Royals at Orioles prediction: Odds, expert picks, starting pitchers, betting trends, and stats for May 2  —  It's Friday, May 2 and the Royals (17-15) are in Baltimore to take on the Orioles (12-18).  Michael Wacha is slated to take the mound for Kansas City against Dean Kremer for Baltimore.

Mets-Cardinals game postponed by weather, will be made up in Sunday doubleheader  —  ST. LOUIS — The game between the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets scheduled for Saturday was postponed because of rain and will be made up as part of a split doubleheader Sunday.

Red Sox 1B Triston Casas out for rest of season after rupturing left knee tendon  —  Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas suffered a ruptured tendon in his left knee and is out for the remainder of the season, the team said on Saturday.  The 25-year-old Casas ruptured his patellar tendon running …

Riley Greene homers twice during eight-run ninth inning to lead Tigers to 9-1 win over Angels  —  Riley Greene homered to open the top of the ninth inning and capped an eight-run outburst with a three-run shot to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 9-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night.

Pete Alonso's hot start is a catalyst for NL East-leading Mets  —  ST. LOUIS — In a sport where the most successful players fail in most of their at-bats, Pete Alonso knows perfection is not possible.  But that won't stop him from trying.  —  Alonso hit the go-ahead home run in the Mets' 9-3 win …

Yankees' Clarke Schmidt is scratched from start against Rays and replaced by Ryan Yarbrough  —  NEW YORK — Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt was scratched from Saturday's start against the Tampa Bays Rays because of soreness in his left side and was replaced by Ryan Yarbrough.

How KC Royals flopped (and Witt's streak fizzled) in shutout loss at Baltimore  —  The Kansas City Royals ran into some very good pitching in Friday night's series opener at Baltimore.  —  Orioles right-handed starting pitcher Dean Kremer entered the evening with a 7.04 ERA in six outings.

Yankees' Jazz Chisholm Jr. put on injured list because of strained right oblique  —  NEW YORK — Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. was placed on the 15-day injured list because of a strained right oblique after getting hurt during a swing in a game at the Baltimore Orioles.

MLB made a change that players say shrank the strike zone — and caught them by surprise  —  Last winter, Major League Baseball negotiated a seemingly simple change in how home-plate umpires are graded and evaluated.  But now, a month into the season, its impact on balls and strikes …