Oct 25, 2019 The Boston Red Sox on Monday announced that they have hired Tampa Bay Rays executive Chaim Bloom as their new head of baseball operations. Bloom, whose title will be Chief Baseball Officer, succeeds Dave Dombrowski, whom the Red Sox fired as president of baseball operations in September, less than a year after
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7:50 AM ET The World Series returns to Houston for Game 6 on Tuesday, with the home team up 3-2. Is this the 2019 Fall Classic finale, or will the Washington Nationals live to fight another day against the Astros? What’s on tap 8:07 p.m. ET: Nationals at Astros, Game 6 The view from inside
9:30 AM ET The Pittsburgh Pirates have continued their offseason shake-up by firing general manager Neal Huntington on Monday, according to multiple reports. An official announcement is expected later Monday, according to reports. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette first reported Huntington’s dismissal. The Pirates had already fired president Frank Coonelly last week and manager Clint Hurdle on
3:29 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” WASHINGTON — The dawn of the robot umpire is near, and it is time. Game 5 of the World Series exemplified this. Plate umpire Lance Barksdale actually called a decent game by
11:36 PM ET WASHINGTON — It’s not the way you want a World Series game to be decided. You want Gerrit Cole, maybe the best pitcher in the game in 2019, battling Max Scherzer, maybe the best pitcher over the past several seasons, in an epic duel for the ages. Instead we got Cole versus
8:50 PM ET ESPN News Services President Donald Trump was met with loud, sustained boos and chants of “Lock him up!” from fans at Nationals Park when he was shown on the in-stadium video screen after the third inning of Game 5 of the World Series. The boos ended only after the video screen cut
8:50 PM ET Associated Press President Donald Trump is attending his first major league game as president, arriving Sunday night at Nationals Park just before the first pitch of Game 5 of the World Series. The Washington Nationals and Houston Astros are tied at two games apiece. Trump emerged from his motorcade wearing a dark
5:30 PM ET Just hours before first pitch in Game 5 of the tied-up World Series in Washington, D.C., news broke that the highly anticipated duel between Astros ace Gerrit Cole and top Nationals starter Gerrit Cole was not to be. The Nats’ No. 1 has had to be scratched from the assignment because of
4:41 PM ET WASHINGTON — Nationals manager Dave Martinez announced that starter Max Scherzer was scratched from his Game 5 start against the Houston Astros because of spasms in his upper right trapezius. Righty Joe Ross will take Scherzer’s place and will face Astros ace Gerrit Cole. The Nationals and Astros enter Sunday night’s game
Joe Ross, younger brother of pitcher Tyson Ross, came to the Nats from San Diego with a player to be named later, Trea Turner, as part of a three-team trade that sent Steven Souza Jr. to the Rays and Wil Myers to the Padres. Both are now in the starting lineup in Game 5 of