12:08 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Major League Baseball umpire Larry Vanover remained hospitalized Thursday after being hit in the head with a relay throw during Wednesday’s game between the New York Yankees and Cleveland Guardians. Vanover was struck on the left side of his head in the fifth inning by a throw from
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2:18 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Jeffrey Springs left Thursday’s game against the Boston Red Sox in the fourth inning with an apparent injury. Springs looked down at his pitching hand after throwing an 0-2 pitch to Boston’s Justin Turner. The left-hander threw an additional warmup pitch as Rays manager Kevin Cash and a
7:00 AM ET There’s a new top team in our rankings! After two weeks of baseball, the Rays remain undefeated, their 12-0 start the best since the 1987 Brewers. Will they be able to keep up this dominance? Or will the division rival Yankees catch them soon enough? As if that wasn’t surprising enough, elsewhere
7:00 AM ET We are two weeks into the 2023 MLB season, and most teams have played a dozen games of their 162-game schedule. In other words, it’s early. Perhaps too early to glean a whole lot from what has happened so far. But what’s the fun in that? We asked our MLB experts to
10:28 PM ET ESPN News Services ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Tampa Bay Rays won their 12th straight game to start the season, one short of the best major league start since 1900, as Randy Arozarena hit a three-run homer in a 9-7 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Wednesday night. The 1987 Milwaukee
10:51 PM ET Associated Press BALTIMORE — Chad Smith‘s first major league win came courtesy of a rarely applied official scoring rule. It was an unusual twist at the end of a long day for the Oakland reliever. Smith pitched the final two innings of the Athletics’ 8-4 victory over Baltimore on Wednesday night, holding
4:12 PM ET Texas Rangers star shortstop Corey Seager will miss at least four weeks with a strained hamstring. Rangers general manager Chris Young told reporters Wednesday that Seager has been diagnosed with a Grade 2 strain of his left hamstring. The Rangers placed Seager on the 10-day injured list and activated outfielder Leodys Taveras
9:52 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Umpire Larry Vanover is expected to be hospitalized overnight after being hit in the head with a relay throw on Wednesday in a “scary” moment during the New York Yankees game against the Cleveland Guardians. Vanover is being evaluated for a concussion and other injuries at the Cleveland
2:45 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone was ejected in the first inning Wednesday against the Cleveland Guardians following a heated exchange with umpires over a play that was not initially reviewed by instant replay. Boone spent several minutes pleading his case after the Yankees appeared to end the
2:36 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Twins shortstop Kyle Farmer was hit in the face by a fastball from Chicago White Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito in the fourth inning Wednesday. The initial diagnosis was announced by the Twins as a jaw injury after the 92 mph pitch from Giolito ran inside and knocked