AROUND THE HORN
■ Red Sox: Manager Ron Roenicke will not return in 2021, the Red Sox said Sunday, ending his tenure as a one-year, shotgun stopgap for a pandemic-shortened season with a lastplace finish in the AL East. Hired on the eve of spring training after Alex Cora was caught cheating during his time with the Astros, Roenicke took over a roster that would soon shed 2018 AL MVP Mookie Betts and 2012 AL Cy Young winner David Price, who were traded to the Dodgers. Ace Chris Sale (Tommy John surgery) and Eduardo Rodriguez (COVID-19) never threw a pitch for the team this year. Sure to get attention as a possible successor: Cora, who led the Red Sox to a World Series championship in 2018, his first season as a major league manager. The team split with him less than a month before spring training after he was identified as the ringleader in the Astros’ sign- stealing scandal; Cora’s one-year ban ends after the World Series.
■ Angels: GM Billy Eppler was fired after the longstruggling franchise finished its fifth consecutive losing season under his watch. Eppler was under contract for one more year with the Angels in an extension he signed in July, but team president John Carpino said the franchise will seek new baseball leadership after missing the playoffs for a sixth straight year. Eppler was dismissed when the Angels couldn’t even make the eight-team AL playoff field this month. The Angels finished 26-34. ■ Reds, Twins: Tucker Barnhart and Eugenio Suarez had RBI singles a three-run 10th, and the visiting Reds beat the Twins 5-3. The Reds became the NL’s seventh seed and will play the No. 2 Braves starting Wednesday. The Twins clinched their second straight AL Central title when the White Sox lost to the Cubs in matchup of playoff-bound clubs. The Twins host No. 6 Astros starting Tuesday.
■ Extra innings: OF Ronald Acuna Jr. was removed from the Braves lineup in their regular-season finale due to irritation in his left wrist. The postseasonbound Braves said the move was made as a precaution. Acuna was on the 10-day IL due to soreness in the same wrist from Aug. 12-25. He hit .250 with 14 HRs and 29 RBIs in the regular season. ...
Atlanta’s Marcell Ozuna led the NL with 18 homers and 56 RBIs. Jose Abreu of the Chicago White Sox led the major leagues with 60 RBIs after topping the AL last year with 123.
Indians ace Shane Bieber and the Chicago Cubs’ Yu Darvish tied for the major league lead in wins with eight. The previous low of 14 was set in the strike-shortened 1981 season. Cincinnati’s Trevor Bauer led the NL with a 1.73 ERA.
Bieber topped the AL with 122 strikeouts. With 104, Jacob deGrom topped the NL for the second straight year.
Cleveland closer Brad Hand led the major leagues with 16 saves and Milwaukee lefty Josh Hader topped the NL with 13.
Kansas City’s Adalberto Mondesi had 24 stolen bases to lead the major leagues.