12:33 PM ET A 24-year-old sports bettor, who was accused of threatening professional and collegiate athletes on social media, was sentenced to 36 months of probation Thursday in federal court in Tampa, Florida. In March, Benjamin Patz, of Napa, California, pleaded guilty to one count of transmitting threats in interstate or foreign commerce, according to
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7:00 AM ET We’re already two months into the 2021 MLB season, and the standings are starting to come into focus with teams already 50-plus games into their schedules. What does that mean for our first MLB Power Rankings of June? Well, for starters, there’s plenty of movement at the top, including a very tight
1:00 AM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — Cody Bellinger had a grand slam and six RBIs as the Dodgers scored 11 times in the bottom of the first during a 14-3 blowout over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday night in Dodger Stadium. The 11 runs marked the Dodgers’ highest-scoring inning in a
5:59 PM ET The Washington Nationals have placed Stephen Strasburg on the 10-day injured list with a neck strain, the team announced Wednesday. The move comes a day after the right-hander exited a start against the Braves after just 1 1/3 innings due to what the team said at the time was a tight right
7:01 PM ET CHICAGO — A collision in left field between San Diego Padres outfielder Tommy Pham and shortstop Ha-Seong Kim in Wednesday’s loss to the Chicago Cubs led to a short confrontation in the visitor’s dugout while Pham and Kim had to leave the game. The incident occurred with the bases loaded in the
8:03 PM ET ESPN News Services Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Madison Bumgarner is set to undergo an MRI after leaving his start against the New York Mets on Wednesday in Phoenix with left shoulder discomfort, manager Torey Lovullo said. Bumgarner lasted just two innings, his shortest outing since Aug. 9, 2020. He allowed five earned runs
9:20 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” On the corner of two unpaved roads in a little Florida town sits a ramshackle green-and-white house that for years looked like the site of a cult gathering, and in a way
2:32 PM ET Television analyst Bob Brenly has apologized for a comment he made about Mets pitcher Marcus Stroman‘s head covering during Tuesday night’s game. Stroman had tweeted that the comment had “racist undertones.” Brenly, the former World Series-winning manager who now calls Diamondbacks games for Bally Sports Arizona, made a crack about Stroman’s attire
11:27 AM ET Associated Press CINCINNATI — The series finale between the Phillies and the Reds scheduled for Wednesday — billed as Cincinnati’s “Second Opening Day” — was postponed because of rain. Wednesday’s game was to have been the first time this season that a capacity, mask-less crowd was allowed at Great American Ball Park,
12:39 PM ET ESPN News Services Four minor league pitchers have been suspended this season by Major League Baseball after being caught using illegal foreign substances to doctor baseballs, signaling a stronger crackdown in the game’s feeder system than in the big leagues during a historically dominant stretch by pitchers. Chicago White Sox right-hander Marcus