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1:19 PM ET Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg will undergo season-ending surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome in his pitching hand, manager Dave Martinez told reporters Saturday. Strasburg, 32, has been placed on the 60-day injured list. His 2020 season consisted of two starts, including a 16-pitch outing in his final appearance against the Baltimore Orioles

2:54 PM ET Washington Nationals right-hander Stephen Strasburg has carpal tunnel syndrome in his pitching hand, casting doubt on whether he will be able to pitch again this season. Manager Davey Martinez made the announcement Friday, a day after Strasburg visited a hand specialist. The reigning World Series MVP could have surgery to fix the

10:42 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Miguel Rojas hit a three-run homer in his first at-bat after being activated from the COVID-19 injured list, and the Miami Marlins snapped a five-game skid by beating the Washington Nationals 3-2 on Friday night. Rojas connected in the second inning against Patrick Corbin (2-2), and that was

7:00 AM ET This will be the most unpredictable trade deadline we’ve ever seen. My colleague Brad Doolittle just did a great job outlining the issues teams face this deadline, along with a position-by-position look at who might be available and which teams have holes to fill. One big factor aside from the cash-flow problems

3:09 AM ET San Francisco Giants reliever Shaun Anderson threw another fastball near Mike Trout‘s head on Thursday, two days after throwing two fastballs near Trout’s head. The latest incident drew a warning from the umpiring crew and more pointed words from Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon, who previously identified Anderson as “a young

11:00 PM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Eric Hosmer hit a historic shot Thursday night that made the San Diego Padres the first team in the majors to launch grand slams in four straight games. The Padres beat the Texas Rangers 8-7 in the 10th inning to sweep a four-game, home-and-home series with

5:09 PM ET The New York Mets‘ game Thursday against the Miami Marlins has been postponed after two positive tests for the coronavirus within the Mets’ organization, Major League Baseball announced Thursday. In addition, Friday’s game between the Mets and New York Yankees has been postponed to allow for additional testing and for contact tracing

7:00 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” No assumption in baseball is more sacrosanct than this one: Lefty batters hit righty pitchers better, and righty batters hit lefty pitchers better. Hundreds of major league careers, and literally millions of

8:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman used an anti-gay slur during Cincinnati’s game Wednesday night at the Kansas City Royals and later left the broadcast after apologizing. Brennaman used the slur moments after the Fox Sports Ohio broadcast returned from a commercial break before the top of the seventh inning of

2:37 PM ET ESPN News Services Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker said Wednesday that Yordan Alvarez, the reigning American League Rookie of the Year, might miss the rest of the season. “Yordan Alvarez, it looks like he’s done, maybe for the year,” Baker told Houston’s SportsTalk790. Alvarez had been placed on the injured list Tuesday,

7:30 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” The first time anybody talked about “The Curse of the Bambino,” according to newspaper databases, was in 1989, when buzz started to build about an upcoming book of that title by Boston

3:27 PM ET ESPN News Services Texas Rangers pitcher Ian Gibaut, who threw a pitch at Manny Machado after Fernando Tatis Jr.’s grand slam in Monday night’s game, has been suspended for three games. Rangers manager Chris Woodward also received a one-game suspension “as a result of Gibaut’s actions,” MLB said in a statement Tuesday.

1:15 PM ET I thought we were over all this stuff. If Jose Bautista’s home run and bat flip in the 2015 playoffs was the zenith of baseball’s culture wars and “play the game the right way” zealots, it seemed we had come around on the issue. Starting in the 2018 postseason and continuing into

1:15 AM ET When Juan Soto homered in the top of the ninth inning on Monday night to give the Nationals a 6-3 lead over the Braves, he admired his blast and enjoyed a slow trot around the bases — the seventh time in his 12 Major League Baseball games he has made such a

9:29 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” During a testy meeting Friday, Cleveland Indians players scolded teammates Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac for breaking protocol and going out in Chicago, and at least one player said he would opt

12:00 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” The fallout from the Cleveland Indians‘ team meeting that saw pitchers Mike Clevinger and Zach Plesac sent home could have wide-ranging implications on both the Indians’ season as well as the financial

7:00 AM ET ESPN.com Staff With a third of the 2020 MLB season already gone, it’s time to acknowledge that some of the bottom-tier teams that have had stunning turnarounds in the standings may well stick in the playoff picture the rest of the way. We knew the 60-game schedule was going to create some

5:27 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — St. Louis Cardinals reliever Roel Ramirez became the first pitcher to allow four straight home runs in his major league debut when the Chicago White Sox hit him around in the fifth inning Sunday. Yoan Moncada, Yasmani Grandal, Jose Abreu and Eloy Jimenez connected during a six-run inning,