1:19 AM ET BOSTON — The new and old school ways of baseball etiquette clashed during the Boston Red Sox‘s 12-3 victory over the Houston Astros in Game 3 of the ALCS on Monday night when Carlos Correa grounded out to second baseman Christian Arroyo to end the sixth inning. As Red Sox pitcher Eduardo
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12:30 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. When Houston Astros All-Star shortstop Carlos Correa hit his seventh-inning home run in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series, some Boston Red Sox players viewed his gesture of pointing to an imaginary wristwatch — signaling it was
7:30 PM ET BOSTON — The Houston Astros are starting rookie Jose Siri in center field over Chas McCormick for Game 3 of their ALCS matchup against the Boston Red Sox on Monday night. “He can cover the ground, and he can also throw to stop you from scoring on the double from first base
7:00 AM ET On the last day of August, before the bottom of the second inning in a road game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora called his All-Star shortstop off the field. “Alex never took me out,” Xander Bogaerts told ESPN in an interview last week. Bogaerts knew something
Oct 17, 2021 ATLANTA — The first two games of the National League Championship Series have been riveting. They’ve been tight and tense. They’ve been dramatic. And, yes, they’ve been a little weird. The strangeness begins with the most important fact from the weekend: The 88-win Atlanta Braves lead the 106-win, defending champion Los Angeles
7:52 PM ET ATLANTA — With the Braves in the midst of trying to get past the high-powered Los Angeles Dodgers and into the World Series for the first time since 1999, it might be easy, from the outside, to forget that they are incomplete. They’ve been that way since July 10, when star outfielder
5:29 PM ET HOUSTON — After using eight pitchers in a Game 1 ALCS victory over the Boston Red Sox, the Houston Astros were forced to go to their bullpen early in Game 2 as starter Luis Garcia left in the second inning with right knee discomfort. 2 Related Garcia, 24, walked the lead-off man
2:18 AM ET Cody Bellinger produced a hit against an opposing left-handed pitcher only 12% of the time this season. But in the ninth inning on Saturday night, against the closer for a team that won its division, Bellinger came up with the line-drive single that would place the go-ahead run in scoring position. It
5:59 PM ET It didn’t take long for the Boston Red Sox to bounce back from their loss in the American League Championship Series opener, hitting two grand slams in the first two innings of Saturday’s Game 2 against the Houston Astros. In doing so, they became the first team in MLB history to hit
2:07 AM ET HOUSTON — Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker had the highest of praise for his second baseman and shortstop after Jose Altuve and Carlos Correa fueled a come-from-behind 5-4 victory over the Boston Red Sox in Game 1 of the ALCS on Friday night. “It’s kind of like Tom Brady and [Rob] Gronkowski,”
2:39 AM ET The live interviews of managers on broadcasts often receive criticism, but sometimes they produce moments like Saturday night, when Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker reacted to a monstrous home run from Boston Red Sox center fielder Enrique Hernández on television. “Oh Lord,” Baker said as the ball traveled over the left-center field
7:00 AM ET The 2021 MLB playoffs are down to four teams after the Los Angeles Dodgers advanced in a thrilling Game 5 on Thursday night. Now that the Dodgers-Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox–Houston Astros matchups are set, it’s time for some predictions. We asked our MLB experts to weigh in on who will
2:35 AM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Wilmer Flores swung — or he didn’t — and that was it. Last call for the San Francisco Giants. A surprising and spectacular ride for the Giants came to a startling halt Thursday night. Flores slowly walked back to the dugout after being called out on a
12:49 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO — The Los Angeles Dodgers are heading back to the National League Championship Series, and they owe a lot of it to Cody Bellinger, an old friend with a new attitude. Bellinger, who is crafting the type of postseason that might go a long way toward expunging a miserable, injury-filled
2:50 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers will begin a winner-take-all Game 5 of the National League Division Series with right-handed reliever Corey Knebel, not left-handed starter Julio Urias. Urias, a source said, is not injured, which means Knebel will probably serve as an opener, paving the way for Urias to handle the bulk of
7:00 AM ET Alden Gonzalez Close ESPN Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams Previously covered the Angels for MLB.com Tim Keown Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior Writer for ESPN The Magazine Columnist for ESPN.com Author of five books (3 NYT best-sellers) Including the postseason, the San Francisco Giants and
10:38 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Ray Fosse, the strong-armed MLB catcher whose career was upended when he was bowled over by Pete Rose during the 1970 All-Star Game, has died. He was 74. Carol Fosse, his wife of 51 years, said in a statement online that Fosse died Wednesday after a 16-year
2:30 PM ET The news cycle has moved on, and the three teams advancing to the championship series and an impending Game 5 between the Dodgers and Giants should be the most important stories in Major League Baseball’s postseason. But over the past several days, I have found myself balancing my passion and my profession,