Masahiro Tanaka finally gets first win but doesn't look like Yankees ace yet  —  Baby steps for Masahiro Tanaka.  —  The Yankees righthander showed incremental improvement in Friday night's 4-3 victory over the Cardinals at the Stadium, the Bombers' fifth in a row and fourth straight at home.

Uno, dos, tres, Garcias!  White Sox OF filled with Garcias  —  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) If Chicago White Sox manager Rick Renteria wants to get Garcia's attention in the outfield on Friday night against Minnesota, he is going to have to be more specific.  —  Renteria put together a lineup …

Christie bashes ‘liar’ Eli Manning: ‘He got caught’  —  TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie ripped into “the liar Eli Manning” and the New York Giants during a radio appearance Friday morning, a day after a report revealed Manning turned over a possibly incriminating email in a lawsuit alleging …

HEART OF A RAVEN  —  Mary Reuland still remembers the day almost 20 years ago that her son Konrad came home from school after meeting Hall of Fame baseball player Rod Carew.Konrad, who was 11 at the time, couldn't stop talking about it.  “'You know I met Rod Carew!'”  Mary recalls him saying over and over again.

Giants' Crawford out of lineup after sister-in-law's death  —  Shortstop Brandon Crawford has flown back from Los Angeles and will be at AT&T Park for Thursday night's game against the Rockies, but he will not be in the lineup.  —  The Giants said only that Crawford left for a family emergency …

Joe Jimenez good, but Detroit Tigers have needs  —  Free Press sports writers Anthony Fenech and Jeff Seidel discuss the Joe Jimenez demotion, the Tigers' bullpen and more after the 11-5 loss to the Twins on Thursday, April 13, 2017.  Video by the DFP.  —  CONNECT  —  The Detroit Tigers have played nine games.

Realmuto's RBI double in 9th helps Marlins beat Mets 3-2  —  MIAMI (AP) — J.T. Realmuto hit a game-ending RBI double with two out in the ninth inning, and the Miami Marlins snapped the New York Mets' five-game win streak with a 3-2 victory on Friday night.  —  The Marlins avoided extra innings …

Freese, Cole help Pirates hold off Cubs 4-2, end 4-game skid  —  CHICAGO (AP) — David Freese and Francisco Cervelli each drove in two runs to back Gerritt Cole, and the Pittsburgh Pirates held off the Chicago Cubs 4-2 Friday to end a four-game skid.  —  The Cubs loaded the bases with two outs …

Running With Abandon  —  The Phillies and Nationals go to the tenth inning tied at two.  Still tied in the bottom of the 10th, Bryce Harper leads off with a single, a line drive hit so hard, none of the shifted players had time to get to it.  Daniel Murphy comes up and takes drives the ball the other way.

Minor MLB Transactions: 4/14/17  —  Here are the day's minor moves from around the league...  - Righty Casey Fien has accepted a Triple-A assignment with the Mariners after clearing outright waivers, as Bob Dutton and TJ Cotterill of the Tacoma News Tribune report (Twitter links).