12:45 PM ET The Chicago White Sox on Thursday placed left-hander Dallas Keuchel on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sept. 7, with back spasms. He left his start against the Kansas City Royals on Sunday with back soreness, and the team had already announced that he would miss his next turn in the rotation.
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7:00 AM ET Gerrit Cole has a home run problem. Look, the New York Yankees have plenty of issues, and Cole is hardly the biggest of them, but when you sign the most lucrative contract for a pitcher in baseball history, the expectations are skyscraping, especially in New York and for a storied franchise that
1:40 AM ET The legendary baseball writer Roger Angell turns 100 next week. In his classic book “The Summer Game,” he poetically describes his beloved sport: “Since baseball time is measured only in outs, all you have to do is succeed utterly; keep hitting, keep the rally alive, and you have defeated time. You remain
11:32 PM ET ESPN News Services The Atlanta Braves scored 29 runs against the Miami Marlins on Wednesday night, falling just one run short of tying the Major League record for most runs scored in a game. Adam Duvall‘s seventh-inning grand slam gave host Atlanta a 29-9 lead, which ended up being the final score.
8:10 PM ET Associated Press PITTSBURGH — Roberto Clemente’s iconic No. 21 has been a fixture in Pittsburgh for more than 60 years. Its presence has only grown since the Hall of Fame outfielder’s death at age 38 on New Year’s Eve 1972 in a plane crash off the coast of his native Puerto Rico.
9:58 PM ET ESPN News Services OAKLAND, Calif. — The Oakland Coliseum lights shone brightly for miles through a sunless, smoky sky in the middle of the afternoon — hours before they usually would be on for an Athletics night baseball game. By mid-morning across San Francisco Bay, the Giants‘ Oracle Park resembled a black-and-orange
5:05 PM ET Justin Timberlake has joined an investment group working toward bringing a Major League Baseball franchise to Nashville, Tennessee, the Tennessean reported on Wednesday. Music City Baseball, a collective of business and civic leaders as well as entertainers which has an impressive roster already, jumped at the opportunity to add another marquee name,
12:37 PM ET Atlanta Braves star second baseman Ozzie Albies was reinstated from the 10-day injured list Wednesday after missing over a month because of a wrist injury. The Braves optioned infielder Johan Camargo to their alternate training site in a corresponding move. Albies, 23, hasn’t played since Aug. 4 because of a bone bruise
3:31 PM ET ESPN News Services First baseman Justin Smoak, who was released by the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday, was signed to a minor league deal by the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday. The Giants will send Smoak, 33, to their alternate site. Brandon Belt has been getting the bulk of the playing time at
12:30 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Howie Kendrick was put on the 10-day injured list by the Washington Nationals on Wednesday with a strained left hamstring. The 37-year-old first baseman and designated hitter has missed the past three games for the 2019 World Series champions, who are in last place in the NL East.