10:52 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Washington pitcher Max Scherzer took over from Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout as baseball’s highest-paid player at $37.4 million and the World Series champion Boston Red Sox remained the sport’s bigger spender for the second straight year, according to a study of major league salaries by
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8:13 PM ET OAKLAND — Mike Trout, playing in his first regular-season game under his record $426.5 million contract, had an injury scare on the most routine of plays in the Los Angeles Angels‘ season opener against the Oakland Athletics. Taking second base on a fielding error by A’s center fielder Ramon Laureano on his
2:46 AM ET Welcome back, baseball. We missed you. Opening Day 2019 featured 15 games, sunny weather (except in Kansas City), good pitching and plenty of home runs and strikeouts. In other words, baseball in 2019 is going to look a lot like baseball in 2018. There were five shutouts, but despite one-third of the
9:49 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Confirmation bias can be prevalent on days like these, when such a long season gets off to such a resounding start. The Los Angeles Dodgers are well aware. They understand that their performance on Thursday afternoon — eight home runs, a record on Opening Day, amid a 12-5 victory
6:34 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” PHILADELPHIA – In his Philadelphia Phillies debut Thursday, Bryce Harper looked and acted like a $330 million man of the people. He wore fluorescent-green shoes that paid homage to the Phillie Phanatic,
5:37 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Milwaukee center fielder Lorenzo Cain soared above the wall to rob Jose Martinez of a tying home run for the final out, lifting Christian Yelich and the Brewers over the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 in an opener Thursday. With at least one Cardinals player in the bullpen already
9:33 PM ET ESPN News Services ARLINGTON, Texas — Elvis Andrus started his 11th season for the Texas Rangers with a catchy new walk-up song — followed by three hits, including a home run, in his first three at-bats of the season. “Baby shark, doo doo doo doo doo doo,” reverberated through the ballpark when
2:13 PM ET ESPN News Services Welcome to the New York Mets, Robinson Cano. Making quite an introduction to his new team, Cano homered in his debut at-bat, taking Washington Nationals starter Max Scherzer deep to center field on a 1-1 changeup in the first inning Thursday. The two-out shot made it 1-0 for the
12:27 PM ET Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Lonnie Chisenhall has been placed on the 10-day injured list with a fractured right index finger, the team announced. The move is retroactive to Tuesday, the team said. Chisenhall was hit by a pitch Monday during a spring training game. He will be out four to six weeks, according
11:49 AM ET Erwin Goldbloom, whose wife, Linda, suffered a fatal brain injury Aug. 25, 2018, when she was struck in the head by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium, told ESPN’s Outside the Lines on Wednesday that the team contacted the family’s attorney last week about a possible moment of silence at a 2019