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9:25 PM ET Coors Field in Denver is expected to host this year’s All-Star Game, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney on Monday. MLB opted to move the game out of Atlanta due to voting laws passed in Georgia last month. It will mark the second time the homer-friendly home of the Colorado Rockies will host

1:59 PM ET ESPN News Services The Nationals and Braves will make up their game that was postponed Monday because of Washington’s coronavirus outbreak as part of a doubleheader Wednesday. Major League Baseball announced the change Monday while Nationals players were working out at Nationals Park. Four players on the Nationals have tested positive for

1:38 PM ET ESPN News Services Cincinnati Reds outfielder Nick Castellanos has been suspended two games for his actions Saturday which led to a benches-clearing brawl with the St. Louis Cardinals. Castellanos, who is appealing the suspension, was not the only player to be penalized as he and five others were also fined. The drama

1:40 PM ET NEW YORK — If there was any doubt that the tenure of Steve Cohen would mark a new era of New York Mets baseball, the team’s new owner hopes the 10-year, $341 million contract given to shortstop Francisco Lindor erases any skepticism. “I told you I’m all-in,” Cohen told reporters Monday, “and

12:41 PM ET Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday afternoon that he will not be throwing out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers‘ home opener, as had been scheduled, because of Major League Baseball’s response to voting laws recently passed in Georgia. “I was looking forward to throwing out the first pitch at the

7:00 AM ET Baseball players, like the rest of us, have had lots of spare time during the pandemic and in quarantine. “I’ve learned to be alone,” said Padres pitcher Blake Snell. There has been lots of learning, trapped in a hotel room or sequestered at home. There has been time to think, to experiment,

2:49 AM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — There was a moment in Sunday’s Chicago White Sox–Los Angeles Angels game that would’ve passed as a nondescript subtlety if not for the obvious constraints that have come to define Major League Baseball. It was the start of the third inning. Shohei Ohtani made the final out in the

8:45 PM ET We had a lot happen the first four days of the 2021 MLB season. The Reds and Cardinals had the first bench-clearing incident of the season. The Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger lost a home run when he passed Justin Turner on the basepaths. White Sox rookie designated hitter Yermin Mercedes set an MLB

9:32 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani threw a baseball 101 mph in the top of the first then hit a baseball 115 mph a half-inning later, a stirring start to a historic Sunday night for the Los Angeles Angels’ two-way sensation. Ohtani, pitching and hitting in the same game for the first time

8:47 PM ET Associated Press LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. — A bat Lou Gehrig used late in his career sold for $715,120 at auction this weekend. The online bidding ended Saturday night. SCP Auctions said the Gehrig bat dated to 1938, his next-to-last season in the majors. It came from the collection of Yankees Hall of

7:19 PM ET ESPN News Services Monday’s scheduled series opener between the Atlanta Braves and Nationals has been postponed as Washington continues to deal with a coronavirus outbreak, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney. The hope is that the teams will play Tuesday at Nationals Park, sources said, if all goes well with Washington’s COVID-19 situation.

5:52 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Akil Baddoo had already turned heads with his productive spring. Now he has made his presence felt at Comerica Park. Baddoo homered in his first major league at-bat Sunday — on the very first pitch. The Detroit Tigers outfielder led off the bottom of the third inning with

5:17 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — The Red Sox fell to their first 0-3 start at Fenway Park since 1948 and their second ever as Trey Mancini and Austin Hays hit two-run doubles during a seven-run third inning that carried the Baltimore Orioles to an 11-3 win Sunday. Cedric Mullins went 5-for-5 with three

2:54 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Domingo Germán was cheered by Yankees fans in his return from a domestic violence suspension but struggled against the Toronto Blue Jays, allowing three runs in three innings on Sunday. Germán hadn’t pitched since Sept. 18, 2019, due to an 81-game ban under Major League Baseball’s domestic

3:51 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — Right-hander Tony Gonsolin was put on the 10-day injured list Sunday by the Los Angeles Dodgers with right shoulder inflammation, a move retroactive to Thursday. Right-hander Dennis Santana was recalled from the alternate training site at Glendale, Arizona, to fill the roster spot. Gonsolin, 26, made the Opening

1:43 PM ET Pittsburgh Pirates rookie third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes is headed to the 10-day injured list because of inflammation in his left wrist, manager Derek Shelton announced Sunday. X-rays on Hayes’ wrist were negative but an MRI showed the inflammation, Shelton said. Hayes was replaced in the Pirates’ lineup against the Chicago Cubs on

7:15 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN We’ve all seen flashes of what Shohei Ohtani can do, both at the plate and on the mound. After lightning up spring training with his bat and entering the 2021 MLB season healthy and ready to pitch, is this the year he finally puts it all together to become the

12:11 AM ET Welcome to the record books, Yermin Mercedes. The Chicago White Sox rookie went 8-for-8 to start 2021, the most consecutive hits to start a season by any player in the modern era (since 1900). Mercedes, who had one major league at-bat entering the season, going 0-for-1 in 2020, has started at DH