8:40 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts figures he should always use his baseball success to give back to the world. Even in the middle of the World Series. The Boston Red Sox slugger was surprised to find himself in the spotlight this week for a late-night good deed. A few hours
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4:07 PM ET New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes is now in the recovery process after undergoing heel surgery Friday — his second procedure in the past three months. The Mets announced Friday that Dr. Robert Anderson performed the surgery in Charlotte, North Carolina, to remove bone calcification in Cespedes’ left heel. The search for
Walker Buehler needed 26 pitches to record the first three outs and just 67 to record the next 15. Six scoreless innings so far. Buehler has given up only two singles and has struck out five. His 93rd pitch, to strike out Mookie Betts, was 98 mph. Ah, to be young. Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff
2:30 PM ET Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Manny Machado‘s animated second-base display during Wednesday’s Game 2 caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox, with pitching coach Dana LeVangie saying they believed Machado was trying to relay pitches. “Was it a little exaggerated? Yeah, maybe, but I saw the whole thing,” LeVangie told Bleacher Report.
8:10 AM ET Entering Game 4 of the World Series, the overriding question has to be which team has more left in the tank after the 7-hour, 20-minute endurance test that was Game 3. From the first pitch of every series to the last out of Game 7, you can catch the entire MLB postseason
12:30 PM ET The finalists for the 2018 Gold Gloves were announced Thursday. The winners will be announced on Nov. 4 (ESPN, 9 p.m. ET) on the “2018 Rawlings Gold Glove Awards Presented by Dick’s Sporting Goods” show. Here are the finalists in each league. American League finalists Gary A. Vasquez/USA TODAY Sports Pitcher Dallas
9:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers, in desperation mode as the World Series shifts to their ballpark, don’t need to look very far for comfort as they face a 2-0 deficit. They can get it from their manager, Dave Roberts, whose celebrated stolen base sparked a 2004 Boston Red Sox team that became
9:00 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Just how good are these Boston Red Sox? Are they, dare we say, great? When a team wins 108 games and then underscores that by dominating the postseason, it’s fair to ask whether that team is among the all-time greatest. This is where Boston appears headed. The Red Sox
10:57 PM ET Red Sox outfielder Mookie Betts has long provided heroics on the field, and now the likely American League MVP is an All-Star off the field as well after being identified in a tweet performing a simple act of kindness for Boston’s hungry and homeless. Hours after Betts and the Red Sox took
8:09 PM ET Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora wouldn’t commit to J.D. Martinez playing right field in Friday’s Game 3 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Martinez has been playing with a sore right ankle, an injury sustained in Game 1. Martinez looked hobbled when running during Game 2. Speaking to