12:30 PM ET Chicago Cubs right-hander Trevor Williams was placed on the 10-day injured list Monday with appendicitis. The move was made retroactive to Friday. The Cubs recalled right-hander Kohl Stewart from Triple-A Iowa in a corresponding move, and he will start Chicago’s game on Monday against the San Diego Padres. The 29-year-old Williams is
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7:00 AM ET Multiple Contributors It’s Memorial Day, which means one extra little thing for MLB fans: You’re now officially free to look at the MLB standings. The old adage among baseball fans is that you should avoid checking the standings until Memorial Day. Allowing two months of the season to play out first gives
7:46 AM ET May began with two Mays pitching. The month also included the 90th birthday for Willie Mays. And that is just the beginning — because there was plenty of wild, weird and wacky. Here are The Quirkjians for May. May 1Dodgers pitcher Justin May made his first appearance ever in a game in
10:48 PM ET When Memorial Day weekend reached Sunday, the slate of games in the National League teased the possibility of a full day when generational pitchers were dominating the highlight reels. You know them by their last names, that’s how famous they are, but we’ll give you first names, too: Max Scherzer. Clayton Kershaw.
1:32 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Tampa Bay reliever Ryan Thompson and his teammates will have no problem getting motivated when the Rays and New York Yankees renew their intense American League East rivalry Monday. “I think a lot of it has to do with their attitude toward us. They hate us,
11:13 AM ET Associated Press PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — Catcher Matt Wieters has been dropped from the U.S. roster for Olympic baseball qualifying that starts Monday. “He’ll be on our radar if we do get the opportunity to move forward,” U.S. manager Mike Scioscia said Sunday. Wieters, a four-time All-Star, hit .200 (7-for-35) with
11:04 AM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Roman Quinn was placed on the 60-day injured list with a left Achilles tendon injury on Sunday. Quinn left Saturday’s game at Tampa Bay in the fifth inning. He stumbled and fell while rounding third base on Ronald Torreyes‘ two-run double, got up
6:00 AM ET Major League Baseball’s 2020 cutout craze was never intended to be anything more than a fad. Fun in the throes of a pandemic. Faces taped to ballpark seats so we could laugh instead of cry — and be given something to think about besides the fact that we wanted to be sitting
10:53 PM ET There may actually be good news in the midst of what might have been the lowest point in history of the Colorado Rockies, and we’ll get to that in a moment. In the meantime, here’s what happened Saturday: The Pittsburgh Pirates shut out the Rockies in both games of a doubleheader, holding
5:28 PM ET ESPN News Services Josh Donaldson of the Minnesota Twins scored the 2 millionth run in major league history Saturday, trotting home in the first inning on a ground-rule double by Nelson Cruz against the Kansas City Royals. The Elias Sports Bureau confirmed Donaldson touched the plate for the milestone mark. The former