11:44 PM ET Associated Press BOSTON — Stephen Vogt hit a two-run homer and the Giants beat the Red Sox 11-3 on Wednesday night, giving Bruce Bochy his 2,000th career victory as a manager in the majors. Bochy became just the 11th manager to achieve 2,000 wins, reaching the milestone with just 10 games remaining
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10:04 PM ET Houston Astros right-hander Gerrit Cole has become the 18th major league pitcher since 1900 to strike out at least 300 batters in a season. Cole reached the milestone by getting Shin-Soo Choo of the Texas Rangers to whiff on an 89 mph changeup for the third out of the sixth inning Wednesday
1:10 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” Pittsburgh Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez admitted to police that he tried to have sex with a 13-year-old girl and sent her nude photographs and videos of himself committing sexual acts, according to
2:47 AM ET ESPN News Services The San Francisco Giants and Boston Red Sox tied a major league record in Tuesday night’s game by combining to use 24 pitchers. In a game that lasted 5 hours, 54 minutes, featured 50 players overall and saw “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” played in the middle of
10:48 PM ET Toronto Blue Jays second baseman Cavan Biggio hit for the cycle in Tuesday night’s game against the Orioles, securing it with a triple that drove in two runs in the top of the ninth. The rookie came to the plate in the ninth against Orioles pitcher Mychal Givens, having hit a single,
12:37 PM ET Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Felipe Vazquez was arrested Tuesday in Pittsburgh on one count of computer pornography — solicitation of a child. In addition, Vazquez, 28, faces another charge for providing obscene material to minors. The arrest was made by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with assistance from the Pennsylvania State Police.
12:42 AM ET CHICAGO — As if the Chicago Cubs weren’t fighting an uphill battle already, the heart and soul of the team, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, is out indefinitely with an ankle sprain — and it couldn’t come at a worse time of the season. With the Cubs in a dogfight to make the
9:53 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Josh VanMeter has left Cincinnati’s game against the Chicago Cubs because of a family medical issue. VanMeter was replaced by a pinch hitter in the fourth inning Monday night. The 24-year-old rookie lined to center in the second in his only at-bat. VanMeter is batting .242 with eight
Sep 10, 2019 It is officially clinching season across MLB as baseball’s best teams vie to lock up division titles, and wild-card hopefuls look to earn a place in October. As the race to the finish heats up and magic numbers shrink, we’ve got you covered on everything you need to know about which teams
2:54 PM ET Mike Trout has been trying to get back in the lineup, but that plan will be put on hold because the Los Angeles Angels slugger will have surgery on his foot. The team announced that Trout will have a thickening of tissue around the nerves — a Morton’s neuroma — in the