5:45 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — The Tampa Bay Rays put three new pitchers on the roster Monday before a pivotal four-day, five-game series against wild-card rival Toronto, adding right-hander Cooper Criswell as a substitute player to start the opener. Tampa Bay also selected righties Kevin Herget and Javy Guerra from Triple-A Durham.
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11:47 AM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers will have to put the champagne back on ice for at least one more day. Major League Baseball announced an internal error in determining the Dodgers’ postseason clinching scenarios, meaning Los Angeles still has a magic number of one to secure a playoff spot as of Monday morning.
7:00 AM ET Brian Cashman must feel cursed. For years, the New York Yankees general manager has been on a mission to find balance in his lineup, and just when he thought he had finally captured it, it vanished. The Yankees have fallen on hard times, and it’s in part because of injuries and inconsistent
8:59 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Reaching the playoffs is becoming routine yet still special for Justin Turner and the Los Angeles Dodgers. After emphatically becoming the first team to clinch a postseason spot this year with an 11-2 victory Sunday over the San Diego Padres, the Dodgers didn’t celebrate on the
12:53 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Tampa Bay reliever Brooks Raley will miss the Rays‘ five-game, four-day series at Toronto because players must be vaccinated against COVID-19 to enter Canada. Rays manager Kevin Cash said Sunday that Raley will be the only player not making the trip. Raley, 34, will lose $93,407 of
4:10 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa says he is recovering well from having a pacemaker inserted for his heart and is uncertain when he’ll return to run the club. La Russa was back with the White Sox in Oakland on Sunday to celebrate Dave Stewart having
4:49 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hit his 697th home run and moved past Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the career list, connecting Sunday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pujols hit his 18th home run of the season, a two-run drive in the ninth inning that put the
4:56 PM ET Associated Press Anthony Varvaro, a former Major League Baseball pitcher who retired in 2016 to become a police officer in the New York City area, was killed in a car crash Sunday morning on his way to work at the Sept. 11 memorial ceremony in Manhattan, according to police officials and his
7:00 AM ET A year ago at this time, the San Francisco Giants were the biggest surprise in baseball as they rolled through the 2021 regular season with an MLB-best 107 wins. This year? Not so much. San Francisco is instead entering the final weeks of the 2022 season looking up at the .500 mark
9:59 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols hit his 696th home run Saturday night, tying Alex Rodriguez for fourth place on the career list. Pujols, 42, connected in the sixth inning of the Cardinals’ 7-5 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Pujols trails Barry Bonds (762), Hank Aaron (755)