Month: July 2020

8:00 PM ET There is baseball in just over four days. Real, live major league baseball, with standings and statistics and strikeouts. Max Scherzer will throw the first pitch of the abbreviated 2020 season when the Washington Nationals host the New York Yankees on Thursday night on ESPN. It’s going to look weird, with no

4:39 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — The Blue Jays’ front office is working to find a major league ballpark for the team to use this year after Canada’s government barred Toronto from playing in its home stadium amid the coronavirus pandemic, pitcher Anthony Bass said Sunday. Canada denied the Blue Jays’ request to play

6:00 PM ET Major League Baseball and players have been in conversation about how to incorporate social justice elements into the sport, according to league and player sources, with the most recent conversation scheduled for Sunday. It’s unclear what form the elements will take, whether it be some kind of logo placed on uniforms or

6:32 PM ET Chicago White Sox manager Rick Renteria let a bobblehead do the talking when naming his Opening Day starter. Asked by reporters whether Lucas Giolito would start in the opener against the Minnesota Twins on Friday, the manager slowly raised a bobblehead figure of the right-hander. “I don’t know. I’ll let you guys

6:42 PM ET Pitcher Julio Teheran said Sunday that his delay in reporting to the Los Angeles Angels‘ summer camp was because he tested positive for the coronavirus. The right-hander said he began to have symptoms two days before the start of camp. He was later tested and the result came back positive. He made

7:17 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani‘s final tune-up start before the regular season was by far his most encouraging. The Los Angeles Angels‘ two-way sensation faced 22 batters and struck out six of them over the equivalent of five innings in an intrasquad game on Sunday afternoon. Ohtani allowed just five singles, one