Apr 17, 2024, 12:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Rafael Devers hurt his left knee during Tuesday night’s 10-7, extra-inning home loss to the Cleveland Guardians, an injury that adds to a frustrating start to the 2024 season for the star Boston Red Sox third baseman. Devers, through his interpreter, told reporters that he felt
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Associated Press Apr 16, 2024, 07:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages was to make his major league debut against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night after being recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Pages was listed in center field and batting seventh for the Dodgers, who had
Associated Press Apr 16, 2024, 08:37 PM ET Open Extended Reactions TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays activated All-Star closer Jordan Romano and fellow right-hander Erik Swanson off the 15-day injured list before Tuesday night’s game against the New York Yankees. Romano had been sidelined since spring training with right elbow inflammation and Swanson with
Apr 16, 2024, 09:33 PM ET A woman who accused former major league pitcher Trevor Bauer of sexual assault has been indicted by a grand jury in Arizona on felony charges of fraudulent schemes and theft by extortion. Darcy Adanna Esemonu “knowingly did obtain a benefit from … Trevor Anthony Bauer by means of fraudulent
Associated Press Apr 16, 2024, 07:18 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NEW YORK — Gold Glove third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes was scratched from the Pittsburgh Pirates‘ lineup Tuesday night against the New York Mets because of tightness in his lower back. “It just kind of locked up on him a little bit trying to work
Associated Press Apr 16, 2024, 07:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andy Pages was to make his major league debut against the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night after being recalled from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Pages was listed in center field and batting seventh for the Dodgers, who had
Apr 16, 2024, 04:13 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Atlanta Braves second baseman Ozzie Albies has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a fractured big toe on his right foot, it was announced Tuesday. Albies was hit by a pitch in the second inning by Houston Astros rookie Spencer Arrighetti on Monday but
ESPN News Services Apr 16, 2024, 05:24 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MILWAUKEE — Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich was placed on the 10-day injured list Tuesday because of a lower back strain. The move is retroactive to Saturday. Yelich’s last appearance came in an 11-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Friday, a game in
ESPN News Services Apr 16, 2024, 03:46 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Carl Erskine, who pitched two no-hitters as a mainstay on the Brooklyn Dodgers and was a 20-game winner in 1953 when he struck out a then-record 14 in the World Series, died Tuesday. He was 97. Erksine died at Community Hospital Anderson in
Associated Press Apr 16, 2024, 11:57 AM ET NEW YORK — Whitey Herzog, the gruff and ingenious Hall of Fame manager who guided the St. Louis Cardinals to three pennants and a World Series title in the 1980s and perfected an intricate, nail-biting strategy known as “Whiteyball,” has died. He was 92. Cardinals spokesman Brian
Apr 16, 2024, 11:46 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Texas Rangers are calling up right-hander Jack Leiter, the No. 2 pick in the 2021 draft. In 14⅓ innings at Triple-A this season, he has struck out 25 and walked three while allowing four home runs. Leiter will start the final game of the series
Tristan H. Cockcroft Apr 15, 2024, 07:13 AM ET Open Extended Reactions OK, so Jackson Holliday‘s first five days in the big leagues were anything but special and, in fact, they were pretty darned bad, as he became only the fifth player in the past decade to strike out multiple times in each of his
ESPN News Services Apr 16, 2024, 08:07 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Blue Jays catcher Danny Jansen is expected to return to the lineup Tuesday night when Toronto goes for a series-clinching victory over the visiting New York Yankees. Jansen opened the season on the injured list after suffering a fractured right wrist when hit
Tim Kurkjian, ESPN Senior WriterApr 16, 2024, 07:00 AM ET Close Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Has covered baseball since 1981 Open Extended Reactions It was 2:30 p.m. ET Friday, nearly five hours before second baseman Jackson Holliday‘s first game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. He was the only player on the
ESPN News Services Apr 16, 2024, 01:06 AM ET Open Extended Reactions PHOENIX — Chicago Cubs rookie Michael Busch homered for the fifth straight game Monday night, matching the longest streak by a Cubs player since 1900. Busch led off the second inning with his sixth home run of the season, a 419-foot drive to
ESPN News Services Apr 15, 2024, 10:44 PM ET Open Extended Reactions DETROIT — Michael Lorenzen pitched five scoreless innings in his Texas debut and three relievers completed a five-hit shutout as the Rangers topped the Detroit Tigers 1-0 on Monday night. Lorenzen, signed to a $4.5 million, one-year contract as a free agent late
Associated Press Apr 15, 2024, 09:47 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOS ANGELES — Major League Baseball marked the 77th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking the sport’s color barrier on Monday. Robinson started at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15, 1947, beginning the end of the racial segregation that had relegated Black
ESPN News Services Apr 15, 2024, 09:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions PHILADELPHIA — Colorado Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland appeared to injure his right, non-throwing shoulder while being used as a pinch runner in the ninth inning of Monday night’s 2-1 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies. Manager Bud Black, however, said afterward that Freeland was