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7:00 AM ET Normalcy — sort of — has returned to baseball for the 2021 MLB season. There are still pandemic-related obstacles for the sport to navigate, but at least teams are scheduled to play 162 games and fans have returned to stadiums. The usual rhythm of the sport will take hold soon enough, and

7:00 AM ET CARLOS GOMEZ KNEW he needed to get Fernando Tatis Jr. on the phone. After Tatis hit a controversial grand slam in the eighth inning of an Aug. 17 game against the Texas Rangers last season, Gomez, a former major league outfielder, called the San Diego Padres shortstop. Tatis’ slam represented a violation

2:22 AM ET Los Angeles Dodgers star Cody Bellinger is day-to-day after tests on his injured calf showed no structural damage or fractures, manager Dave Roberts said after Tuesday night’s 5-1 win over the Oakland Athletics. Bellinger was unavailable Tuesday and will also miss Wednesday’s game, according to Roberts, who added that he wasn’t sure

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11:14 PM ET Associated Press SEATTLE — Left-hander James Paxton departed the first start of his second stint with Seattle due to discomfort in his pitching elbow after throwing just 24 pitches against the White Sox on Tuesday night. The Mariners announced the initial diagnosis on Paxton two innings after he left the game. Paxton

8:10 PM ET ESPN News Services San Diego Padres star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. will be placed on the 10-day injured list but won’t need surgery after injuring his shoulder, general manager A.J. Preller said Tuesday. Tatis suffered the latest injury to his troublesome left shoulder on a hard swing Monday and left San Diego’s

1:17 PM ET The Atlanta Braves have acquired versatile infielder Orlando Arcia from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for two pitchers, it was announced Tuesday. Milwaukee acquired right-handed pitchers Chad Sobotka and Patrick Weigel in the deal. Arcia, 26, has spent all six of his major league seasons with Milwaukee. He had one hit in

3:21 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays have placed center fielder Kevin Kiermaier on the 10-day injured list with a left quadriceps strain. The team announced the move prior to Tuesday night’s game at Boston. The defensive whiz experienced tightness in his leg Monday night before being removed from

1:29 PM ET ESPN News Services Coors Field in Denver will hold the All-Star Game and its surrounding events, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday. MLB opted to move the game out of Atlanta due to voting laws passed in Georgia last month. “Major League Baseball is grateful to the Rockies, the City of Denver and

12:31 PM ET Associated Press In addition to its trading cards, fans will soon be able to trade company shares of Topps. The company said Tuesday that it will become a publicly traded company this year by tying up with a blank-check company, or SPAC, a special purposes acquisition company. Topps, for anyone who has

2:14 PM ET ESPN News Services The New York Yankees are finalizing a trade to acquire infielder Rougned Odor from the Texas Rangers, sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The Rangers are expected to absorb almost the entirety of the $27 million owed to Odor, sources said. He’s due $12 million this year, $12 million in

12:22 PM ET The Washington Nationals finally will open their season Tuesday, but they will do so with a patchwork roster due to COVID-19 issues. The Nats announced that starting pitchers Patrick Corbin and Jon Lester, catchers Yan Gomes and Alex Avila, first baseman Josh Bell, infielders Josh Harrison and Jordy Mercer, left fielder Kyle

12:00 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN With the news that MLB is moving its 2021 All-Star festivities to Denver this summer, one thing immediately came to our minds: An All-Star Home Run Derby at Coors Field is going to be really fun to watch. Sure, the game itself will be a blast and the MLB draft

9:50 AM ET The Boston Red Sox, known for their traditional white uniforms with red lettering and the iconic “B,” are unveiling their first jersey without any red at all. As part of Major League Baseball’s first major jersey collaboration with Nike — which became the sport’s uniform supplier in 2019 — the Red Sox

7:00 AM ET Revenge and backlash have always been the American response to defeat, especially in the case of civil rights. Despite the resulting muddiness, misdirection and outrage, the Georgia voting bill, signed into law last month, was clearly a response to defeat, just as the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was. Sports

3:27 AM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — A gray, life-sized, inflatable garbage can was heaved over the right-field scoreboard and made its way onto Angel Stadium’s warning track at the conclusion of Monday’s sixth inning, the latest — perhaps most glaring — indication of the anger that still festers around the Houston Astros. Moments later, with

11:30 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Padres star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. hurt himself taking a hard swing Monday night and immediately left the game against the San Francisco Giants. Tatis struck out swinging against Anthony DeSclafani and winced in pain as he fell to the ground. He cradled his left arm while

9:55 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Patrick Carney wasn’t nervous before his first live drumming gig in more than a year, just honored. A lifelong Indians fan and one half of The Black Keys, the Grammy Award-winning rock duo from Akron, Ohio, Carney filled in Monday at Cleveland’s home opener for drummer John Adams,