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10:07 PM ET New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom was pulled after six scoreless innings Friday night with right flexor tendinitis, but the two-time NL Cy Young Award winner said he isn’t concerned by the diagnosis in continuation of his dominant start to the 2021 season. DeGrom faced the minimum against the San Diego Padres

While Jack Leiter and Kumar Rocker might be college baseball’s odd couple, the star pitchers have been winners at Vanderbilt from the get-go. In Leiter’s SEC debut earlier this year, he threw a no-hitter. During Rocker’s freshman season in 2019, he earned College World Series Most Outstanding Player honors while leading the Commodores to the

8:00 AM ET KEVIN GAUSMAN saw his own reflection in the numbers; their stark, unsentimental truth contained a judgment, and a promise. Everything he knew about himself as a pitcher could be found inside them: strengths, flaws, anxieties. It was liberating, and maybe a little unsettling, for Gausman to realize the San Francisco Giants, making

5:20 PM ET The Chicago White Sox have placed second baseman Nick Madrigal on the 60-day injured list with what the team said is a proximal tear of his right hamstring. Madrigal was hurt trying to beat out a grounder to end the seventh inning in Wednesday night’s loss to the Blue Jays. Additional tests

5:22 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX — Exasperated by a run of brutal baseball, the Arizona Diamondbacks shook up their coaching staff in an effort to stabilize their season. D-backs manager Torey Lovullo fired hitting coach Darnell Coles and assistant hitting coach Eric Hinske on Thursday with the team struggling to score runs and mired

7:00 AM ET Ten weeks into the MLB season, we have the fourth No. 1 team of the 2021 campaign atop our MLB Power Rankings. Which American League team is playing well enough to bump the San Diego Padres from the top spot? Which National League club managed to pass the Padres in the Senior

10:01 PM ET Josh Donaldson spoke with reporters for about 30 minutes on the field before Wednesday’s game between the Twins and Yankees at Target Field, and the Minnesota third baseman said he wasn’t calling out New York ace Gerrit Cole last week when he referenced Cole’s diminished spin rate in his previous start. “When

6:45 PM ET NEW YORK — Mets first baseman Pete Alonso said Wednesday that he disagrees with MLB’s crackdown on pitcher-friendly foreign substances, and that the larger issue facing the sport is the league’s manipulation of baseballs depending on free-agent class — a theory he presented as “fact.” “The biggest concern is MLB manipulates the

11:43 AM ET ESPN News Services The class of 2020 — Derek Jeter, Marvin Miller, Ted Simmons and Larry Walker — will have to wait a little bit longer to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer, it was announced Wednesday. The induction ceremony, which had been scheduled for July 25

6:01 PM ET Nearly 15 months after undergoing Tommy John surgery, Chris Sale says he is confident he will be ready to contribute to the Boston Red Sox before the end of the season. “One hundred percent,” Sale said Tuesday before knocking on a wood table in front of him. “Unless something crazy happens. I’ll

7:58 PM ET ESPN News Services Amid a Major League Baseball crackdown on pitcher-friendly foreign substances, New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole struggled to give an answer when asked Tuesday whether he’s ever used a particular sticky paste called Spider Tack while on the mound. “I don’t (long pause) … I don’t know … I

10:51 AM ET The unveiling of MLB and Nike’s City Connect uniforms continued Tuesday with the introduction of the Chicago Cubs‘ alternate uniforms, which will be worn for the first time on Saturday at Wrigley Field against the St. Louis Cardinals. The uniforms are mostly navy blue with light blue accents to evoke the Chicago

9:19 PM ET Associated Press ANAHEIM, Calif. — Mike Trout says his right calf is starting to feel better, but the Los Angeles Angels superstar still doesn’t know when he will be able to return. The time-time AL MVP went on the injured list on May 18 after straining his calf the night before against

4:32 PM ET The Seattle Mariners optioned struggling rookie outfielder Jarred Kelenic, who is currently in an 0-for-39 slump, to Triple-A Tacoma on Monday. Kelenic, who is ranked as the No. 3 prospect in baseball according to ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel, is hitting just .096 with 26 strikeouts in 23 games. He also has two home

11:30 AM ET Associated Press The Toronto Blue Jays will be extending their stay at their adopted home in Buffalo, New York, through July 21. The team previously was committed to playing in Buffalo through July 4. The extension comes as the Blue Jays on Monday announced the release of their next batch of tickets

12:55 AM ET In the first series of the 2021 season between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees, the Red Sox went into Yankee Stadium and swept their foe in the Bronx for the first time since 2011, including a wild, 6-5 victory in 10 innings on Sunday. Some takeaways from the

6:30 PM ET The Chicago White Sox‘s Tony La Russa moved into second place on MLB’s all-time manager wins list with his 2,764th career victory on Sunday. He passed John McGraw and now trails only Connie Mack after his team beat the Detroit Tigers 3-0. “He was a much better player than I was, and

7:30 AM ET Expectations are only expectations. Coming into the 2021 MLB season, many baseball observers considered the American League East the New York Yankees‘ division to lose. Fast forward two months and New York is looking up in the standings at three teams — the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox and Tampa Bay