12:41 PM ET Throughout its storied history, Fenway Park has hosted football games, an outdoor NHL game, soccer games, the Harlem Globetrotters, concerts, an elephant party (back in 1914) and even Franklin Roosevelt’s final campaign speech in 1944. In recent months, it served as a vaccination site for COVID-19. Now it will host a series
MLB
12:33 AM ET The biggest declaration of this young baseball season: Vladimir Guerrero Jr. now officially carries a very loud, very lethal and very powerful bat. Guerrero launched three home runs and drove in seven RBIs in the host Toronto Blue Jays‘ 9-5 victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday. Two were off Max Scherzer,
6:57 PM ET ESPN News Services The St. Louis Cardinals placed catcher Yadier Molina on the 10-day injured list Tuesday because of a tendon strain in his right foot, the team announced. Molina initially injured his foot on Friday while running out a double. He missed games on Saturday and Sunday against the Cincinnati Reds
7:20 PM ET ESPN News Services The San Francisco Giants acquired outfielder Mike Tauchman from the New York Yankees on Tuesday for left-handed reliever Wandy Peralta and a player to be named later. The 30-year-old Tauchman, a veteran of five major league seasons, had a breakout year for the Yankees in 2019 when he set
4:54 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Outfielder Luis Robert was placed on the injured list Tuesday by the Chicago White Sox as a precaution after he reported feeling flu-like symptoms. General manager Rick Hahn said in a statement that Robert informed the team’s medical staff of the symptoms Monday night. The team is awaiting
8:05 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Jerry Blevins, a left-handed reliever who split the bulk of his career between the Oakland Athletics and New York Mets, announced his retirement after 13 big league seasons Tuesday night. The 37-year-old last pitched in the majors for Atlanta in 2019. He had been working at the
5:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball says 70% of players, on-field staff and support personnel have been fully or partially vaccinated for the novel coronavirus. Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement Tuesday during SporticoLive’s online discussion of its estimates to baseball franchise valuations. In an email to The Associated
4:12 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball would consider expansion fees in the range of $2.2 billion for new franchises, though there are no current plans to add teams. Commissioner Rob Manfred spoke Tuesday during SporticoLive’s online discussion of its estimates to baseball franchise valuations. The company estimated the average MLB
12:09 PM ET While Major League Baseball has been experimenting with extra innings rule changes in recent years, the Pioneer League — an independent league designated as an MLB Partner League — is taking things a step further. On Tuesday, the league announced that it will implement a first-of-its-kind “Knock Out” rule that will resolve
7:00 AM ET ON A 68-DEGREE Saturday in late October, Art Shamsky left his apartment to see a friend. He grabbed a baseball and an old glove, and took the subway to a deserted train car on the Long Island Rail Road. New York was still skittish, and Shamsky had been too. He’d never been