David Hess stepped away from Major League Baseball in 2021 after doctors diagnosed him with cancer. On Friday, the pitcher revealed his battle with the disease is not over. “The last couple weeks have been a whirlwind for us with this cancer
Craig Kimbrel solidified himself as one of baseball’s greatest closers on Friday night with a historic achievement. The Philadelphia Phillies reliever became just the eighth player in MLB history to record 400 saves. Kimbrel joins Mariano Rivera, Trevor Hoffman, Lee Smith, Francisco
The Oakland Athletics are off to one brutal start to a season. The A’s lost 3-2 to the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday for their sixth loss in a row, dropping Oakland to a 10-40 start through 50 games of the 2023 Major
The New York Mets and Washington Nationals played less than three innings for about 38 minutes on Saturday before it was finally called after a roughly four-hour rain delay. The game began at 4:05 p.m. and was delayed at 4:43, and no
Don Denkinger, who worked as a Major League umpire for nearly 30 years, died Friday at the age of 86. Denise Hanson, one of Denkinger’s three daughters, said he died at Cedar Valley Hospice in Waterloo, Iowa. Umpire Don Denkinger watches the
Several MLB teams extended alcohol sales beyond the seventh inning last month in response to the new pitch clock rule that resulted in shorter games and thus, less money spent at the concession stands. But one team is now returning to its
A national anthem standoff between Boston Red Sox reliever Kutter Crawford and Philadelphia Phillies left-hander Matt Strahm not only resulted in an ejection, MLB has fined them as well. There have been standoffs in the past in multiple sports, with players wanting
Marly Rivera is out at ESPN after she called another MLB reporter who attempted to interview New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge a “f—ing c–t.” Rivera, who covered the Yankees but was also a part of ESPN’s national baseball broadcasts, uttered the
The Oakland Athletics’ plan to move to Nevada after signing a binding agreement for land near the Las Vegas strip has not gone over well with the city’s mayor, Sheng Thao, but Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred refuted any suggestion that
The San Diego Padres added another All-Star to their star-studded lineup Thursday night, as Fernando Tatis Jr. played in an MLB game for the first time since the end of the 2021 season. After missing most of the 2022 season recovering from