With a single in the fourth inning Saturday, Michael Brantley became the first batter in Cleveland history to have at least 20 stolen bases, 20 home runs, 40 doubles and 200 hits in a single campaign.

Giants right-hander Matt Cain underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right ankle Saturday morning to remove a bone spur, the club announced.

Derek Jeter will put on the Yankees gray road uniform one final time on Sunday morning. He’ll do this because, well, you know why. He’ll go through all the routines one final time, and at some point, it’s sure to hit him that now it is really over.

For more than four months, Scott Baker has been the pitcher called upon when the Rangers had a dire need. That was again the case on Saturday, when Derek Holland was scratched from his final start of 2014 because of a migraine headache.

If Saturday was any indication, right-hander Stephen Strasburg is ready for the National League Division Series. He pitched six shutout innings and helped the Nationals beat the Marlins, 5-1, at Nationals Park.

A monumental decision faced Pirates manager Clint Hurdle following Saturday afternoon’s loss, a decision he was not yet ready to consider.

J.A. Happ was solid over 6 1/3 innings, as he capped a strong second half of the season to help the Blue Jays to a 4-2 victory over the Orioles on Saturday at Rogers Centre.

A reserve-laden lineup loaded the bases in the eighth inning Saturday for Brandon Crawford, whose two-run single was enough to back stellar pitching as the Giants defeated the Padres, 3-1, inside AT&T Park.

To mangle a famous line penned eons ago by a music critic to describe young rocker Bruce Springsteen: I have seen the future of the Boston Red Sox and it is Yoenis Cespedes. The trade that rocked the baseball world and has had such a devastating effect on the A’s offense is set to pay huge dividends for the Red Sox.

With the Cardinals entering Saturday holding a one-game lead over the Pirates in the National League Central, St. Louis got a boost from the Reds, who mustered a come-from-behind 10-6 win on Ramon Santiago’s walk-off grand slam with two out in the 10th inning to defeat Pittsburgh.

Playing in the penultimate game of his career, Derek Jeter went 1-for-2 with an infield single — his 3,464th hit — as the Yankees’ designated hitter before leaving for a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning of Saturday afternoon’s 10-4 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway. Masahiro Tanaka gave up seven runs (five earned) in just 1 2/3 innings.

The Pirates initially overcame a three-run hole dug in the first inning by Francisco Liriano, but that merely set in motion a give-and-take game they ultimately dropped to the Reds, 10-6, on Ramon Santiago’s 10th-inning walk-off grand slam off Bobby LaFromboise.

A scoring change by Major League Baseball giving an error to Felix Hernandez on a dropped bunt in the fifth inning in his last start in Toronto has given the Mariners ace a chance at the American League ERA title.

Yankees captain Derek Jeter went 1-for-2 with an infield single, the 3,464th hit of his career, in Saturday’s 10-4 loss at Fenway Park before exiting for a pinch-hitter in the fifth inning. On the infield hit, Jeter apparently tweaked a hamstring and appeared to be walking with a slight limp as he passed through the clubhouse. When asked if he planned to play Sunday afternoon, Jeter replied, “Yup.”

With a National League Central race still hanging in the balance into the season’s final weekend, Reds manager Bryan Price assured the first-place Cardinals on Friday that his already-eliminated club would not simply lie down in a series vs. the second-place Pirates because some of his regulars were injured.

Yankees manager Joe Girardi confirmed that he addressed the team in a closed-door meeting before Derek Jeter’s final Yankee Stadium game Thursday, expressing disappointment that the team has missed the playoffs for a second consecutive season.

Denard Span put his name in the Nationals record book on Saturday. By collecting two hits, he broke Cristian Guzman’s record for the most multi-hit games (58) in a season. Span also tied Guzman for the most hits in a season (183).