2:00 PM ET BALTIMORE — On Monday afternoon, New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Hicks walked through the visitors clubhouse at Camden Yards, carrying a shiny black bat. Ken Singleton, the former Orioles slugger and current Yankees broadcaster, stopped him and asked if he could check out the stick. Hicks forked over the lumber and Singleton
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10:00 AM ET Associated Press TOKYO — Pitcher Koji Uehara, whose dominant season in relief helped the Boston Red Sox win the 2013 World Series, has retired with Japan’s Yomiuri Giants — the team that he first played for in Japan. The 44-year-old Uehara announced his retirement at a news conference in Tokyo, saying it
10:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” Six years ago, when Christian Yelich was just a prospect looking forward to a long career as a Miami Marlin, an interviewer asked him a question: MiLB.com: Do you consider yourself a
12:33 AM ET ESPN News Services ARLINGTON, Texas — Rangers reliever Shawn Kelley earned his third save of the season in Texas’ 5-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night, hours after learning that two lumps removed from his throat last week were benign. Kelley, 35, was placed on the injured list on May
1:48 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” For years, opponents of Major League Baseball’s draft who believed it stifled the true value of players have hypothesized about ways to avoid its constraints. Nineteen-year-old Carter Stewart is ready to test
11:00 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Nineteen-year-old pitcher Carter Stewart is in agreement with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League on a six-year contract worth more than $7 million, a groundbreaking deal that could have
12:06 AM ET ESPN News Services DETROIT — Ron Gardenhire was ejected from the Detroit Tigers‘ game against the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night after the Tigers’ manager came out to argue following a replay reversal in the bottom of the ninth inning. With men on first and third and one out, Detroit’s Ronny Rodriguez
9:29 PM ET BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Orioles have reached the century mark. On Tuesday, the Orioles surrendered their 100th home run of the season, making them the fastest to ever reach that mark. They achieved the dubious distinction in the fifth inning, when New York Yankees outfielder Clint Frazier drilled a three-run shot to
8:00 AM ET Dodger Stadium played “Last Time That I Checc’d,” the hit song by Nipsey Hussle, and Alex Verdugo, who used the track as his walk-up music last season, got excited. He lifted himself onto the top bench of the home dugout and started to sway. Then there was that time when Clayton Kershaw
12:23 AM ET CHICAGO — It wasn’t exactly Kirk Gibson-esque, but not long after getting an MRI on his right heel, Chicago Cubs shortstop Javy Baez helped his team to victory with a walk-off single in their 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday. Baez, 26, hadn’t played since leaving Sunday’s game in Washington