6:38 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Harrison Bader tripled and homered to help the St. Louis Cardinals clinch a postseason berth on the final day of the regular season with a 5-2 win over Milwaukee on Sunday, and the Brewers earned a playoff spot via help on the West Coast. St. Louis (30-28)
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8:58 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani wants to remain a two-way player for the Los Angeles Angels, even though he didn’t come close during the shortened season to matching his performance from 2018. Ohtani went 1-for-4 with a strikeout — and grounded out to first for the final out — in
8:38 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — Miami outfielder Starling Marte and right-hander Jose Urena left Sundays’ regular-season finale against the New York Yankees after getting hurt in the early innings. Marte was hit on the front of his helmet by Clarke Schmidt‘s 94 mph fastball in the second inning. The pitch knocked
3:54 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Ronald Acuna Jr. has been removed from the Atlanta Braves‘ lineup in their regular-season finale due to irritation in his left wrist. The postseason-bound Braves say the move before Sunday’s game against Boston was made as a precaution. Even so, the report of renewed soreness in Acuna’s wrist
1:46 PM ET The Boston Red Sox announced Sunday that Ron Roenicke will not return as the team’s manager for the 2021 season, with a search for a new skipper beginning immediately. Roenicke took over as interim manager in February following the parting of ways with Alex Cora during the fallout from the Astros sign-stealing
12:52 PM ET The Atlanta Braves activated Pablo Sandoval on Sunday, the final day of the regular season. He will be playing third base in Sunday’s game against the Boston Red Sox. Sandoval is being prepped for a bench role in the postseason for the NL East champions. The Braves have a lot of right-handed
10:40 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Welcome to the most potentially chaotic day in baseball history. It’s easy to fall prey to the moment and hyperbolize, but, no, what Sunday has in store is legitimately mad. When Major
8:00 AM ET Picking the second-best day of Francisco Lindor‘s tenure with the Cleveland Indians is a daunting task. Maybe it was the night in 2017 when Lindor slammed a double to extend Cleveland’s winning streak to 22 games, or perhaps it was the day when he hit the home run against the Boston Red
8:25 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels were mathematically eliminated from postseason contention at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, which means that in nine full seasons in the major leagues, Mike Trout — considered by many the game’s greatest player for most, if not all, of those seasons — has made the playoffs only once.
10:05 PM ET ESPN News Services NEW YORK — DJ LeMahieu is on the verge of a first in more than a century of Major League Baseball: the first player to win undisputed batting titles in both the American and National Leagues. Luke Voit is about to become a more common name atop the leaderboards