Former Red Sox reliever Brendan Donnelly denied claims in baseball's Mitchell Report that he used performance-enhancing drugs.

Former Red Sox reliever Brendan Donnelly denied claims in baseball's Mitchell Report that he used performance-enhancing drugs. In the report, the culmination of a 20-month investigation into steroid use in baseball that was released Thursday, former Mets clubhouse attendant Kirk Radomski recalled that Donnelly called him in 2004 looking for Anavar, an anabolic steroid.

Alex Rodriguez denied using performance-enhancing drugs, telling CBS' "60 Minutes" in an interview aired Sunday night that he's never felt as if he needed them to compete. The Yankees slugger also said he isn't sure he's worth his record contract, and described being "white like a ghost" when news of his opting out of his deal with New York broke during Game 4 of the World Series.

Wearing a Dodgers jersey over his dress shirt and tie, Hiroki Kuroda took the Dodger Stadium mound for the first time on a sunny Sunday in Los Angeles. The conditions were appropriate considering the free-agent Japanese right-hander said moments earlier at an introductory news conference that weather was a factor in his decision to sign with the Dodgers.

Oakland Athletics right-hander Chad Gaudin will have surgery Tuesday to repair a torn labrum in his left hip.