4:10 PM ET The New York Yankees released veteran right-hander Danny Farquhar, who was trying to work his way back onto a major-league roster after suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm during a game while pitching for the Chicago White Sox last season. Farquhar, 32, signed a minor league contract with the Yankees during the offseason
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3:41 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Rays left-hander Blake Snell was pulled Wednesday after one out against the New York Yankees in one of the worst outings ever by a Cy Young Award winner. Snell walked four, gave up two hits and was charged with six runs in the shortest start of
12:25 PM ET The Atlanta Braves placed left-hander Sean Newcomb on the 7-day concussion list Wednesday. The team made the move retroactive to Tuesday for Newcomb, who was hit in the back of the head by a line drive on Saturday night. The Braves said on Sunday that Newcomb had passed all concussion tests and
11:12 AM ET The Tampa Bay Rays placed infielder Yandy Diaz on the 10-day injured list with an injury to his right hamstring. Infielder Daniel Robertson was recalled from Triple-A Durham in a corresponding move. Diaz is hitting .286 with 11 home runs and 31 RBIs in 56 games this season, making 31 starts at
9:00 AM ET OMAHA, Neb. — The whole place waited. Rain came, the tarp went down, and the legend of Kumar Rocker only grew. Twenty-four hours earlier, Rocker was spotted in the lobby of the downtown Omaha Hilton on Monday afternoon, 6-foot-4 and 255 pounds, a redwood on the prairie. A group of kids approached
3:01 AM ET LOS ANGELES — It was five years ago Tuesday that Clayton Kershaw‘s greatness reached its pinnacle. He twirled nine masterful, no-hit innings against the Colorado Rockies that night. Fifteen batters struck out and only one of them reached base, on a Hanley Ramirez error that prevented a perfect game. At season’s end,
12:12 AM ET CHICAGO — It was a dream come true for Chicago White Sox rookie Eloy Jimenez — just not the dream he thought he would see to fruition. Jimenez, 22, beat the team that traded him, with a ninth-inning home run in the White Sox’s 3-1 win over the crosstown rival Chicago Cubs.
2:41 AM ET In Twins lore, it will go down as the Max Kepler Game. Kepler twice played the hero as the Minnesota Twins pulled out a 4-3 victory over the Boston Red Sox in 17 innings, the longest game in Target Field history and one of the best games of the season. Kepler tied
9:46 PM ET CHICAGO — New Chicago Cubs closer Craig Kimbrel took his first step toward returning to the majors Tuesday, throwing a 1-2-3 seventh inning for Triple-A Iowa. The right-hander threw eight pitches total — four fastballs and four curves. “I heard that he did really well,” Cubs manager Joe Maddon said from Wrigley
8:49 PM ET NEW YORK — While Giancarlo Stanton is ready for what he hopes will be a dramatically healthier remainder of the season, the New York Yankees outfielder acknowledged Tuesday that his recent two-month-plus injured list stint was “very frustrating.” A trio of injuries, one more serious than originally disclosed, made for a challenging