Newsday's Tim Healey explains incident with Mets manager Mickey Callaway  —  The Mets have apologized to Newsday's Tim Healey for Sunday's postgame clubhouse incident at Wrigley Field, where Jason Vargas physically threatened Healey and manager Mickey Callaway told the team's PR staff to remove …

Cardinals notebook: Hicks could be headed to injury list  —  Cardinals lefty Andrew Miller's swift work Friday of Angels pinch-hitter Shohei Ohtani and two other batters was less a reset after a bruising outing than a return for the veteran reliever to what's been a steadier run of outs.

Revenge tour: After Eloy Jimenez homered against Cubs, Yoan Moncada homered against Red Sox  —  White Sox Hitters Revenge Tour.  —  Last week, Eloy Jimenez provided the  —  single best image of rebuilding progress to date for the White Sox, smashing a game-winning homer in the ninth inning …

Gabe Kapler Gets Vote Of Confidence  —  It hasn't been a banner year for the Phillies, who've fallen short of expectations after an action-packed winter, but they're not going to assign blame to manager Gabe Kapler.  He's not in danger of losing his job this season, general manager Matt …

After Fan Is Hit by a Cody Bellinger Foul, Dodgers Say They Are Studying Extra Netting  —  LOS ANGELES — A day after a girl was hit by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium, the Los Angeles Dodgers said they were studying how to improve the protective netting.  —  The girl was hit on the head …

Kipnis hits walk-off homer in 10th as Indians edge Royals  —  Jason Kipnis homered leading off the 10th inning as the  —  Cleveland Indians continued their impressive June with a 3-2 win over the  —  Kansas City Royals on Monday night in a game delayed 2 hours, 23 minutes by rain.

Yanks HR in 27th straight to match record, beat Jays 10-8  —  Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton stretched the  —  Yankees' home run streak to a record-tying 27 games, and New York beat the  —  Toronto Blue Jays 10-8 Monday night.  —  Hicks and Stanton each hit three-run drives …

Rangers 3B Cabrera will serve reduced 3-game suspension  —  Asdrubal Cabrera will miss a three-game series at Detroit after the reduction of his four-game suspension from Major League Baseball for hitting an umpire with equipment.  —  The Rangers said Monday that Cabrera would serve …

Astros ace Cole faces former Pirates teammates  —  The desperation was palpable.  The  —  Astros had dropped seven straight entering Sunday's series finale with the  —  New York Yankees and faced the possibility of a winless road trip and the specter of carrying negative vibes back to Houston.

Nationals release struggling reliever Trevor Rosenthal  —  Washington Nationals finally ran out of patience waiting for  —  Trevor Rosenthal to throw strikes following his return from Tommy John surgery.  —  Rosenthal was released by the Nationals on Sunday, less than 24 hours …