7:44 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. CLEVELAND — You will never be able to outwork Gerrit Cole, but you have to try. That is the advice that Cole’s former catchers with the Astros have for Kyle Higashioka, the New York Yankees backup who has earned
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4:46 PM ET Yankees manager Aaron Boone announced Monday that Kyle Higashioka — not Gary Sanchez — will catch Gerrit Cole in Game 1 against the Indians on Tuesday. Cole had a 1.00 ERA in four starts this season with Higashioka behind the plate, but posted a 3.91 ERA in eight starts with Sanchez. “He
6:31 PM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The Miami Marlins‘ first playoff appearance since 2003 is not supposed to last long. They’re regarded as young, inexperienced overachievers who benefited from the short season and expanded playoff format. They were outscored by 41 runs this year, and no team has longer odds of winning the World
6:36 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Jay Johnstone, who won World Series championships as a versatile outfielder with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers while being baseball’s merry prankster, has died. He was 74. He died Saturday of complications from COVID-19 and had suffered from dementia in recent years, according to
12:55 PM ET The Washington Nationals did not make it into this year’s MLB playoffs, so Major League Baseball will crown a different team as champion in 2020. Can the Los Angeles Dodgers get over the final hurdle and take home their first championship since 1988? Or could the Tampa Bay Rays win their first
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN It’s time for the MLB playoffs! After a wild sprint to the finish that needed every day of the regular season to determine the seeding, the real fun begins. For the first time, 16 teams will enter the postseason and just a few short days later half of them will
7:15 PM ET It will be a Major League Baseball postseason like we’ve never seen before: 16 teams, no fans, played in neutral-site ballparks after the first round of the MLB playoffs with a World Series at a new stadium that most players have never seen hosted by a franchise that has never won a
6:17 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels fired general manager Billy Eppler on Sunday, announcing the decision moments after the team concluded its fifth consecutive losing season. The Angels now will search for the third full-time GM of Mike Trout‘s career with hopes that Eppler’s replacement can capitalize on the prime years of one of
8:39 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK — The New York Yankees lost six of their last eight regular-season games, which included series losses to the Toronto Blue Jays and Miami Marlins, but they still limped into the wild-card round as the fifth seed
7:23 PM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — Nationals outfielder Juan Soto became the National League’s youngest batting champion on Sunday, as Washington closed out the season with a 15-5 victory over the New York Mets. Soto walked and singled before being lifted for a pinch hitter in the third inning, elevating his average to