ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Yankees captain Aaron Judge was left off the roster for New York's AL Division Series against the Tampa Bay Rays while he tries to work his way back from a calf injury.
A three-time AL MVP, Judge hasn’t played since Sept. 16.
Giancarlo Stanton, who hasn’t played since April 24 because of strained calf muscles in both legs, remained on the 26-man roster for the best-of-five series starting Saturday.
Stanton was active for the Wild Card Series sweep of Boston but didn’t get in the games, which both turned into blowouts.
Judge was sidelined by a fractured rib from May 31 to Sept. 8 and played in just seven games before straining his right calf. He was limited to 66 games this season and hit .241 with 18 homers, 41 RBIs and an .871 OPS, including .174 with one homer and three RBIs in September.
Left-hander Ryan Weathers, sidelined with a left forearm flexor strain since Aug. 22, was added to the roster as an 11th pitcher.
Utilityman Amed Rosario was dropped. He had two plate appearances in the Wild Card Series with a walk and a strikeout.
Tampa Bay's 12 pitchers included right-hander Cole Susler and left-hander Steven Matz over right-handers Brody Hopkins, Casey Legumina and Manuel Rodríguez.
Rhys Hoskins was left off by the Cleveland Guardians. Hoskins had been on the injured list since Aug. 19 with lower back inflammation but was working out in Columbus the past couple of weeks.
The Chicago White Sox made one change to their postseason roster, with right-hander Tyler Davis added and Huascar Brazobán left off. Manager Will Venable said he went with Davis because Cleveland has more switch hitters it its lineup and was better against lefties.
Brazobán appeared in Game 2 of the sweep at Houston, facing three batters. He hit his first, struck out his second and allowed a single to his third.
Left-hander Kyle Harrison’s late-season slide didn’t keep him off the Milwaukee Brewers’ NL Division Series roster.
Harrison was one of the Brewers’ top starting pitchers for much of the season and had a 2.79 ERA in late August before allowing 24 runs — 21 earned — over nine innings in a stretch of four appearances from Aug. 31-Sept. 17. He struck out four over two innings in a Sept. 26 relief appearance that showed he might thrive in a bullpen role and finished 11-5 with a 4.20 ERA.
Milwaukee included 13 pitchers, one more than during the 2025 postseason. Right-hander Dustin May made the roster despite a 5.65 ERA in 10 starts after the Brewers acquired him from St. Louis ahead of the trade deadline.
Infielder Joey Ortiz was included after missing the final two regular-season games with knee and abdominal issues.
Catcher Bo Naylor, utilityman Brandon Lockridge and pitcher Grant Anderson were omitted.
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New York Yankees' Aaron Judge, left, and Giancarlo Stanton, right, watch from the dugout during the ninth inning against the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of baseball's American League Wild Card Series, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks in Ukraine killed at least six people and damaged Kyiv’s Northern Bridge, suspending traffic and causing tailbacks for a third day in Moscow's latest effort to disrupt life in the Ukrainian capital.
The strike came after two days of Russian assaults forced the full or partial closure of three of Kyiv’s six road bridges over the Dnipro River. Previously, Russia has hit apartment blocks, supermarket warehouses, gas stations and data centers, among other targets.
Russia's Foreign Ministry said Saturday it would continue to carry out “mass retaliatory strikes" on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, urging foreign nationals and diplomats to leave the country. It previously issued a similar warning in May.
Russia invaded its neighbor more than 4 ½ years ago, and there are no concrete signs that a peace settlement might be possible. Fighting along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (780-mile) front line snaking through northern, eastern and southern Ukraine has been virtually deadlocked in recent months.
Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said the strike on the bridge damaged the road surface and trolleybus cables, forcing traffic to be suspended. He later said two people were wounded in the attack, one of whom was briefly hospitalized.
Russia’s Defense Ministry on Saturday confirmed it was behind the latest attack, claiming the bridge is used to “facilitate troop movements and the logistics of military cargo deliveries” for Ukraine’s armed forces.
Videos circulating on social media appeared to show the moment of impact as vehicles crossed the bridge, including footage purportedly recorded by a driver's dashcam.
The aerial war has intensified, with Kyiv striking Russia's oil industry and businesses while Moscow has menaced Ukrainian cities with hard-to-intercept ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu said Saturday that the war is “dangerously reaching” her country, following a spate of airspace incursions.
“I condemn Russia’s attack on Ukraine this morning. Its war is dangerously reaching Moldova,” she said in a post on X, adding that five “Russian air attack weapons, including Banderol missiles and drones, violated our airspace and exploded on our soil.”
“Moscow is putting lives at risk across Europe and must be stopped,” she added.
Ukraine's air force said that Moscow overnight launched Banderol cruise missiles — low-cost, jet-powered loitering munitions that Russia uses to overwhelm Ukrainian air defenses — at the Odesa region, which shares a long land border with Moldova. A loitering munition is designed to hover over an area, searching for targets, and detonate while crashing into them.
Russia attacked Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and nearby areas with drones and guided bombs on Friday and overnight, killing five people and wounding over 40, according to regional head Oleh Syniehubov.
In nearby Izyum, Russian drone strikes wounded three people, according to the local military administration. It said a drone slammed into an industrial warehouse, while another damaged homes.
In Ukraine’s Odesa region, home to multiple Black Sea ports, a sailor was killed and three others wounded after Russian forces struck a civilian cargo ship on Saturday, the Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority reported. It said the ship was flying the Liberian flag.
In eastern Ukraine, in the Russian-occupied Luhansk region, Ukrainian drones killed two people and wounded two others, according to Kremlin-installed regional head Leonid Pasechkin. Pasechkin said the drones attacked a truck and passenger car driving along a highway, adding all victims were civilians.
In Russia, Ukrainian drone strikes killed a civilian and wounded two more in the Belgorod region, in villages just kilometers (miles) from the Ukrainian border, local authorities said Saturday.
Associated Press writer Stephen McGrath in Coventry, England, contributed to this report.
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Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential house destroyed in a Russian air strike on Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
A rescue worker extinguishes a fire at a residential house destroyed by a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026.(AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
People clear rubble from a residential house damaged by a Russian airstrike in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
A man cries next to the body of his grandmother killed in a Russian airstrike on a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Oct. 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)
