The St. Louis Cardinals (55-55) are headed to Petco Park on Sunday where they will compete against the San Diego Padres (60-49). The line on this contest has the Cardinals at +172 and the Padres open ...

Daingerfield outfielder Jayden Mitchell earned second-team honors to head up the list of East Texas players named to the Blue ...

Kochanowicz, for example, has a 6.44 earned-run average over his last eight starts and has only struck out 61 batters in 86 innings while opponents have hit .289 against him this season.

On the mound, Ellsworth was 4-2 with a 1.13 earned run average with 53 strikeouts and a .214 batting average against. At the plate, he batted .308 with 15 rbis as Algonquin finished 15-6.

Among White Sox pitchers with 10 or more starts, the rookie right-hander had the best strikeout-per-nine inning rate (8.2), as well as the lowest earned-run average (3.38) entering the game.

Houston entered Thursday fifth in team earned run average (3.43) and first in strikeouts per nine innings (10). As strong as the unit has been, its sweep of the Phillies was its masterpiece.