Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton was replaced in the eighth inning on Saturday due to a sore right foot and ankle. He had an X-ray taken on his foot and ankle, and it came back negative.

In his pursuit to recapture the groove he was in before injuries began to derail him in April, Peter Bourjos was hopeful of playing through a fractured right wrist. On Saturday, the Angels’ center fielder said that the surgery he was hoping to avoid is now a real possibility.

The A’s are a season-best 22 games over .500 and will go to bed Saturday night with the American League West lead intact after their 2-1 victory in a matinee with the Astros at O.co Coliseum.

Top prospect Johnny Hellweg tossed six innings, giving up three runs on four hits, and Logan Schafer came through with a bases-clearing triple in the fourth inning as the Brewers beat the Cubs, 5-3, on Saturday.

Of all the people who telephoned or sent text messages to congratulate Yusmeiro Petit on his spectacular near-perfect game Friday, one well-wisher meant the most to the Giants right-hander: His father, Alberto, who called Saturday from Venezuela.

For the second time in five days, Billy Hamilton entered a game for the Reds and scored the winning run. The speedster raced home on Todd Frazier’s single in the 10th inning for a 4-3 win over the Dodgers on Saturday at Great American Ball Park.

When the soaring blast left his bat, Xander Bogaerts couldn’t immediately soak in the joy of his first Major League home run.

Nationals left fielder Bryce Harper will fly to Washington D.C. on Sunday to visit team physician, Dr. Wiemi Douoguih, about the soreness in his left hip.

Matt Wieters lined a two-run single to right with two outs in the 10th inning to give the Orioles a 4-3 victory over the White Sox on Saturday afternoon at Camden Yards. Chicago had taken a 3-2 lead in the top of the inning when Conor Gillaspie hit a pinch-hit home run off Tommy Hunter (4-3), but the Orioles (76-65) rallied for their third straight win.

A precautionary CT scan on Derek Jeter’s left ankle came back negative after he was removed from Saturday’s 13-9 loss to the Red Sox.

The Blue Jays’ medical staff found a benign tumor in Melky Cabrera’s lower back in August. Thankfully for the veteran left fielder, it has been removed without complications, and he’s expected to make a full recovery.

The Red Sox, who have been playing in peak form of late, had a concerning injury development on Saturday, as center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury flew back to Boston with a boot protecting his right foot.

Joe Morgan has nearly all of the accolades a baseball player could ever dream of receiving. On Saturday, the Hall of Famer became the sixth former Red to be immortalized outside of Great American Ball Park with a statue.

Giants right fielder Hunter Pence acknowledged Friday that he had edged a few steps toward the right-center-field gap to position himself against Eric Chavez, whose pinch-hit single spoiled Yusmeiro Petit’s bid for a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning in San Francisco’s 3-0 triumph over the D-backs.

Yusmeiro Petit retired the first 26 D-backs hitters he faced in Friday’s series opener at AT&T Park, but his perfecto went by the wayside on an Eric Chavez single to right that dropped just in front of Hunter Pence. Petit completed the one-hitter two pitches later for a 3-0 Giants victory.

Josh Donaldson drilled a two-run homer in a 7-5 victory that put Oakland back in front of the AL West by half a game, marking the first time the A’s have held sole custody of first place since Aug. 6.

A gaffe on the bases and one in the field perpetuated the Rays’ West Coast struggles Friday night when the Mariners took a 6-4 win at Safeco Field.