3:07 AM ET BOSTON — A seven-run ninth inning capped a comeback by the Houston Astros in their 9-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Tuesday night. Houston trailed 2-1 after the first inning of play, until second baseman Jose Altuve homered in the eighth
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2:30 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” BOSTON — By numbers alone, the 268th pitch in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series wasn’t particularly noteworthy. It left Nathan Eovaldi‘s hand at 80.4 mph and descended more than
12:02 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Dodgers manager Dave Roberts summed up the gravity of the moment best: “It just flipped everything.” That was just one way Roberts described a three-run home run by Cody Bellinger that did more than tie a game in the bottom of the eighth inning. It just might have rescued
5:13 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The price of a qualifying offer to Major League Baseball free agents dropped by $500,000 to $18.4 million, a sign of the slide in salaries. The figure is determined by the average of the top 125 major league contracts this year and marks only the second fall.
8:46 AM ET Aaron Boone, who has led the New York Yankees to the postseason in each of his four seasons in the Bronx, will return as manager on a new three-year deal with a club option for 2025, it was announced Tuesday. “We have a person and manager in Aaron Boone who possesses the
2:44 PM ET ESPN News Services With the managerial situation taken care of, the New York Yankees will next turn their attention to improving the roster, specifically at shortstop, general manager Brian Cashman said Tuesday. Cashman said he’s in the market for a shortstop to replace Gleyber Torres, who was moved to second base on
12:30 AM ET Kyle Schwarber stepped out of the batter’s box and stretched his arms and his bat above his head, loosening up his limbs and the long-sleeved shirt underneath his Red Sox jersey. He wasn’t going to swing anyway. Right? Three balls, no strikes, bases juiced, see if Jose Urquidy can throw a strike
7:00 AM ET After one of the greatest second-place seasons in MLB history, after dispatching their rival San Francisco Giants in the National League Division Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers are in trouble. Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Just like in 2020, they’re down 0-2 to the surging Atlanta Braves. Back then, the
1:19 AM ET BOSTON — The new and old school ways of baseball etiquette clashed during the Boston Red Sox‘s 12-3 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the ALCS on Monday night when Carlos Correa grounded out to second baseman Christian Arroyo to end the sixth inning. As Red Sox pitcher Eduardo
1:49 AM ET BOSTON — Red Sox manager Alex Cora called it “close to a perfect game” played by his team in defeating the Houston Astros 12-3 in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. Once again, their offense was the story. It was dominant. “Offensively, this is the best we’ve