Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran said he went public about his 2022 suicide attempt to “reach those who feel alone.”
April 08, 2025
Boston Red Rox star Jarren Duran says he attempted suicide while struggling with his mental health
April 08, 2025
Offense is down again at the start of the big league season, with hits even harder to come by
April 07, 2025
The Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox both got brilliant stretches from their starting rotations — and largely wasted them
April 07, 2025
‘Torpedo’ bats ‘absolutely good for baseball,’ says MLB commissioner Robert Manfred
April 07, 2025
Seattle Mariners outfielder Victor Robles injured his left shoulder and was carted off the field after making a dazzling catch in the ninth inning of a 5-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants
April 06, 2025
Torpedo bats are all the rage this season, and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says he believes all that chatter is good for the game
April 06, 2025
Shohei Ohtani threw a 26-pitch bullpen session before the Los Angeles Dodgers’ game against the Philadelphia Phillies, another step toward his mound return
April 05, 2025
José Ramírez hit three homers and carried the Guardians to a victory
April 05, 2025
The Cincinnati Reds ended a 35-inning scoreless streak on Friday night when Christian Encarnacion-Strand hit a sacrifice fly in the eighth inning to drive in TJ Friedl in a 3-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers
April 05, 2025
Juan Soto’s home debut with the New York Mets was a huge success
April 05, 2025
Aaron Judge became the third-fastest New York Yankees player to reach 500 extra-base hits with a three-run homer in the first inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks, trailing only Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig
April 03, 2025
The Atlanta Braves’ longest winless start since 2016 has left manager Brian Snitker desperate for a recovery he hopes begins with the team’s home opener against Miami on Friday night
April 03, 2025
So far, it’s the opposition taking advantage of the latest change in dimensions at Camden Yards
April 03, 2025
Shohei Ohtani’s walk-off home run gives Dodgers historic win on his bobblehead night
April 03, 2025
Shohei Ohtani did it again on his bobblehead night
April 03, 2025
Shohei Ohtani hit a tiebreaking home run in the ninth inning on his bobblehead night, lifting the unbeaten Los Angeles Dodgers over the winless Atlanta Braves 6-5
April 03, 2025
The only thing that flustered Paul Skenes on Wednesday was getting asked about his photo spread with girlfriend Livvy Dunne in GQ magazine
April 02, 2025
It’s not just a Yankees thing, CNN Chief Domestic Correspondent (and former division one college baseball player) Phil Mattingly explains. There’s science behind the buzzy “torpedo" bat.
April 02, 2025
Next stop, Sutter Health Park: Man in failing health on mission to visit every MLB ballpark nationwide
April 02, 2025
Yankees and their ‘torpedo’ bats break MLB home run record in loss
April 02, 2025
Dustin May pitched five strong innings after missing nearly two years, Mookie Betts hit his third go-ahead homer of the season and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the winless Atlanta Braves 3-1
April 02, 2025
Michael King struck out 11 in five innings and Jackson Merrill homered for the San Diego Padres, who started 6-0 for the first time in their 57-season history by beating the Cleveland Guardians 7-0
April 02, 2025
Yankees slugger Giancarlo Stanton said he'll continue using a torpedo bat whenever he returns from pain in both elbows, but also declined to say whether he thought using the new model might have caused his injury
April 01, 2025
Ace left-hander Garrett Crochet has agreed to a record-breaking $170 million, six-year contract with the Boston Red Sox
April 01, 2025
Carson Kelly became the first Chicago Cubs player in 32 years to hit for the cycle when the catcher tripled in the eighth inning Monday night against the Athletics
April 01, 2025
Jesse Chavez and the Atlanta Braves are back together again
April 01, 2025
Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman is out of the lineup against his former team, the Atlanta Braves, after slipping in the shower and hurting his surgically repaired right ankle
March 31, 2025
Atlanta Braves outfielder Jurickson Profar has been suspended for 80 games without pay for performance-enhancing drug use
March 31, 2025
What are the ‘torpedo’ bats in MLB that have everyone talking?
