3:32 PM ET Major League Baseball on Thursday has suspended six players and both managers for their roles in the benches-clearing brawl between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night. Reds manager David Bell (six games) and pitchers Amir Garrett (eight games) and Jared Hughes (three games) were disciplined. Yasiel Puig, who acknowledged
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3:32 PM ET Major League Baseball on Thursday suspended six players and both managers for their roles in the benches-clearing brawl between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night. Reds manager David Bell (six games) and pitchers Amir Garrett (eight games) and Jared Hughes (three games) were disciplined. Yasiel Puig, who acknowledged after
2:50 PM ET ESPN News Services Major league batters are on pace to hit 600 more home runs than in any previous season, nearly 10% above the record set two years ago. There were 1,057 home runs in July, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, breaking the previous July record of 961 in 2004. A
3:29 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” THE FIRST CALL came about 24 hours before Major League Baseball’s 4 p.m. ET July 31 trade deadline. Houston Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow reached out to his counterpart with the Arizona
11:29 AM ET ESPN News Services The San Francisco Giants have placed outfielder Alex Dickerson on the 10-day injured list with a right oblique strain. The Giants announced the move before Thursday afternoon’s game against the Philadelphia Phillies. Dickerson, 29, missed two straight seasons in 2017 and 2018 because of back and elbow injuries. The
8:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — If the Los Angeles Dodgers, owners of baseball’s best record, don’t win this year’s World Series, the focus — fair or not — will probably shift back to July 31, 2019, the day the team’s front office failed to secure the high-end reliever it so desperately needed and coveted.
1:03 AM ET ESPN News Services Boston Red Sox starter Rick Porcello took out his frustrations on a couple of TV monitors in the dugout Wednesday night. Porcello allowed six runs on nine hits and one walk, striking out seven in 5⅔ innings before leaving with a 6-2 deficit against the Tampa Bay Rays. He
11:37 PM ET Right-hander Trevor Bauer was officially traded from the Cleveland Indians to the Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday — but he was still on hand as the Tribe took on the Houston Astros at Progressive Field. Bauer also met with Indians manager Terry Francona for a final time. Francona said the meeting with Bauer
10:00 PM ET NEW YORK — They might have been forced to put their pencils down, but the New York Yankees‘ real test is about to begin. It’s going to be a tough one. Thanks in large part to the gargantuan, buzzer-beating undertaking pulled off by the Houston Astros in the closing seconds of Wednesday’s
9:49 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers didn’t make a big move at the trade deadline, but they’ve got reinforcements coming: Dustin May, their top pitching prospect, will make his major league debut Friday against the San Diego Padres, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. May, 21, is 3-0 with a 2.30 ERA in five starts