9:42 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Houston Astros star Jose Altuve has been pulled from a game with left hamstring discomfort. The second baseman left in the first inning Friday night against the Texas Rangers. Houston says the 2017 American League MVP is day-to-day. Altuve beat out an infield single in the first. With
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9:40 PM ET BALTIMORE — Mike Trout called his shot. Kind of. Ninety minutes before Friday night’s series opener against the Baltimore Orioles, 7-year-old superfan Gavin Edelson asked his favorite player to hit a homer for him. Trout, who had gone deep just once in his previous 17 games, responded by telling the youngster, “I
7:59 PM ET Travis d’Arnaud‘s tenure with the Los Angeles Dodgers is over after one pinch-hit appearance. The former New York Mets catcher who signed with the Dodgers on Sunday has been traded to the Tampa Bay Rays for cash considerations, the teams announced Friday. The Dodgers signed d’Arnaud to a one-year deal on Sunday
2:50 PM ET CHICAGO — Cubs infielder Addison Russell attempted to walk back comments he made to the Chicago Sun-Times on Thursday in which he seemed critical of fans who boo him. “Everyone is entitled to doing whatever they want to do, think whatever they want to think, say whatever they want to say,” Russell
May 9, 2019 CHICAGO — Kris Bryant is pretty sure it’s not the bat, but right now, he isn’t leaving anything to chance. After breaking his old bat during a late April plate appearance in Phoenix, Bryant grabbed his backup, an Axe Bat, and homered on his first swing with it. He had never used
8:09 AM ET As we get deeper into the season’s second month, we’re seeing some teams iron out their early-season hiccups and regain their place near the top of our Power Rankings. Witness a pair of big comebacks in this week’s rankings, with the Red Sox and Brewers — the 2018 win leaders from each
1:03 AM ET There are three old scouting reports of Albert Pujols on the Baseball Hall of Fame website. The first is from a Royals scout named Gary Johnson, filed in November 1998 after Pujols had gone undrafted out of high school in Missouri. This was the most positive of the reports. “Good bat spd.
12:31 AM ET NEW YORK — Some tight pitching from New York Yankees starter J.A. Happ on Thursday left Seattle Mariners second baseman Dee Gordon fuming. Specifically, it was seeing two fastballs inside during one plate appearance — the second of which was a 90 mph four-seamer that hit Gordon’s right wrist and forced him
7:00 AM ET All eyes will be on the two hottest teams in baseball, the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs, tangling at Wrigley Field, but there are plenty of other matchups worth watching this weekend. Here’s what we’re most looking forward to. The Arizona Diamondbacks have been one of baseball’s best teams over the past
10:09 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball continues to push for an international draft and is getting buy-in from influential trainers who have grown weary of players as young as 13 years old agreeing to deals