2:53 AM ET A few months before Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash was born, his 2020 American League Championship Series counterpart, Dusty Baker, supposedly co-invented the high five with his late Dodgers teammate, Glenn Burke. Cash was born on Dec. 6, 1977, and Baker had been a major leaguer for a nearly a decade.
7:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s postseason bubble appears to be working as a defense against the coronavirus. MLB players extended their streak of consecutive days with no new positive COVID-19 tests to 47 through Thursday. Players did not have positive tests in 55 of the previous 56 days, the
11:04 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” ARLINGTON, Texas — Atlanta Braves left-hander A.J. Minter made history with his first career start Friday. Then he made it again with his performance. After becoming the first Major League Baseball pitcher
2:54 AM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Mookie Betts‘ third-inning shoestring catch altered the momentum and Will Smith‘s sixth-inning home run off his namesake proved to be the difference, but all throughout, there was Corey Seager, a forgotten man on this star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers team, producing like he has through the entirety of his resurgent
11:45 PM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. SAN
8:22 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Bret Holmes couldn’t chase down Cory Heim as the sun set on the ARCA Series finale at Kansas Speedway. It didn’t really matter. The 23-year-old from Munford, Alabama, won the series championship over Michael Self by finishing second Friday night. Holmes began the race eight points
5:39 AM GMT ESPNcricinfo staff The Pakistan Cricket Board has admitted to being “disturbed and disappointed” after nine players – including three from the national team – and three officials were found to have violated Covid-19 protocols at their hotel in Rawalpindi during the ongoing National T20 Cup. Though Covid-19 tests eventually carried out on
9:55 PM ET ESPN News Services NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Larson, who was suspended indefinitely after using the N-word during a virtual race in April, has applied for reinstatement, a spokesperson for the sanctioning body confirmed Friday. Larson, who was fired by Chip Ganassi Racing, applied for reinstatement earlier this week and NASCAR is
9:22 PM ET Associated Press NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Xander Schauffele began his second round by missing a 4-foot birdie putt. That was hardly a sign of what was to follow Friday in the CJ Cup at Shadow Creek. Schauffele made putts as short as 3 feet and as long as 35 feet. He
9:44 PM ET For the first time since the Players Championship was canceled in March after one round, the PGA Tour will allow a limited number of spectators at a U.S. event during next month’s Houston Open. The Bermuda Championship in two weeks will be the first to admit a limited number of spectators. The