10:27 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. LOUIS — Miles Mikolas fell one strike short of a no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals against the Pittsburgh Pirates when Cal Mitchell doubled with two outs in the ninth inning Tuesday night. Mitchell drove a 2-2 curveball just over the head of Gold Glove center fielder Harrison
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2:02 AM ET ESPN News Services Plate umpire Nate Tomlinson was forced to exit the Freeway Series opener between the Dodgers and Angels at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night after being struck in the face by a broken bat. With one out in the top of the ninth inning, Angels slugger Mike Trout hit a
6:35 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr.’s surgically repaired left wrist hasn’t progressed to the point where the electrifying All-Star shortstop can start swinging a bat, general manager A.J. Preller said Tuesday. Tatis had a three-month follow-up exam in Arizona on Monday with Dr. Donald Sheridan, who operated on his broken
8:51 PM ET Left-handed pitcher Chris Sale, a veteran with 241 starts in his career, told reporters Tuesday at Fenway Park that he’d be willing to return from injury as a relief pitcher. Working his way back to the Boston Red Sox after suffering a stress fracture in his rib cage, Sale, 33, threw a
9:55 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Walker Buehler underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove a bone spur from his troublesome right elbow on Monday. Buehler had been debating whether to remove the bone spur for about three years and finally relented because the 10-to-12-week recovery from that procedure is the same
6:52 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom are moving closer to a return for the National League East-leading Mets. Scherzer, who injured his left oblique while pitching against St. Louis on May 18, returned to New York after rehabbing in Florida and threw in the outfield at Citi Field
8:57 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Houston Astros right-hander Hector Neris began serving a reduced suspension Tuesday night, a week after his ejection from a game in which he plunked one Seattle Mariners batter and nearly hit another in the head. Neris was initially suspended four games by Major League Baseball for his
5:27 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Blue Jays left-hander Hyun Jin Ryu will miss the rest of the season because of ligament damage in his elbow, the team announced Tuesday. The extent of the damage and the precise nature of the surgery required to repair it is still unknown, but general manager Ross Atkins
7:00 AM ET I WAS STANDING behind home plate on Feb. 24 at Buford High School in Georgia watching right-hander Dylan Lesko, the best prep pitching prospect in the 2022 MLB Draft, arguably the best prep pitching prospect in years. A scouting director of a team picking in the middle of the first round took
12:15 PM ET ESPN News Services St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Jack Flaherty will make his season debut Wednesday against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He will be limited to 60 pitches. Cardinals manager Oliver Marmol made the surprise announcement before the first game of a day-night doubleheader against the Pirates on Tuesday. Flaherty had been scheduled to