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The Chicago Cubs placed infielder Matt Duffy on the COVID-19-related injured list, the team announced Tuesday. Also, pitcher Kyle Hendricks was scratched from Tuesday’s start vs. Milwaukee “out of an abundance of caution” after the right-hander wasn’t feeling well, the team said. Duffy joins relievers Brandon Workman, Jason Adam and Dan Winkler on the list

DAVID RAYMOND’S PILGRIMAGE to the happiest pantheon in sports always begins rather drearily. After a flight from Philadelphia to Chicago’s Midway Airport, he takes a 40-minute drive in a rental car southeast, down the construction-plagued Skyway toll road, across a bridge that spans one of the nation’s most polluted waterways (the Calumet River), through the

J.T. Realmuto sat in limbo this past offseason. A star free agent, at a premium position, he was waiting patiently for his team to show the kind of interest that would be required to bring him back on a new deal. The winter’s new darling team, the New York Mets, was dangling an offer to

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Texas Rangers right-hander Jonathan Hernandez had ligament reconstruction surgery on his right elbow Monday, just less than two weeks after fellow reliever José Leclerc had the same procedure. Their bullpen will also be without hard-throwing Matt Bush until at least July. Rangers president of baseball operations Jon Daniels said the Tommy

ARLINGTON, Texas — San Diego Padres left-hander Adrian Morejon left his start Sunday at Texas with an elbow/forearm strain after facing only three batters in the first inning. Morejon threw 16 pitches, leaving after a four-pitch, two-out walk to Joey Gallo. He’ll be re-evaluated Monday. Craig Stammen took over for Morejon and led a parade

Philadelphia Phillies reliever Archie Bradley was placed on the 10-day injured list with an oblique injury, the team announced Sunday. Bradley, 28, revealed the injury to Phillies brass after giving up a run on two hits in Saturday’s loss to the Atlanta Braves. “It’s not something I can pinpoint,” Bradley said on Sunday afternoon. “It

J.D. Martinez suffered through a miserable 2020 season. He hit .213. He ranked 129th out of 142 qualified hitters in weighted on-base average (wOBA). He finished with more strikeouts than hits. It was a shocking season for a hitter who ranked second in the majors in wOBA from 2017 to 2019, behind only Mike Trout.

The New York Yankees optioned right-hander Domingo German to the team’s alternate training site following a rough outing in Saturday’s 4-0 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. German allowed four runs and eight hits in four innings, walking one and striking out five. After looking sharp in spring training, the righty has yielded four homers

Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Chris Archer has been placed on the 10-day injured list after exiting Saturday’s start against the New York Yankees early with right lateral forearm tightness. The Rays are hopeful he will miss only one start, with manager Kevin Cash telling reporters, “we’re looking at it optimistically that maybe it’s just some

NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom matched a career best with 14 strikeouts over eight innings, but as is often the case for the two-time Cy Young Award winner, he failed to get any run support as the Miami Marlins blanked the New York Mets 3-0 Saturday. DeGrom (0-1) looked unhittable early — until Jazz Chisholm

The Milwaukee Brewers have placed second baseman Kolten Wong on the 10-day injured list with a left oblique strain, the team announced Saturday. Wong aggravated the injury while batting during Thursday’s loss to the St. Louis Cardinals. The 30-year-old Wong had received a standing ovation leading off Thursday’s game. Wong spent eight years with the

Los Angeles Dodgers placed former National League MVP Cody Bellinger on the 10-day injured list Friday with a bruised left calf. Bellinger has missed the Dodgers’ past two games with the injury, which occurred when he was spiked by Oakland Athletics reliever Reymin Guduan on Monday while beating out an infield single in the ninth

The San Diego Padres are no longer the only major league team without a no-hitter. And for that they can thank local product Joe Musgrove, who twirled his first career no-hitter in a 3-0 victory over the Texas Rangers at Globe Life Field on Friday night. Musgrove’s outing, which included 10 strikeouts and just one

Trey Mancini was given a standing ovation when introduced at Camden Yards on Thursday and again before his first home at-bat following treatment for colon cancer. The 29-year-old was diagnosed during spring training last year and missed the pandemic-shortened 2020 season. The visiting Boston Red Sox players applauded during the ovation, and Mancini tipped his

Oakland Athletics right-handed reliever Trevor Rosenthal underwent surgery on Thursday after he was diagnosed with severe neurovascular compression. The procedure, involving the removal of Rosenhal’s first rib, a pec minor release and scalene release, was performed by Dr. Gregory Pearl in Dallas, Texas. Rosenthal will remain in Dallas until Sunday and return to see Dr.

DENVER — Infielder Ketel Marte was placed on the 10-day injured list by the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday, a day after hurting his right hamstring against the Colorado Rockies. Arizona recalled Andrew Young, who had been with its taxi squad, ahead of Thursday’s game at Coors Field. Marte was injured in the sixth inning of

The Chicago White Sox have placed shortstop Tim Anderson on the 10-day injured list with a strained left hamstring, the team announced Wednesday. The move, which is retroactive to Monday, came after Anderson left in the first inning of Sunday night’s loss to the Los Angeles Angels. The 2019 American League batting champion apparently strained

CARLOS GOMEZ KNEW he needed to get Fernando Tatis Jr. on the phone. After Tatis hit a controversial grand slam in the eighth inning of an Aug. 17 game against the Texas Rangers last season, Gomez, a former major league outfielder, called the San Diego Padres shortstop. Tatis’ slam represented a violation of the unwritten