1:23 AM ET BALTIMORE — Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora pushed back against recent media discussion of what could be perceived as a racial divide in the Boston clubhouse ahead of the team’s trip to the White House on Thursday. Cora and several Red Sox players will not attend the ceremony with President Donald
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12:49 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Facing the famous New York Yankees for the very first time, Yusei Kikuchi really stuck it to ’em. Maybe he had a little illicit help. Kikuchi pitched brilliantly into the eighth inning and Ryon Healy had four extra-base hits as the Seattle Mariners routed New York 10-1
2:21 AM ET BALTIMORE — The Boston Red Sox are at .500 for the first time since the second game of the season, something nobody expected to say about the defending champions as the schedule approaches mid-May. Celebrating climbing back to .500 shouldn’t represent a major achievement, but that’s where Boston is right now after
8:12 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs say they have identified and now banned the fan who was observed on camera making what appeared to be a hand gesture associated with racism during Tuesday night’s broadcast of a home game against the Miami Marlins at Wrigley Field. In a statement Wednesday, the Cubs said
7:06 PM ET Texas Rangers slugger Joey Gallo earned a place in baseball’s history books with a major league first on Wednesday. Gallo hit a two-run shot into the Allegheny River in the third inning of the Rangers’ 9-6 win at the Pittsburgh Pirates, becoming the first player in major league history to hit 100
9:24 PM ET Chicago Cubs infielder Addison Russell returned from suspension on Wednesday, striking out in his first at-bat to a chorus of boos and a smattering of applause in his first game in a big league uniform since Sept. 19. Russell, 25, was suspended 40 games in September for violating the league’s domestic abuse
4:01 PM ET Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson, whose melee-inciting bat flip three weeks ago continues to follow him, told ESPN’s The Dan Le Batard Show on Wednesday that he is just trying to draw fans by having fun and isn’t worried about how other teams react to him. “I like to go out
10:00 AM ET NEW YORK — A few weeks ago, affixed to a corkboard in a hallway inside the cramped visitors clubhouse at Angel Stadium, was one of the 34 iterations of a lineup the New York Yankees have used in the 35 games they’ve played this season. As batting orders go, it was a
8:57 AM ET Philadelphia Phillies chairman David Montgomery is dead at age 72 from cancer, the team announced Wednesday. Montgomery had surgery in 2014 for jawbone cancer. Montgomery began his career with the team in 1971, working in the ticket office and helping to run the scoreboard. “David was truly a great man,” Phillies chairman
7:00 AM ET All you needed to know about how the Los Angeles Angels value Shohei Ohtani‘s bat was evident in where he hit in his first game back: the No. 3 spot, directly behind Mike Trout, against a lefty. Ohtani’s return — 0-for-4 with a walk, two strikeouts and a run-scoring groundout in a