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Less than three hours before this year’s All-Star Game, more than a dozen reporters are huddled around Yankees ace Gerrit Cole at his locker in the visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium. Cole is in his typical form on days when he’s not pitching, relaxed and at ease talking baseball with…

MIAMI — Ranger Suárez hadn’t thrown a pitch in a big league game since June 29, but he didn’t waste any time in getting back to his normal self. Or perhaps it’s more accurate to say he got back to his 2021 self, when he posted a 1.36 ERA over…

SEATTLE — As the Phillies opened a seven-game West Coast trip here Monday night, they had a higher rate of hard-hit balls than any team in the National League but only the eighth-most runs scored.

PHILADELPHIA — It’s almost certainly a coincidence, but, well, let’s just mention it off the top anyway: Since Kyle Schwarber blew off a bunch of steam a few nights ago, the previously stalled Phillies offense hasn’t ceased chugging along.

PHILADELPHIA — The moment for the Phillies to strike came in the bottom of the eighth inning on Friday night. Bryce Harper, Nick Castellanos and J.T. Realmuto all knocked in singles to load the bases for Kyle Schwarber with no outs. But Schwarber struck out, and it seemed like an…

MIAMI — It might have been the red uniforms, it might have been the fact that they were facing a lefty, or it might have been something else entirely. But regardless of the reasons why, Saturday was the day that the Phillies lineup began to look the way it first…

PHILADELPHIA — It's easy to see the dollar signs and decimal points, the posturing and legalese, and dismiss the threat of a delayed opening to the Major League Baseball season as a food fight between billionaires and millionaires. Look again, though, and you will find that baseball's first labor conflict…