6:16 PM ET ESPN News Services ARLINGTON, Texas — Houston Astros All-Star infielder Alex Bregman, who left Thursday’s game after a ground ball bounced up and hit him on the chin, is not in the lineup for Saturday’s game against the Texas Rangers. Manager AJ Hinch said during an in-game interview on Thursday’s ESPN broadcast
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10:37 PM ET ESPN News Services ARLINGTON, Texas — All-Star infielder Alex Bregman left Houston’s game at Texas on Thursday night after a ground ball bounced up and hit him on the chin. Manager AJ Hinch said during an in-game interview on the ESPN broadcast that it looked like Bregman’s chin was split open. Hinch
12:43 AM ET ESPN News Services ARLINGTON, Texas — All-Star infielder Alex Bregman left Houston’s game at Texas on Thursday night after a ground ball bounced up and hit him on the chin. Manager AJ Hinch said during an in-game interview on the ESPN broadcast that it looked like Bregman’s chin was split open. Hinch
8:15 PM ET Veteran right-hander Shelby Miller and the Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to a minor league deal, The Athletic reported Thursday. Miller was released by the Texas Rangers last week after the team had designated him for assignment. Looking to bounce back after a series of injuries, Miller signed a one-year, $2 million deal
1:47 PM ET ESPN News Services Houston Astros outfielder Jake Marisnick was suspended two games on Thursday for his collision with Los Angeles Angels catcher Jonathan Lucroy in Houston on Sunday. Lucroy was hospitalized after suffering a concussion and a broken nose in the collision at home plate. Marisnick was called out for colliding with
12:42 PM ET Bubba Starling is finally getting the call the majors with the Kansas City Royals after being selected fifth overall by the team in the 2011 draft. The 26-year-old outfielder, a career .244 hitter in eight minor league seasons, is hitting .310 this season in his first full season with Triple-A Omaha, with
12:38 PM ET ESPN News Services Batters in the Atlantic League will get the chance to steal first base in a new series of experimental rules announced Thursday. As the independent minor league prepares to expand the use of “robot umpires” leaguewide, Major League Baseball and the Atlantic League added four more rules to the
10:45 AM ET ESPN News Services Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz underwent a third surgery earlier this week because of complications from the gunshot wound he suffered last month in the Dominican Republic. Ortiz’s wife, Tiffany, announced the latest surgery in a statement released Thursday by the Red Sox. She did not disclose
10:38 PM ET Associated Press GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — Jim Bouton, the former New York Yankees pitcher who shocked and angered the conservative baseball world with the tell-all book “Ball Four,” has died. He was 80. Bouton’s family said he died Wednesday at the home he shared with wife Paula Kurman. He fought a brain
8:49 PM ET Associated Press YORK, Pa. — “Robot umpires” have arrived. The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls and strikes Wednesday night at its all-star game. Plate umpire Brian deBrauwere wore an earpiece connected to an iPhone in his pocket and relayed the call