March 31, 2025
New torpedo bats drew attention when the New York Yankees hit a team-record nine homers that traveled a combined 3,695 feet
March 30, 2025
Aaron Judge homered in his first at-bat, Jazz Chisholm Jr. homered twice and the New York Yankees went deep four more times in a 12-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday, a day after becoming the third team in major league history to hit nine homers in a game
March 30, 2025
The Toronto Blue Jays put right-hander Max Scherzer on the 15-day injured list Sunday because of inflammation in his right thumb
March 30, 2025
Boston Red Sox designated hitter Rafael Devers has become the first major league player to strike out 10 times in the first three games of a season
March 30, 2025
Shohei Ohtani has thrown his first bullpen session since late February, but the reigning NL MVP still has plenty of work to do before he takes the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers
March 30, 2025
Aaron Judge combined with Paul Goldschmidt and Cody Bellinger to go deep on the first three pitches from Nestor Cortes, then hit two more homers as the New York Yankees set a team record with nine home runs against the Milwaukee Brewers
March 29, 2025
Mookie Betts is no longer ailing, finally able to keep food down and eating up a storm to pack on the weight that he dropped while battling a stomach virus during the first two weeks of the season
March 29, 2025
Juan Soto hit his first home run with the New York Mets when he connected in the third inning against the Houston Astros
March 29, 2025
Tyler O’Neill hits record-extending sixth straight Opening Day home run
March 28, 2025
Bryce Harper has hit his sixth opening-day homer and first as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies
March 27, 2025
Devin Williams saved his first game with the New York Yankees by a whisker
March 27, 2025
With a chance to make a late splash in his New York Mets debut, Juan Soto came up empty
March 27, 2025
Juan Soto, Blake Snell and Clay Holmes debut for new teams
March 26, 2025
A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps coming to MLB?
March 27, 2025
Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers
March 26, 2025
The L.A. Angels have elected to release outfielder Mickey Moniak from his contract after the outfielder won $2 million in arbitration.
March 26, 2025
Texas Rangers left-hander Cody Bradford says he realized early in his development that he probably wouldn’t ever possess the type of fastball that causes scouts to take a second look at their radar guns
March 26, 2025
Figuring out a cause for the skyrocketing number of arm injuries among pitchers is easy
March 25, 2025
Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson will begin the season on the injured list because of a mild right intercostal strain
March 23, 2025
Former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías has been suspended through the All-Star break by Major League Baseball under its domestic violence policy with the players’ association
March 21, 2025
Shohei Ohtani hit a towering solo homer in his return to Japan, taking Chicago Cubs pitcher Nate Pearson deep with a ball that barely cleared the fence in right-center field and helping the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 6-3 to sweep the two-game series in Tokyo
March 19, 2025
Sota Fujimori is the luckiest 10-year-old in Japan
March 19, 2025
Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a little extra zip on his fastball
March 18, 2025
The jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers and Cubs opened their regular season had a different vibe than the usual MLB game
March 18, 2025
‘This is baseball country’: MLB season gets underway in Japan as national hero Shohei Ohtani inspires Dodgers’ win over Cubs
March 18, 2025
Shortstop Mookie Betts has returned to Los Angeles to continue recovering from an illness that will cause him to miss the Dodgers’ first two games of the regular season at the Tokyo Dome
March 18, 2025
Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball
March 16, 2025
Atlanta Braves pitcher Spencer Strider struck out six and didn’t allow a base runner over 2 2/3 innings in his first Grapefruit League appearance since undergoing Tommy John surgery last year
March 17, 2025
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
March 17, 2025
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts will not play in the two-game Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs because of an illness that’s lingered for the past week
March 17, 2025
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players in Major League Baseball is at a high point
March 16, 2025
For two days in Japan, it’s the Hanshin Tigers who have looked like the class of the National League
March 16, 2025
Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts is still struggling to recover from an illness, with manager Dave Roberts pessimistic that the eight-time All-Star will be ready for opening day against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday in Japan
March 16, 2025
The Tokyo Series and its celebration of Shohei Ohtani begins this week in a festive atmosphere
March 14, 2025
Paul Skenes is going to start for the Pittsburgh Pirates on opening day
March 15, 2025
The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago Cubs in the first two games of the Major League Baseball season at the Tokyo Dome
March 13, 2025
Shohei Ohtani begins his second season with the Los Angeles Dodgers in his native Japan, taking on the Chicago Cubs in a pair of games at the Tokyo Dome
March 13, 2025
Hundreds of fans at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport lined up 10 deep and hoping to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived
March 13, 2025
New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole to have Tommy John surgery, will miss 2025 season
March 10, 2025
Shohei Ohtani’s bat is ready for the Los Angeles Dodgers while Shota Imanaga has looked good on the mound for the Chicago Cubs with less than 10 days remaining before baseball's regular-season opener in Japan
March 09, 2025
The Athletics will play in Northern California for at least the next three seasons
March 08, 2025
Former major league outfielder Tyler Naquin says his attempted comeback as a right-handed pitcher was over a year in the making
March 07, 2025
Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes is trying to take his burgeoning fame in stride
March 06, 2025
Roki Sasaki has pitched three scoreless innings for the Los Angeles Dodgers in his spring training debut against the Cincinnati Reds
March 05, 2025
Rimas Sports, the agency co-owned by Puerto Rican musical artist Bad Bunny whose leaders have been suspended by the baseball players’ union, has announced a management deal with San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr_ Rimas said it will work to “expand his portfolio."
