Month: September 2021

12:36 AM ET It’s a little melodramatic to suggest the Toronto Blue Jays‘ season was on the line Wednesday night against the New York Yankees, but it’s not exactly incorrect. With the Boston Red Sox closing out a 6-0 victory over the hapless Baltimore Orioles, the Blue Jays were tied 5-5 in the eighth inning,
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9:52 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Royals star Salvador Perez hit his team-record-tying 48th home run in the first inning, then exited after the second due to a sprained right ankle Wednesday night. Perez homered on the first pitch he saw, extending his major league lead with a three-run drive against the
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8:07 PM ET Shohei Ohtani‘s season as a pitcher is over. Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon said Wednesday that he spoke with Ohtani recently and the two decided he would not make his next scheduled start in Sunday’s season finale against the Seattle Mariners, a team that entered play Wednesday only a half-game back
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12:58 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Luis Rojas’ fate as New York Mets manager likely will be determined before the team hires a president of baseball operations. With a disappointing 2021 season coming to a close, New York holds an option on Rojas’ contract for next year. The club plans to bring in
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8:37 PM ET ESPN News Services TORONTO — Blue Jays slugger Marcus Semien set a major-league record for home runs by a second baseman when he hit his 44th of the season on Wednesday night against Yankees ace Gerrit Cole. Semien’s homer, a two-run drive into the left field bullpen, broke a tie with Davey
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11:08 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. LOUIS –The Cardinals’ team-record 17-game winning streak ended when Daniel Vogelbach hit a two-run homer that backed starting pitcher Adrian Houser and led the Milwaukee Brewers over St. Louis 4-0 on Wednesday night. St. Louis was given a standing ovation after the defeat by the crowd of 35,283.
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11:07 PM ET SAN DIEGO — The LA Clippers are mourning the death of a video assistant in the organization’s digital content group. Assane Drame, 26, died in a car accident Monday night. The native of Blackwood, New Jersey, had just worked earlier Monday at the team’s media day. Drame joined the Clippers in 2019
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1:06 AM ET METAIRIE, La. — New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson and team officials revealed the teams’ long-term succession plans in detail for the first time on Wednesday, telling The Times-Picayune and WVUE-TV that they would be sold with the goal of keeping the teams in New Orleans and distributing the proceeds
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5:42 PM ET The UFC has added another important bantamweight fight to its late-year slate. Former longtime UFC and WEC featherweight champion Jose Aldo will meet the surging Rob Font in the main event of a UFC Fight Night card Dec. 4 in Las Vegas, sources confirmed Tuesday with ESPN. The bout was first mentioned
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