The final blow has been dealt to an on-time start to spring training, with Major League Baseball making a new offer Saturday the players' association received as only scant progress in the drawn-out labor talks.
Drug testing in Major League Baseball has stopped, a casualty of the sport's lockout that started Dec. 2.
Whatever little chance there was of an on-time start to spring training all but vanished Tuesday during a contentious 90-minute negotiating session between locked out players and Major League Baseball.
Locked-out Major League Baseball players removed the first of three major obstacles to a labor contract, withdrawing their proposal for more liberalized free agency when the sides met face-to-face Monday for the first time since the management lockout began Dec. 1.
Brandon Dickson, a 36-year-old nine seasons removed from the major leagues, was the first out of the bullpen and the first to stumble.
Pete Alonso's words were as bold as his home runs.
The New York Yankees broke their five-game losing streak with little offense, getting a run-scoring wild pitch and bases-loaded walk from Atlanta Braves reliever Nate Jones in the eighth inning that lifted them to a 3-1 victory Tuesday night.
Atlanta lost Major League Baseball's summer All-Star Game on Friday over the league's objections to sweeping changes to Georgia voting laws that critics - including the CEOs of Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola - have condemned as being too restrictive.
Julie and Lance Smith walked through the mostly empty concourse of Globe Life Field.
A World Series like no other opens Tuesday night with Clayton Kershaw's Los Angeles Dodgers pursuing redemption, Kevin Kiermaier's Tampa Bay Rays seeking acclaim and Major League Baseball relieved just to reach the championship of the pandemic-delayed season.
