6:48 PM ET Clayton Kershaw will make his 2020 debut for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday vs. the Arizona Diamondbacks. Kershaw was scratched just four hours before he was set to throw the first pitch of the Dodgers’ season because of back stiffness. Kershaw’s back originally stiffened up while he went about his normal
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7:53 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — New York Mets manager Luis Rojas wants to get Edwin Diaz back on the mound quickly. Rojas won’t say if the next outing for Diaz will come in a save situation. Diaz’s role as the Mets’ closer again is being watched closely for the second straight season after
4:55 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told MLB Players Association executive director Tony Clark on Friday that if the sport doesn’t do a better job of managing the coronavirus, it could shut
2:40 PM ET It didn’t take long for the reality of the coronavirus pandemic to affect the restart of the 2020 Major League Baseball season. In just five days, we’ve seen more than a dozen postponements or schedule shifts, affecting eight different teams. It can be difficult to keep track of, but here’s how the
11:32 AM ET ESPN News Services The Miami Marlins, after an 18th player tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday, are getting multiple sleeper buses to take infected players and coaches from Philadelphia to Miami, sources told ESPN’s Jesse Rogers on Friday. In all, the Marlins have had 21 members of the organization test positive over
2:20 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. The New York Yankees will no longer have any players on the COVID-19 injured list after closer Aroldis Chapman was cleared to return to the team, manager Aaron Boone said Friday. Boone said he wasn’t sure when the hard-throwing
2:29 PM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Chicago White Sox promoted second baseman Nick Madrigal on Friday, adding one of their top prospects to the roster. The 23-year-old Madrigal had been training at the team’s auxiliary site in Schaumburg, Illinois. Veteran reliever Kelvin Herrera was designated for assignment. Madrigal was in the
10:10 AM ET The St. Louis Cardinals have had multiple members test positive for the coronavirus, resulting in Major League Baseball postponing Friday afternoon’s game at the Milwaukee Brewers, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. MLB’s quick decision to postpone Friday’s game, which was scheduled for 2:10 p.m. ET, comes after the outbreak within the
Jul 30, 2020 RICK RENTERIA WAS in the Dominican Republic in the winter of 2017, shortly after his first season as manager of the Chicago White Sox. He held a stopwatch in his hand and clicked it as soon as Luis Robert‘s swing produced a routine grounder to the left side. When Robert’s foot touched
6:22 AM ET In a normal season, it would be a mascot’s job to entertain the crowd at an MLB game with hilarious antics in between innings. This is far from a normal season, but those big lovables still gotta make a living. Here’s how they’ve been spending their game days. The best part of