12:38 AM ET LOS ANGELES — The Milwaukee Brewers will start Gio Gonzalez in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night. Brewers manager Craig Counsell announced the decision Monday after the Brewers beat the Dodgers 4-0 to take a 2-1 series lead. “It’s conversation with Derek
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8:32 PM ET HOUSTON — If Alex Bregman was trying to get a rise out of the Boston Red Sox, it didn’t work. On Monday, the Houston third baseman posted a video to his Instagram account that showed the Astros hitting back-to-back-to-back home runs at Minute Maid Park against Nathan Eovaldi, with the text caption,
6:21 PM ET Boston Red Sox starter Chris Sale was released from a Boston-area hospital Monday morning and will rejoin the team Tuesday after dealing with a stomach illness, the team announced. Sale was admitted Sunday afternoon to Massachusetts General Hospital, where he stayed for overnight observation. Red Sox manager Alex Cora said following Sunday
5:20 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Joc Pederson is in the midst of a very busy two-day stretch. On Sunday, at 6:27 p.m. PT, his wife Kelsey gave birth to a 7-pound, 11-ounce baby girl. On Monday, he was in the starting lineup for his team, batting leadoff against Milwaukee
4:45 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have their third hitting coach in as many seasons after the team announced on Monday that it had hired former Rangers hitting coach, Anthony Iapoce. Iapoce, 45, replaces Chili Davis, who lasted one year on the job after Davis replaced John Mallee. Iapoce is a Mallee disciple,
11:10 AM ET The Atlanta Braves have given manager Brian Snitker a two-year contract extension with a club option for 2021, the team announced on Monday. Snitker, in his third year managing the team, led the Braves to a 92-70 record and the National League East title, their first division crown since 2013. Brian Snitker
8:20 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Ben Shaffar spent eight seasons plodding the minor leagues as a pitcher and finally gave up the dream in 2006, after tasting Triple-A in the Philadelphia Phillies‘ organization. He was going to finish school, then assimilate to a normal work life. But a friend kept badgering him about coaching
7:50 AM ET From the first pitch of every series to the last out of Game 7, you can catch the entire MLB Postseason on ESPN Radio. Listen &» After two one-run thrillers in Milwaukee, a tied National League Championship Series heads west for the sunshine of Southern California. Will the two teams sustain the
2:09 AM ET BOSTON — It’s never easy in postseason baseball. With the final swing of the game Sunday night, Alex Bregman sent the ball sailing out toward left field. In any other park in the major leagues, it’s a majestic — but routine — fly ball. At Fenway Park, with the Green Monster looming
2:01 AM ET BOSTON — As David Price walked off Fenway Park’s pitcher’s mound on Sunday, the sold-out crowd gave him something he has seldom heard in the postseason in his career: applause. It was while departing in the fifth inning of Game 2 of the American League Championship Series that the Boston Red Sox