11:29 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” OAKLAND, Calif. — Tampa Bay Rays first baseman Yandy Diaz is known for two things: his outsize muscles and exceptional ability to hit. His combination of both in the American League wild-card

6:05 PM ET Associated Press MILWAUKEE — Christian Yelich watched helplessly from the dugout as the Brewers’ season ended. Milwaukee controlled the first 7 1/3 innings of Tuesday’s NL wild-card game in Washington before a stunning collapse. All-Star closer Josh Hader was wild, and the Brewers were stung by a disputed hit-by-pitch, a broken-bat base

Sep 25, 2019 NEW YORK — Brian Cashman told a story about a horse named Nifty. Cashman hated his summer job on his father’s farm in Kentucky, hated mucking out stalls and cleaning fecal stains from barn walls with his bucket of ammonia and oversized brush. Young Brian loved baseball, and he wanted no part

1:16 AM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” WASHINGTON — At 11:24 p.m. on Tuesday, less than half an hour after Trent Grisham committed the error that cost the Milwaukee Brewers their season, the man he replaced approached his locker

4:10 PM ET A Houston furniture salesman, attempting to mitigate millions of dollars in potential refunds from a promotion, placed one of the largest bets ever taken by a U.S. bookmaker on Tuesday at a Mississippi sportsbook. Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale, owner of Gallery Furniture in Houston, bet $3.5 million on the Astros to win

8:00 AM ET Young players are dominating baseball like never before — and this October presents a chance for a new group of rising stars to make their mark on the MLB postseason. From an NL MVP hopeful in Los Angeles to a pinstriped infielder who reminds us of a certain Yankees shortstop icon, we

12:35 AM ET The Washington Nationals offered third baseman Anthony Rendon a seven-year deal worth $210 million to $215 million, according to The Washington Post. The early September offer is not expected to keep Rendon from hitting the free agent market this winter, according to The Post. Rendon signed a one-year deal worth $18.8 million

1:56 PM ET The Los Angeles Angels have fired Brad Ausmus as manager after just one year with the team. His status had been under review by the team’s leadership in recent days, at the end of a disappointing season on the field and a tragic one off it, with the midseason death of pitcher

8:04 AM ET St. Louis Cardinals beat writer Derrick Goold performed CPR on a man in distress Sunday in the Chicago Cubs dugout, helping to save his life. The Cubs were about to announce that manager Joe Maddon would not be returning to the team, but there was a delay. That was because videographer Mike

12:12 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — The average time of a nine-inning game reached a record length in the major leagues this season. Major League Baseball said Sunday the final figure for the 2019 regular season was 3 hours, 5 minutes, 35 seconds. That topped the 3:05:11 in 2017. The average had dropped