5:38 PM ET Associated Press The St. Louis Cardinals returned to the field for light workouts Wednesday, nearly a week after an outbreak of COVID-19 forced the club and its staff members to quarantine in Milwaukee and set the rest of their season into upheaval. Cardinals manager Mike Shildt called it “a breath of fresh
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7:40 AM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago White Sox lost both rookie second baseman Nick Madrigal and designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion to left shoulder injuries during Tuesday’s 3-2 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers. The 23-year-old Madrigal left the game in the third inning after he was thrown out trying to get from first to
7:00 AM ET Pedro GomezMLB Close ESPN’s Pedro Gomez covered the Oakland A’s home and away nearly every day from 1992-97 for the San Jose Mercury News and Sacramento Bee and then became the national baseball writer and later a general columnist at the Arizona Republic before becoming an ESPN bureau reporter in 2003. The
1:40 AM ET CHICAGO — It’s easy to look at the stats and quickly tell why the Chicago Cubs are off to a fast start to this shortened Major League Baseball season. Their 9-2 record — after a nail-biting 5-4 win over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday — can be chalked up to the
11:18 PM ET Los Angeles Angels star Mike Trout homered in his first at-bat as a father, turning on a 2-2 slider from the Mariners‘ Mike Dunn and launching it 407 feet in the first inning of Tuesday’s game at Seattle. Trout, six days removed from his previous game, entered Tuesday batting .324/.428/.639 for his
5:20 PM ET ESPN News Services BALTIMORE — A season of delays produced another one for the Miami Marlins. The start of Miami’s first game in nine days was delayed 40 minutes as Major League Baseball awaited the final coronavirus test results to clear the Marlins to resume play Tuesday at Baltimore. Multiple coronavirus tests
9:24 PM ET Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon doesn’t expect Shohei Ohtani to pitch any more this season, but he doesn’t consider Ohtani’s latest setback an indication that he can’t continue on as a two-way player. “From what I’m seeing, I believe that he can,” Maddon said before Tuesday’s road game against the Seattle
8:06 PM ET MLB rosters will be reduced from 30 players to 28 starting Thursday and remain at that number for the rest of the season and postseason, sources confirmed to ESPN. The initial plan had been to reduce the roster to 28 this week before reducing it again to 26 after another two weeks.
12:21 PM ET ESPN News Services St. Louis catcher Yadier Molina announced on social media Tuesday that he was one of the Cardinals to have tested positive for the coronavirus. “Good morning, I am saddened to have tested positive for COVID-19, even after following the prevention recommendations,” Molina, a nine-time All-Star, wrote. “I’ll do everything
4:21 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Left fielder Juan Soto was reinstated by the Washington Nationals from the COVID-19 injured list Tuesday after missing the team’s first seven games of the season. Manager Dave Martinez did not put the slugger in Washington’s starting lineup against the New York Mets for the opener of a