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Barry Zito allowed five hits in seven innings, combining with Keiichi Yabu and Sergio Romo on a seven-hitter.

Lance Berkman hit a grand slam in an eight-run seventh inning Tuesday night leading the Astros to victory.

Barry Bonds attended celebration thrown by the Giants Saturday honoring the team’s finest outfielders as part of the team’s 50th anniversary in San Francisco.

It has been almost a year since the journeyman pitcher Mike Bacsik gave up Barry Bond’s 756th home run.

The Toronto Blue Jays’ pitcher Roy Halladay scattered seven hits in seven innings in a 7-1 win over the Baltimore Orioles to move the Blue Jays to .500.

Rich Harden struck out 10 in an impressive debut for the Chicago Cubs, who blew a five-run lead in the ninth inning before beating the San Francisco Giants, 8-7.

Aramis Ramírez broke a scoreless tie with a three-run homer in the eighth to lift Chicago against the Giants, and a veteran scout has been linked to a betting probe.

The Mets are on fire and Mike Pelfrey on the mound is making a big difference.

Fernando Tatis’s two-run home run snapped a seventh-inning tie Thursday and ignited a four-run rally that helped the Mets record their sixth straight victory.

The Mets are now only a game and a half behind the first-place Philadelphia Phillies in the National League East.