2:57 PM ET NEW YORK — When it comes to Aaron Judge and his future with the New York Yankees, mum is the word. General manager Brian Cashman declined to comment Friday on whether he has been in contract with Judge’s representatives on a new deal. Cashman, however, did not tiptoe around the importance of
MLB
6:22 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Japan’s career home run leader Sadaharu Oh has been hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, Japan’s Kyodo news agency reported on Friday. Kyodo cited the Japanese club the SoftBank Hawks, where Oh is the club chairman. Kyodo said Oh was admitted to a hospital in southwestern Japan in Miyazaki prefecture.
7:00 AM ET THIS WINTER, THE Houston Astros were at a fork in the road. Their longtime shortstop, Carlos Correa, was one of the faces of the franchise, a player who stood up for the clubhouse amid the criticism the team faced from its trash-can-banging, sign-stealing scandal. He was one of the first players the
2:31 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander knew the stakes. He had stepped up to the mound on Thursday for Game 5 of the World Series with plenty to prove. Winless in seven career games in the Fall Classic, he had just blown a 5-0 lead in Game 1 of this series,
2:44 AM ET PHILADELPHIA — After he leaped against the right-center-field scoreboard and secured the catch of his life — a catch that, depending on what the Houston Astros do the rest of this week, could go down as one of the most memorable and important in baseball history — Chas McCormick just laid there,
6:46 PM ET Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — The Houston Astros‘ World Series no-hitter was the most-watched Game 4 in three years. Houston’s 5-0 win over Philadelphia on Wednesday night, a victory that tied the Series at two games apiece, was seen by 11,809,000 viewers on Fox. That was up 9% from the 10,789,000 viewers for
4:21 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — New York Mets outfielder Starling Marte had surgery to repair a core muscle injury that hampered him during the season’s second half. The Mets said Thursday that the operation took place Tuesday and the typical recovery time is eight weeks. That timetable would allow the 34-year-old to
3:44 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals had qualified candidates to become their next manager already in the organization, including one hired by the Chicago White Sox just this week. Yet their six-person committee that waded through the options came to the conclusion that an outside voice was necessary.
2:53 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — Skip Schumaker thought his meeting with the Miami Marlins might last an hour. Turns out, he’ll be around them for quite a bit longer. Schumaker was introduced as the Marlins’ manager on Thursday, a little over a week after accepting the job and replacing Don Mattingly at the
10:17 AM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago White Sox have hired Kansas City Royals bench coach Pedro Grifol to replace Hall of Famer Tony La Russa as their manager, it was made official Thursday. The 52-year-old Grifol will try to lift a team coming off a disappointing season. The White Sox finished second in