Matt Garza held the Royals to five hits and a walk over eight-plus innings in pitching the Rangers to a 3-1 victory on Saturday night. The victory allowed the Rangers to keep pace with the Rays and the Indians in the American League Wild Card race.

Ivan Nova tossed a six-hit shutout while Eduardo Nunez and Alfonso Soriano homered, powering the Yankees to a 6-0 victory over the Giants on Saturday at Yankee Stadium.

After a game in which the Rays tied the Major League record for the number of pitchers used, the bullpen needed a light workload on Saturday. Alex Cobb gave his team that and more, allowing five hits and striking out 12 over 8 1/3 innings in a 5-1 win over the Orioles.

Though Allen Craig continues to show progress as he heals from a foot sprain, the Cardinals are not expecting their first baseman to return to the field before the end of the regular season.

Here’s to the Rays. Nice going, boys. You guys will remember this little 24-hour stretch for a long time. You showed impressive staying power, along with toughness and resilience and a lot of other good stuff. Now for the bad news. As satisfying as these two victories over the Orioles are, they don’t actually win the Rays anything.

Davey Johnson has done pretty much everything in his baseball career as a player and manager. And with his tenure as the Nationals’ skipper winding down, Johnson sat down for a Q&A with MLB.com.

Athletes in the Dominican Republic often don’t have a lot of options at their disposal. But that is something Jose Bautista is hoping to change through his Bautista Family Education Fund.

Miguel Cabrera exploits on the diamond are well-documented, but the Tigers superstar is also picking up recognition for his presence in the community. For the second straight year, he is the Tigers’ nominee for the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award.

The A’s magic number to secure the American League West for a second straight year shriveled to just two in Friday evening’s 11-0 victory over the Twins, in part because they got a little help from their friends, while also doing plenty work of their own.

The O’s pulled ahead in the top of the seventh, but the Rays tied the game in the bottom half of the inning, then won, 5-4, when David DeJesus delivered a walk-off single in the 18th inning on early Saturday morning at Tropicana Field. Baltimore fell to 2 1/2 games back in the Wild Card with the loss.

Robbie Erlin allowed four hits over 7 2/3 innings and Jedd Gyorko hit a historic home run Friday night as the Padres defeated the Dodgers, 2-0, at Petco Park.

Angels starting pitcher Matt Shoemaker was left with a no-decision in his Major League debut, but Chris Iannetta gave the Angels a 3-2 walk-off victory on Friday night at Angel Stadium.

David DeJesus’ single to right field in the bottom of the 18th inning Saturday morning put an end to a 5-4 Rays win against the Orioles that began Friday evening and lasted nearly seven hours.

Lefty Martin Perez fired 5 2/3 strong innings, but Neftali Feliz walked in the go-ahead run in the eighth as the Rangers dropped a 2-1 decision to the Royals on Friday night.

Though the Red Sox completed their goal of winning the American League East on Friday night for the first time since 2007, it could be a while before they know who they will face off against in the AL Division Series.

A go-ahead sacrifice fly from Carlos Beltran gave the Cardinals a 7-6 lead that rookie Carlos Martinez would hold against the host Brewers, expanding St. Louis’ division lead to two games.

Francisco Liriano was not able to celebrate a 17th win Friday night after the Pirates could not protect the three-run lead he walked out on after eight innings. But nobody could take away the left-hander’s 1,000th career strikeout — of Chris Heisey, in the eighth. The same strikeout was the Pirates’ 1,193rd of this season, breaking a 1-year-old club record.