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7:00 AM ET Anthony OlivieriESPN.com When the minor league baseball season was canceled on June 30, hundreds of players were left scrambling. Unlike their major league counterparts, minor leaguers aren’t unionized or protected by federal minimum wage law. Most of them earn low pay during the season — players in Class A made, on average,

1:28 AM ET Kenta Maeda is what I refer to as a kitchen sink pitcher — as in he’ll throw the whole kitchen sink at you. On Tuesday night, the veteran right-hander had everything working for the Minnesota Twins in their Major League Baseball game against the Brewers: fastball, sinker, slider, splitter, blender, waffle iron.

3:27 PM ET ESPN News Services Texas Rangers pitcher Ian Gibaut, who threw a pitch at Manny Machado after Fernando Tatis Jr.’s grand slam in Monday night’s game, has been suspended for three games. Rangers manager Chris Woodward also received a one-game suspension “as a result of Gibaut’s actions,” MLB said in a statement Tuesday.

10:23 AM ET Emily Kaplan Close ESPN Emily Kaplan is ESPN’s national NHL reporter. Jeff Passan Close ESPN ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball is in the early stages of drafting an operating manual for a playoff bubble, the same initial

1:15 AM ET When Juan Soto homered in the top of the ninth inning on Monday night to give the Nationals a 6-3 lead over the Braves, he admired his blast and enjoyed a slow trot around the bases — the seventh time in his 12 Major League Baseball games he has made such a

12:00 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The fallout from the Cleveland Indians‘ team meeting that saw pitchers Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac sent home could have wide-ranging implications on both the Indians’ season as well as the financial

7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff With a third of the 2020 MLB season already gone, it’s time to acknowledge that some of the bottom-tier teams that have had stunning turnarounds in the standings may well stick in the playoff picture the rest of the way. We knew the 60-game schedule was going to create some

5:27 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — St. Louis Cardinals reliever Roel Ramirez became the first pitcher to allow four straight home runs in his major league debut when the Chicago White Sox hit him around in the fifth inning Sunday. Yoan Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, Jose Abreu and Eloy Jimenez connected during a six-run inning,

3:54 PM ET The Toronto Blue Jays placed shortstop Bo Bichette on the 10-day injured list Sunday with a sprained right knee. Bichette “felt something” in his knee during Saturday night’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays while stretching, according to manager Charlie Montoyo. Bichette was then sent for an MRI. Bichette leads the Blue

7:30 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN The New York Yankees–Boston Red Sox rivalry in 2020 is as lopsided as it’s been in quite some time. Just two years ago, the Red Sox were eliminating the Yankees from the playoffs on their way to a World Series title. This season, the Yankees are on track to get

10:15 PM ET CHICAGO — It’s the stuff they might write a movie about someday as the St. Louis Cardinals returned to a Major League Baseball field in dramatic fashion Saturday, sweeping the Chicago White Sox in a doubleheader, after the team had missed the past 19 days of competition because of a coronavirus outbreak

4:53 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The Atlanta Braves decided to place outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr. on the 10-day injured list retroactively Saturday because of lingering wrist soreness, and they’re hoping he can return next weekend. The 2018 NL Rookie of the Year hasn’t played since Monday because of inflammation in his left wrist.

1:08 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” A Cincinnati Reds player tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, jeopardizing the team’s game Saturday against the Pittsburgh Pirates and reigniting fear of another outbreak in the sport after a pair of

5:40 PM ET The New York Yankees placed Aaron Judge on the 10-day injured list with what manager Aaron Boone called a “very mild strain of his calf.” Tests on Thursday confirmed the injury. Boone said Judge feels like it’s a day-to-day injury but the team is practicing caution with its start slugger by sitting

7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. Aaron Judge spent his rookie season in 2017 hitting baseballs in ways no one had done before. The New York Yankees‘ slugger, who would go on to be named American League Rookie of the Year, stood at the top

10:25 PM ET ESPN News Services The St. Louis Cardinals‘ series opener against the Chicago White Sox has been postponed to Saturday, giving the Cardinals an extra day to recover from a coronavirus outbreak. The Cardinals, who haven’t played since July 29, were set to resume their season Friday night in Chicago. But the series

5:17 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A pitcher getting ejected for arguing balls and strikes — on his day off? And from the stands? Nationals star Stephen Strasburg earned one of baseball’s most unusual ejections in the third inning of Washington’s game against the New York Mets on Thursday. Strasburg was sitting in

5:07 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Indians pitcher Zach Plesac feels he and teammate Mike Clevinger have been unfairly portrayed as “bad people” in the aftermath of the pitchers being quarantined by the team for violating COVID-19 protocols last weekend in Chicago. Plesac said he posted a six-minute video on his Instagram page Thursday