Dodgers starting pitcher Chad Billingsley had a platelet-rich plasma injection in his injured right elbow Thursday “to try to see if he's able to pitch again this year,” manager Don Mattingly said.

Alfonso Soriano hit a walk-off RBI single with one out in the ninth Thursday to cap a three-run rally and lift the Cubs to a 12-11 win over the Brewers.

Brewers starter Shaun Marcum did little to boost his trade value on Thursday, when he lasted only four innings and exited with cramping in his right calf before the Brewers lost to the Cubs, 12-11 at Wrigley Field.

Manager Mike Matheny said to expect a “couple pitchers and a few position players” to join the Cardinals on Saturday, the first day that clubs can carry more than 25 players on their active rosters.

Nationals manager Davey Johnson said Stephen Strasburg's season is close to coming to an end. Johnson declined to say when that day will be.

It took a little tight-rope action by closer Tom Wilhelmsen in the ninth inning, but Blake Beavan won his sixth game in the last six weeks as the Mariners beat the Twins 5-4 Thursday.

Kyle Kendrick won his fourth straight start on Thursday afternoon, allowing just a pair of solo home runs over 7 2/3 innings in a 3-2 win over the Mets.

If pennant fever — the genuine, September-strain pennant fever — has a perceptible incubation point, in Pittsburgh, it struck at 9:52 p.m. ET Wednesday night.

Taylor Teagarden and Adam Jones homered and starter Zach Britton rebounded from a slow start to strike out a career-high 10 as the Orioles topped the White Sox, 5-3, at Camden Yards on Thursday afternoon.

Charlie Manuel pulled Jimmy Rollins from Thursday's 3-2 victory over the Mets when Rollins did not hustle to first base on an infield popup in the sixth inning.

The Twins placed Denard Span on the 15-day disabled list following Thursday's 5-4 loss to Seattle.

Reserve catcher George Kottaras and second baseman Cliff Pennington fueled a five-run fourth inning that catapulted the A's to a 12-7 win and a four-game sweep of the Indians at Progressive Field.

For his work on stage and screen, his famously average playing career and, most of all, for his entertaining radio broadcasts of Brewers games for the last 40 years, Bob Uecker will be immortalized in bronze outside Miller Park on Friday.

With his new book, “One Last Strike: Fifty Years in Baseball, Ten and a Half Games Back, and One Final Championship Season,” Tony La Russa gives the reader an insight into the Cardinals' amazing 2011 season.

Major League Baseball on Thursday debuted two new ads featuring season highlights paired with music from Bruce Springsteen as part of the “Legends Are Born in October” postseason theme.

Though Jose Reyes won't be repeating as the National League batting champion, his numbers have significantly improved since the All-Star break, even as the Marlins continue to struggle.

Like those who have lived to tell the tale about being struck by lightning, the Braves will not enter this season's final month with the assumption that they will be protected from enduring a crushing late-season collapse for a second straight season.