Apr 6, 2021 ESPN News Services San Diego Padres star shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr. has been placed on the 10-day injured list but will not need surgery after the latest injury to his troublesome left shoulder, general manager A.J. Preller said Tuesday. Tatis suffered the injury on a hard swing Monday and left San Diego’s

2:22 AM ET Los Angeles Dodgers star Cody Bellinger is day-to-day after tests on his injured calf showed no structural damage or fractures, manager Dave Roberts said after Tuesday night’s 5-1 win over the Oakland Athletics. Bellinger was unavailable Tuesday and will also miss Wednesday’s game, according to Roberts, who added that he wasn’t sure

2:14 PM ET ESPN News Services Infielder Rougned Odor was traded Tuesday from the Texas Rangers to the New York Yankees for minor league outfielders Antonio Cabello and Josh Stowers. Odor, 27, did not make the Rangers’ Opening Day roster and was designated for assignment on April 1. He is a left-handed hitter, and the

1:17 PM ET ESPN News Services The Atlanta Braves have acquired versatile infielder Orlando Arcia from the Milwaukee Brewers in exchange for two pitchers, it was announced Tuesday. Milwaukee acquired right-handed pitchers Chad Sobotka and Patrick Weigel in the deal. Arcia, 26, has spent all six of his major league seasons with Milwaukee. He had

1:29 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — The All-Star Game will be played at hitter-friendly Coors Field. Major League Baseball officially announced the new venue Tuesday after pulling the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to extensive changes to Georgia’s voting laws. Coors Field last hosted the All-Star Game in 1998. The game will be

12:41 PM ET Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Monday afternoon that he would not be throwing out the first pitch at the Texas Rangers‘ home opener, as had been scheduled, because of Major League Baseball’s response to voting laws recently passed in Georgia. “I was looking forward to throwing out the first pitch at the

9:55 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Patrick Carney wasn’t nervous before his first live drumming gig in more than a year, just honored. A lifelong Indians fan and one half of The Black Keys, the Grammy Award-winning rock duo from Akron, Ohio, Carney filled in Monday at Cleveland’s home opener for drummer John Adams,

5:52 PM ET Associated Press DETROIT — Akil Baddoo had already turned heads with his productive spring. Now he has made his presence felt at Comerica Park. Baddoo homered in his first major league at-bat Sunday — on the very first pitch. The Detroit Tigers outfielder led off the bottom of the third inning with

7:00 AM ET Baseball players, like the rest of us, have had lots of spare time during the pandemic and in quarantine. “I’ve learned to be alone,” said Padres pitcher Blake Snell. There has been lots of learning, trapped in a hotel room or sequestered at home. There has been time to think, to experiment,

8:45 PM ET We had a lot happen the first four days of the 2021 MLB season. The Reds and Cardinals had the first bench-clearing incident of the season. The Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger lost a home run when he passed Justin Turner on the basepath. White Sox rookie designated hitter Yermin Mercedes set an MLB