March 04, 2025
A person familiar with the negotiations says veteran left-handed pitcher Jose Quintana is joining the Milwaukee Brewers on a one-year, $4.25 million deal with $1 million in potential bonuses
March 04, 2025
Trump to pardon late Pete Rose ‘in the coming weeks’ while MLB considers petition to reinstate all-time hits leader
March 02, 2025
Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is considering a petition to have Pete Rose posthumously removed from Major League Baseball’s ineligible list, according to a person familiar with the situation
March 01, 2025
Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes got a chance to showcase his expanded repertoire to opposing hitters while pitching in a Grapefruit League game for the first time this year
March 01, 2025
Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Shohei Ohtani hit a solo home run in his first spring training plate appearance following offseason shoulder surgery
March 01, 2025
Chicago White Sox left fielder Andrew Benintendi will miss four to six weeks with a broken hand after being hit by a pitch in a spring training game
February 27, 2025
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts says three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani will make his first spring training appearance of the year on Friday night
February 26, 2025
Bryce Harper’s love for the Phillie Phanatic runs skin deep
February 25, 2025
New York Mets starter Sean Manaea is expected to begin the season on the injured list because of a right oblique strain
February 24, 2025
Juan Soto hits 426-foot homer in first at-bat for New York Mets, after signing reportedly biggest contract in American sports
February 23, 2025
Juan Soto has homered in his first spring training at-bat for his new team, hitting a solo shot to left-center field in the first inning for the New York Mets against Houston
February 22, 2025
Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona says he’s told players not to use the experimental Automated Ball-Strike System in spring training
February 22, 2025
LA Dodgers pitcher Bobby Miller in concussion protocol after being hit in head by line drive in ‘scary moment’
February 21, 2025
New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner may support a salary cap proposal as long as it contains a provision mandating minimum payrolls
February 21, 2025
The Dodgers won their eighth World Series championship after defeating the New York Yankees Wednesday evening at Yankee Stadium. This is the Dodgers’ second World series championship in five years. They overcame a five-run deficit against the Yankees, winning 7-6. Freddie Freeman was picked as the Series’ MVP for driving in 12 runs, tying the record set by Bobby Richardson in 1960. Freeman became the first player to hit home runs in each of the first four games of a World Series. The Dodgers overcame the largest deficit – five runs – in a World Series-clinching victory. The team broke
October 31, 2024
Yankees stun baseball world with new facial hair policy
February 21, 2025
The New York Yankees have dropped their ban on beards, 49 years after it was imposed by owner George Steinbrenner
February 21, 2025
ESPN’s coverage of Major League Baseball games — at least in its current form — will conclude at the end of the 2025 season
February 21, 2025
Aaron Boone and the New York Yankees have agreed to a two-year contract extension through the 2027 season
February 20, 2025
A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games starting Thursday after four years of experiments in the minor leagues
February 20, 2025
Three-time American League Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander turned 42 years old on Thursday
February 20, 2025
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