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The top six National League OPS leaders are as follows: 2011 NL MVP runner-up Matt Kemp, a rebounded David Wright, upstart 29-year-old Bryan LaHair, 2011 NL MVP Ryan Braun, 2010 NL MVP winner Joey Votto, and six-time All-Star Carlos Beltran. Certain...

AJ Mass has his latest Top 100 points league rankings and warns about the dangers of really small sample sizes.

Scott Rovak/US PresswireCarlos Beltran is one of the reasons the Cardinals lead the National League Central this season.(The Los Angeles Dodgers host the St. Louis Cardinals, Sunday at 8 ET on ESPN) The post-Albert Pujols era is in its first seaso...

Eric Karabell discusses the most fantasy-relevant tidbits from Wednesday's games and wonders why Chase Headley is on the most-dropped list.

Blog | Conversation | May 17, 2012

Carlos Ruiz hit a tiebreaking solo homer in the eighth inning and the Philadelphia Phillies used Hector Luna's first career grand slam to pull away for a 9-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday night.

OK, let's be brutally honest here about Jon Lester's complete game 6-1 victory on Monday night: It came against the Seattle Mariners. A lot of pitchers look pretty good against Seattle. Nonetheless, it was Boston's first nine-inning complete game ...

Associated Press/Getty Images The Mets face Yovani Gallardo and Zack Greinke during a two-game miniseries at Citi Field. METS (19-15, third place/NL East) vs. MILWAUKEE BREWERS (15-19, fourth place/NL Central) Monday: RHP Miguel Batista (0-1, 5....

Carlos Ruiz went 3-for-3 with a homer and three RBIs and John Mayberry Jr. homered and drove in three runs to lead the Philadelphia Phillies to a 7-3 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday night.

US Presswire/Getty Images The Mets face (l to r) Roy Halladay, Joe Blanton and Cliff Lee in Philly this week. METS (15-13, third place/NL East) vs. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES (14-15, fifth place/NL East) Monday: LHP Jon Niese (2-1, 4.08) vs. RHP Roy ...

Roy Halladay allowed eight earned runs and 12 hits in six or fewer innings for just the fourth time in 358 career starts, but the history books were rewritten hours after he left the game. Since the Philadelphia Phillies rallied to force extra inn...

Baseball is awesome. Did we need to say anything else? Do we need to hire Terry Cashman to write a ballad about this day? Do we need to pen epic poems about Chipper Jones and Jered Weaver and Bryce Harper and the intentional walk? Man, I need to c...

PHILADELPHIA -- Randy Wells' night got away in the fourth inning when he faced eight batters, but there was one he just couldn't get out of his mind. It wasn't the two-run single from Carlos Ruiz that wiped away the Cubs' early lead. Nor was in t...

Carlos Ruiz homered and drove in three runs, Joe Blanton threw 7 1/3 sharp innings and the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs 5-2 on Saturday night.

Roy Halladay outlasted Tim Lincecum in a matchup of two-time Cy Young Award winners, leading the Philadelphia Phillies past the San Francisco Giants 5-2 on Monday night.

Roy Halladay allowed just two hits in eight innings and the Philadelphia Phillies opened with a 1-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Thursday.

Michael Pineda found another couple of MPH on his fastball in the second inning -- he hit 93 MPH twice and 94 once -- but the Phillies found a way to add another run, via a double to the warning track by Carlos Ruiz and an RBI single by Juan Pierre.,...