Winners of five consecutive games, the Mets have a big test brewing: Jacob deGrom is getting an magnetic resonance imaging exam. deGrom, the two-time National League Cy Young Award winner, was pulled from his start Sunday after five innings with right side tightness in his return from an injury to a similar area. The bullpen […]

“I still have a lot of love for baseball, so we’ll see what happens,” Jiménez said. That future, though, might include using what he learned in college to start or run a business. He isn’t sure what type yet, but he said he wanted to take care of the hard-earned money from his playing days. […]

The smallest of hits decided a huge pitching matchup. Max Scherzer overwhelmed batters to dominate a Cy Young Award-winning duel with Corey Kluber, reaching double-digit strikeouts for the 100th time. After striking out three times against Scherzer, Gleyber Torres blooped a tying single in the ninth inning and won the game with a 50-foot single […]

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — The University of Miami has long been able to make a glossy pitch to the students it hopes will star on its sports teams: an exceptional athletic tradition, respected academics, South Florida’s sun-kissed glamour. For months, though, coaches at Miami — and every other college in Florida — have had a […]

Zion Williamson shouldn’t have to deal with this. In case you missed it, Williamson, now one of the N.B.A.’s brightest young stars, had his name come up in a lawsuit pitting Brian Bowen, a former top college basketball recruit, against Adidas. The news was first reported by The Raleigh New & Observer and The Athletic […]

Less than two weeks after they became partners in a superleague project that would have cast aside the structures and organizations that have underpinned European soccer for a century, a group of the sport’s biggest clubs are now engaged in another pitched battle behind the scenes. This time, their fight is with one another. At […]

ST. LOUIS — Taijuan Walker allowed one hit in seven innings and the Mets scored three runs on bases-loaded walks to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-1, on Thursday. Walker (2-1) struck out eight and walked none as the Mets salvaged a split after dropping the first two of the four-game series in St. Louis. […]

Along the way, he won his second M.V.P. Award at 34 and was still one of the game’s best players at 40 — his .907 O.P.S. was 225 points above the league average. The following year, in 1972, he led the Mets in on-base percentage and was third on the team in batting average. It […]

A day of upheaval for the Rangers started with the ouster of two top executives and ended with a game between two teams that had a score to settle. Hours after the firing of President John Davidson and General Manager Jeff Gorton, the Rangers began their game against the Washington Capitals with a choreographed show […]

The Indian Premier League provides international cricket stars with their most lucrative paydays of the year. The annual event in cricket-mad India draws television viewers from around the world and pays top players as much as $2 million for two months’ work. But the stars who went to India for the games last month during […]