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12:32 PM ET ESPN News Services CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs manager David Ross and president of baseball operations Jed Hoyer have tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson for the team said Ross and Hoyer are feeling fine and quarantining. Both are vaccinated. Bench coach Andy Green — who will run the team while Ross is
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12:03 PM ET Major League Baseball has extended Trevor Bauer‘s administrative leave an eighth time for an additional week, a league official told ESPN’s Alden Gonzalez. The leave now runs through Sept. 10. The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher has been accused of sexual assault by a woman who has said Bauer choked her unconscious multiple
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6:03 PM ET The Chicago White Sox placed righty Lucas Giolito on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring, the team announced on Friday. The move comes days after Giolito left his last start after getting injured while throwing a pitch against the Pittsburgh Pirates. That came a few moments after he fielded
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1:46 PM ET Mets acting general manager Zack Scott has been placed on administrative leave two days after he was arrested on a DWI charge in New York, the team announced Thursday. Scott will be on leave “until further notice,” the Mets said, adding that team president Sandy Alderson will assume the general manager’s responsibilities.
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5:05 PM ET Just a Yankee. That’s how Derek Jeter sums up his legacy. But as one of the game’s greatest shortstops sits on the cusp of his Hall of Fame induction, baseball fans know he was much more than that. Jeter, along with fellow inductees Ted Simmons and Larry Walker, met with the media
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5:49 PM ET Washington Nationals vice president Bob Boone has informed the team that he will resign instead of complying with a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all non-uniformed employees, a source confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday. Boone, 73, has been with the organization since 2005 and serves as a senior advisor to general manager Mike
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3:48 PM ET ESPN News Services New York Mets acting general manager Zack Scott will not join the team for its upcoming road trip after he was arrested for an alleged DUI, the team announced Wednesday. Scott was arrested on a DUI charge around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday in suburban White Plains, New York. Police found
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6:00 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Boston Red Sox star shortstop Xander Bogaerts was pulled from Tuesday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays after testing positive for COVID-19, the latest virus setback for the team. Bogaerts was on the field before the start of the bottom of the second inning
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2:02 PM ET Francisco Lindor and Javier Baez apologized to New York Mets fans on Tuesday, saying they were wrong for giving thumbs-down gestures after getting booed in recent games. “It does not look good on our part,” Lindor said. It reached a boiling point within the organization when Baez made the gesture to the
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9:59 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Right-hander Johnny Cueto was scratched from his scheduled start for San Francisco on Monday night against Milwaukee because of cold and flu-like symptoms, while fellow Giants starter Alex Wood tested positive for COVID-19 and is experiencing symptoms. Cueto, who has tested negative, was put on the COVID-related
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4:03 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians catcher Wilson Ramos will require season-ending surgery for torn ligaments in his left knee, the team said Monday. Ramos tore his ACL and MCL in the seventh inning of Cleveland’s win over the Boston Red Sox on Sunday. He fielded a weak hit in front of the
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5:05 PM ET The Pittsburgh Pirates, mired in last place and about to expand their roster to get extended looks at prospects in their organization, released veteran outfielder Gregory Polanco on Saturday. Pirates manager Derek Shelton, in his availability with reporters before Pittsburgh’s game vs. the St. Louis Cardinals, said that informing Polanco of the
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1:54 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Mets right-hander Noah Syndergaard encountered another hurdle in his recovery from Tommy John surgery Sunday when he was scratched from a rehab start because he tested positive for COVID-19, according to multiple reports. New York manager Luis Rojas said Sunday that Syndergaard had a “non-baseball-related injury.”
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