9:02 AM ET The Houston Astros return to Yankee Stadium on Tuesday for the first time since Major League Baseball’s investigation of their sign-stealing scandal from the 2017 season, and manager Dusty Baker is not expecting a warm welcome. “It is going to be wild,” Baker told USA Today Sports. The Yankees and their fans
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12:10 AM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — The scuffling New York Mets fired hitting coach Chili Davis and assistant hitting coach Tom Slater on Monday night. The moves were made following a 6-5 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals that dropped the Mets to 11-12. New York has struggled badly with runners in scoring
5:23 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers starter Dustin May, one of the game’s brightest young pitchers, will undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery to repair a damaged ulnar collateral ligament, the team announced on Monday. The surgery will be performed by Dr. Neal El Attrache. The recovery timetable usually falls somewhere between 12 and 16 months,
6:44 PM ET ESPN News Services MILWAUKEE — A.J. Pollock drove in eight runs and Matt Beaty drove in seven, with both players hitting early grand slams in a startling power show that sent the Los Angeles Dodgers over the Milwaukee Brewers 16-4 on Sunday. Pollock homered twice and doubled while Beaty went 4 of
3:29 PM ET ESPN News Services Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Jose Alvarado has been suspended three games, Major League Baseball said in a release Sunday, for his role in a benches-clearing eighth-inning incident Friday against the New York Mets in Philadelphia. Alvarado was also given an undisclosed fine for inciting the incident by taunting Mets
2:57 PM ET ESPN News Services Oakland Athletics left-hander Jesus Luzardo suffered a broken throwing hand while playing a video game before Saturday’s start, manager Bob Melvin told reporters Sunday. Luzardo, who took the loss in the 8-4 defeat to the Baltimore Orioles, bumped his hand on a table while playing the game, Melvin said.
4:38 PM ET Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper, who was hit in the face by a 96.9 mph fastball on Wednesday, will not play in Friday’s game vs. the New York Mets because of a sore wrist, the team announced. The team said they were keeping Harper out just as a precaution. After getting hit
5:31 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Jameson Taillon earned his first win in exactly two years, Aaron Judge had three hits and three RBIs, and the New York Yankees outlasted the Detroit Tigers 6-4 on Saturday. Gleyber Torres also drove in three runs as the Yankees won for the sixth time in
1:14 PM ET ESPN News Services MLB hitters hope that turning the calendar will also turn the page on an anemic April for offenses around the league. Major league batters are hitting just .232 overall through April, down from .252 two years ago and under the record low of .237 set over the infamous 1968
12:37 AM ET ESPN News Services The New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies turned the eighth inning of their game Friday night into a benches-emptying, trash-talking, finger-pointing commotion that spiced up a routine game — and could ignite more sparks this weekend. It started when Phillies reliever Jose Alvarado thumped his glove and gestured at
12:01 AM ET ESPN News Services Shane Bieber is focusing on the Ws, not the Ks. The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner struck out 11, setting two major league records in the process and pitching the Cleveland Indians past the Chicago White Sox 5-3 on Friday night. Bieber (3-2) fanned at least eight in
1:34 PM ET Roberto Alomar, a 12-time All-Star who had been serving as a consultant to Major League Baseball, has been placed on the league’s ineligible list following an investigation into a 2014 sexual misconduct allegation. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement Friday that an independent investigation was made into a baseball industry
6:48 AM ET The Quirkjians are of my own making, an obsession for nearly 60 years. I’ve always loved arcane stats, odd connections of arbitrary names and numbers, amazing coincidences that baseball, more than any other sport, always provides. Every night that you go to a major league game, or watch one on TV, you
7:16 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Oakland Athletics first baseman Matt Olson was a late scratch Thursday after getting hit near the eye by a ball that ricocheted off a screen during batting practice. Olson missed the A’s 3-2 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays. Manager Bob Melvin said there were
5:26 PM ET One of the game’s hottest pitchers is going on the injured list as Milwaukee Brewers starter Corbin Burnes won’t make his next outing against the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend. Manager Craig Counsell did not specify the reason for Burnes going on the IL and said he couldn’t comment on the situation
7:00 AM ET Believe it or not, we are already just about a month into the 2021 MLB season with the calendar set to flip to May this weekend. What does that mean for this week’s edition of our MLB Power Rankings? Well, yes, it is still early — but it also isn’t too early
12:10 AM ET Every Jacob deGrom start these days is a testament to pitching perfection, the most impressive combination of power and command since the peak of Pedro Martinez’s Hall of Fame career. Yet, once again, the New York Mets and their fans were left frustrated Wednesday, able to appreciate deGrom’s brilliance but staring at
6:25 PM ET Milwaukee manager Craig Counsell wasn’t pleased with a second-inning obstruction call on his pitcher, during the Brewers’ 6-2 loss to the Miami Marlins Wednesday. With one out and runners on first and third, Marlins second baseman Isan Diaz hit a soft ground ball between the pitcher’s mound and first base. Brewers starter