Though Tim Lincecum hasn’t signed with a Major League club following his pitching showcase in Arizona on Friday, the list of potential destinations for the right-hander appears to be clearing up.

Twins hitting coach Tom Brunansky has a simple explanation for Joe Mauer’s resurgence offensively this year.

Marcus Stroman could not have felt any lower when he tore the ACL in his left knee last spring, but as the Blue Jays right-hander looks backs now, he thinks it might have been a blessing in disguise.

Tiffany Seal got the chance to be an MLB.com correspondent for the day, as she shadowed an MLB.com reporter Wednesday afternoon at Nationals Park.

Wednesday was a reminder why baseball is the best sport on the planet and why we love it. This isn’t the September stretch run. This isn’t the postseason. Doesn’t matter. On Wednesday, baseball gave us one of those days that was spectacularly entertaining. We could use a day or two to wrap our minds around all of it. That is, if we weren’t back at it on Thursday.

Sometimes clubs surge in spite of their stars and not because of them. Running down — all the way down — the list of league leaders in run production, there are some notable names with long track records who find themselves near the bottom of the barrel. And yet their clubs find themselves above .500.

Jim Callis revisits the 2006 and takes a look at what could have happened had things gone differently, including Clayton Kershaw on the Tigers, Evan Longoria with the Rockies, and Tim Lincecum in a different destination than the Giants.

Throwing 119 pitches (96 for strikes) against his former team, the Tigers, Nationals right-hander Max Scherzer tied the Major League record for strikeouts in nine innings. Scherzer’s 20 K’s came while he amassed 27 called strikes and 31 swings and misses. He did not issue a single walk.

Noah Syndergaard became the second pitcher in club history to launch two homers in a game, powering and pitching the Mets to a 4-3 win over the Dodgers Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium.

Jose Quintana is essential to Chicago’s continued success.

Where does a 20-strikeout game rank among baseball’s most impressive individual achievements?

The feats of Manny Machado and Clayton Kershaw look even better when you look at wRC+ and K-BB percentage.

Noah Syndergaard stands seven inches taller than Bartolo Colon and 45 pounds slimmer, if the Mets’ official register is to be believed. He did not earn his nickname, Thor, by mere chance. And so the notion of Syndergaard thwacking balls over fences does not seem as far-fetched as that of Colon doing anything close to what he accomplished with his first career home run Saturday in San Diego.

In a matchup of two pitchers facing their former teams, Max Scherzer outdueled Jordan Zimmermann and put up a record-setting night to guide the Nationals to a 3-2 victory over the Tigers on Wednesday night. Scherzer dominated the Tigers with 20 strikeouts, tying a Major League record in a complete-game victory.

Bryce Harper appealed his one-game suspension and undisclosed fine for his actions following his ninth-inning ejection on Monday night, Major League Baseball announced on Wednesday.

A four-run second inning off starter Matt Shoemaker was all the Cardinals would need Wednesday night as they cruised to a 5-2 win and clinched a series victory over the Angels.

Max Scherzer tied the nine-inning strikeout record on Wednesday, fanning 20 Tigers batters in Washington’s 3-2 win at Nationals Park.