Buster Posey drew a bases-loaded walk to break a 13th-inning tie Wednesday and enable the San Francisco Giants to outlast the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4. By capturing the four-hour, 28-minute standoff, the Giants avoided being swept in the three-game series.

Major League home run leader Nolan Arenado’s two-out solo shot in the bottom of the eighth helped the Rockies end a Coors Field losing streak at seven games with a much-needed 8-7 victory over the D-backs on Wednesday afternoon.

To win a game in which you left 17 runners on base, including eight through the first three innings, went 2-for-15 with runners in scoring position and then later went eight consecutive innings without getting a base hit is as unlikely as it gets for the Astros.

The Mets will skip Steven Matz’s next turn in the rotation due to left elbow soreness.

It should be for winning a bet, not losing.

As the losses have piled up and the injuries have mounted, the radical idea of trading Mike Trout has quickly gained momentum outside of Angel Stadium.

Darren Holmes had been down the Mile High Road before. He was a member of the Rockies’ original bullpen, spending two years calling Mile High Stadium home and being part of the group that christened Coors Field by claiming the National League Wild Card berth back in 1995.

Baseball con men.

Just when Maverick Schutte thought he couldn’t experience a bigger thrill than David Ortiz promising him a home run and delivering one against the Yankees, the 6-year-old boy learned otherwise throughout a thrill-filled Wednesday he won’t forget.

Major League Baseball is looking into possible violations of the international signing guidelines by the Red Sox.

The Rangers earned their fourth come-from-behind victory in five games as they rallied to defeat the White Sox, 6-5, on Wednesday afternoon at Globe Life Park. The Rangers took two of three in the series.

“Twenty-five players engaged, prepared and playing hard,” manager Jeff Banister will say. That’s the lesson of this mini-surge in which the Rangers have won five of six games to move five games above .500 for the first time this season at 20-15.

Adam Jones, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo combined for 10 hits, four homers, nine RBIs and seven runs to help lead the Orioles to a 9-2 win over the Twins in the series finale on Wednesday afternoon at Target Field.

Jacoby Ellsbury tested his tight right hip by running the bases at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday afternoon, and while the outfielder is not moving at full speed, the Yankees are hopeful that he will return to the lineup this weekend against the White Sox.

White Sox third baseman Todd Frazier injured himself diving into the stands as he hustled to try to catch a foul ball in the fourth inning of Wednesday’s game against the Rangers.

Not bad, Adam Ricks, not bad at all.

Brett Wallace smacked a three-run homer in a four-run seventh-inning rally to lift the Padres to a 7-4 victory over the Cubs on Wednesday afternoon in the first game of a day-night doubleheader at Wrigley Field, snapping Chicago’s winning streak at eight games.