4:26 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The price of qualifying offers for Major League Baseball free agents rose by $1.1 million to a record $18.9 million. Determined by the average of the top 125 major league contracts this year, the figure announced Thursday is based on full salaries, not the prorated pay that
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Lineups are out for Thursday’s Game 3 between the Braves and Marlins, a contest Miami has to win . Marlins manager Don Mattingly will start rookie Jazz Chisholm at second base today, bumping Jon Berti to right field and Matt Joyce to the bench. Chisholm, 22, made his big-league debut earlier this season, hitting .161
12:35 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Zack Greinke, dealing with arm soreness in recent days, will start Game 4 of the American League Division Series for the Houston Astros on Thursday, opposing Oakland Athletics right-hander Frankie Montas. Astros manager Dusty Baker said he is “not really sure” what Greinke can provide. Greinke, 36, hasn’t completed
12:00 AM ET THERE WAS A time when Austin Nola woke up every morning thinking of somewhere else. He had the schedule memorized: Los Angeles today, Oakland tomorrow, back to Seattle next week. He thought of all those places, better places, big league places, where affirmation blinked in the distance. If he got the call
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN The Oakland Athletics were able to fend off elimination Wednesday — and they’ll have company on the postseason tightrope Thursday. The A’s, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees and San Diego Padres all will be playing for their playoff lives, meaning the division series round could be complete by early Friday
7:00 AM ET In the seventh inning of a game against Baltimore on May 26, 1995, Ken Griffey Jr. tracked a towering fly ball to right-center off the bat of Orioles outfielder Kevin Bass. Near the wall, he jumped up and his feet splayed in midair like an Olympic hurdler’s. Griffey stuck his right cleat
2:50 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 — They played this year, amid the fear and the death and the anguish and discomfort, so they could have a night like this. The baseball game staged here Wednesday
2:02 AM ET For years, the Los Angeles Dodgers knew that if they could just get a lead to the ninth inning, Kenley Jansen was waiting to jog in from the bullpen to finish things off. After Jansen struggled through yet another appearance on Wednesday, the formula for manager Dave Roberts is no longer so
11:33 PM ET Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash said the team will use Ryan Thompson as an opener for a potential closeout Game 4 against the New York Yankees on Thursday. The 28-year-old right-hander pitched two scoreless innings in relief of starter Blake Snell in Monday’s Game 1 of the American League Division Series.
The Dodgers’ NLDS roster is out. Los Angeles will carry 14 pitchers and 14 position players. The additional hurler will be righty reliever Dylan Floro. Meanwhile, L.A. added infielder Gavin Lux to its position player mix. Infielder Edwin Rios and catcher Keibert Ruiz, both of whom were on the Wild Card roster, were left off