By Bryan Hoch
3:11 PM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO -- Gerrit Cole is scheduled to take another significant step toward his return to the big leagues on Tuesday, when the reigning American League Cy Young Award winner will make his first Minor League rehab start for Double-A Somerset. Cole could throw approximately 50 pitches in the 6:35
Blue Jays' GM throws his support behind team's core, manager John Schneider
By Keegan Matheson @KeeganMatheson
3:01 PM EDT
TORONTO -- Ross Atkins is pumping the brakes on any major changes to the Blue Jays right now. Speaking on MLB Network Radio ahead of Sunday's game against the Pirates, the Blue Jays’ general manager downplayed the notion that Vladimir Guerrero Jr. or Bo Bichette -- the two franchise cornerstones
By Bryan Hoch
43 minutes ago
SAN FRANCISCO -- When the Yankees optioned a struggling Mickey Mantle to the Minors in July 1951, representing a make-or-break moment in the future Hall of Famer’s career, Art Schallock was summoned to take the vacant roster spot. Schallock has received another call to the big leagues. Now the oldest
By Adam McCalvy
8 minutes ago
MILWAUKEE -- No way the Brewers’ everyday warriors would take a day off on the same day Major League Baseball honored Lou Gehrig’s legacy of perseverance and all those fighting the cruel disease that now bears his name. While it wasn’t immediately clear how catcher William Contreras and shortstop Willy
By Steve Gilbert
34 minutes ago
NEW YORK -- Ketel Marte hit a pair of homers, including the go-ahead blow in the ninth inning, as the D-backs rallied to beat the Mets, 5-4, on Sunday afternoon to earn a split in the four-game series at Citi Field. New York led 4-3 heading into the ninth when
By Manny Randhawa @MannyOnMLB
June 1, 2024
On June 2, 1925, a 21-year-old Lou Gehrig took the field as the starting first baseman for the New York Yankees, replacing veteran Wally Pipp, who was out of the lineup with a headache. Pipp would never start at first for the Yanks again, and Gehrig would become one of
SEATTLE -- Hard-throwing relief prospect Ben Joyce, who possesses one of the highest-velocity fastballs in baseball, is back in the Majors. The Angels recalled Joyce from Double-A Rocket City before Sunday’s game against the Mariners, as he replaced lefty Reid Detmers after he was optioned Saturday. Joyce, ranked as the
By Joe Trezza @JoeTrezz
an hour ago
ATLANTA -- By all accounts, nothing about the ball Sean Murphy hit in Sunday’s seventh inning should’ve been much to celebrate. With runners on second and third and two outs in a tie game, Murphy skied Austin Adams’ 1-0 slider more or less straight up: 85.6 mph with a 59
By Theo DeRosa @Theo_DeRosa
May 31, 2024
Whether you need to see how Aaron Judge will follow up his historically huge May or track Elly De La Cruz's push for 100 stolen bases, there’s plenty of exciting baseball left to be played in 2024. Now, you can follow the action on MLB.TV for a new low price.
By Melanie Martinez-Lopez
an hour ago
MIAMI -- The Rangers’ lineup seems to have figured out the key to hitting against lefties. At the forefront of it all was Adolis García, who had been struggling in May. “He’s trying to find his way to play, but he got the job done,” Rangers manager Bruce Bochy said
By MLB.com
2:03 AM EDT
Now that the calendar has flipped to June, and we’re about a third of the way into the 2024 season, developments and trends in MLB are morphing from the “It’s still early” category into categories like “Is this sustainable?” or “Can __ (enter team or player name here) recover from
By Do-Hyoung Park @dohyoungpark
4:02 PM EDT
HOUSTON -- Once in a while, you’ll get that heartwarming moment where a player picks up a first career strikeout or clubs a homer while members of his family are being interviewed on the broadcast -- and those lead to some of the most fun reactions for everyone to share.
