7:48 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy reportedly will be placed on the paternity list, keeping the National League Player of the Week out for as many as three games. According to multiple reports, the Dodgers will recall top infield prospect Michael Busch for their upcoming three-game series at Pittsburgh that starts
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2:11 PM ET The Chicago White Sox reinstated right-handed reliever Joe Kelly from the 15-day injured list Monday. Prior to the series opener at Toronto, the team also placed right-hander Lucas Giolito on the bereavement list. Kelly, 34, is 0-1 with a 10.13 ERA in three appearances. He went on the IL on April 10
1:33 PM ET Dan HajduckyESPN Close Hajducky is a reporter/researcher for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men’s soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. On Sunday, a Little League baseball hit and signed by a 12-year-old in a game 19 years ago in
12:30 PM ET Tristan H. Cockcroft After a week of aces populating the two-start pitchers list, fantasy baseball’s Week 4 sees a greater number of untested, back-of-the-rotation types gobbling up the multiple-start assignments. Of the 37 pitchers scheduled to work twice, 23 are rostered in more than half of ESPN leagues, and of those 23,
7:00 AM ET IN RECENT SEASONS, whenever Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper reached second base against the Washington Nationals — and then the Los Angeles Dodgers — he made a midgame recruiting pitch to an old friend. Harper knew Trea Turner was still a couple of years from free agency, but as long as his
1:42 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Drew Maggi sat at a hotel across the Allegheny River from PNC Park on Saturday night. The 33-year-old infielder arrived in Pittsburgh around 7 p.m., having just been called up to the Pittsburgh Pirates from Double-A Altoona. Maggi, looking to possibly make his major league debut, reminisced as
2:47 PM ET ESPN News Services Los Angeles Angels rookie catcher Logan O’Hoppe has a torn labrum in his left shoulder and is expected to be sidelined for four to six months, manager Phil Nevin told reporters Sunday. The Angels had put O’Hoppe on the 10-day injured list Friday. O’Hoppe, who bats and throws right-handed,
6:57 PM ET MILWAUKEE — It will be a long time before Boston Red Sox fans know if the offseason signing of Japanese star Masataka Yoshida will pan out. Suffice to say, after his eighth-inning explosion on Sunday, the outlook looks a great deal rosier. Yoshida hit a go-ahead solo homer in the eighth, then
7:41 PM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Taylor Ward, Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani hit consecutive homers in the sixth inning, and the Los Angeles Angels hung on for a 4-3 victory over the Kansas City Royals on Sunday. Trout also had two doubles for the Angels, who managed only one hit in the
4:59 PM ET ESPN News Services Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Sandy Alcantara said Sunday that he expects to start Wednesday against the Atlanta Braves, a day after he was scratched from a scheduled start. The Miami Marlins ace was pushed back from his scheduled start Saturday in the first game of a doubleheader