11:17 PM ET Catcher Russell Martin took the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers for the second time this season and pitched a scoreless eighth inning — with one strikeout — in an 8-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday. Martin came in with the visiting Dodgers trailing 8-2. “I felt like six runs
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2:04 AM ET OMAHA, Neb. — “My coach, Tim Corbin, he’s Nick Saban,” said Kumar Rocker, the Vanderbilt freshman ace who’d just been named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player. “Tim Corbin and the Vandy baseball team is the hottest brand in Nashville,” said Derek Mason, head coach of the Vanderbilt football team. “Tim
8:30 PM ET Philadelphia Phillies manager Gabe Kapler was fined an undisclosed amount by Major League Baseball for kicking dirt at an umpire’s shoes Saturday during a game with the Miami Marlins at Citizens Bank Park. Kapler came out in the fourth inning to argue with home-plate umpire Chris Guccione when center fielder Scott Kingery
7:35 PM ET ANAHEIM, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani threw off a mound on Wednesday — in the final week of June, before the All-Star break, with still more than three months remaining in the regular season. No, that does not mean he will return to pitch in 2019. “No chance,” Los Angeles Angels manager Brad
6:54 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton went back on the 10-day injured list Wednesday with a sprained right knee, barely a week after returning from a series of setbacks that kept him out of action for almost three months. New York manager Aaron Boone said it’s likely Stanton will
4:16 PM ET The 2-year-old girl who was struck by a foul ball at Minute Maid Park on May 29 suffered a skull fracture and had a seizure, a spokesperson for the family said in a release issued Wednesday. The girl also had subdural bleeding, brain contusions, brain edema and an abnormal electroencephalogram, and is
1:43 PM ET The White Sox lost half their starting infield to injury Wednesday, as shortstop Tim Anderson is headed to the 10-day injured list and third baseman Yoan Moncada left Chicago’s game in Boston with a knee injury. Anderson suffered a high ankle sprain in Tuesday’s loss to the Red Sox and is expected
12:48 PM ET ESPN News Services The results of the MRI on New York Yankees outfielder Giancarlo Stanton right knee were “good,” manager Aaron Boone said Wednesday. “He came in today and there’s no swelling in there, but he’s sore and stiff,” Boone told reporters, according to Newsday. “He’s just kind of going through treatment
11:33 AM ET Associated Press SMYRNA, Ga. — The widow of a beer tap inventor who died inside a walk-in cooler at the Atlanta Braves‘ stadium is blaming a faulty door mechanism and lethal carbon dioxide leaks. Angela Keeling made the allegations in a wrongful death lawsuit filed Friday against the team and its contractors.
12:05 PM ET July can be a tricky month as far as formulating a pitching strategy is concerned in fantasy baseball. 1 Related It’s the month in which the All-Star Game is played, that traditionally on the second or third Tuesday of the month, baking in a three-to-four-day All-Star break that affords teams an opportunity