Addison Russell’s walk-off hit in the bottom of the ninth lifted the Cubs to a 2-1 win over the Nationals on Tuesday night.

Next up in the career progression for Madison Bumgarner would be a regular-season award. His work requires no further validations, but the National League Cy Young Award would seem to be completely appropriate.

Brewers center fielder Carlos Gomez was seething in the wake of Tuesday’s 6-3 loss to the Giants from what he viewed as a condescending stare from San Francisco ace Madison Bumgarner during the pair’s showdown in the third inning.

Wilmer Flores hit a walk-off single Tuesday at Citi Field, leading the Mets to a 5-4 win over the Phillies in 10 innings.

Mitch Moreland launched a go-ahead home run off Indians lefty Nick Hagadone in the eighth inning, helping power Texas to a 4-3 victory over Cleveland on Tuesday night. The win marked the seventh in a row for the surging Rangers.

Houston, off to the best start in franchise history, used a solid start from Scott Feldman and two RBIs from Luis Valbuena to record a 4-1 series-evening win over the Orioles Tuesday night.

Kris Bryant has hit his share of long home runs, and added another on Tuesday to tie the game in the eighth inning of the Cubs’ 3-2 win over the Nationals.

There are 11 day games today, but the main event is a nighttime contest involving a pair of transplanted aces.

Former Royals great Mike Sweeney, former big league manager Jack McKeon, Royals bench coach Don Wakamatsu, broadcaster Dave O’Brien, Mets executive Shannon Forde and legendary comedian/actor — and part owner of five Minor League teams — Bill Murray were the inductees in the Irish American Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday night in New York.

The Reds’ season-high nine-game losing streak ended when Skip Schumaker hit a pinch-hit double in the bottom of the ninth for a 2-1 walk-off victory over the Rockies on Tuesday at Great American Ball Park.

There was once a time when Will Venable used his 6-foot-3 frame for good use playing basketball at Princeton. On Tuesday, though, the Padres’ center fielder used it to make an over-the-fence catch, robbing the Angels’ Mike Trout of a two-run home run in the third inning.

Matt Kemp, struggling through a nightmarish month of May, came up big Tuesday night, lining a two-out, bases-clearing double in the 10th inning to lead the Padres to a 4-0 win at Angel Stadium.

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Matt Harvey threw his routine between-starts bullpen session as scheduled on Tuesday, quieting any remaining speculation about his right arm.

Reds ace Johnny Cueto underwent a MRI exam on his right elbow on Tuesday afternoon, according to his agent, Bryce Dixon. The test revealed no tear in the elbow. Cueto’s scheduled start on Sunday against the Indians was skipped because the right-hander felt stiffness in his right elbow. Although he could have pitched, he and the club chose to exercise caution, with Raisel Iglesias stepping in as a replacement.

Three members of the 500 Home Run Club — Ken Griffey Jr., Reggie Jackson and Mike Schmidt — and 20 other former All-Stars will headline the list of team representatives on the floor at MLB Network’s Studio 42 when the 2015 MLB Draft gets underway on June 8.

At the first update in the 2015 Esurance MLB All-Star Game Ballot for the American League, the Royals have five players in position to start the July 14 Midsummer Classic at Great American Ball Park, and another four among the voting leaders. Royals catcher Salvador Perez, an All-Star in each of the last two seasons, leads all AL players in balloting with 1,447,753 total votes.