7:00 AM ET There is one thing Major League Baseball executives, scouts and players can agree on when it comes to the 2020 National League Cy Young race: It’s going to go down to the wire. With a tip of the cap to Los Angeles Dodgers star Clayton Kershaw, his current 1.98 ERA just isn’t
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2:12 AM ET If you had any doubt about whether this was real — whether Monday’s Major League Baseball game truly meant more than any had all year and whether the San Diego Padres had truly elevated themselves enough to become a legitimate threat to the mighty Los Angeles Dodgers — consider the disdain with
10:12 PM ET Pablo Sandoval has a new home. The veteran infielder signed a minor league deal Monday with the Atlanta Braves and will report to their alternate training site in Gwinnett, Georgia, MLB Network reported. The 34-year-old Sandoval was released by the Giants last week. In his second stint with the team, he was
11:47 PM ET ESPN News Services SEATTLE — Monday’s doubleheader between the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners was played with a haze of smoke hovering above the field at T-Mobile Park, even with the retractable roof of the stadium closed. Wildfires on the West Coast have suffocated much of the Pacific Northwest with unhealthy air
5:00 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN The 2020 MLB playoffs are less than two weeks away, even though it seems like only yesterday that the regular season kicked off. The compressed 60-game schedule is rapidly coming to a close, and the MLB standings are tight heading to the finish with wild-card positioning, postseason seeding and the
5:55 PM ET Billionaire Steve Cohen reached an agreement Monday to take majority ownership of the New York Mets. The sale is subject to the approval of the Major League Baseball club owners. Once that hurdle is cleared, he’ll assume full control of the franchise. At least 23 of the 30 owners will need to
2:17 PM ET ESPN News Services The Oakland Athletics have signed former All-Star infielder Jake Lamb, the team announced Monday. Lamb was designated for assignment last week by the Arizona Diamondbacks after struggling for the majority of three straight seasons. The 29-year-old Lamb looked like a future star at third base just a few years
7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff We’re just two weeks from the MLB playoffs and the 2020 version promises to be full of thrills. Not only do we have an expanded 16-team format that should bring a March Madness feel to the best-of-three first round, we’ve got some exciting teams in the mix that we haven’t
6:11 AM ET Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Ji-Man Choi is expected to be out at least two to three weeks with a strained left hamstring, with manager Kevin Cash saying it would take a “miraculous recovery” for him to be ready for the playoffs. Choi, who suffered the Grade 1 hamstring injury while scoring
9:00 PM ET CHICAGO — You won’t confuse Chicago Cubs right-hander Alec Mills with any of the flamethrowers in baseball, but perhaps you’ve seen his teammate — and 2016 ERA champ — Kyle Hendricks pitch. Mills is called a “baby Hendricks,” and Hendricks is called a “baby Maddux” — a reference, of course, to Hall