12:33 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — All-Star second baseman Jeff McNeil of the New York Mets had to be helped off the field in the ninth inning Tuesday night after he sustained a hamstring injury while trying to beat out a grounder in a 5-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves. McNeil says he felt
Month: August 2019
12:34 AM ET Liberty first-year coach Hugh Freeze is away from the team while undergoing treatment for severe back spasms. Freeze, 49, has been unable to attend training camp practices since Sunday, according to the team. He’s expected to return to practice as soon as the back spasms subside. Liberty had workouts Monday and Tuesday
12:07 AM ET NAPA, Calif. — Oakland Raiders receiver Antonio Brown offered the most detailed — and graphic — description of his frostbitten feet yet. It was on Tuesday night’s episode of “Hard Knocks,” when Brown took off his socks and shoes — “Wanna see it?” he teased the camera — to show the peeling
11:53 PM ET Boston Red Sox third baseman Rafael Devers on Tuesday became the first player in the modern era (since 1900) to record a six-hit, four-double game, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Devers went 6-for-6 in Boston’s 7-6 win in Cleveland, picking up his sixth hit and fourth double in the 10th inning. Devers,
11:29 PM ET Jeff WagenheimESPN There were comebacks. There were underdog victories. There was even entertaining fighter talk in the middle of a bout. And at the end of the night at Dana White’s Contender Series, there were four additions to the UFC roster. Four of five winners on Tuesday were offered UFC deals, one
2:53 PM ET West Indies have won only two of their last 11 completed ODIs. It’s an alarming stat on paper, but the team, according to Carlos Brathwaite, isn’t doing as badly as those results might suggest. “I don’t think we are that far away,” Brathwaite said after West Indies’ training session on Tuesday. “We
5:27 PM ET Nathan Eovaldi was used in the bottom of the eighth inning in Tuesday’s win over the Cleveland Indians, postponing his return to the Red Sox‘s starting rotation. Eovaldi was slated to make his first start in weeks against the Indians on Wednesday. However, manager Alex Cora decided to use Eovaldi to get
1:29 AM ET So, yes, the New York Mets are a nice story, bouncing back from midseason despair to reel off a nice stretch that has put them back into the wild-card race. You know what beats a nice story? Generational greatness coming into its own. The Atlanta Braves cooled off the Mets with a
12:56 AM ET ESPN News Services DETROIT — Kyle Seager left Comerica Park with the first three-homer game of his career and he had no idea how it happened. Seager homered in the fourth, sixth and ninth innings, driving in six runs as the Seattle Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 11-6 on Tuesday night. “I
10:08 PM ET OXNARD, Calif. — At the opening of training camp on July 27, Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said the team had to not just do deals with quarterback Dak Prescott, receiver Amari Cooper and running back Ezekiel Elliott — but make the right deals to keep a young roster