Aramis Ramirez collected a career-high five hits Tuesday night, extending his hitting streak to a season-high 12 games, in the Cubs' 5-4 loss to the Braves.

Ichiro Suzuki is still playing by his own set of rules, but he's had a down year, and is on pace, for the first time in his career, to fall shy of 200 hits.

Left-hander Aaron Thompson will make his Major League debut as the Pirates look to earn a split of their four-game series against Shaun Marcum and the Brewers on Thursday afternoon.

Yonder Alonso started at first, homered and hit the game-winning two-run double in the ninth. The series ends with a doubleheader Wednesday.

Anthony Vasquez, making his Major League debut on Tuesday night, received the kind of run support Mariners pitchers can usually only dream of, as Seattle overwhelmed the Indians, 12-7, in the second game of a doubleheader.

Their first win at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington behind them with a double-digit offensive performance on Tuesday, the Red Sox could get another boost at the plate on Wednesday.

Orioles center fielder Adam Jones left Tuesday's 8-1 victory against the Twins after becoming ill just one inning into the contest and was taken to a Twin Cities hospital.

Having dropped the first two games to the Dodgers at Busch Stadium, the Cardinals are hoping Jaime Garcia can quiet the Los Angeles bats in Wednesday's finale. Hiroki Kuroda will try to pitch the Dodgers to a sweep.

Hustle pays. Don't believe it? Check out Tampa Bay's 3-2 win over Detroit on Wednesday night at Tropicana Field. Sean Rodriguez hustled into second base to beat a force out with two down in the 10th, allowing the winning run to score and putting an end to the Tigers' mastery over the Rays this season.

Right-hander Alfredo Simon delivered a superb eight-inning outing and Nolan Reimold's three-run blast in a four-run second paved the way for the O's 8-1 win over the Twins on Tuesday at Target Field.

Skip Schumaker pitched the ninth inning of the Cardinals' 13-2 loss to the Dodgers on Tuesday, striking out two batters and allowing a two-run homer to former teammate Aaron Miles.

Bruce Chen kept the Blue Jays offense in check for 7 2/3 innings and tied a career high with nine strike outs as the Royals took the opening game of a three-game set in Toronto.

A two-run homer by Sean Burroughs — his first since April 30, 2005 — and seven fantastic innings from Ian Kennedy pushed the D-backs past the Nationals, 2-0, on Tuesday night.

Doubleheaders are typically the result of a game that has been washed out by rain. On Wednesday, the Reds and Marlins will play a doubleheader starting at 4:10 p.m. ET — with 20 minutes between games — in order to avert a potential postponement.

D-backs outfielder Justin Upton was removed from Tuesday night's game against the Nationals after he was hit in the left elbow by a pitch. The team said the injury is a contusion, and Upton said he is day to day.

After throwing 6 2/3 innings in Tuesday's 6-5 loss to the A's, Yankees starter Bartolo Colon has logged 131 frames this season. That may not seem like a lot for someone who has eclipsed the 200-innings mark six times in his career, but the workhorse version of Colon is a distant memory.

Casey McGehee capped a seven-run second inning with a two-run homer, Prince Fielder became the first Major Leaguer to top 100 RBIs and Marco Estrada delivered seven quality innings in the Brewers' 11-4 win over the Pirates on Tuesday night.