6:19 PM ET ST. LOUIS — The Cardinals will start left-hander Jose Quintana in Game 1 of their National League wild-card series against the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday, manager Oliver Marmol announced Thursday. Miles Mikolas will start Game 2 of the best-of-three series for St. Louis, and Marmol is undecided about who would start a
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4:20 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning major league game dropped for the first time since 2018, likely helped by the introduction of the PitchCom electronic device to signal pitches. The average this season was 3 hours, 3 minutes, 44 seconds, the commissioner’s office said Monday. The
3:32 PM ET Associated Press Even with the homer milestones reached by sluggers like Aaron Judge and Albert Pujols, Major League Baseball wasn’t able to coax fans to ballparks at pre-pandemic levels this season, though attendance did jump substantially from the COVID-19 affected campaign in 2021. The 30 MLB teams drew nearly 64.6 million fans
3:22 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Ted Barrett, Alfonso Márquez, Jerry Meals and Jeff Nelson will be the crew chiefs for baseball’s new wild-card series, which start Friday, and Mark Carlson, Marvin Hudson, Dan Iassogna and Bill Miller will be crew chiefs for the division series next week. Barrett will work the AL
7:12 PM ET ESPN News Services Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani has already agreed to a $30 million contract for 2023, his final campaign before free agency, and the club believes it has a shot to keep the two-way talent long term. “I think it’s step one,” general manager Perry Minasian said of Ohtani’s
7:46 PM ET NEW YORK — As Max Scherzer prepares to start Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series against the San Diego Padres, New York Mets manager Buck Showalter did not want to reveal his hand too soon about who will start Game 2 for the club. When asked if the Game 2
7:00 AM ET The 2022 MLB playoffs are here — and for the first time there are 12 teams battling for World Series glory. With an extra round to begin the postseason and the possibility that this year’s Fall Classic extends to a Game 7 on Nov. 5, it will be a very short October
7:00 AM ET THE 35-FOOT WALK from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box at Busch Stadium has become habitual to Albert Pujols. He has made it more than 2,000 times throughout his career (4,000 if you count the old place). But something about it felt different on Sept. 2, when he was announced as
11:05 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Manager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal Eldred were fired by the Kansas City Royals on Wednesday night, shortly after the struggling franchise finished the season 65-97 with a listless 9-2 loss to the Cleveland Guardians. The Royals had exercised their option on Matheny’s contract for
3:36 PM ET ESPN News Services The owner of a sports memorabilia auction house said he offered $2 million to the fan who caught New York Yankees star Aaron Judge‘s American League-record 62nd home run. JP Cohen, president of Memory Lane Inc. in Tustin, California, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he has texted