MLB News: Scores, Standings, Stats, Trades, Rumors (2024)

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

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

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.

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

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

SAN DIEGO -- Another game, another walk-off home run for the Padres at Petco Park. With two outs in the ninth inning Thursday night, Jake Cronenworth turned on a 3-2 fastball from Milwaukee’s Joel Payamps and sent it deep into the right-field seats, sending the Padres to a series-opening 7-6

Baltimore sets division-era mark with 22nd straight win or tie in intradivision series

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

For just about everyone in attendance at the game at Rickwood Field Thursday night, it was perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime experience. But for Giants prospect Scott Bandura, there was a familiarity about being at this old, historic ballpark that not many would understand. Bandura, currently an outfielder with Single-A San Jose,

Every single one of Grayson Rodriguez's 36 big league outings, from his debut for the Orioles last April until now, has started the same way: with a fastball as his first pitch of the game. "That seems to be a big topic as of late," Rodriguez said with a laugh

OAKLAND -- Knowing the score, the situation and the big moment Bobby Witt Jr. found himself in Thursday afternoon, relievers in the Royals bullpen did what anybody watching baseball this year might do. They called the shot. Eight pitches later, Witt launched a go-ahead, game-winning home run in the top

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DENVER -- Even with a quick glance at the Dodgers’ injury report, the amount of talent sidelined for Los Angeles is pretty glaring. Mookie Betts, Clayton Kershaw, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Walker Buehler and Max Muncy are among the most recognizable names in the sport, and none of them are available for

CHICAGO -- Yordan Alvarez entered the Astros’ clubhouse just after 11 a.m. on Thursday, two hours before the team’s finale against the White Sox. Houston’s hard-hitting slugger had missed the first two games of the series to tend to a personal matter, and his absence had been noticeable both on

Red Sox closer Kenley Jansen has been really good at his day job for more than a decade, but that doesn't mean he can't make room for a side gig. How does Kenley Jansen, record label executive, sound? Jansen recently announced the formation of KJ74 Entertainment, a label he created

SAN DIEGO -- Reluctantly, Brewers pitching prospect Robert Gasser is pulling the plug on his promising debut season with an eye toward being healthy by this time next year. The 25-year-old left-hander, rated Milwaukee’s No. 4 prospect by MLB Pipeline, has elected to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery after getting

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Former Major League umpire Ed Montague was less than two years old when his father made a fateful scouting trip to Rickwood Field in 1950. Montague’s father, also named Ed, was working for the New York Giants when he was dispatched to Alabama with fellow scout Bill

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Still recovering from the tightness and cramping that knocked him out of a Double-A game after just two innings on June 5, Cardinals top pitching prospect Tink Hence was set to make his return to action this weekend before being invited to Alabama for Thursday’s MLB at

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Ahead of MLB’s Tribute to the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field on Thursday night, there was one final get together aimed at giving those who battled and balled in the Negro Leagues the shine and adoration that they deserve. And in the name of stacking history upon

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A.G. Gaston was one of the leading entrepreneurs of the American South during the 20th century. The Birmingham, Ala., native was born in 1892 and overcame humble beginnings on his path toward building a multimillion-dollar empire, with his companies operating as some of the most prominent Black