1:29 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Adam Ottavino took the mound, wearing a flannel uniform and a glove half the size of his regular leather. Up to the plate stepped the Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat himself. The Bambino hit five thunderous drives as the pitcher turned his head to watch the
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8:05 AM ET Eleven days into the regular season, you might not expect huge changes in our Power Rankings, but you’d be wrong. Teams and players are already making indelible first impressions on this season, and it’s showing in the standings — and our first regular-season rankings of 2019. Boston didn’t suffer its eighth loss
6:07 AM ET A new study reports that younger umpires are better at calling balls and strikes than older umpires and that umpires selected for recent World Series games have not necessarily been the best performers. Boston University finance professor Mark Williams and a team of BU graduate students studied the results of nearly four
12:03 AM ET The beginning of this little Reds-Pirates fracas on Sunday at PNC Park was somewhat predictable. Derek Dietrich hit a long home run off Chris Archer in the second inning into the Allegheny River … and, well, he did admire his work: Derek Dietrich sends a souvenir into the river. 😳 pic.twitter.com/BcZ4EJfreJ —
9:04 PM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. PHOENIX
4:08 PM ET Todd ZolaFantasy Close Writing on fantasy baseball game theory and player analysis since 1997 Winner of the 2013 Fantasy Sports Writer’s Association Best Baseball Article After setting a home run record on Opening Day, MLB hitters have continued to send the ball out of the park at a historic pace. While the
7:34 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — Orioles first baseman Chris Davis is nearing a record streak for futility. Davis was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts in Sunday’s 15-3 loss to the New York Yankees. He is 0-for-23 with 13 strikeouts this season and is hitless in 44 at-bats since a second-inning double off James Shields
6:30 PM ET BALTIMORE — Granted one final plate appearance Sunday afternoon, Gary Sanchez sauntered from Camden Yards’ visiting on-deck circle to its batter’s box with one thought on his mind. It was the same thought many in the 33,102-person crowd had, and one that was even murmured about in the New York Yankees‘ dugout:
5:27 PM ET The Colorado Rockies placed left-hander Tyler Anderson on the 10-day injured list Sunday with left knee inflammation. Anderson is 0-2 with an 11.00 ERA in two starts this season. He has allowed a National League-worst 18 hits in nine innings pitched this season. He went 7-9 with a 4.55 ERA in 32
3:28 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Catcher Travis d’Arnaud has been activated by the New York Mets, nearly one year after he had Tommy John surgery to repair a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow. D’Arnaud was reinstated from the 10-day injured list before Sunday’s game against Washington, and the