6:47 PM ET Outfielder Jon Jay, who played parts of 12 MLB seasons and won a World Series ring with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2011, announced his retirement in an Instagram post on Wednesday. Jay, who hasn’t played since he was released by the Los Angeles Angels in March 2021, had a career .283
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5:25 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora rejoined the team in Toronto on Wednesday after missing the past six games because of COVID-19. The Red Sox have gone 1-5 under bench coach Will Venable since Cora tested positive before last Thursday’s home loss to Toronto. Boston is 7-11 overall.
7:45 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — A pair of childhood friends, Lucius Fox and Jazz Chisholm Jr., became the first pair of Bahamas-born players to appear in the same Major League Baseball game since 1961. Chisholm, a second baseman, led off Wednesday night’s game for the Miami Marlins against the Washington Nationals, who started
12:09 PM ET High school right-hander Dylan Lesko, the top pitching prospect in the 2022 MLB draft, had Tommy John surgery Tuesday, a source told ESPN. Lesko, the No. 8 overall prospect in the draft rankings, had the procedure done by Dr. Neal ElAttrache, the head team physician for MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers and the
1:21 AM ET ESPN News Services ST. LOUIS — New York Mets right-hander Chris Bassitt expressed frustration and concern for his teammates after three more Mets batters were plunked in Tuesday night’s 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals, raising the team’s major league-leading total to 18. Bassitt blamed the baseballs, which he says are
3:34 PM ET A years-old letter sent by Major League Baseball to the New York Yankees and obtained by ESPN on Tuesday details illicit use of technology that was relatively benign within the context of the sign-stealing scandals that occurred around the game at the same time. Earlier this month, the U.S. Second Court of
4:07 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball and the players’ association are allowing teams to have an additional pitcher for most of May. MLB and the union said Tuesday that teams may carry as many as 14 pitchers from May 2-29, a change the league said was “for player health purposes.”
6:39 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves placed slumping outfielder Eddie Rosario on the 10-day injured list with blurred vision and swelling in his right eye and expect him to miss eight to 12 weeks. The Braves made the move before Tuesday’s game against the Chicago Cubs. Right-hander William Woods was recalled
7:00 PM ET On Tuesday, a 2017 letter that details an investigation into an alleged sign-stealing effort by the New York Yankees was revealed for the first time. While its contents are not nearly as damning as the revelations about what the Houston Astros did five years ago, the Yankees did spend more than two
12:04 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. A T206 Honus Wagner card sold for $1,528,066 Tuesday morning after a 17-day auction, Robert Edward Auctions announced. While