ARLINGTON, Texas — Closer Daniel Bard’s 97.8 mile per hour fastball missed its location and he paid the price. The Rangers’ Willie Calhoun sent the ball deep into the right-field seats with two outs in the ninth inning Monday, sending the game into extra innings. The Rockies won, 6-4, in 10 innings, but was Calhoun’s homer off Bard a red […]

WASHINGTON — The Lerner family that has owned the Washington Nationals since 2006 is exploring the possibility of selling the Major League Baseball franchise. Manager Dave Martinez said before the team’s game at Atlanta that managing principal owner Mark Lerner called him Monday morning to deliver the news. Lerner, who has taken over a lead role with the team from […]

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jon Gray stood near the visiting dugout at Globe Life Field Monday, about three hours before his Rangers faced off against his former team. “It’s kind of emotional, in a way, but then again, that’s part of life,” Gray said. “Everything goes on, things change, for the better for the most part.” Still, the question lingers: why […]

Senior writer ESPN Magazine/ESPN.com Analyst/reporter ESPN television Author of “The Last Night of the Yankee Dynasty” As the Yankees opened the 2022 Major League Baseball season Friday, all eyes were on Aaron Judge — but not for anything he did on the field. In separate sessions with reporters, Judge and then Yankees general manager Brian Cashman revealed they had been […]

Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. DETROIT — The Javy Baez experience got off to a dramatic start on Opening Day after the newest Tiger walked off the White Sox with a base hit off the right-field wall, plating Austin Meadows with the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning on Friday. […]

Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. NEW YORK — All-Star right fielder Aaron Judge and the New York Yankees have not come to an agreement on a contract extension ahead of the slugger’s self-imposed deadline of Opening Day. After reports surfaced that the Yankees offered Judge a multiyear contract, which sources told ESPN’s Jeff Passan was in […]

The start of the 2022 MLB season has finally arrived! Beginning with seven Opening Day games on Thursday and continuing with the rest of MLB in action Friday, it’s time to welcome in a new year on the diamond. To celebrate baseball’s return, we’ve asked our experts to weigh in on what they are most excited to watch — and […]

LOS ANGELES — Tommy Davis, a two-time National League batting champion who won three World Series titles with the Los Angeles Dodgers, has died. He was 83. He died Sunday night in Phoenix, the Dodgers announced Monday. They did not provide a cause of death. They were informed of Davis’ death by his daughter, Morgana. Davis was an athletic standout […]