Detroit Tigers reliever Joel Zumaya is gone for the rest of the season with a fractured right elbow. The team said Tuesday that the hard-throwing Zumaya fractured his right olecranon, which is the bony tip of the elbow right under the skin. The injury was diagnosed Tuesday, one day after the injury left him writhing [...]

Stephen Strasburg said he “kind of battled myself” through the most difficult of his five big league starts. It was too much for the rookie that he also was battling the first-place Atlanta Braves. The Braves scored four runs in the seventh inning against the Washington Nationals’ star rookie, and Tim Hudson threw seven scoreless [...]

Carlos Zambrano will be placed on the restricted list and the Chicago Cubs expect to be without the hot-tempered pitcher until at least the All-Star break. Zambrano has been suspended by the team without pay for the past three games, after he threw a tirade in the dugout Friday that led to a verbal confrontation [...]

AP – Some of the suspected spies arrested in the United States are Russian citizens, Russia’s Foreign Ministry acknowledged Tuesday, but it insisted they did nothing to hurt U.S. interests. Read more

AP – Dozens of masked youths clashed with police at a union protest Tuesday in Athens during the country’s fifth general strike this year against the cash-strapped government’s planned pension and labor reforms. Read more