10:30 PM ET I don’t expect Fernando Tatis Jr. to hit a triple, slide into third base, get tangled up with Justin Turner and then pop up and try to punch Turner in the face, like what happened with George Brett and Graig Nettles in the 1976 American League Championship Series. I don’t expect the

9:00 AM ET The breakout season of the San Diego Padres‘ Fernando Tatis Jr. did more than put him on baseball’s radar. With the 2020s underway in a most unprecedented fashion and a younger generation bucking baseball’s unwritten rules, it made him the clear choice as MLB’s Latino Face of the Decade, as determined through

7:17 PM ET Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Ron Perranoski, the left-handed ace of the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ bullpen who helped them win a pair of World Series championships in the 1960s, has died. He was 84. He died Friday night at his home in Vero Beach, Florida, of complications from a long illness, his

7:30 PM ET Catcher Francisco Cervelli announced his retirement in an Instagram post Saturday. View this post on Instagram Hoy quiero compartir con todos ustedes una decisión que para mí es trascendental: 𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐨 𝐝𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐢 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐬𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥. ⁣ ⁣ Se los cuento por aquí, porque soy consciente de que sin

5:29 PM ET For MLB teams that didn’t go far into the postseason — and those that didn’t get there at all — there’s only so much time to spend on reflection before starting in on identifying what they need to get done during the offseason. Whether it’s re-signing a key free agent, addressing a

1:13 AM ET This is not how the San Diego Padres would have preferred to draw up their first postseason series victory since 1998. They played three games against the St. Louis Cardinals and their starting pitchers threw a combined six innings. They used eight pitchers in a Game 1 loss, used nine pitchers in

12:44 AM ET In 2006, less than an hour after Tony La Russa had won his first World Series as the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, he was greeted in the hallway at Busch Stadium by an iconic figure. “Bob Gibson just shook my hand,” said La Russa, who had won a World Series

12:36 AM ET ESPN News Services SAN DIEGO — Fernando Tatis Jr. and Wil Myers each hit two home runs and Manny Machado also connected for the San Diego Padres, who rallied to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-9 Thursday night to force a deciding Game 3 in their National League Wild Card Series. San

7:00 AM ET ESPN.com staff Just when it looked as if we might have only one game Friday after gorging on playoff baseball the past two days, Fernando Tatis Jr. happened and we have a postseason doubleheader: Game 2 of Marlins-Cubs and the winner-take-all Game 3 between Tatis’ Padres and the Cardinals. Here’s what you

6:28 PM ET Associated Press HOUSTON — Astros ace Justin Verlander had Tommy John surgery on Wednesday. General manager James Click announced Thursday that Verlander had the procedure a day earlier and estimated his recovery time at about 12-14 months. That means the earliest Verlander could pitch would be in the 2022 season and it