10:00 PM ET ARLINGTON — Before Sunday’s game, Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon expressed complete faith in his bullpen, and despite his relievers’ giving up six runs in the final 3.1 innings against the Texas Rangers, Maddon doubled down on that belief postgame. “It was just one guy [Mike Montgomery] that had a tough time,”
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1:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Shortstop Xander Bogaerts and the Boston Red Sox have agreed to a six-year extension, the team announced Monday. The deal is worth $132 million, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal, which was first reported Sunday as being close by Boston radio station WEEI, includes the $12 million the
9:12 PM ET Shortstop Xander Bogaerts and the Boston Red Sox are finalizing a seven-year, $132 million contract extension, league sources tell ESPN’s Jeff Passan. The deal, which was first reported as close by Boston radio station WEEI, includes the $12 million Bogaerts was scheduled to make this season, then $120 million over the final
12:51 AM ET Through four games of the season, Boston Red Sox pitchers are enduring one of the worst starts for a staff in recent memory, but manager Alex Cora has no regrets about lightening his staff’s load during spring training. “I didn’t rethink about it last year, you saw what happened. It was the
8:41 PM ET Through four games of the season, Boston Red Sox pitchers are enduring one of the worst starts for a staff in recent memory. Just five months after winning the World Series, the Red Sox lost three of four to the Seattle Mariners from Thursday through Sunday while allowing 34 runs — tied
2:34 PM ET Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Christian Yelich has tied a major league record by homering in each of his team’s first four games to start a season. Yelich drilled a 1-0 fastball from Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha over the wall in right field Sunday afternoon for his fourth homer of the season. The
6:26 PM ET MILWAUKEE — It’s easy to say that Milwaukee Brewers star outfielder Christian Yelich has picked up right where his MVP season left off. But he might actually be even better. Yelich tied a major league record in the first inning Sunday, drilling a 1-0 fastball from St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha
10:35 AM ET ESPN Stats & Information The Atlanta Braves and Philadelphia Phillies wrap up their opening three-game series Sunday night on ESPN. Coming off six consecutive losing seasons, the Phillies became the first team in MLB history to add three All-Stars from the previous season to their roster — Bryce Harper, J.T. Realmuto and
10:14 AM ET Four days before the end of spring training, Nick Williams finally bought some furniture. The Philadelphia Phillies outfielder and his fiancée, Brianna, were moving from the furnished apartment they lived in last year to a new one that came unequipped. But Williams didn’t want to pull the trigger on any new furniture
6:35 AM ET A man was severely injured in an altercation at Dodger Stadium on Friday, with the Los Angeles Dodgers saying they are cooperating with the police investigation into the incident. “Last night, an altercation occurred suddenly between two men who were leaving the stadium,” the Dodgers said in a statement Saturday. “One of