7:36 PM ET CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs keep making history, just not the kind they want, as their season continues to fade away. On Sunday, they became just the second team in 100 years to get swept at home in a four game series and lose all four by a single run. They also
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12:16 PM ET Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Boston Red Sox left-hander David Price will have surgery Thursday to remove a cyst in his left wrist that ended his season early. The 2012 Cy Young winner is expected to be ready for the start of spring training. Price, who went 7-5 with a 4.28
8:46 PM ET CHICAGO — The Cubs are seeing their season slip away in heartbreaking and dramatic fashion as they lost their fourth consecutive one-run game at Wrigley Field on Saturday, after closer Craig Kimbrel gave up ninth-inning home runs on back-to-back pitches. Kimbrel, 31, entered the game against the St. Louis Cardinals holding onto
6:57 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — One year ago, just winning the NL East was enough for the rebuilding Atlanta Braves. Now manager Brian Snitiker and general manager Alex Anthopoulos expect more. Even as players celebrated their second straight division title with beer and bubbly on Friday night, focus shifted. “Our first goal was
9:00 AM ET Sam MillerESPN.com Close ESPN baseball columnist/feature writerFormer editor-in-chief of Baseball ProspectusCo-author of “The Only Rule Is It Has To Work” A year ago, the Oakland A’s had one of the best offenses in baseball. But, in a strange quirk, they were easily the league’s worst against high-velocity fastballs: a league-low .191 batting
10:26 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves clinched their second consecutive National League East title when Ronald Acuna Jr. hit his 41st homer in a 6-0 victory over San Francisco on Friday night that eliminated the Giants from postseason contention in Bruce Bochy’s final year as San Francisco manager. Acuna scored three
7:00 AM ET There are only 10 days left in MLB’s regular season, but five playoff spots are still up for grabs. As the hunt for October comes down to a few huge late-season series, we’re about to find out who’s in and who’s out. Here’s what we’ll be watching this weekend: There’s still a
1:01 AM ET CHICAGO — How many times have this season’s Chicago Cubs gotten a boost only to quickly fall backward? And if the boost the Cubs received Thursday evening — a surprise return to the lineup for injured first baseman Anthony Rizzo — wasn’t enough to lift them for even one night, is there
11:04 PM ET Don Mattingly and the rebuilding Miami Marlins have agreed to a contract extension, a source told ESPN, confirming an El Extrabase report. Mattingly will receive a two-year deal from the team, a source told ESPN’s Jeff Passan. An official announcement is expected Friday, when Miami opens a three-game series against the visiting
2:31 PM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — Ronald Acuna Jr. of the Atlanta Braves has become only the third player in baseball history to hit 40 homers while 21 years old or younger. The other two were Eddie Mathews and Mel Ott, who are both in the Hall of Fame. Ronald Acuna Jr. launches his