The Minnesota Twins set an MLB record in their clash with the Texas Rangers while two teams played through an earthquake last night.

Defending World Series champions the Boston Red Sox slumped to their third loss in a row as the New York Yankees claimed a 4-1 home win.

James Paxton struck out 12 as the New York Yankees thrashed bitter rivals the Boston Red Sox 8-0.

The Los Angeles Dodgers set a record for home runs on the opening day of a Major League Baseball season with eight in the 12-5 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Hopes are high Davy Fitzgerald will be fit enough to take some if not all managerial duties for Clare in tomorrow’s All-Ireland quarter-final in Semple Stadium.

The Kansas City Royals backed the superb two-hit pitching of Johnny Cueto with a relentless attack to rout the New York Mets 7-1 and take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven World Series into tonight’s crucial Game Three (12.05am, live on BT Sport1).

ENGLAND: Ram-raiders have escaped with a five- figure sum after using a JCB digger to smash a cash machine from a wall.

I enjoyed my holidays, thanks very much. Catalonia is a nice place to be any time, but particularly in the week that Barcelona won the European Cup, with plenty of fireworks in our locality. 

Turn away now if you are of a squeamish disposition — or suffer from DTS (dicky tummy syndrome).

World Series history was made on Wednesday night in Missouri when pitcher Madison Bumgarner delivered a performance for the ages to help the San Francisco Giants overcome the Kansas City Royals in a memorable winner-takes-all Game Seven.

At least two people were shot and one person stabbed after fans of the San Francisco Giants flooded the city’s streets celebrating the baseball team’s World Series victory over the Kansas City Royals.

The San Francisco Giants have won the World Series after securing a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals in Game Seven at Kauffman Stadium.

From time to time, I become convinced that professional sport, as we know it, will cease to exist within my potential lifetime. Will decline, anyway.

California woman gets stuck in chimney trying to sneak into home

Now that Derek Jeter has left baseball, the rest of the sport can focus on the real business of October, the play-offs and the suddenly dramatic road to the World Series.

Hopefully she doesn’t go into her shell!

The father of a teenager who survived a five-hour flight from California to Hawaii tucked in a jet’s wheel well has said his son missed Africa, where he used to live, and was struggling at school.

A five-year-old boy who has battled leukaemia for years fulfilled his wish to be his favourite superhero – taking on foe after foe around San Francisco dressed in a black Batman costume.

Sandra Bullock was among the big winners at the Hollywood Film Awards yesterday.

Kanye West proposed to Kim Kardashian while one of his own songs was playing.

For fans of Rory McIlroy, it was difficult to know what to make of the mixed messages coming from the world number two during his unfortunately brief appearance at the Irish Open.

The 2012 World Series concluded with an 89-mph fastball over the middle of the plate, the sort of pitch that ends up over outfield fences as often as it does in catcher’s mitts.

Eminem has sparked speculation that he will release a new album next year.

The US PGA was widely criticised last month for staging the fourth major of the year just as London and most of the rest of the world were enjoying the final weekend of the Olympics.

Tiger Woods expects to face a confident Rory McIlroy when he bids to edge closer to Jack Nicklaus’s record and challenge for a fourth US Open and 15th Major title at the Olympic Club this week.

When Pat Gallagher was pulled out of a job in an amusement park to become the San Francisco Giants marketing director by the club’s owner, Bob Lurie, he was faced with an almost impossible task — selling tickets to one of the worst baseball franchises in the US in one of the oldest and coldest stadiums.

It’s not a stretch to suggest that sports marketing absorbs much of what makes sport so intriguing.

MM: How important is a winning pro franchise to a city?

EVERY now and then Irish sports journalists of a certain vintage get wistful.

THE Texas Rangers can wrap up their first ever World Series in St Louis tonight unless the hosting Cardinalsrediscover their hitting form in front of their own fans at Busch Stadium (ESPN America, 00.30am).

THERE’S a lot to dislike about the state of Texas but its baseball teams are hard to hate.

ROBERT ALLEN ZIMMERMAN turned 70 this week.

We use it to purchase flights, hotel rooms and concert tickets — but can dynamic ticket pricing work in Irish sport? Alan Good examines an economic trend that’s taken off in the US

EDGAR RENTERIA paid tribute to the San Francisco Giants for keeping faith with him after his home run led the franchise to their first World Series title in over half a century on Monday night.

NUMBERS were down for big GAA championship games over the weekend, with just over 15,000 in Thurles for the Limerick-Waterford Munster SHC replay and Galway-Kilkenny failing to fill Tullamore’s O’Connor Park for an eagerly-anticipated clash.

Barry Bonds tested positive for steroids three times in 2000 and 2001, according to hundreds of documents filed by the US government that were released yesterday.

SAN Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds struggled to describe his emotions after blasting his 755th career home run to equal Hank Aaron’s record on Saturday evening.

REMEMBER Gianluigi Lentini? There was a time when he was the footballer whose name was on everyone’s lips; not David Beckham.

BASEBALL is a game tied closely to heritage and tradition, the markers of a glorious past. But in California, the Oakland Athletics and Cisco Systems are working on the stadium of the future. Michael Moynihan reports.

San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds finally joined American sports legend Babe Ruth in the history books by smashing his 714th career home run in the Giants’ game at the Oakland A’s.

Balco founder Victor Conte has vowed to “tell the truth” about drugs in sport in an American television interview on Friday.