7:40 AM ET ESPN News Services The Chicago White Sox lost both rookie second baseman Nick Madrigal and designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion to left shoulder injuries during Tuesday’s 3-2 victory against the Milwaukee Brewers. The 23-year-old Madrigal left the game in the third inning after he was thrown out trying to get from first to

9:24 PM ET Los Angeles Angels manager Joe Maddon doesn’t expect Shohei Ohtani to pitch again this season, but he said he doesn’t consider Ohtani’s latest setback to be an indication that he can’t continue as a two-way player. “From what I’m seeing, I believe that he can,” Maddon said before Tuesday’s road game against

8:39 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The two-time defending National League East champion Atlanta Braves took a huge blow when young pitching star Mike Soroka was lost for the season Monday night after tearing his right Achilles tendon against the New York Mets. Soroka was hurt in the third inning after delivering a pitch

12:58 AM ET Nothing says watching Major League Baseball in 2020 quite like watching Monday’s New York Mets–Atlanta Braves game in Atlanta, hearing a loud clap of thunder, and having Mets announcer Gary Cohen explain that the thunder was actually from Citi Field in Queens, where he, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez were broadcasting the

8:16 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Brewers manager Craig Counsell says bench coach Pat Murphy has been released from a hospital here after suffering a heart attack during a team workout Saturday. Brewers general manager David Stearns said Sunday that Murphy received a stent at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee and was resting comfortably. “It

4:04 PM ET The St. Louis Cardinals are the latest team to suffer a coronavirus outbreak, resulting in their four-game series in Detroit being postponed. “The Cardinals have had 13 members of the organization test positive for COVID-19 in the last week, including seven players and six staff members,” the league said in a statement.

1:43 PM ET ESPN News Services The New York Mets‘ Yoenis Cespedes has opted out of the 2020 season after he did not report to Truist Park in Atlanta for Sunday’s game against the Braves, according to general manager Brodie Van Wagenen. Van Wagenen addressed Cespedes’ decision with reporters after the Mets’ 4-0 loss. The

8:00 AM ET Nobody expected the job to be easy, but new Boston Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom certainly didn’t expect this. As the Red Sox close out their first series of the season against the rival New York Yankees on Sunday night (7 p.m. ET, ESPN), Bloom has just closed out his

12:35 PM ET CHICAGO — Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant is out of the lineup for a second consecutive day on Sunday due to health protocols after he self-reported a stomach ailment on Saturday morning. “He really needs to be commended for going in and getting checked out,” manager David Ross said Sunday morning.

7:00 AM ET David Schoenfield Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer of SweetSpot baseball blog Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 Sam Miller Close ESPN.com ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” It’s a showdown between the New York Yankees