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Mike Sheets lays out his Baseball Challenge roster and explains his reasoning behind owning each player.

WHAT IT MEANS: They'll frustrate you even when they win, but it beats the alternative. Daniel Murphy reached base all five plate appearances and twice scored on David Wright hits and Jonathon Niese rebounded from a pair of dismal starts as the Met...

WHAT IT MEANS: Sandy Alderson suggested Monday he was unsure "things can devolve any further." Let's just say that proposition might be tested. On Tuesday, the Mets sent Scott Atchison to the disabled list for numbness in his fingers, sent top...

Cardinals 10, Mets 4

WHAT IT MEANS: Rick Ankiel and the pitcher whose glove he borrowed played central roles as the Mets dropped a season-worst seven games under .500. Ankiel, in his Mets debut, charged hard and lunged forward, but had pinch-hitter Ty Wigginton's sink...

Getty Images The Mets face Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright consecutively to close this week's series. METS (14-20, fourth place/NL East) vs. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS (23-13, first place/NL Central) Monday: RHP Jeremy Hefner (0-4, 4.63) vs. RHP Lanc...

Carlos Beltran and Jon Jay drove in two runs apiece, and the St. Louis Cardinals capped an impressive trip with a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.

Matt Holliday and Carlos Beltran homered and Shelby Miller pitched six strong innings to help the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-1 Friday night.

Mauricio Herrera and Ji-Hoon Kim will meet in a 10-round junior welterweight fight on Thursday at the Omega Products International in Corona, Calif., in a special edition of ESPN2's "Friday Night Fights" (10 p.m. ET). Despite dropping his past two...

Danny Garcia, Sergio Martinez and Amir Khan -- the favored fighters in their respective Saturday bouts -- were pushed to the limit in exciting, hard-fought decision victories.

Lance Lynn pitched seven innings of one-run ball to extend his winning streak to nine games and Carlos Beltran homered from both sides of the plate and drove in three runs to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 9-1 win over Pittsburgh on Friday night.

PHILADELPHIA -- Carlos Beltran waited for his turn in batting practice Sunday evening, and talked about his future. Beltran turns 36 on Wednesday, and as he acknowledged, you do start to think about legacy as you get older. Beltran has 2,081 car...

Blog | April 22, 2013

Carlos Beltran wants to secure his legacy, but it doesn't seem like that will happen in St. Louis. Buster Olney looks at what's next for Beltran after 2013.

Blog | Conversation | April 22, 2013

AP Photo/David J. PhillipCarlos Beltran has been getting plenty of positive receptions from teammates recently. Five stats you'll likely hear quite a bit more about on tonight's telecast of the St. Louis Cardinals-Philadelphia Phillies game at 8 p.m...

Lance Lynn threw one-hit ball for seven innings and Carlos Beltran homered for the third straight game to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5-0 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Saturday night.

Carlos Beltran hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth, Adam Wainwright pitched seven solid innings, and the St. Louis Cardinals escaped a ninth-inning jam for a 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday night.