Month: April 2022

3:12 PM ET ESPN News Services BALTIMORE — Nestor Cortes of the New York Yankees pitched an immaculate inning against the Baltimore Orioles, striking out the side on nine pitches in the fourth on Sunday. Cortes retired Anthony Santander on a called strike, a foul ball and a foul tip. Then he got Ryan McKenna
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3:37 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Blue Jays broadcaster Buck Martinez has been diagnosed with cancer and will be stepping away from the broadcast booth. Martinez said in a statement released by Sportsnet that Sunday’s game against the Oakland Athletics would be his last for “a little while” as he begins weeks of cancer
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4:47 PM ET ESPN News Services ARLINGTON, Texas — Angels star Mike Trout was pulled from Los Angeles’ game Sunday after being hit by a pitch on his left hand, although X-rays came back negative, the team announced. The three-time AL MVP was struck by a 1-1 slider from Texas Rangers right-hander Spencer Patton leading
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3:43 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays added left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu to the 10-day injured list Sunday with left forearm inflammation. Ryu, 35, was pulled after just four innings in Saturday’s 7-4 loss to the Oakland Athletics. He lasted less than that in his first start of the season
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2:14 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN PHILADELPHIA — Toronto Raptors coach Nick Nurse said guard Gary Trent Jr. and forwards Scottie Barnes and Thaddeus Young are unlikely to play in Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers. “I mean, listen, it doesn’t look good for any of those guys,” Nurse said after
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1:37 PM ET Mike CoppingerESPN Yordenis Ugas will be sidelined for quite some time. Ugas, 35, suffered a fractured right orbital in the 10th-round TKO loss to Errol Spence Jr. during Saturday’s welterweight title unification. “I have a fracture in my eye and in the next few days the doctors will say how they will
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1:55 PM ET Adrian Wojnarowski Close Senior NBA Insider Host of The Woj Pod Joined ESPN in 2017 Tim MacMahon Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM DALLAS — Dallas Mavericks superstar Luka Doncic remains unlikely to play in
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12:56 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — The Orioles transferred left-hander John Means to the 60-day injured list Sunday with a sprained elbow. The move wasn’t a huge surprise after manager Brandon Hyde conceded the previous day that it would be a while before Means pitched again. Hyde said then that the 28-year-old lefty —
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12:24 PM ET Marc J. Spears SAN FRANCISCO — Injured Denver Nuggets forward Michael Porter Jr., is holding out hope that he can play in his team’s first-round series against the Golden State Warriors. “Right now, I’m taking it game by game. I’m not ruling anything out. This is a thing I don’t ever want
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11:11 AM ET NHL betting favorites dominated a busy Saturday on the ice, winning all 14 games straight up. In the past five seasons, there have been 21 instances with at least 14 games in one day. Saturday was the first time the favorites won every game, according to ESPN Stats & Information’s database, which
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9:05 AM ET Associated Press CALGARY, Alberta — Johnny Gaudreau and Matthew Tkachuk each had two goals and two assists and the Calgary Flames routed the Arizona Coyotes 9-1 on Saturday night after they clinched a playoff spot before the game started. Edmonton locked Pacific Division-leading Calgary into the postseason by beating Vegas 4-0 earlier
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8:36 AM ET How do you improve on perfection? Roki Sasaki is doing his best to find out. In his first start since throwing the first perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball since 1994, Sasaki, 20, almost did it again for the Chiba Lotte Marines, as he was pulled after eight perfect innings in a
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