12:46 PM ET Tempers flared in the first Los Angeles Dodgers–Houston Astros matchup since an offseason of fallout from Houston’s 2017 sign-stealing scandal — and Joe Kelly, a Dodgers reliever who was not part of that season’s World Series between the two teams, was at the center of it all. If you thought the Dodgers
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11:54 PM ET Benches cleared on Tuesday at Minute Maid Park in Houston after the sixth inning of a highly anticipated matchup between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros. The tension was rooted in Joe Kelly‘s erratic bottom of the sixth, in which he threw a 3-0 fastball behind Alex Bregman and nearly
12:53 AM ET ESPN News Services WASHINGTON — The World Series champion Washington Nationals are 1-4 after losing three games in a row. Normally? Not a big deal. Matters more in a 60-game, pandemic-shortened season. Missing slugger Juan Soto, they’ve scored a grand total of four runs during the skid, including a 5-1 loss to
6:49 PM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. PHILADELPHIA — The coronavirus outbreak among the Miami Marlins had a domino effect throughout Major League Baseball, with MLB postponing the New York Yankees‘ Wednesday home opener against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Yankees will now play in Baltimore against
9:21 PM ET Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Miles Mikolas will have season-ending surgery to repair a tendon in his strained right forearm, creating an opening in the rotation. The Cardinals placed Mikolas on the 10-day injured list before their game Tuesday at Minnesota. Mikolas was supposed to start Wednesday. Cardinals president
7:30 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN A coronavirus outbreak has officially put the Miami Marlins‘ season on hold. Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it has postponed all of the Marlins’ games through Sunday, while reshuffling the schedules of four other teams — the New York Yankees, Baltimore Orioles, Philadelphia Phillies and Washington Nationals — as a
3:17 PM ET Major League Baseball has postponed all of the Miami Marlins‘ games through Sunday after the team’s recent coronavirus outbreak. MLB announced that Miami’s next six games, starting with Tuesday night’s home game against the Baltimore Orioles, have been postponed, citing the belief that “it is most prudent to allow the Marlins time
1:54 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — The Chicago White Sox got their manager back just before their first road game of this strange, shortened season. Rick Renteria returned to the team Tuesday after being isolated for 24 hours after he awakened Monday experiencing some coronavirus symptoms. Renteria walked into Progressive Field about 90 minutes
3:57 PM ET Dusty Baker will return as the Houston Astros‘ manager next season after the reigning American League champions exercised the 2021 option on his contract Tuesday. Baker, 71, was hired by the Astros earlier this year to replace AJ Hinch, who was fired after receiving a season-long suspension for his role in the
12:39 PM ET ESPN News Services The New York Mets have agreed to a deal with catcher Bruce Maxwell, according to ESPN and multiple reports. The deal was first reported Tuesday by Newsday, which also reported that Maxwell’s contract is pending a physical and coronavirus intake testing. Maxwell hasn’t played in the majors since 2018