Homers from Martinez, Alvarez, Nimmo lift New York to its 12th win in past 15 games
By Anthony DiComo
7:00 PM EDT
CHICAGO -- Over the first two months of this season, the Mets featured an average offense. Ordinary. Pedestrian. They certainly were not bad, as coaches and team officials tended to point out. But they were not the type of good one might expect from a lineup featuring Francisco Lindor, Pete
By Mandy Bell @MandyBell02
20 minutes ago
CLEVELAND -- We’ve become accustomed to the go-ahead homers, some scrappy small ball or big walk-off hits that lead to victories. Teams often win games in similar ways night after night. But sometimes, a club wins in a way that's never seen in this millennium. That was the case for
By Mark Sheldon
25 minutes ago
CINCINNATI -- Not even a leg injury has cooled Jeimer Candelario's scorching month of June for the Reds. Candelario slugged a pair of solo home runs to support Andrew Abbott's 10-strikeout performance on the mound during Cincinnati's 5-2 victory over the Red Sox on Friday in their three-game series opener
By Christina De Nicola @cdenicola13
17 minutes ago
MIAMI -- Tim Anderson delivered the game-winning RBI single in the Marlins’ 3-2, 10-inning victory over the Mariners on Friday night at loanDepot park. Miami collected its MLB-high eighth walk-off win of the season and third in a row. According to Elias Sports Bureau, the Marlins won three straight home
By Matthew Ritchie @mkrwrt
June 20, 2024
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- When the baseball world suffered the loss of Willie Mays on Tuesday -- when the Fairfield-raised baseball titan and legendary human passed away at 93 years old -- MLB’s Tribute to the Negro Leagues turned into something a little different. Thursday night’s game between the St. Louis
By Betelhem Ashame and Matthew Ritchie @mkrwrt and @betelhem_ashame
12:21 AM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The moment finally arrived on Thursday night, and it lived up to every expectation. Wearing throwback uniforms that evoked their Negro Leagues counterparts (the San Francisco Sea Lions and St. Louis Stars), the Giants and Cardinals made Rickwood Field -- the oldest professional ballpark in the country
By Jason Beck
9:03 PM EDT
DETROIT -- While Tarik Skubal continues to garner the bulk of All-Star consideration in the Tigers rotation, Jack Flaherty continues to put together one stingy start after another. His scoreless streak ended at 20 2/3 innings with a Tommy Pham home run, but Carson Kelly’s two-run homer ensured Flaherty’s winning
By Adam Berry
36 minutes ago
PITTSBURGH -- One by one, the Rays’ stars are starting to turn. After a slow start to the season, Yandy Díaz has put together the longest on-base streak of his Major League career. Similarly, Randy Arozarena is pulling himself out of the hole he created the first two months. Jose
By Anthony Castrovince
2:54 PM EDT
MLB at Rickwood Field on Thursday night was, as one would have anticipated, the best night of baseball all season. The showcase of America’s oldest professional ballpark, the stirring pregame tribute to the Negro Leagues and many living players, the appropriateness of Alabama native Brendan Donovan coming through for the
By John Denton @JohnDenton555
1:45 AM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- One of Masyn Winn’s first memories of playing baseball in Texas years ago was when he played for his stepfather, Earl Luckett, and the team was not only named the Negro Leagues Legends, but the jerseys were adorned with the names of different iconic, trailblazing baseball players.
By MLB.com Staff
9:40 AM EDT
The Giants and Cardinals on Thursday played at Rickwood Field, the oldest ballpark in the country, located in Birmingham, Ala., where they also paid tribute to the late, great Willie Mays. Rickwood once served as home to the Birmingham Black Barons, an iconic Negro League team, with countless Hall of
By Bryan Horowitz @SportsAngle
June 20, 2024
Over the course of his remarkable seven-year career in the Major Leagues, Shohei Ohtani hasn't met his match often. But the generational unicorn had to adjust a bit when confronted with the likes of Gravedigger and El Toro Loco. About a year and a half ago, the team at New
By Paul Casella @paul_casellaMLB
8:26 PM EDT
PHILADELPHIA -- When Cole Hamels threw out the first pitch on Friday night, it marked his first time wearing a Phillies jersey on a big league mound since July 25, 2015, when he threw his historic no-hitter at Wrigley Field in his final start with the franchise. The 2008 World
By MLB.com Staff
6:11 PM EDT
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By Brendan Samson @brendan_samson
June 20, 2024
In last week’s mock draft, Jonathan Mayo noted that we were in “calm-before-the-storm" territory as we awaited the 2024 MLB Draft Combine. That’s no longer the case. Our Draft experts (Mayo and Jim Callis) have been on site in Phoenix soaking up any and all Draft-related information they can.
By Jason Beck
2:44 PM EDT
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By Betelhem Ashame @betelhem_ashame
1:15 AM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It was, quite simply, poetic. Bill Greason standing on the grass at Rickwood Field, preparing to send a pitch to home plate. A Black Baron in 1948, Greason played alongside a 17-year-old Willie Mays as Birmingham won the Negro American League pennant. On Thursday night, the 99-year-old
By Sam Dykstra @SamDykstraMiLB
12:12 PM EDT
Birmingham’s Rickwood Field – the oldest professional baseball stadium in America, standing since 1910, and the former home of the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons – hosted Minor League Baseball and Major League Baseball games this week, and on the way to the hallowed ground, MLB Pipeline took a
By Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports
12:37 AM EDT
Here’s our weekly look at 10 mind-blowing notes from the last week in baseball (June 14-20). Hey, Mr. DJ: In his third career start on Saturday, DJ Herz was masterful, with 13 strikeouts and no walks on just 84 pitches. He became the second pitcher since at least 1901 with
By Theo DeRosa @Theo_DeRosa
June 20, 2024
Barry Bonds is still confident. The all-time Major League home run leader certainly proved that during Thursday’s MLB at Rickwood Field pregame show on FOX, when cohost Derek Jeter posed an interesting question to Bonds.
By Andy Behrens, Yahoo.com
11:24 AM EDT
Those broken rosters won’t fix themselves, people. We’re gonna need to do a little work. June is no time for complacency, so here’s a collection of seven useful waiver options, available in a majority of Yahoo! leagues and approved for use … Jarred Kelenic, OF, Atlanta Braves (33% rostered) Ronald
Baltimore sets division-era mark with 22nd straight win or tie in intradivision series
By Jake Rill @JakeDRill
June 20, 2024
NEW YORK -- The Yankees talked about the hit by pitches early in the tense series. The national media talked about the possibility of retaliation and the potential for emotions to boil over between two American League East rivals. The Orioles let their bats carry their side of the conversation
By Maria Guardado
1:15 AM EDT
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The ghosts of Rickwood Field came alive on Thursday night, none more so than that of the late Willie Mays. Mays, the legendary center fielder who died Tuesday at 93, was front and center as the Giants fell to the Cardinals, 6-5, in MLB’s special tribute to
Club is first to win 3 straight home games with a dinger in the 9th
By AJ Cassavell
3:08 AM EDT
SAN DIEGO -- The moment he hit it, Jake Cronenworth knew it was gone. The next moment, he wasn’t so sure. As the baseball veered through the night toward the right-field foul pole, a moment of doubt crept in. Standing in front of the lefty batter’s box, Cronenworth leaned to
By Will Leitch @williamfleitch
12:00 AM EDT
There’s always something fascinating going on in the world of baseball -- and there’s always something new. Every Friday morning throughout the season, heading into the weekend, inspired by Zack Lowe’s terrific “10 Things I Like” NBA column for ESPN, we present the Five Fascinations, five fun things going on