9:38 PM ET Another night, another powerful statement from Pete Alonso. The rookie Mets slugger on Friday hit his 50th home run of the season, sending a towering two-run shot to deep right-center field as New York built a 5-0 lead against the Reds in Cincinnati. Alonso continues to chase the rookie home run record.
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9:42 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill remains undeterred despite a season in which he missed 12 weeks because of a flexor tendon strain in his pitching elbow and then reinjured his knee last week in the first inning of his return. Eight days after suffering what was diagnosed as a strained
7:29 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — New York YankeesYankees pitcher CC Sabathia is getting set to close his career as a reliever. New York manager Aaron Boone said before Friday night’s game against Toronto that Sabathia will work out of the bullpen next week as the American League East champions prepare for the
7:00 AM ET There are only 10 days left in MLB’s regular season, but five playoff spots are still up for grabs. As the hunt for October comes down to a few huge late-season series, we’re about to find out who’s in and who’s out. Here’s what we’ll be watching this weekend: There’s still a
11:58 AM ET Washington Nationals manager Dave Martinez will be back in the dugout Friday after missing three games following a heart procedure on Monday, the team announced. Martinez, 54, had a minor cardiac catheterization in Washington after experiencing chest pains during Sunday’s home game against the Atlanta Braves. He left in the sixth inning
11:19 AM ET ESPN News Services Right-hander Domingo German will not pitch for the New York Yankees again in 2019 following his placement on administrative leave under the joint MLB-MLBPA domestic violence policy, sources told ESPN’s Buster Olney on Friday. German had been placed on administrative leave Thursday following an incident that Major League Baseball
9:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” A year ago, the Oakland A’s had one of the best offenses in baseball. But, in a strange quirk, they were easily the league’s worst against high-velocity fastballs: a league-low .191 batting
1:01 AM ET CHICAGO — How many times have this season’s Chicago Cubs gotten a boost only to quickly fall backward? And if the boost the Cubs received Thursday evening — a surprise return to the lineup for injured first baseman Anthony Rizzo — wasn’t enough to lift them for even one night, is there
12:57 AM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — The St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs wasted no time trading blows in the first game of their crucial four-game series. Then, the Cardinals’ Matt Carpenter delivered a haymaker that put the rival Cubs on the ropes. Carpenter homered in the 10th inning against Craig Kimbrel in the
11:04 PM ET ESPN News Services MIAMI — Don Mattingly says he’s glad to be returning next year as the Miami Marlins manager to provide stability for a struggling franchise, because as a player he experienced the other extreme. Mattingly played for the New York Yankees from 1982 to 1995, when they made 12 managerial