8:04 AM ET St. Louis Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold performed CPR on a man in distress Sunday in the Chicago Cubs dugout, helping to save his life. The Cubs were about to announce that manager Joe Maddon would not be returning to the team, but there was a delay. That was because videographer Mike
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6:50 AM ET The story of the 2019 baseball season has been all the home runs. Pick your favorite storyline and there’s a good chance it circles back to home runs in some fashion: Twins, Yankees, Pete Alonso, Cody Bellinger and Christian Yelich, Ronald Acuna Jr. hitting 41 at age 21, Alex Bregman, Yordan Alvarez
7:00 AM ET Whether you are a die-hard fan who has been following every pitch since Opening Day or playing catch-up as the 2019 MLB postseason begins, the start of October means the best time of the baseball season is ahead of us. Will anyone keep this month from belonging to the Houston Astros? Can
12:12 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning game reached a record length in the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball said Sunday the final figure for the 2019 regular season was 3 hours, 5 minutes, 35 seconds. That topped the 3:05:11 in 2017. The average had dropped
11:15 PM ET Brad Ausmus may lose his job as manager of the Los Angeles Angels after just one year with the team, sources told ESPN on Sunday. His status has been under review by the team’s leadership in recent days, at the end of what has been a disappointing season on the field and
10:27 PM ET The MLB single-season record. A slew of team single-season records. The all-time rookie record. And many more. If there was a home run record in the books, there’s a good chance it was rewritten now that the homer-happy 2019 regular season is complete. How amazing was the great power surge we all
8:28 PM ET ESPN News Services The Minnesota Twins hit three home runs in Sunday’s loss to the Royals to push its major league record to 307, one ahead of the New York Yankees for the most in the majors. C.J. Cron and Jake Cave went back-to-back in the first and Jason Castro added a
7:40 PM ET Former Chicago Cubs catcher David Ross, who is considered a leading candidate to succeed Joe Maddon as the team’s manager, was asked during Sunday’s Baseball Tonight show if he’d be interested in the job if the Cubs called. “I think it’s one of the best jobs in baseball,” said Ross, who currently
7:10 PM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Gerrit Cole capped a special season by checking off some milestones. Cole earned his career-high 20th win, added to his major league-leading strikeout total and finished with the best ERA in the AL, wrapping up a dominant season for himself and the Houston Astros with an 8-5
4:54 PM ET The MLB regular season is in the books and the 2019 MLB playoff field is officially set. As 10 teams begin their October quests for World Series glory, we asked ESPN.com’s Bradford Doolittle, Jeff Passan and David Schoenfield to weigh in on who is built to make deep runs, which supposed powerhouses