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7:26 PM ET Associated Press The Cleveland Indians will pay regular salaries to full-time employees through June 30, but the club has had to furlough others due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The team said senior executives took “voluntary salary reductions” to ensure the team could continue to pay staffers. The Indians confirmed they have furloughed

8:00 AM ET So here’s the way this started. I absolutely was not spending even more uncounted hours tooling around Baseball-Reference.com for random nuggets of baseball information, and I absolutely did not totally geek out when I discovered that Rube Waddell still holds the Orioles’ franchise record for strikeouts in a game — set in

8:25 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1982, Wade Boggs got his first hit in the major leagues. There would be 3,009 more hits for

9:49 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Retired Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is back home after falling and being hospitalized. The team quoted Scully on Twitter on Saturday, saying, “I’m home and resting comfortably with my wife and we are both eagerly awaiting the Time for Dodger Baseball!” That’s a phrase announced

2:05 PM ET Baseball, at this moment, is like the craft of Apollo 13. Badly damaged, drifting, its original mission obsolete; the great plans for what was supposed to be have been scrapped. The question now is whether it can return, through collaboration and imagination. For Apollo 13, a fight among the astronauts about who

6:01 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — A major league official testified he suggested Ángel Hernández be removed from consideration for the 2015 World Series because he did not think commissioner Rob Manfred would approve the umpire to work baseball’s premier event. Hernández sued Major League Baseball in 2017, alleging race discrimination and cited

6:38 PM ET Associated Press NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan — When Wang Wei-chen had a base hit for the Chinatrust Brothers, no one booed or cheered from the stands at the suburban Taipei ballpark. No one hurled insults at the umpires. And no one yelled the Chinese-language line of encouragement “add oil” to either team.

8:25 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1967, Omar Vizquel was born. Omar Vizquel has the greatest hands I’ve ever seen. And, after Ozzie Smith,

8:00 AM ET Mark Hamilton had been around long enough to learn that on struggling affiliates, the minor league free agents are usually the first to go. The Gwinnett Braves, Atlanta’s Triple-A farm team, languished through most of the summer in 2014. Hamilton joined them over the offseason, three years after earning a World Series

1:48 PM ET NEW YORK — Select games from the final 10 days of the MLB The Show Players League, including its playoff tournament, will be broadcast on ESPN, ESPN2, FS1 and MLB Network starting Thursday night. ESPN2 will broadcast select regular-season games Thursday and Saturday, while MLB Network will broadcast select regular-season showdowns on

7:46 AM ET You love baseball. Tim Kurkjian loves baseball. So while we await its return, every day we’ll provide you with a story or two tied to this date in baseball history. ON THIS DATE IN 1952, Hoyt Wilhelm hits a home run in his first major league at-bat. Wilhelm, a notoriously bad hitter,

7:00 AM ET PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — In the final days of spring training, before the abrupt closure of camps due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Tampa Bay Rays twice deployed a four-man outfield against Ozzie Albies in a game against the Atlanta Braves. That in itself isn’t remarkably unique, as the Rays used four

3:06 PM ET ESPN News Services Major League Baseball on Wednesday suspended Boston Red Sox video replay system operator J.T. Watkins without pay through the 2020 postseason and stripped the team of its second-round draft pick this year after completing its investigation into allegations the team illegally stole signs during the 2018 season. Former Red

8:00 AM ET Philadelphia Phillies star Aaron Nola is spending the coronavirus pandemic shutdown in Clearwater, Florida, where his team normally holds spring training. Between workouts with a few teammates, he spoke with ESPN.com about the numerous charities he has been involved with during the coronavirus crisis, as well as how he’s staying busy and

7:00 AM ET With on-field sports in the U.S. still on hold during the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone is waiting for Major League Baseball to return to action. But as hard as that wait might be for fans on the outside looking in, imagine being a ballplayer whose mission, every day for eight or nine months

7:02 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Alex Rodriguez, once again, wants to be like Derek Jeter. A-Rod and fiancée Jennifer Lopez have retained J.P. Morgan to represent them in raising capital for a possible bid for the New York Mets, according to multiple reports. The move was first reported by Variety. A

7:00 AM ET This week’s edition of MLB Encore Tuesdays (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET) features the classic Game 5 of the 1995 American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and Seattle Mariners, a chance to watch Ken Griffey Jr. in his prime and Don Mattingly’s final game in pinstripes. To get you ready

1:26 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” On the day Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told a wide swath of the sport’s staffers that “I fully anticipate baseball will return this season,” more than half the teams in