By Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @ssc627
23 minutes ago
After Saturday’s excitement and pageantry, the 2024 London Series wraps up Sunday, with Game 2 at London Stadium airing right now on ESPN. The Phillies rolled with a familiar formula in Game 1, led to a 7-2 victory by Ranger Suárez and Bryce Harper, with the former earning his MLB-best
By David Adler @_dadler
June 8, 2024
NEW YORK -- First place vs. first place. Rival vs. rival. The Yankees-Dodgers series at Yankee Stadium this weekend began with an instant classic on Friday night before the Dodgers cruised to an 11-3 victory on Saturday to win the series. Will the Yankees salvage Sunday's finale of the series,
By Juan Toribio @juanctoribio
12:42 AM EDT
NEW YORK -- In the Dodgers’ two trips to New York this season, Teoscar Hernández has been a busy man. With a large presence from his native Dominican Republic, Hernández has done at least a couple of pregame interviews before each game, in Queens and now in the Bronx. When
By Todd Zolecki
11:04 AM EDT
LONDON -- Rob McElhenney found himself with an impossibly difficult decision to make Sunday at London Stadium: Chase Utley or Bryce Harper? In the end, he got both. McElhenney, Utley and Harper recently starred in a wildly popular 2024 London Series promo, in which Utley learns that McElhenney has been
By Brian Murphy @Spokes_Murphy
June 8, 2024
Jayson Werth has gone from champion on the diamond to champion on the racetrack. The racehorse that Werth co-owns, Dornoch, won the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of horse racing’s Triple Crown, on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course. Dornoch put Werth into the winner’s circle 16 years after he was
By Brian Murphy @Spokes_Murphy
1:38 AM EDT
There is a new place to watch free baseball every Sunday this season. Catch your favorite MLB action with Roku MLB Sunday Leadoff, streaming free on The Roku Channel every Sunday.
By Anthony DiComo
an hour ago
LONDON -- Mets owner Steve Cohen painted a hopeful picture of the club on Sunday morning, saying he is not ready to make the types of Trade Deadline decisions that could impact the short- and long-term future of his club. “I tell you, it’s amazing,” Cohen said before the final
By Michael Clair @michaelsclair
11:09 AM EDT
John Beckwith stepped to the plate, an unwieldy 38-inch bat hefted on his large, broad shoulders. Standing 5-foot-11 and weighing a muscular 230 pounds, Beckwith had the kind of power that would strike fear into any pitcher's heart. Facing the Cuban Stars inside cavernous Redland Field on May 22, 1921,
By Brian Murphy @Spokes_Murphy
12:12 AM EDT
Read our story on the balloting format, which includes two phases of fan voting to determine the All-Star starters. As you examine your 2024 MLB All-Star ballot, consider how many players have a chance to break into the starting lineup for the first time. As Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper
By Todd Zolecki
9:51 AM EDT
LONDON -- Trea Turner and the Phillies wouldn’t be surprised if he is back in the lineup within the next week. There are more hurdles to clear before the Phils activate him from the 10-day injured list, but there is optimism he can finish his recovery without a setback or
By David Villavicencio
an hour ago
HIALEAH, Fla. -- The future of baseball got a glimpse of the big leagues on Saturday morning, as more than 300 South Florida youth learned the game from some former MLB heroes. The MLB Players Alumni Association and Miami Marlins hosted a Legends for Youth Clinic at the home of
By Thomas Harrigan @HarriganMLB
1:30 AM EDT
It might be too early to say the Pirates have MLB’s top starting pitcher duo. But with the way rookie phenoms Paul Skenes and Jared Jones are pitching so far, each turn through Pittsburgh’s rotation brings us closer to that reality. The latest act from Pittsburgh’s electric tandem? Shutting down
June 8, 2024
LONDON -- Bryce Harper thought long and hard about how he was going to celebrate his home runs in the London Series. Right at the heart of the country that loves football -- known as soccer in the U.S. -- there was only one right answer. He did it like
By Manny Randhawa @MannyOnMLB
June 8, 2024
The Dodgers-Yankees weekend showdown in the Bronx is the marquee matchup of the season so far, a battle of baseball behemoths with a rich history and stacked rosters. A classic series opener inside Yankee Stadium befitting that matchup thrilled us on Friday night, when the Dodgers won, 2-1, in extra
By Bryan Hoch
12:48 AM EDT
NEW YORK -- The Yankees may be without Juan Soto for this weekend’s series against the Dodgers, with manager Aaron Boone saying on Saturday that it will “at least be a couple of days” before the outfielder resumes play. Soto underwent an MRI on Friday that showed inflammation, but no
By Brian Murphy @Spokes_Murphy
June 8, 2024
Saturday marked the beginning of the 2024 MLB London Series, the third time Major League Baseball has hosted regular-season games in the United Kingdom. And Game 1 of the two-game set looked pretty familiar to Phillies fans. Bryce Harper and Nick Castellanos went deep for the top scoring offense in
By Cole Jacobson @ColeJacobson32
June 8, 2024
The Reds clinched a series victory with a 4-3 win on Saturday afternoon over the Cubs, moving past Chicago for sole possession of second place in the NL Central and extending their winning streak to seven games. “We got a really good lineup. The guys are throwing the ball the
By Jake Rill @JakeDRill
June 8, 2024
ST. PETERSBURG -- A lot of numbers can be used to convey how impressive the defending American League East champion Orioles have again been during the 2024 season. One can best showcase how dominant they were Saturday evening at Tropicana Field. That would be 26 -- the number of consecutive
By Bryan Hoch
12:58 AM EDT
NEW YORK -- Juan Soto seemed lost. Unable to swing a bat as he deals with inflammation in his left forearm, the slugger occupied his time with a variety of tasks in the dugout on Saturday evening, refreshing Gerrit Cole’s cup of Gatorade during a television interview and counseling Anthony
By Paige Leckie @paige_leckie
12:24 AM EDT
MIAMI -- Steven Kwan: Spark plug. That's how Guardians manager Stephen Vogt described his leadoff hitter before Cleveland's 8-0 win over Miami on Saturday night at loanDepot park. Vogt ended up being more right than he could have anticipated. In just his fifth game since returning from the injured list
By Anne Rogers @anne__rogers
June 8, 2024
KANSAS CITY -- On Aug. 11, 2023, Adam Frazier struck out swinging against his former Seattle teammate, Luis Castillo, on a slider down and in, leading to a bewildered swing from the then-Orioles utilityman. Now with the Royals, Frazier entered Saturday’s matchup against Castillo and the Mariners thinking about that
By Joe Trezza @JoeTrezz
June 8, 2024
You can expect to see this in the American League East for years to come. It's easy to foresee Orioles top prospect Jackson Holliday and Yankees top prospect Jasson Domínguez having plenty of head-to-head matchups in one of MLB's most competitive divisions going forward. This weekend they competed against one
By Steve Kornacki
June 8, 2024
DETROIT -- The prospect is producing. Jackson Chourio’s go-ahead, two-run double in the sixth inning was the difference maker in Saturday afternoon’s 5-4 victory over the Tigers at Comerica Park, clinching the series win ahead of Sunday’s finale. While the rookie outfielder entered the game with a modest .209 batting
By Brian McTaggart
2:30 AM EDT
ANAHEIM -- Nobody was safe in Angel Stadium on Saturday night from the thunderous swings of slugger Yordan Alvarez. Not Angels starter Tyler Anderson, who gave up a double and a homer, and certainly not hard-throwing reliever Ben Joyce, who couldn’t blow a 103.9 mph fastball past Alvarez in the