Alexi Amarista

The Sports Xchange By Forrest Lee, The Sports Xchange Cardinals 10, Padres 2 SAN DIEGO -- Daniel Descalso hit his first grand slam and drove in a career-high five RBIs, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 10-2 rout of the San Diego Padres before 18,...

SAN DIEGO Adam Wainwright, Daniel Descalso and Mike Matheny all recorded firsts at Petco Park on Tuesday night. The first had never won a game here as a pitcher. The second never had hit a grand slam. And the third had been 0-4 here as a manager. All...

The Sports Xchange By Forrest Lee, The Sports Xchange Cardinals feel at home in romp at San Diego SAN DIEGO -- With a large contingent of Cardinals fans roaring its approval, Adam Wainwright briefly thought he was in St. Louis. "That was awesome,"...

MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH With Yasmani Grandal's drug suspension ending May 28 and Nick Hundley contracted through 2014, two other Padres catchers are facing an uncertain future. John Baker is currently Hundley's backup with the...

MLB Team Report - Washington Nationals - INSIDE PITCH Jordan Zimmermann was not able to get his eighth win of the season Saturday, but he remains the hottest starting pitcher in the Nationals' stacked rotation. Zimmermann, still the National League...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH For Tim Stauffer, it's almost like starting over. The Padres promoted the right-hander from Triple-A Tucson on Friday, beating a June 1 deadline when Stauffer could have become a free...

Padres 2, Nationals 1: Yonder Alonso homered and Eric Stults tossed eight strong innings as San Diego edged visiting Washington. Alexi Amarista broke a 1-1 tie in the eighth when he scored from second base on Everth Cabrera’s one-out single to...

The Sports Xchange Padres take advantage of Zimmermann's mistakes SAN DIEGO -- Everth Cabrera was looking for a fastball. Jordan Zimmermann threw him a cutter. "It was more like a slider, a baby cutter," Cabrera said. "But he missed his spot. And I put...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Catcher Yasmani Grandal's 50-game suspension for violating Major League Baseball's policy prohibiting performance-enhancing drugs ends May 28. Grandal will be allowed to start playing...

As if the pitching-thin Angels need another reminder of what might have been, there it is, on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated, New York Mets ace Matt Harvey, the one who got away. The Angels picked Harvey in the third round in 2007 knowing...

The Sports Xchange MLB Team Report - San Diego Padres - INSIDE PITCH Everth Cabrera heard them. High behind the Padres dugout at Camden Yards on Tuesday night was a group of fans wearing Padres caps chanting "Nicaragua, Nicaragua" every time Cabrera...

The Sports Xchange By Forrest Lee, The Sports Xchange Nationals 6, Padres 2 SAN DIEGO -- Stephen Strasburg's first professional outing in his hometown against the San Diego Padres was a success. Adam LaRoche and Bryce Harper homered, and Strasburg...