To the Porter Elementary School neighbors, its students are sorry about Friday’s ruckus. But when real, live baseball players appear on your campus, that’s a reason to hoot and holler. “I’ve never met a Padre,” said Jade Rodriguez, an excited 10-year-old.

John Jaso doesn’t hide how he’s feeling at the plate. When he was off a few weeks ago, he said he wasn’t seeing the ball well. Asked how things were going after a three-hit game Thursday night, Jaso was characteristically honest.

Matt Harvey will make his next scheduled start despite his recent struggles, Mets manager Terry Collins said, though the team may have him pitch one day earlier than his scheduled turn.

Among all the big names on the cruising Cubs, the name that never really gets talked about is the former Rule 5 pick who has quietly been having a dominant season at the back of the bullpen: Hector Rondon, who has allowed two earned runs all year.

It took the Yankees into the early evening hours — specifically until there were two out in the bottom of the ninth inning — to head off the Yankee Stadium field with a 10 to 9 victory over the hapless St. Louis Browns and take two of the three games in the series.

The Rangers and the City of Arlington have reached an agreement for a new state-of-the-art ballpark to be opened by 2021.

As they say in the movie, it’s not heaven. And it’s not Cooperstown, either. But Iowa will have its unique connection to baseball expanded next week, when Commissioner Rob Manfred visits a famous farm to promote one Hall of a tour.

Angels center fielder Mike Trout plays the game of baseball well. More than that, he plays it hard.

Within the next few weeks, clubs will really begin to wheel and deal. And while a trade or two will certainly catch the baseball community by surprise, the following 10 men have played well enough to improve their values in the eyes of potential buyers.

White Sox left-hander Chris Sale won his ninth straight start with a complete game as he outdueled Astros right-hander Collin McHugh in a 2-1 win on Thursday night at U.S. Cellular Field.

After squandering a four-run lead, the Cardinals utilized a six-run fourth and a six-RBI night from Matt Carpenter to put away the Rockies and seal a series win with a 13-7 victory on Thursday night at Busch Stadium.

Forty games into the season, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle likes what he’s seen from Andrew McCutchen as a No. 2 hitter. He’s been even more impressed by McCutchen’s defense.

A’s right fielder Josh Reddick left Thursday night’s 4-1 loss to the Yankees after the seventh inning with a fractured left thumb.

Rockies rookie shortstop Trevor Story is no longer subject of tongue-in-cheek calculations about how many home runs he’s on pace to hit. He was the baseball world’s flavor of last month. Nonetheless, he’s still pleasing the Rockies.

Left-hander Jeff Locke threw seven strong innings, Gregory Polanco led another complete performance by the Pirates lineup and the Bucs beat the Braves, 8-2, on Thursday night to clinch a victory in their four-game series at PNC Park.

On Tuesday night, the Padres were contemplating getting tests done on Jon Jay’s sore shoulder, and a stint on the disabled list for the center fielder seemed very possible. For a club struggling in the on-base department, the prospect of losing its leadoff man was not pretty.

Though the deficiencies of the Cardinals’ cleanup hitters had been somewhat masked by the team’s overall offensive success, the four-hole in the lineup had become a black hole that manager Mike Matheny concluded he could no longer ignore on Thursday.