7:00 AM ET Opening Day on the South Side of Chicago wouldn’t have been particularly pleasant. Fans would have bundled up in winter clothes to guard against windchills that dipped into the mid-30s. Grouchy reporters would have worked behind closed windows in the press box, sealing them away from both the elements and the ballpark’s
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Mar 26, 2020 On Saturday, March 28, ESPN will be airing four classic 20-strikeout performances on “Strikeout Saturday.” Over eight hours starting at 12 p.m. ET, we’ll air Roger Clemens (vs. the Mariners in 1986), followed by Kerry Wood (vs. Astros in 1998), Randy Johnson (vs. Reds in 2001), and Max Scherzer (vs. Tigers in
9:46 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association struck a deal on critical salary and service-time issues Thursday night, allowing the sides to prepare together for a season delayed indefinitely by the
9:04 PM ET Associated Press Jimmy Wynn, the diminutive Houston Astros slugger whose monster shots in the 1960s and ’70s earned him the popular nickname “The Toy Cannon,” has died. He was 78. The Astros said Wynn, a three-time All-Star outfielder, died Thursday in Houston but did not provide further details. Just 5-foot-9, Wynn was
6:00 PM ET On Thursday, March 26, ESPN2 will be airing a Home Run Derby Classics marathon starting at 6 p.m. ET with 2019’s epic battle between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Pete Alonso in Cleveland. After that, it will be 2018 (Washington, D.C.), 2017 (Miami) and 2015 (Cincinnati). To help you celebrate the Home Run
5:03 PM ET Eric WoodyardESPN Major League Baseball players won’t be needing their uniforms for a while, so MLB and Fanatics executive chairman Michael Rubin have announced plans to use the fabric instead to make at least 1 million masks and hospital gowns to support health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic. Rubin said the
4:03 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Right-hander Michael Kopech was optioned to Triple-A Charlotte by the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. Kopech, 23, is among the top pitching prospects. He missed last season after he had Tommy John surgery in September 2018, but he hit triple-digits on the radar gun during his first spring
4:01 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Former Atlanta Braves owner Bill Bartholomay, who moved the franchise from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966 to become Major League Baseball’s first team in the South, has died. He was 91. Bartholomay died Wednesday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, according to his daughter, Jamie. Braves Hall of Famer Hank
7:00 AM ET This was supposed to be opening week, the time when MLB fans everywhere look forward to making a season’s worth of memories. Because we won’t have games to get excited about for a while, we thought it would be fun to take a walk down memory lane by reliving some of our
1:50 PM ET Texas Rangers outfielder Willie Calhoun, who suffered a broken jaw after getting hit in the face by a baseball during a spring training game on March 8, said he has been cleared to resume workouts. “Got cleared to start doing my daily workouts and baseball activities again,” Calhoun said Thursday on Twitter.