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Rays earn 16th come-from-behind victory in battle to finish
By Adam Berry
38 minutes ago
BALTIMORE -- With runners on first and second base and nobody out in the eighth inning Sunday afternoon, Jose Siri looked like he was trying to drop a bunt. He squared around a few times, and even missed on one attempt, then found himself in a 3-1 count against Orioles
By Joey Pollizze
15 minutes ago
CHICAGO -- Like every team, the Reds have dealt with their fair share of injuries to start the season. But Cincinnati is starting to get healthy, as Nick Lodolo and TJ Friedl were both welcomed back to the roster this past week. Both players came up big in the Reds’
By Keegan Matheson @KeeganMatheson
24 minutes ago
TORONTO -- The Blue Jays turned back the clock to 2019 with a lineup card featuring Vladimir Guerrero Jr. at third. Guerrero hadn’t started at the hot corner since Sept. 27, 2019, in the final days of his rookie season. He’s made a couple of late-game cameos since then and
By Anne Rogers @anne__rogers
1:55 PM EDT
KANSAS CITY -- The Royals placed right-hander Michael Wacha on the 15-day injured list on Sunday morning with a left foot fracture after being hit on that foot in the first inning of his start against the Padres on Friday night. The move is retroactive to Saturday. Wacha ended up
By Sarah Wexler @SarahWexler32
June 1, 2024
LOS ANGELES -- Clayton Kershaw has taken the next step forward in his recovery from left shoulder surgery, throwing his first simulated game on Saturday afternoon at Dodger Stadium. “It went OK,” said Kershaw. “I feel all right. Shoulder feels healthy, and now it’s just a matter of building the
By Kennedi Landry @kennlandry
41 minutes ago
This story was excerpted from Kennedi Landry’s Rangers Beat newsletter. To read the full newsletter, click here. And subscribe to get it regularly in your inbox. Wyatt Langford's first hit after returning from the 10-day injured list on Tuesday was a single into left field in Wednesday's 6-1 win over
By Craig Forde
12 minutes ago
BOSTON -- It wasn’t pretty, but Detroit won a Sunday tug-of-war at Fenway Park, prevailing, 8-4, in 10 innings to earn a split of their four-game series against the Red Sox. After allowing the hosts to even things up late and send this one into extra frames, the Tigers, who
By Do-Hyoung Park @dohyoungpark
1:03 PM EDT
HOUSTON -- It looks like Royce Lewis could finally be on the cusp of making his return to the Major Leagues. Though Lewis will need to take the final step by getting through his Sunday game with Triple-A St. Paul without issues, a successful completion of his rehab assignment is
Yankees 'put on a show' in front of slugger's friends and family in SF
By Bryan Hoch
2:20 AM EDT
SAN FRANCISCO -- Aaron Judge's happy homecoming has continued into a new month. The Yankees star reached the left-field seats at Oracle Park in the first inning on Saturday for a two-run homer, launching his Major League-leading 21st long ball of the season in New York's 7-3 victory over the
Lefty dealing with hand contusion, but club will wait to make decision about his next start
By Paul Casella @paul_casellaMLB
June 1, 2024
PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies are confident they dodged a bullet with Ranger Suárez’s injury scare on Saturday night. Struck by a 106.1 mph line drive on his pitching hand, the always unflappable Suárez quickly recovered, picked up the ball and lobbed a throw to first for the final out of
By Jake Rill @JakeDRill
June 1, 2024
BALTIMORE -- Saturday evening brought a lot of long home runs for the Orioles -- 1,646 feet worth, to be exact. It was the type of result almost to be expected during an American League East series featuring a Baltimore lineup that loves long balls and a Tampa Bay pitching
By Shanthi Sepe-Chepuru @ssc627
12:11 AM EDT
Major League Baseball officially recognized the Negro Leagues as "major" leagues in December 2020. With the change, more than 3,000 players who appeared in one of seven leagues -- the Negro National League (I) (1920–1931), Eastern Colored League (1923–1928), American Negro League (1929), East-West League (1932), Negro Southern League (1932),