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Mets reach 2-year deal with infielder Jorge Polanco after losing Pete Alonso, AP source says

Mets reach 2-year deal with infielder Jorge Polanco after losing Pete Alonso, AP source says

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Published on: Dec 14, 2025 02:54 am IST The person spoke to the on condition of anonymity because the deal was pending a physical and had not been announced. Polanco hit .265 with 26 home runs and 78 RBIs this year for the Seattle Mariners. It was the 32-year-old’s second season with Seattle after a decade with the Minnesota Twins. Polanco’s arrival comes after the departures of outfielder Brandon Nimmo, closer Edwin Díaz and first baseman Pete Alonso left New York without three of its fan favorites. Polanco’s deal is worth a reported $40 million. Last year, Polanco was mostly a designated hitter and also played second base, but New York’s biggest current need in the infield may be at first after Alonso’s exit. The Mets acquired second baseman Marcus Semien in a trade for Nimmo, and Francisco Lindor is a fixture at shortstop. Polanco was an All-Star in 2019 for Minnesota, and he hit a career-high 33 home runs in 2021. He had surgery in October 2024 to repair his left patellar tendon, and …

Netflix signs a three year deal to stream MLB live events and games

Netflix signs a three year deal to stream MLB live events and games

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Netflix will stream a single game on Opening Night of each season, the Home Run Derby, and one “special event game” each year. In 2026, that will cover the “Field of Dreams” game broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, on August 13th, 2026, between the Minnesota Twins and Philadelphia Phillies. The games signed up by all three networks cover a media deal that MLB previously had with ESPN alone, and on NBC’s end, gives it the Sunday Night Baseball game, as well as draft coverage and other games for its networks. According to the league, “Some Sunday night games will stream on Peacock and simulcast on NBCSN during weeks there is overlap with previously negotiated media rights deals on NBC,” while Peacock will also carry MLB’s Sunday Leadoff games that start around noon and simulcast on the newly relaunched NBC Sports Network. And for ESPN, it has a 30-game broadcast package each season that will be exclusive to its channels and the ESPN app, 150 out-of-market games streaming (one per day) in the ESPN app, and the …

Willy Adames homers twice to help the Giants beat the lowly Rockies 9-3

Willy Adames homers twice to help the Giants beat the lowly Rockies 9-3

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May 05, 2025 04:20 AM IST Willy Adames homers twice to help the Giants beat the lowly Rockies 9-3 SAN FRANCISCO — Willy Adames homered twice and drove in three runs, helping the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 9-3 on Sunday. HT Image Adames hit a solo homer in each of his first two at-bats for his eighth career multihomer game. He just missed another homer in the fifth when he hit an RBI double off the wall in right-center. Giants right-hander Logan Webb pitched seven innings of one-run ball, bouncing back nicely after he surrendered a season-high five runs in a loss at San Diego on Tuesday. Colorado dropped to a major league-worst 6-28. It is 2-17 on the road. The Rockies closed to 2-1 on Jacob Stallings’ RBI single in the fifth. But the Giants responded with three runs in the bottom half of the inning. Adames’ double knocked in Mike Yastrzemski, who drove in two runs earlier in the inning. The Giants added four runs in the seventh to take …

MItchell Parker works 8 innings of 1-hit ball as Nationals rout Orioles 7-0

MItchell Parker works 8 innings of 1-hit ball as Nationals rout Orioles 7-0

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Apr 23, 2025 06:50 AM IST MItchell Parker works 8 innings of 1-hit ball as Nationals rout Orioles 7-0 WASHINGTON — Mitchell Parker pitched eight innings to combine on a one-hitter, Nathaniel Lowe and Dylan Crews homered, and the Washington Nationals defeated the Baltimore Orioles 7-0 in the opener of a three-game series on Tuesday night. MItchell Parker works 8 innings of 1-hit ball as Nationals rout Orioles 7-0 James Wood had three hits on his bobblehead night and scored twice for Washington, which won for the third time in four games. Keibert Ruiz and José Tena also had three-hit outings for the Nationals. Playing for the first time since Sunday’s 24-2 loss to Cincinnati, Baltimor didn’t get a runner past second base until the ninth inning. Cedric Mullins accounted for the Orioles’ lone hit with a one-out single in the third, and Baltimore was shut out for the third time this season. Parker struck out four and walked two while setting down his last 17 batters and lowering his ERA to 1.39. It was …

11 year-old boy hits jackpot with rare Baseball player card of Paul Skenes | Sport-others News

11 year-old boy hits jackpot with rare Baseball player card of Paul Skenes | Sport-others News

