1:56 PM ET ESPN News Services ATLANTA — The New York Yankees have acquired catcher Rob Brantly from the San Francisco Giants for cash considerations on Wednesday. The 31-year-old Brantly, a career .228 hitter in six seasons, had no hits in three at-bats in his only game with the Giants this season. He also appeared
12:52 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Vin Scully sat outside watching two sets of his golf clubs being loaded into a truck. He thought of afternoons teeing off at Bel-Air Country Club or with President George H.W. Bush. Those left-handed clubs had produced a lot of shots over many rounds, some good, some
4:14 PM ET The Washington Nationals optioned struggling rookie third baseman Carter Kieboom to their alternate site in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and reinstated closer Sean Doolittle from the injured list on Wednesday. Doolittle had gone on the IL on Aug. 13, retroactive to Aug. 11, because of right knee fatigue. Doolittle has been ineffective for most
5:38 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds won’t play their game on Wednesday night at Miller Park, sources confirmed to ESPN. More teams are also discussing the possibility of not playing, sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Among those currently discussing: The Seattle Mariners, who have the most Black players of any team in
6:05 PM ET The Milwaukee Bucks have boycotted Game 5 on Wednesday against the Orlando Magic to protest the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The NBA announced shortly after that all of Wednesday’s playoff games — including Game 5 between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder and Game 5 between the
5:20 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Defending Western & Southern Open champion Daniil Medvedev failed to close it out in the second set Wednesday, and Roberto Bautista Agut rallied for a 1-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory that knocked yet another top player out of the tune-up tournament for the U.S. Open. With the latest
5:27 PM ET After splitting with his longtime coach earlier this year, former No. 1-ranked golfer Jason Day has reached out to another player whom he believes can help him understand his back issues: Tiger Woods. Woods, who successfully returned from spinal fusion surgery in 2017, has been talking to Day for about a month
1:41 PM ET Tim BontempsESPN Philadelphia 76ers general manager Elton Brand made it clear that while there are expected to be significant changes across the organization — changes that began Monday with the firing of head coach Brett Brown — the team will continue to be built around All-Stars Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid. “I’m
5:38 PM ET Ohm Youngmisuk Close ESPN Staff Writer Ohm Youngmisuk has covered the Giants, Jets and the NFL since 2006. Prior to that, he covered the Nets, Knicks and the NBA for nearly a decade. He joined ESPNNewYork.com after working at the New York Daily News for almost 12 years and is a graduate
11:39 AM ET The Indiana Pacers have fired coach Nate McMillan after his team was swept in the first round of the playoffs by the Miami Heat. The move comes a week after the Pacers had reworked McMillan’s final year on his contract for 2020-21 and added a team option for 2021-2022 in form of