Albert Pujols cut off contract negotiations at the start of spring training. His bat was equally silent on opening day. The three-time NL MVP Pujols grounded into a career-worst three double plays while going 0 for 5 in the St. Louis Cardinals’ 5-3, 11-inning loss to the San Diego Padres on Thursday. Read more

The Brewers got off to a powerful start, and the defending NL Central champions had the big finish. One game in, the Reds are at it again. Ramon Hernandez hit a two-out, three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Thursday, rallying Cincinnati to a 7-6 victory over Milwaukee in an opening-day flashback to [...]

A healthy Curtis Granderson helped give the storied New York Yankees their earliest home win ever. Granderson hit a go-ahead homer leading off the seventh inning and Mark Teixeira had a three-run shot off Justin Verlander, lifting New York over the Detroit Tigers 6-3 Thursday in the first March opener in the Bronx. Read more

Coming off major knee surgery, and coming up on his 39th birthday, Chipper Jones came back to baseball in a big way. At the plate in a real game for the first time since August, the Atlanta Braves third baseman doubled for the first hit by anyone in the 2011 season. He legged it out, [...]

Tears streaming from her eyes, Barry Bonds’ former personal shopper became the first and only one of the government’s 23 witnesses at his federal trial to say she saw the all-time home run leader getting an injection from his trainer. Kathy Hoskins was the first eyewitness to testify that Bonds’ personal trainer — Greg Anderson, [...]