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CINCINNATI — There are a whole lot of baseball fans for whom interleague play has always been a part of the game. But the dawn of interleague play 20 years ago was a very big deal. Until then, National League players faced American League players only in spring training, the …

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s bid to revive a state statute legalizing sports betting that was struck down by lower courts as a violation of federal law. The justices will review a federal appeals Read …

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear New Jersey Governor Chris Christie’s bid to revive a state statute legalizing sports betting that was struck down by lower courts as a violation of federal law. The justices will review a federal appeals Read …

Tuesday’s Say Hey, Baseball sifts through the wreckage of the Rangers’ lead, Game 1 of the College World Series, and the only correct NL All-Star ballot. Listen, we know it’s tough to catch up on everything happening in the baseball world each morning. Remember in 2016 when the Rangers had …

ESPN.com Who are the best players in Major League Baseball right now? To determine this, ESPN formed a panel of MLB writers, analysts, contributors and Insiders to rank the top 100, which we’ll count down from No. 100 to No. 1, 20 players per day for five days. To compile …

Reggie Lawson is settling in at low Single-A Fort Wayne. The 19-year-old right-hander turned in his second quality start in his last three outings, striking out six and allowing a run over six innings in the TinCaps’ 5-1 win over visiting South Bench on Monday night. A compensation-round pick a …

Francona was briefly hospitalized on June 13 due to similar, unspecified symptoms. Read MOre      

David Schoenfield ESPN Senior Writer Close Senior writer of SweetSpot baseball blog Former deputy editor of Page 2 Been with ESPN.com since 1995 Follow on Twitter This was supposed to be easy for the Cleveland Indians. All 35 of ESPN’s baseball analysts picked them to win the AL Central. Their …

It is inarguable that no team in baseball honors its history quite like the Yankees, as we witnessed once again on Sunday at the 71st annual Old-Timers’ day celebration at the Stadium. Before you flood my inbox with polite – and, well, less polite – versions of “but no team …

Cleveland spotted Texas a seven-run lead by the fourth inning and then proceeded to bash the Rangers’ brains in. Read MOre