1:24 PM ET ESPN News Services The Los Angeles Dodgers have placed right-hander Dustin May on the 10-day injured list with a right arm injury. May left Saturday’s start against the Milwaukee Brewers after just 27 pitches due to the ailment and is expected to undergo an MRI on Monday. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said
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12:52 PM ET ESPN News Services The Atlanta Braves will be without starting catcher Travis d’Arnaud for at least the next two months after he was placed on the 60-day injured list Sunday with a sprained left thumb. D’Arnaud left Saturday night’s 6-5 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays with the injury. He was hurt
11:10 PM ET Rachel MarcusESPN Editor Close ESPN Editor Joined ESPN in 2013 Maryland native, Syracuse graduate We’ve all been in this situation — your friend is on a date and you really want to know how it’s going. But you need them to answer you! Well, Connor Buckley, aka “BuckArmy,” took matters into his
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
11:56 AM ET The Chicago White Sox have activated right-hander Lance Lynn from the 10-day injured list, the team announced Saturday. Lynn missed nearly two weeks after being placed on the IL with a strained right trapezius April 18. The 33-year-old is 1-1 with an 0.92 ERA this season, his first with the White Sox
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
10:12 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Kole Calhoun, who playfully fist-bumped a teenaged fan after being outreached for a foul ball last weekend, is expected to miss six to eight weeks because of an injured left hamstring injury. Calhoun underwent a procedure Friday to remove a tendon in his hamstring, the
9:03 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — San Diego Padres right-hander Chris Paddack was placed on the injured list Friday with what manager Jayce Tingler described only as “a medical condition.” Asked if it was related to COVID-19, Tingler said: “I cannot get into it. I wish I could give you details, I can’t.
3:29 PM ET Jon Lester will make his Washington Nationals debut vs. the Miami Marlins on Friday after the left-hander was activated off the injured list. The 37-year-old Lester, who had surgery in March to remove a parathyroid gland, was one of 11 players to be put on the injured list before the season opener
5:13 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Twins reinstated outfielders Max Kepler and Kyle Garlick from the COVID-19 injured list and recalled catcher Ben Rortvedt from Triple-A St. Paul before beginning a three-game series against Kansas City on Friday. The return of Kepler and Garlick cleared the last of the quarantines for the
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
1:48 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball says nine teams have had 85% of players, coaches and others with Tier 1 access receive their final dose of the coronavirus vaccine, allowing those clubs to ease some health and safety protocols. Four of those teams have already begun relaxing some protocols after
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
12:41 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — One of the Arizona Diamondbacks‘ top prospects, Kristian Robinson, won’t begin this season in the minor leagues, more than one year after he was arrested for allegedly punching an Arizona Department of Public Safety officer in the face. Robinson, who was 19 at the time of the arrest,
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
10:56 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Detroit Tigers starter Matthew Boyd left the second game of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox after facing seven batters because of an injured left knee. With the score 0-0, the 30-year-old left-hander walked Yasmani Grandal leading off the second and gave up a double to Andrew