6:05 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Christian Yelich watched helplessly from the dugout as the Brewers’ season ended. Milwaukee controlled the first 7 1/3 innings of Tuesday’s NL wild-card game in Washington before a stunning collapse. All-Star closer Josh Hader was wild, and the Brewers were stung by a disputed hit-by-pitch, a broken-bat base
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5:33 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Astros manager A.J. Hinch expects shortstop Carlos Correa to play on Friday the AL Division Series opener. Correa missed the last week of the regular season because of a sore back, but Hinch said Wednesday that he has been working out all week and feels great. Hinch said
12:52 PM ET The Cleveland Indians will exercise their $17.5 million team option on ace Corey Kluber but will not pick up second baseman Jason Kipnis‘ $16.5 million option, according to team president Chris Antonetti. The decision does not mean that the Indians are opposed to Kipnis returning to Cleveland, where he has spent his
1:59 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Ten years ago, when he started Driveline Baseball as a hobby to help young players learn more about baseball, Kyle Boddy held true a few absolute principles. The sport was rapidly evolving
Sep 25, 2019 NEW YORK — Brian Cashman told a story about a horse named Nifty. Cashman hated his summer job on his father’s farm in Kentucky, hated mucking out stalls and cleaning fecal stains from barn walls with his bucket of ammonia and oversized brush. Young Brian loved baseball, and he wanted no part
7:00 AM ET While certain teams have turned the act of not spending on major league payroll into an art — if you consider losing 114 or 108 or 105 games a form of art — we can all agree that the Tampa Bay Rays and Oakland Athletics don’t spend due to obvious market limitations.
7:13 AM ET Well, we’re off and running. The MLB playoffs got off to a wild start Tuesday in Washington, with more fun on the way with the American League wild-card game Wednesday in Oakland. What’s on tap The most important thing of the day: Who gets to face the Astros? The Rays and A’s
3:05 AM ET WASHINGTON — It was an awfully close shave. Not the Washington Nationals‘ stunning, one-run, come-from-behind wild-card win against Josh Hader and the Milwaukee Brewers. Although that was close, too. The shave in question was the one on Davey Martinez’s face on Tuesday afternoon. “I screwed up,” said Washington’s manager, explaining why his
1:16 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” WASHINGTON — At 11:24 p.m. on Tuesday, less than half an hour after Trent Grisham committed the error that cost the Milwaukee Brewers their season, the man he replaced approached his locker
12:25 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers mowed through the regular season with a franchise-record 106 victories and stand as favorites to reach the World Series for a third consecutive fall. They trailed only the Houston Astros in run-differential, led the National League in OPS and paced the entire sport in ERA.