10:14 PM ET ESPN baseball analyst Jessica Mendoza was involved in a motor vehicle accident this weekend and had to miss her regular Sunday Night Baseball broadcast. Mendoza’s vehicle was rear-ended on Friday but she escaped serious injury. She is recovering at home and is expected to return to the SNB broadcast booth next Sunday
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10:36 PM ET Things are getting serious, my friends. Citi Field was rocking and shaking; the Milwaukee Brewers drew more than 121,000 fans for a three-game series against the Texas Rangers; Yordan Alvarez is still mashing; Aristides Aquino is making us learn his name; and Hyun-Jin Ryu keeps rolling along. Nowhere was the baseball more
7:32 PM ET The Baltimore Orioles pulled off one of the biggest MLB upsets in the past 15 years Sunday. The Orioles, who were listed as high as +420 underdogs at some U.S. sportsbooks, knocked off Justin Verlander and the Houston Astros 8-7. The Washington Nationals beat the Minnesota Twins as +390 underdogs in 2007,
6:47 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Carlos Santana hit a grand slam in the 10th inning, and the Cleveland Indians beat the Minnesota Twins 7-3 on Sunday to win the four-game series and forge another tie for the AL Central lead. The Twins tied the game with four hits in a two-run ninth against
5:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Asdrubal Cabrera hit a tiebreaking two-run double against his former team and the Nationals bullpen finally locked down a lead in Flushing, lifting Washington over the streaking New York Mets 7-4 Sunday. Nationals star Juan Soto was injured on Cabrera’s bases-loaded hit in the seventh inning. Soto
4:25 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Young star Juan Soto has been pulled from the Washington Nationals game against the New York Mets after turning his right ankle running the bases in the seventh inning. Soto walked to load the bases and went first-to-third on Asdrubal Cabrera‘s two-out, two-run double Sunday. Third base
1:20 PM ET CINCINNATI — Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon’s confidence level in returning to the team next year is “very high,” he said on Sunday. Maddon, 65, is in the final year of a five-year deal with the team, and his contract situation won’t be decided until after the 2019 season. “I’m operating like
11:53 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The mess in the Atlanta Braves‘ clubhouse made by a punctured fire extinguisher has been cleaned up before Sunday’s series finale at Miami. The damage occurred when Braves reliever Sean Newcomb kicked a garbage can in anger after giving up the winning run in the 10th inning of
10:52 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. Twelve years into his big league career, Pablo Sandoval is used to being labeled. Some of those labels were ones he dreamed of earning as a young boy in Venezuela. Major league player, which he achieved in 2008. MVP
2:43 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — As Mets rookie Luis Guillorme stepped in to lead off the eighth inning, teammate J.D. Davis was in the clubhouse, studying video of Washington’s struggling bullpen. He had just queued up tape of Daniel Hudson — a hard-throwing right-hander warming in the bullpen — when he heard