San Francisco fires GM Evans
Bobby Evans has been fired as the San Francisco Giants’ general manager.
San Francisco said Monday that Evans will be reassigned, with responsibilities to be determined.
The Giants began the final week of the season 72-84, their second straight losing record.
The team will start a search for a new head of baseball operations.
Evans was hired by the Giants in 1994, became vice president of baseball operations in 2009 under general manager Brian Sabean and was promoted to GM in April 2015 when Sabean became executive vice president of baseball operations.
A major league-best 57-33 at the 2016 All-Star break, the Giants are 166-224 since.
Hicks hurts hamstring: New York Yankees center fielder Aaron Hicks left Monday night’s game at Tampa Bay with left hamstring tightness.
Hicks appeared to get hurt in the third inning while running to first base on a grounder to shortstop, successfully beating a relay throw and avoiding a double play. He was replaced by Brett Gardner in the middle of the fourth.
Hicks fouled a pitch off left his ankle Saturday in the 11th inning against Baltimore, then hit a winning double that clinched a wild-card berth for the Yankees. Didi Gregorius, who scored from first with a headfirst slide, tore cartilage in his right wrist.
Gardner had an RBI single in the fifth inning and made a running, leaping catch at the center-field wall in the sixth on Brandon Lowe’s two-out drive with runners on first and third.
Story changes motion: Colorado Rockies All-Star Trevor Story returned to the starting lineup after missing a week with inflammation in his right elbow.
The slugging shortstop batted fifth in the order Monday night as the playoff-chasing Rockies open a four-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Story tweaked his elbow on a throw in the first inning Sept. 17 in Los Angeles and aggravated it on a swing in the fourth.
Although his elbow “feels good,” he said he will alter his throwing style by staying over the top to relieve some of the pressure. The elbow doesn’t bother him when he swings, he said.
Story is hitting .288 with 33 homers and 102 RBIs.
The Rockies began Monday trailing the NL West-leading Dodgers by 1½ games.