Mike Arbuckle heard the news as soon as he stepped off the airplane: The Mets' starting lineup for Thursday's game against the Marlins at Citi Field consisted of nine players who had been signed and developed by the organization.

Blue Jays right-hander Dustin McGowan has suffered yet another setback on the road to recovery from a variety of injuries. He will be shut down for the next two weeks because of inflammation.

The job is the same for Tyler Colvin, but the results this year with the Rockies are far more positive than last season with the Cubs.

As victory celebrations go, this one was vintage October. The music was so loud it was deafening, vibrating from one wall of the clubhouse to the other as the giddy Tampa Bay Rays toasted their newest hero and latest win.

Brandon Allen followed up his big walk in Wednesday's game with an even bigger walk-off homer Thursday afternoon against Angels closer Jordan Walden, giving Tampa Bay a 4-3 win — the club's fifth in a row — before a jubilant crowd of 15,417 at Tropicana Field.

The Mets were down, but not out, rallying for two in the ninth to walk off against the Marlins on Kirk Nieuwenhuis' single, securing a three-game sweep at Citi Field with a 3-2 victory Thursday.

The Tigers released veteran infielder Brandon Inge on Thursday, parting ways with one of the last remaining players from their rise from league also-ran to perennial contender. First baseman Brad Eldred has been called up from Triple-A Toledo.

Angel Pagan hit a three-run home run off Cincinnati closer Sean Marshall with one out in the top of the ninth inning Thursday to rally the Giants to a 6-5 victory in the finale of a three-game series against the Reds at Great American Ball Park.

Mike Pelfrey met the media Thursday and announced that he has a “99 percent” chance of undergoing surgery on the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow.

The Royals felt that once they snapped their losing streak, they would string together a comparable stretch of wins. They have made it two straight following their 4-2 triumph over the Indians on a foggy Thursday afternoon at Progressive Field.

He's the shortest and the second-youngest player in the Major Leagues. The numbers Astros second baseman Jose Altuve has put up through the first three weeks of the season, however, are strictly big-boy territory.

When Twins general manager Terry Ryan announced on April 11 that Scott Baker would undergo season-ending elbow surgery, he said starting pitching hadn't been the problem for the club.

All five tools are there, and if this is the year Carlos Gomez gets it, he could be another Carlos Beltran or Carlos Gonzalez.

There was uncertainty surrounding the Braves' rotation entering this season. Yet as the Braves enter April's final weekend with 12 wins in their past 15 games, the only apparent concern in the starting-pitching department focuses on Jair Jurrjens, who was optioned to Triple-A Gwinnett this week.

Orioles lefty Zach Britton, who has been sidelined all season by a left shoulder impingement, will throw the first bullpen session of his rehab Friday in Sarasota, Fla.

Giants third baseman Pablo Sandoval singled to left field leading off the fourth inning Thursday against Cincinnati right-hander Homer Bailey to extend his hitting streak to 19 games, surpassing Johnny Rucker's franchise mark of 18 games set at the start of the 1945 season.

Carlos Marmol heard the here-we-go-again boos Tuesday night at Wrigley Field when he served up a game-tying home run to Matt Holliday. Cubs pitching coach Chris Bosio saw positives.