NEW YORK — A 1911 “Shoeless” Joe Jackson autographed photograph by Frank W. Smith sold for $1.47 million, the most ever paid for a signed sports photograph. The photo was offered by Christie’s and Hunt Auctions in New York in the auction Extra Innings: A Private Collection of Important Baseball Memorabilia. The 246-lot auction also featured a Babe Ruth professional […]

Joined ESPN in 2016 to cover the Los Angeles Rams Previously covered the Angels for MLB.com JOSE ALTUVE SWUNG at the very first pitch of the game on Aug. 3, a high fastball from Los Angeles Dodgers starter Walker Buehler, and launched a 400-foot drive that arced high above Dodger Stadium before barely hooking foul. It was a wholly unremarkable […]

There’s a lot of celebrities that take in games at Dodger Stadium. That’s what happens when you have postseason games in Los Angeles. But viewers were less interested in the famous names and more intrigued by a strange head that appeared behind home plate in the bottom of the first inning.  The giant head disappeared in the second inning before […]

Jesse joined ESPN Chicago in September 2009 and covers MLB for ESPN.com. The Chicago White Sox are hopeful the reigning AL MVP, Jose Abreu, will be available to them in Game 1 of their division series against the Houston Astros on Thursday. Abreu, 34, has been ill since the weekend and didn’t travel with the team to Houston on Tuesday. […]

Albert Pujols knows how to play October hero. The Cooperstown-bound slugger was the MVP of the classic 2004 NLCS, when he hit four homers to go with nine RBIs, a .500 average and a 1.563 OPS as his Cardinals beat the Astros in seven games. The next year, he smashed an epic game-winning home run off Brad Lidge in Game […]

In perhaps the biggest turning point of the game, Yankees’ third base coach Phil Nevin decided to send Aaron Judge to home plate. The Yankees were finally on the board in the top of the sixth inning, and when Giancarlo Stanton lined a towering shot off the Green Monster in left center, Nevin was ready to send Judge home all […]

Boston Red Sox slugger J.D. Martinez has been left off the playoff roster for the American League Wild Card Game against the visiting New York Yankees on Tuesday night at Fenway Park as he continues to recover from a sprained left ankle. Martinez suffered the injury in the fifth inning of Sunday’s regular-season finale when he tripped over the second-base […]

ESPN MLB insider Author of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” OVER THE NEXT four weeks of the MLB playoffs, there will be 30-plus games of significant consequence, at least nine win-or-go-home contests and one trophy lifted by the team that survives the grind of October. There will be thousands of pitches, more […]

Red Sox. Yankees. Single game elimination. Is there any better way to start off the 2021 MLB playoffs? Perhaps the biggest rivalry in North American sports will take center stage on Tuesday as they face off in the American League wild card game at Fenway Park with a trip to Tampa Bay and the American League Divisional Series on the line. […]