10:46 AM ET Two MLB games Monday night are being postponed because of an outbreak of the coronavirus among the Miami Marlins. The Marlins’ home opener against the Baltimore Orioles is off, as well as the Philadelphia Phillies‘ home game against the Yankees, a source confirmed to ESPN’s Marly Rivera. The Marlins just completed a
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4:00 PM ET Associated Press Two-time AL Cy Young winner Corey Kluber could be done for the season. He is headed to the injured list after just one inning of work in his debut as a Texas Rangers starter. He has a tear in a small muscle in his right shoulder and is not expected
2:36 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Utility player Josh Harrison signed a one-year contract with the Washington Nationals and was added to their 30-man active roster Monday, less than a week after he was released by the Philadelphia Phillies. The 33-year-old Harrison is a two-time All-Star and a right-handed hitter who has started games
4:52 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The Colorado Rockies say left-handed pitcher Tim Collins has opted out of the 2020 season. He’s the second player within the organization who has withdrawn. In late June, Rockies outfielder Ian Desmond announced he wouldn’t play this season in part because of the coronavirus pandemic. Collins was with
4:32 PM ET The Chicago White Sox placed right-handed starter Reynaldo Lopez on the 10-day injured list Monday with right shoulder soreness. Lopez lasted just two-thirds of an inning against the Minnesota Twins on Sunday, allowing three hits, two walks and four runs. He was removed from the game because of tightness in his right
8:54 AM ET The $100,000 baseball bets, one after another, started coming in over the weekend at the sportsbook at Borgata, the last casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. As the first weekend of the baseball season wound down, Borgata had taken roughly the equivalent of three weeks of
7:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. You can question plenty about some of the choices Yoenis Cespedes has made, but never his love of baseball. Many Cuban players who defect from the island have harrowing accounts of crossing the perilous Caribbean waters in rickety homemade
8:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” “Every character should want something,” Kurt Vonnegut advised in “Creative Writing 101,” “even if it is only a glass of water.” Major League Baseball, like all professional sports, like all high-level competition,
11:30 PM ET In watching the opening weekend of baseball, what most stood out was how normal the television viewing experience felt. The piped-in crowd noise and cardboard cutouts in some ballparks certainly helped, as did the intensity of the players. Even without fans, they bat-flipped and fist-pumped and walked away dejectedly after crucial strikeouts.
5:56 PM ET Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander is disputing a report that he’s done for the season with an elbow injury. “The report that I’m currently missing the rest of the season is not accurate,” he tweeted. “There is a forearm strain … I’m hopeful that with some rest it will heal, and I’ll