Baltimore selected Alexi Casilla’s contract from Norfolk before Saturday’s game in Toronto. The 30-year-old hit .264/.315/.320 in 56 Triple-A games this season, stealing nine bases in 11 attempts while playing second base in 34 games and shortstop in 21 games.

Ryan Zimmerman, who sustained a Grade 3 strain of his right hamstring in July, still doesn’t know what his role will be during the National League Division Series, which starts Friday. At this point in the year, Zimmerman said he can’t only think about himself; he has to think about the team.

Red Sox outfielder Yoenis Cespedes drove in his 100th run in Saturday afternoon’s 10-4 win over the Yankees, reaching the century mark in RBIs for the first time in his three-year career.

As weeks go, this surely has been among the best Commissioner Bud Selig has ever had. In addition to honoring Yankees icon Derek Jeter with the Commissioner’s Historic Achievement Award, Selig had the No. 1 retired in his honor by his hometown Brewers.

Alex Rodriguez’s suspension is set to expire at the conclusion of the regular season, and Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Saturday that the organization has started speaking with Rodriguez about how he wound return to the lineup in 2015.

Adam Jones and Quintin Berry, two outfielders for the 2014 AL East champion Orioles who grew up together in San Diego, were at MLB.com studios on Tuesday to have some fun with the popular R.B.I. Baseball 14 game.

Every lineup, every day, as they are made public by the clubs.

Trout misjudged a ball hit by Kendrys Morales on Friday but his athleticism made up it. He leaped, reached to the other side of his body and hauled in the ball, leaving Morales in shock.

The Royals are headed to the postseason for the first time in 29 seasons after posting a 3-1 victory over the White Sox on Friday night at U.S. Cellular Field.

There once was a time when James Shields’ career looked lost. But thanks the guidance of a big league cousin, the right-hander has built a following in Kansas City and Tampa Bay, and is poised to be one of the biggest free agents of the winter.

The Brewers are retiring uniform No. 1 next season to honor their founder, Allan H. “Bud” Selig, the man who brought big league baseball back to Milwaukee in 1970 and later rose to the top of the game as the ninth Commissioner of Major League Baseball.

It’s time for those traditional Fan Appreciation Weekend salutes at home games around Major League Baseball, and that same spirit extends to MLB.TV Premium as MLB.com announced today that fans can watch all remaining live out-of-market games through Sunday for free.

Thanks to a three-run seventh by the Giants in Thursday’s 9-8 victory over the Giants, Tim Lincecum earned the win, the 100th of his career, by throwing just two pitches.

The Giants scored in each of the first five innings, Pablo Sandoval drove in four runs and the Giants recovered from blowing a six-run lead en route to defeating the Padres, 9-8, inside AT&T Park on Thursday.

The Giants clinched a National League Wild Card spot in the playoffs Thursday by virtue of the Brewers dropping their early afternoon game to the Reds, 5-3. So win or lose, champagne awaited in the clubhouse. A late-inning rally prevented any damper on the festivities, as the Giants knocked off the Padres in a slugfest, 9-8.

The Giants, who have run the table in October two of the past four seasons, are an official National League Wild Card. The Pirates have the Cardinals’ full attention in the NL Central, St. Louis’ lead whittled to one game. The Tigers and Royals both won, Detroit keeping its two-game American League Central lead.

It seemed as though Derek Jeter’s final at-bat had already taken place in the seventh, and that David Robertson would get to close out the Captain’s final game at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. Instead, a two-run homer to Adam Jones and a solo homer to Steve Pearce changed the script.