PITTSBURGH — By his count, Fernando Tatis was wearing three ice packs. His left ankle and thigh were wrapped, as was his left side, as he hobbled through the Mets’ clubhouse Thursday evening, a walking (gingerly), talking (excitedly) symbol of his team’s resilience.

In defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9-8 in 10 innings, at PNC Park, the Mets overcame two rain delays, a miserable performance by their starting pitcher, a five-run deficit and a ninth-inning meltdown by their closer, Francisco Rodriguez.

Read more: Mets Win Marathon in Pittsburgh

Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Jayson Werth homered twice, drove in three runs and fell a triple short of the cycle, as the Phillies pounded out 14 hits in a 10-0 victory against Toronto for just their second win in the last 11 games.

Not to be outdone, J.A. Happ (5-0) limited the Blue Jays to just five hits in his first career complete game shutout to remain unbeaten on the year. The lefty struck out four and did not record a walk.

Werth was 4-for-4 with a walk and three runs scored, while Pedro Feliz hit a two-run homer. Carlos Ruiz also ended with a pair of RBI, and Ryan Howard was 3-for-4, walked, scored twice and knocked in one.

Read more: Blue Jays battered by Phillies

If White Sox third baseman Gordon Beckham hadn't secured himself a place in Chicago baseball's spotlight by now, he did on Saturday against the Cubs.

Beckham drove in the game-winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning with a liner to right field as the Sox prevailed 8-7 before 39,529 at U.S. Cellular Field.

Read more: Beckham delivers for Sox in 8-7 win over Cubs

The Rangers have activated right-hander Willie Eyre from the 60-day disabled list to bolster a depleted bullpen.

Eyre began the season on the DL with a right groin strain, then made three appearances before having a recurrence of the injury April 22. He allowed three runs in 4 1-3 innings in those appearances.

Read more: Rangers reinstate reliever Eyre from DL

Manny Ramirez returns Tuesday night to professional baseball not as goofy or distracted or even as a malingerer, but as a drug cheat.

He returns not as one of the pure hitters the game has ever seen, and not as a man killing time (and fastballs) on his way to the Hall of Fame, but as Rafael Palmeiro, Sammy Sosa, A-Rod.

Manny being Manny was cute.

Manny being conceptive changes everything.

Presumably he measured the risks when he began whatever he began. Probably he considered the consequences when, years ago, baseball first requested a cup of his urine. Maybe he cringed when, famously, so many ahead of him on the all-time home-run list – Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Palmeiro, Rodriguez – were suspected or revealed to have drugged themselves illegally, unethically, and deplorably.

Read more: Welcome to a new Mannyworld

CHICAGO (AP) — Andres Blanco hit a tying single and then scored the winning run on Kerry Wood’s wild pitch in the 13th inning Saturday as the Chicago Cubs staged another wild comeback and beat the Cleveland Indians 6-5.

Luis Valbuena hit his second homer of the game, a solo shot in the top of the 13th inning, to give the Indians a 5-4 lead. But once again Wood, the former Cubs ace who spent a decade in Chicago, couldn’t hold it.

After blowing the save in Friday’s 8-7, 10-inning loss by giving up a ninth-inning homer to Derrek Lee, Wood (2-3) gave up a leadoff single Saturday to Kosuke Fukudome. He took off for second as Koyie Hill struck out and made it to third when Indians’ catcher Kelly Shoppach threw the ball into center field for an error.

With the infield playing in, Blanco slapped a hard grounder past diving shortstop Valbuena for a single to tie the game. Aaron Miles then dropped a single into shallow left, sending Blanco to third, and Wood uncorked a wild pitch to send Blanco home.

Read more: Wood blows save again, Cubs win in 13

Sure looked like Kerry Wood would get the day off in his return to Wrigley Field. His new team, the Cleveland Indians, was up on his old one by seven runs.

But for the second straight day the Cubs put together a four-run rally in the eighth inning that cut the lead to one.

Suddenly, Wood was in the game, back on the mound, pitching against the Cubs. He wound up getting an ovation—then blowing the save.

Read more: Theriot’s single in 10th caps Cubs’ big comeback

Marcus Thames was worth the wait. So were both replays.

He hit a pair of two-run homers and the Detroit Tigers rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 10-4 Friday night in a rain-shortened game that ended with one out in the bottom of the seventh.

The game was also halted by rain for 2 hours, 3 minutes in the fourth after Detroit took the lead, and featured two replay reversals. One gave the Tigers a homer, the other took it away and made it a double - but the Tigers got run in anyway.

Read more: Thames leads Tigers past Brewers in rain, 10-4

Jeff and Jered Weaver were separated by six years and never played together or against each other at any level in any sport.

Their one-on-one battles were confined to some not-so-friendly ping-pong matches and basketball games in their neighborhood.

"I threw my weight around and felt pretty good about tearing up a 16-year-old," said Jeff, who was then 22.

Read more: Weavers square off at the Big A