Barring a setback, outfielder Andres Torres is scheduled to join the Mets on Sunday evening in Houston, after more than three weeks on the disabled list with a strained left calf.

The Rays have drawn 175,613 fans (29,269 per game) through their first six home games this season, their highest total through six games at Tropicana Field since the inaugural 1998 season.

The Rays are expected to sign former World Series MVP Hideki Matsui to a Minor League deal. It just hasn't come to fruition yet.

Dontrelle Willis filed a grievance Tuesday afternoon against the Orioles. He left the team's Triple-A Norfolk affiliate without the organization's permission after being placed on the Minor League restricted list.

With the team struggling around them, outfielder Jason Bay and pitcher Mike Pelfrey have been two of the Mets' most successful performers over the last two weeks. Now, both are injured, tenants of the disabled list and unlikely to return anytime soon.

Tim Lincecum got his first win of the season in the first game of Monday's doubleheader at New York. He went five innings, striking out eight while allowing just one run on four hits in the 6-1 victory.

Mike Carp, who's been rehabbing a sprained right shoulder with Tacoma, was a late scratch from that team's lineup on Monday. Manager Eric Wedge said on Tuesday that it was Carp who approached the coaching staff and asked for the night off.

Derek Lowe is hoping to have a chance to earn a World Series ring this year with the Indians. In the meantime, the veteran pitcher will settle for recovering the ring and trophy he captured as a member of the Red Sox.

Thanks to a new rule allowing rosters to expand to 26 players for doubleheaders, the Pirates and Rockies will be the first two teams to ever implement the rule.

Rockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa, completing his recovery from Tommy John surgery on his left elbow, will make his first extended spring appearance on Friday against the Athletics.

The Reds on Tuesday placed left-handed reliever Bill Bray on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left groin and recalled right-handed reliever J.J. Hoover from Triple-A Louisville.

It wasn't how the Reds drew up the plans over the winter, but Sean Marshall has assimilated well to the closer's role.

Doug Fister appears to be ready to throw again as he recovers an injury to his left rib cage, but the timetable for him to throw off a mound again, or start a rehab assignment, remains unclear.

As a tour guide, Logan Morrison is a great Major League Baseball player. He came to New York for the Marlins' series starting Tuesday night against the Mets, and the first player to visit the MLB Fan Cave a second season treated fans to a ride on a tour bus with him.

Defense attorney Rusty Hardin presented an opening statement Tuesday that portrayed the federal perjury trial of Roger Clemens as a “tale of two men” — namely, his client and Clemens' former strength and conditioning trainer, Brian McNamee.

From among 14,000 participants, Robert Portilla was selected as the winner of a contest on the Giants' website. He received a weekend trip to New York City to see his Giants play a series against the Mets and a visit to the MLB Fan Cave.

The Phillies hope Ryan Howard can resume baseball activities next week. They hope an MRI on Hunter Pence's left shoulder shows nothing wrong at all.