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11:25 AM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — The Indians placed cleanup hitter Franmil Reyes on the 10-day injured list Sunday because of a strained left abdominal muscle. Reyes was injured while fouling off a pitch in the sixth inning Saturday against the Minnesota Twins. He had an MRI on Sunday morning. The team is expected

7:00 AM ET Jed Hoyer’s phone will be ringing plenty this July. If you’re looking for an All-Star caliber third baseman, the Chicago Cubs president has got one for you. How about a left fielder? He has someone who fits there too. Right field and even center field are covered as well. And he also

8:27 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN FRANCISCO — Late Friday night, Gabe Kapler called old teammate Scott Kazmir with wonderful news: The veteran left-hander was needed in San Francisco to start the next day. The Giants called up the 37-year-old Kazmir from Triple-A Sacramento to make his first big league appearance since 2016, when

6:51 PM ET ESPN News Services DUNEDIN, Fla. — The Toronto Blue Jays put third baseman Cavan Biggio on the 10-day injured list with a cervical spine ligament sprain on Saturday. Toronto manager Charlie Montoyo expects Biggio to be ready to return when eligible to come of the IL. “It’s real nagging,” Montoyo said. “He

4:54 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Gerrit Cole shook off rare control problems to pitch four-hit ball over seven innings and give the Yankees their most dominant stretch of starting pitching in 89 years, leading New York over the Chicago White Sox 7-0 Saturday for a five-game winning streak. Cole (6-2) allowed

5:00 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Rangers right-hander Kohei Arihara needs shoulder surgery and is expected to miss at least 12 weeks. Rangers general manager Chris Young said Saturday that Arihara has an aneurysm in his pitching shoulder. Dr. Gregory Pearl, a vascular surgeon, is set to repair the posterior circumflex humeral

2:55 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Pittsburgh right-hander Trevor Cahill was placed on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with left side discomfort. Pirates manager Derek Shelton said Cahill “hadn’t seen a ton of improvement” and was placed on the IL to “give him a chance to get it right.” The move with Cahill

5:14 AM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — There was a big number reached in Major League Baseball during the San Diego Padres‘ 16-1 blowout win over Seattle, and it had nothing to do with runs. Because when Mariners backup catcher José Godoy made his big league debut Friday night, he became the 20,000th

2:16 AM ET The boos rained down on Los Angeles Dodgers starter Trevor Bauer as he made his way toward the first-base dugout in the seventh inning from San Francisco, and Bauer figured he might as well embrace it. He cupped his right hand around his right ear, then raised both arms to the sky,

12:10 AM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — Ronald Acuna Jr. hit a grand slam in the second inning off Tyler Anderson, pinch-hitter Ehire Adrianza added another slam in the eighth against position player Wilmer Difo and the Atlanta Braves homered seven times in a 20-1 rout of the Pittsburgh Pirates on Friday night. Austin

6:24 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Right-hander Stephen Strasburg was activated from the 10-day injured list to start for the Washington Nationals against the Baltimore Orioles on Friday night. Strasburg had been on the injured list since April 15 with right shoulder inflammation. He is 0-1 with a 6.30 ERA in two starts this

5:00 PM ET An extensive baseball card collection of over 1,000 cards from Dr. Thomas Newman that includes a rare 1933 Babe Ruth card will go to auction on June 12 through Memory Lane Inc. The 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth card has a PSA grade of Mint 9, the only card of that version on

5:09 PM ET ESPN News Services The New York Mets placed first baseman Pete Alonso and right-hander Tommy Hunter on the 10-day injured list on Friday. The moves are retroactive to May 19. Alonso has a sprained right hand, and Hunter is experiencing lower back pain. Alonso has been nursing the injury since he was

4:32 PM ET ESPN News Services Shortstop Willy Adames and right-hander Trevor Richards have been traded from the Tampa Bay Rays to the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for two relief pitchers, it was announced Friday. In return, the Rays will be getting right-handers Drew Rasmussen and J.P. Feyereisen. Adames’ departure leaves the door open for

3:55 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” A member of the Seattle Mariners‘ traveling party tested positive for COVID-19, causing concern within the organization about potential spread due to a significant portion of players being unvaccinated, sources familiar with

3:31 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — A federal jury has found that a Chicago police lieutenant used excessive force when he tackled and beat a man during the celebration outside Wrigley Field after the Cubs won the 2016 World Series. According to the Chicago Tribune, the jury on Wednesday found in favor of Asher

9:00 AM ET An afternoon in mid-May and we are waiting on a game to start. It was 40 years ago today, May 21, 1981, when those opening words were conjured up by Roger Angell, the greatest baseball writer who has ever lived. The New Yorker magazine scribe was sitting with 2,500 fellow baseball fans

7:00 AM ET “Dad, you’re trending.” Hunter Wendelstedt started to get nervous. The night before, Wendelstedt — an MLB umpire since 1998 — had manned second base during a Sunday night matchup between the Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies. He cycled through the game in his mind, replaying all the calls he had made. “I