1:44 PM ET Alex Wood was placed on the injured list Tuesday, making him the fourth Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher to be ruled out since baseball resumed. The Dodgers replaced him on the 30-man roster with minor league reliever Josh Sborz. Wood’s injury, listed as shoulder inflammation, comes one week after Clayton Kershaw‘s back
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10:17 AM ET No Phillies players or staff have tested positive for the coronavirus despite playing the Marlins in Philadelphia and seeing 17 members of the Miami traveling party test positive, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. A member of the Philadelphia visiting clubhouse personnel did test positive, however, sources told ESPN’s Marly Rivera. This positive
8:43 AM ET Associated Press MIAMI — The Marlins‘ coronavirus outbreak could endanger the Major League Baseball season, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday, although he doesn’t believe games need to stop now. More than a dozen Marlins players and staff members tested positive for COVID-19, stranding the team in Philadelphia and raising anew questions about
7:00 AM ET MLB InsidersESPN Before the coronavirus pandemic turned the world upside down in March, the biggest offseason story in baseball was the fallout from the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal. The Astros’ World Series win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2017 was greatly tainted by an elaborate scheme Houston used that season to
1:00 AM ET I turn on the television at 3:40 ET Monday afternoon and see Chris Bassitt, in that resplendent kelly green A’s jersey, warming up to face the Los Angeles Angels in an afternoon game on a bright, sunny day in Oakland, California. Mike Trout will hit second for the Angels. Shohei Ohtani is
9:39 PM ET Commissioner Rob Manfred said he believes MLB’s health protocols are working despite an outbreak of COVID-19 among one of its teams, the Miami Marlins. “We built protocols anticipating that we would have positive tests at some point during the season,” Manfred said in an interview on MLB Network on Monday. “The protocols
11:06 PM ET ESPN News Services The Atlanta Braves designated pitcher Mike Foltynewicz for assignment on Monday after he gave up six runs in 3 1/3 innings in a 14-5 loss at the Tampa Bay Rays. Foltynewicz gave up three home runs, walked four and didn’t make it out of the fourth inning in his
5:31 PM ET ESPN News Services CLEVELAND — Chicago White Sox manager Rick Renteria woke up Monday with “a slight cough and nasal congestion” and will be kept away from the team pending the results of medical tests. Bench coach Joe McEwing will manage the White Sox until the team learns more about Renteria’s condition.
6:51 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Toronto Blue Jays closer Ken Giles went on the 10-day injured list before Monday’s series opener at the Washington Nationals with a strained right forearm, a day after leaving a game with what the team said was a sore right elbow. The Blue Jays lost another player about
1:15 PM ET MLB InsidersESPN Major League Baseball is seeing its first coronavirus cancellations since the restart of the 2020 season. An outbreak of COVID-19 spread throughout the Miami Marlins clubhouse, bringing the total cases in recent days to at least 13, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan and Jesse Rogers. As a result, the Marlins