2:15 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Mets outfielders Brandon Nimmo and Mark Canha were placed on the injured list Friday after a New York coach tested positive for COVID-19. Neither player was with the team for its home opener at Citi Field against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Mets manager Buck Showalter, without identifying the
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12:19 PM ET NEW YORK — The New York Mets made sure that nobody will forget “The Franchise,” unveiling a long-awaited statue of legendary pitcher Tom Seaver on Friday by the entrance to Citi Field. The statue, featuring Seaver’s iconic drop-and-drive delivery, stands to the right of the Home Run Apple, measures 10 feet high,
7:00 AM ET FIVE YEARS AGO, during one of my eldest daughter’s first Little League games of the season, I noticed her bouncing around at first base on each pitch. It was clear she was imitating someone, and given the only game she’d seen me play in at the time was the Hall of Fame
6:58 AM ET This story originally ran in the November 1956 edition of SPORT Magazine — a year after Jackie Robinson finally won his first World Series with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Before 1955, Robinson had played in four World Series since he debuted in 1947 — all against the New York Yankees, all losses. After
2:52 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The baseball ricocheted off the warning track and sailed into the stands, prompting a pitching change, sending a capacity crowd into a frenzy and leaving Freddie Freeman by himself on second base, in the middle of Dodger Stadium, with his family roaring from a luxury suite and his new
10:02 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw woke up on Thursday morning and did what baseball fans throughout the country did when they watched him get pulled from a perfect game the previous afternoon — he wondered what could have been. “But at the end of the day, in the
5:08 PM ET San Diego Padres pitcher Blake Snell is headed to the IL, clearing the way for top prospect MacKenzie Gore to make his major league debut on Friday. Snell, the 2018 AL Cy Young Award winner, was scratched from Sunday’s scheduled start — his first of the season — with left adductor tightness
4:25 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Teoscar Hernandez was placed on the 10-day injured list Thursday with a left oblique strain. Hernandez was pulled from Wednesday’s 6-4 win over the Yankees with left side discomfort, and an MRI revealed the strain. “You never know with obliques but I don’t
6:16 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The average salary in the major leagues rebounded to $4.4 million on Opening Day, boosted by a frenzy of free-agent signings before and after the 99-day lockout, according to a study of baseball contracts by The Associated Press. New York Mets pitcher Max Scherzer set a season
6:46 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — Texas Rangers reliever Dennis Santana was placed on the COVID-19 injured list after he arrived at the ballpark with symptoms before Thursday night’s game, and tested to determine if he was positive. General manager Chris Young said the team was conferring with Major League Baseball about protocols