12:39 AM ET CHICAGO — Desperate to get back in the win column, Red Sox ace Chris Sale finally found a victory in the place where he’s won the most. Sale threw six scoreless innings in his sharpest outing of the season, picking up the decision in Boston’s 6-1 win over the Chicago White Sox

1:26 AM ET Associated Press CINCINNATI — The crowd was energized for Nick Senzel‘s debut. A pair of three-run homers by Derek Dietrich helped the Reds surge ahead by eight runs. It looked as though the San Francisco Giants were headed for yet another horrid outcome at Great American Ball Park. Instead, the Giants pulled

3:32 PM ET The Boston Red Sox have followed suit with starting pitcher David Price and are no longer playing “Fortnite” in the home clubhouse. Nathan Eovaldi told WEEI in a story published Wednesday that he hasn’t seen the popular video game around all season. “Usually everybody had it set up in their lockers, but

7:00 AM ET CHICAGO — Like the latest episode of HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” the battle to take place at Wrigley Field this weekend has been brewing for some time. In fact, the rivalry between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals goes back about as far as Westeros. And just like the rise in

10:09 PM ET The Washington Nationals have fired pitching coach Derek Lilliquist, general manager Mike Rizzo announced after the team’s 2-1 win against the Cardinals on Thursday night. Lilliquist had served in the role since November 2017. Washington minor league pitching coordinator Paul Menhart, who has been in that role since 2015, will replace Lilliquist,

4:30 PM 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” On Thursday afternoon, New York Mets righty Noah Syndergaard threw a 1-0 shutout of the Cincinnati Reds, the 1 coming on his own opposite-field home run. My friend Russ calls this a