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An 11-year-old’s birthday present from his parents is about to fetch him money beyond his dreams. When the boy received a hobby box of 2024 Topps Chrome Update for Christmas, he found a redemption card in the box. Though his father mistook it as a checklist, the boy knew better and after he sent it back to Topps, they received the highly-prized one-of-one autographed Paul Skenes MLB debut patch card. Such has been the craze around Skenes, the American baseball pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates this year, that the 11 year old might end up making more money than Skenes MLB salary if the auction goes as expected. As of Wednesday night, there have been 56 bids, with the highest bid reportedly as high as 550000 USD. The family had turned over the card to the auction house Fanatics Collect, and there is still a week left before the bids end on March 20. For the record, the All-Star pitcher Skenes is set to make a base salary of $800,000 this season. Some publications like …

Baseball to have robot umpires from 2026? | Sports News

Baseball to have robot umpires from 2026? | Sports News

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An automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system will be trialed at 13 ballparks hosting 19 Major League Baseball teams in 2025, reported CNN. It means robot umpires will be part of a challenge system during Spring training next year, with an eye on implementing the system in the 2026 regular season. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred told CNN, “I think we will have a Spring training ABS test that will provide a meaningful opportunity for all Major League players to see what the challenge system will look like.” Players’ experience with it will go a long way in deciding when it will be implemented, Manfred was quoted as saying by CNN. While human umpires will still call balls and strikes, teams that now have a limited number of challenges with which they can appeal on-field decisions, will be able to summon the robot umpires. The ABS technology uses Hawk-Eye cameras to track the location of each pitch in relation to the strike zone, CNN stated. Manfred said it was a crucial time as the human umpires’ collective …

Who is Shohei Ohtani? Samurai with Hello Kitty cuteness in baseball

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Months before a 60-year-old woman with Indian roots might become the US president, a 30-year-old Japanese man is redefining baseball, the ultimate American pastime. The age of Asia, it seems, is upon America with the land of the rising sun announcing dawn. And they thought it was China they needed to worry about. The Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris might have nosed ahead of her Republican rival Donald Trump on the popularity charts but she is nowhere near the cult following of Shohei Ohtani, the Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star who has hit the Major League Baseball, and all 50 American states, like a giant spiraling storm. This isn’t just a baseball story, it’s much more. It’s about soft-power superseding real power, the blurring of international borders and excellence leading to acceptability. It’s also about multicultural America delivering on its promise of equality and making even unrealistic dreams come true. Born to a national level badminton playing mother and an amateur baseball playing father, the Japanese had pedigree. But Ohtani isn’t some ‘find of the …

PS Plus Monthly Games for September Include Quidditch Champions, MLB the Show 24 and Little Nightmares 2

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Sony has announced the PlayStation Plus monthly games for September. This month, new release Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions, sports title MLB The Show 24 and survival-horror platformer Little Nightmares II will join PS Plus. All three games will be playable for all PS Plus subscribers across Essential, Extra and Deluxe/Premium tiers starting September 3. Quidditch Champions was earlier confirmed as a PS Plus launch title. The PS Plus offerings for September, announced on the PlayStation Blog on August 28, will be available till September 30, following which players would require an active PS Plus subscription for continued access. While PlayStation users can add Quidditch Champions, MLB The Show 24 and Little Nightmares II to their game libraries from September 3, they still have a until September 2 to redeem PS Plus titles from August. These include Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach and Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights. Here’s a look at the PS Plus monthly games lineup for September: Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions Developed by Unbroken Studios, …

Roku will start streaming live MLB games for free

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Roku will exclusively stream Major League Baseball Sunday Leadoff games starting with the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox on May 19th. The games will air live on The Roku Channel — no subscription or sign-up required. To watch the games, you’ll have to download The Roku Channel on your Roku device or TV. The app is also available on Amazon Fire devices, Samsung TVs, and Google TVs, as well as via The Roku Channel website. You’ll be able to watch replays of the games up to six hours after they end. “With free games available to anyone, MLB games on Roku will be widely accessible to fans,” Noah Garden, the MLB’s deputy commissioner of business and media, said in a statement. Roku will stream Sunday Leadoff games every week until September 15th. You can find the full roster of games airing on Roku here. Apple TV Plus already airs Friday Night Baseball games, but you have to pay for a $9.99 monthly subscription to tune in. Other streaming services are getting in on …

Hulu with Live TV adds MLB Network just as baseball season gets underway

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Hulu’s subscription TV service has added MLB Network to its core channel lineup in the nick of time for the league’s Opening Day 2024. This will provide customers with access to “over 100 MLB games nationally broadcast over the course of the season,” along with the network’s original programming and studio shows. YouTube TV, one of Hulu with Live TV’s primary competitors, abruptly dropped MLB Network early last year after it was unable to reach a new carriage agreement with Major League Baseball. And with no announcement of a return ahead of today’s opening games, it appears that YTTV subscribers will go without it for another year. Perhaps that shouldn’t be surprising after the company shelled out $2 billion for the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket; something had to be sacrificed for that deal, and football brings in far more viewers than baseball nowadays. But MLB Network continues to be offered by the majority of YouTube’s competitors, including the aforementioned Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV, and Fubo. The latter service also just added the …