3:09 PM ET The Oakland Athletics, who pulled off perhaps the most surprising run to the playoffs this season, rewarded manager Bob Melvin, executive vice president Billy Beane and general manager David Forst with long-term extensions on Monday. “I’m proud of the tremendous success of our team under the leadership of Billy, David and Bob
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3:37 AM ET LOS ANGELES — For David Price, the world will now look different. The air will seem cleaner when he breathes. Food will dance across his taste buds. His chats with the media will … well, maybe those won’t change. But the story of Price’s baseball life now has a very different narrative
9:33 AM ET Facebook Twitter Facebook Messenger Pinterest Email print The 2018 World Series featured some huge home runs, dramatic comebacks and the longest game in MLB postseason history. Here are some of the biggest moments of the Red Sox’s Series win over the Dodgers: Game 1 Eduardo Nunez hits a pinch-hit three-run homer in
12:42 PM ET The New York Mets have agreed to a deal to make agent Brodie Van Wagenen their new general manager, according to multiple reports. The news was first reported by the New York Post, which said a news conference will be held on Tuesday if the World Series is over by then. Van
8:25 AM ET LOS ANGELES — It’s simple now: The Los Angeles Dodgers need a win to stay alive, and Clayton Kershaw needs to deliver it. But there’s so much more to it than that. Yes, Price is getting the ball in a possible clincher, but if you’ve been following the Red Sox this October,
12:55 AM ET ESPN News Services LOS ANGELES — The Boston Red Sox will start David Price, not Chris Sale, when they look to close out the World Series in Game 5 on Sunday. Manager Alex Cora announced the surprise decision toward the end of his news conference following Boston’s 9-6 Game 4 win on
4:10 PM ET The Boston Red Sox will turn to left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez to start Game 4 of the World Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday. Nathan Eovaldi had been scheduled to start, but he was called in to pitch six-plus innings of relief as Friday’s Game 3 stretched to 18 innings before the Los
6:26 AM ET David Schoenfeld LOS ANGELES — The clock spun past midnight, the moon rose from behind the upper deck in right field to high above the stadium behind home plate, the pitchers kept pitching, the hitters kept trying to hit, the crowd thinned out and finally the longest game in World Series history
10:27 PM ET The prospect of the New York Mets hiring agent Brodie Van Wagenen as general manager has alarmed a number of players, according to players’ association executive director Tony Clark. “I won’t tell you how many calls or how many texts I have gotten,” Clark said Friday before Game 3 of the World
4:07 PM ET New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes is now in the recovery process after undergoing heel surgery Friday — his second procedure in the past three months. The Mets announced Friday that Dr. Robert Anderson performed the surgery in Charlotte, North Carolina, to remove bone calcification in Cespedes’ left heel. The search for