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7:00 AM ET Alden Gonzalez Close ESPN Staff Writer ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Joon Lee Close ESPN Previously a Staff Writer at Bleacher ReportCornell University graduate More than a month into the 2022 Major League Baseball

9:17 PM ET ESPN News Services BOSTON — Houston Astros right-hander Jake Odorizzi collapsed running to cover first base in the fifth inning Monday night against the Boston Red Sox and was taken off the Fenway Park field on a stretcher. Odorizzi, who entered the game with a 15 2/3 inning shutout streak, appeared to

6:18 PM ET ESPN News Services BALTIMORE — New York Yankees left-hander Nestor Cortes said he deactivated his Twitter account after screenshots surfaced Sunday of tweets from a decade ago that included racial slurs. Cortes appeared to be quoting rap lyrics in at least some of the tweets, and he did not seem to be

11:12 PM ET Associated Press ST. LOUIS — Adam Wainwright and Yadier Molina set a major league record for wins by a starting battery as the St. Louis Cardinals routed the San Francisco Giants 15-6 on Sunday night in a game that ended with veteran slugger Albert Pujols on the mound. Molina homered and drove

12:00 AM ET There are tough losses. And then there is the kind of loss the Reds suffered on Sunday: It’s like when you’re out for a walk on a beautiful sunny day and you see the cutest little puppy who greets everybody with its tail wagging 100 mph and then you go up to

4:52 PM ET ESPN News Services PITTSBURGH — Cincinnati Reds starter Hunter Greene and reliever Art Warren combined to allow zero hits in a complete game, but it didn’t count as a no-hitter — or even a win — because the Pittsburgh Pirates eked out a run in the bottom of the eighth inning for

11:39 AM ET ESPN News Services DUNEDIN, Fla. — Prospects on the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays struck out 24 batters in a 1-0 win over the New York Yankees‘ Tampa Tarpons in the Florida State League on Saturday night, pitching a combined two-hitter. Right-hander Nick Frasso, 24, struck out eight over three innings. Dahian Santos,

1:26 AM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Shohei Ohtani and Taylor Ward provided just what the Los Angeles Angels needed to get over a bad loss in the opener of a day-night doubleheader. Ohtani hit his 100th career home run, Ward hit a grand slam and the Angels salvaged a split by beating the

11:56 AM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Houston Astros acquired utilityman Mauricio Dubón in a trade with the San Francisco Giants on Saturday. The 27-year-old Dubón is batting .239 with two homers and eight RBIs in 21 games this season. He has big league experience at second base, third base, shortstop and center field.

5:17 PM ET Trevor Bauer‘s grievance hearing against Major League Baseball will begin May 23, a source told ESPN on Friday, confirming a report from The Athletic. Bauer was handed a 324-game suspension on April 29 for violating MLB’s domestic violence policy, twice the amount of the previous longest suspension since the policy was implemented

6:32 PM ET ESPN News Services Veteran infielder Robinson Cano has signed with the San Diego Padres, it was announced Friday. The New York Mets released the 39-year-old Cano on Sunday after designating him for assignment a week earlier. The Padres likely will use the left-handed-hitting Cano at designated hitter, hoping he can improve their

8:05 AM ET THE WATCH ON Gabe Kapler’s left wrist started as a curiosity and traveled a smooth path to obsession. Big, chunky and obviously expensive, it was both striking and vexing. Morning or afternoon, the time on the watch bore no resemblance to the actual time of day. Even more vexing, the time was

7:00 AM ET Texas Rangers closer Joe Barlow was skeptical about PitchCom at first. The electronic device, used to transmit pitch signals from the catcher to the pitcher in an effort to curb sign stealing, is brand new in Major League Baseball this season, and Barlow wondered what could go wrong. The PitchCom’s speaker made

7:34 PM ET Philadelphia Phillies star Bryce Harper, limited to designated hitter duty of late, has a small tear in his right UCL, will get a PRP injection and will not throw a baseball for four weeks, manager Joe Girardi told reporters Thursday. Girardi said Dr. Neal ElAttrache of Kerlan-Jobe in Los Angeles confirmed the

5:57 PM ET Associated Press The Cleveland Guardians reported no new COVID-19 cases Thursday, a day after an outbreak inside their clubhouse caused a postponement in Chicago and sent manager Terry Francona and five coaches home from a road trip. The team said pitching coach Carl Willis will serve as the club’s acting manager for

7:00 AM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees and New York Mets continue to dominate over a month into the MLB season. However, some new faces have emerged in the last couple of weeks. A red-hot Los Angeles Angels squad has won six of its last seven games, outscoring opponents 52-19, and the

10:52 PM ET Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Padres manager Bob Melvin had prostate surgery Wednesday, and the team said there likely wouldn’t be any updates until next week. The Padres provided no further details as they announced Melvin’s procedure during the team’s 7-5 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Melvin said Tuesday that he didn’t

4:38 PM ET The Milwaukee Brewers‘ Christian Yelich joined an exclusive club Wednesday, hitting for the third cycle of his career during a 14-11 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Yelich’s three career cycles tie him with five other players for the MLB lead. Trea Turner was the most recent player to accomplish the feat, doing