7:58 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s postseason bubble appears to be working as a defense against the coronavirus. MLB players extended their streak of consecutive days with no new positive COVID-19 tests to 47 through Thursday. Players did not have positive tests in 55 of the previous 56 days, the
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2:53 AM ET A few months before Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash was born, his 2020 American League Championship Series counterpart, Dusty Baker, supposedly co-invented the high five with his late Dodgers teammate, Glenn Burke. Cash was born on Dec. 6, 1977, and Baker had been a major leaguer for a nearly a decade.
4:44 PM ET Atlanta Braves left-hander A.J. Minter will make the first start of his career in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday. Minter is expected to serve as an opener for the Braves, as he has not pitched two full innings in his 144 career
1:26 PM ET A federal grand jury indicted former Los Angeles Angels communications director Eric Kay Thursday on charges related to the 2019 death of pitcher Tyler Skaggs. According to the indictment, Kay, who told federal agents he provided drugs to Skaggs, is charged with distributing a controlled substance that resulted in Skaggs’s death and
7:00 AM ET At the end of every day during the baseball postseason, I run a set of simulations to estimate the updated probabilities for each series and the ultimate outcome of the bracket. I add the newest results to a log and send them in to Bristol HQ for inclusion in our ongoing coverage
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN For the fifth straight day, we have a league championship series doubleheader. Welcome to the excess that is the 2020 MLB playoffs. This time, two teams face elimination as the Astros have their backs to the wall for the third straight game and the powerhouse Dodgers are staring at the
12:59 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” ARLINGTON, Texas — One night after a record-setting run-scoring performance, the Los Angeles Dodgers couldn’t muster more than one hit against a rookie with seven career starts and are now on the
10:51 PM ET One of the great historical debates in baseball is whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot in the 1932 World Series. There is no doubt about Carlos Correa: The Houston Astros star definitely called his in Game 5 of the AL Championship Series. Correa hammered a home run to center field
10:42 PM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. SAN
11:03 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Globe Life Field, the $1.2 billion facility that opened earlier this year, includes a retractable roof that was left open for Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on Thursday night, subjecting members of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves to gusts of wind that were blowing