05 p.m., Wednesday, May 24, Nationals Park [How the Nationals make high-pressure weather decisions] First pitch: Slight chance of a shower, mid-60s. 9th inning: [...]

Byline: Scott Allen The Chicago Cubs might want to find a new weather app before the Milwaukee Brewers return to Wrigley Field for a makeup game on July 6. Perhaps [...]

Byline: Ian Livingston Nationals vs. Phillies 7:05 p.m., Saturday, May 13, Nationals Park [How the Nationals make high-pressure weather decisions] First pitch: Variably cloudy. Slight shower chance. Near 60. 9th [...]

Byline: Tim Carman Opening Day at Nationals Park on Monday was, in a word, painful. It was hard on your feet as you stood in line. On your patience as [...]

After Yoenis Cespedes won the Home Run Derby at the 2013 All-Star Game, he was given the opportunity to direct a charitable donation to an organization of his choosing. Cespedes [...]

Yasiel Puig, a Dodgers outfielder who defected from Cuba in 2012, will join a good-will tour of Cuba next week. The trip, sponsored by Major League Baseball and the players' [...]

Joe Torre and Dave Winfield will be leading a baseball goodwill tour of Cuba this month. Major League Baseball and the Players Association said Thursday the trip, which is set [...]

WASHINGTON -- Getting from Cuba to the big leagues has never just been about 450-foot home runs and 100-mile-an-hour fastballs. When the Mets' slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes decided in 2011 [...]

Until the regular season ended Sunday, the Yankees did not know which team they would face in Tuesday night's wild-card game, or even if they would play at home. But [...]

Three games with playoff implications were rained out on Tuesday night. A game in Baltimore between the Blue Jays and the Orioles will be made up as part of a [...]

Before every series, Mets Manager Terry Collins receives a three-ring binder full of scouting reports, charts and numbers. Collins combs through the information, wearing his glasses, highlighting things as he [...]

Byline: Bob Nightengale, bnighten@usatoday.com, USA TODAY Sports It could be baseball's most drastic scheduling change in more than half a century. It likely would assure that no one would ever [...]

The Baltimore Orioles' scheduled home game against the Chicago White Sox on Monday night was postponed because of safety concerns regarding riots that broke out near Camden Yards after the [...]

Major League Baseball continues to highlight its intention to play at least one exhibition game in Cuba, bringing the game to the homeland of some of the league's best players. [...]

Byline: Dan Roth Hurricane Matthew has altered the trajectory of the first pitch in Friday's National League Division Series opener between the Washington Nationals and Dodgers. No longer will fans [...]

Byline: Jake Russell Ever since the franchise formerly known as the Montreal Expos left for Washington, D.C., fans of the red, white and blue have clamored for Major League Baseball [...]

Byline: Matt Bonesteel In the wake of last week's news that a man in Puerto Rico died after suffering a rare immune reaction to a Zika virus infection, Yahoo's Jeff [...]