Alan Solomon

The home-road stats on Rick Wilkins are something: .371 through 42 road games after going 3 for 4 Monday night, .235 in 52 games at home. More revealing than that,...

Charlie Hough, who has an interesting perspective on life in general, figured to have an interesting perspective on the Robin Ventura-Nolan Ryan meeting at the mound, having played with both....

Mike Morgan, for the first time in weeks, threw between starts Saturday despite lingering physical problems, particularly in the lower back. The problem isn't a disc, but that doesn't diminish...

Jim Lefebvre doesn't like what's going on. "We're starting to see it not only here but all over the place," the Cubs manager said of the baseball fighting that has...

In the first three games of this four-game series, there have been nine ejections. Six (including manager Jim Leyland twice) have been Pirates. Only three players have actually been hit...

It was expected after Monday's hit batters and brushbacks that the umpires would issue official warnings before Tuesday's game. They didn't. "Both teams are pretty professional about the whole thing,"...

Pittsburgh manager Jim Leyland said he had no problem with the ejections of pitchers Bob Scanlan and Blas Minor in the aftermath of Monday's unpleasantness in the bottom of the...

When a team still alive unloads an important part to a contender, what's the message for the team that traded him away? In other words: Did the remaining Cubs feel...

The look in Shawn Boskie's eyes is different these days, and it goes beyond "confident" or "focused." Defiant, maybe, yet without anger. "This organization's been the best," Boskie said of...

Steve Buechele, noting Ken Griffey Jr.'s streak, was with the Rangers in 1987 when they stopped Don Mattingly from hitting a home run in his ninth straight game. Mattingly had...