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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred Asked Who Real Home Run King Is

After Aaron Judge slugged 62 home runs this season, debate has raged about where his year stands in the baseball hierarchy.

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Joe Musgrove Cl-EAR-ly Wasn’t Cheating

You’ve gotta admit, Buck Showalter’s asking the umpires to rub Joe Musgrove’s ears was the perfect way for the Mets to go out. It was the combination of dysfunction, desperation and unintentional comedy that has defined this organization pretty much since its inception 60 years ago. At ...

Sports Illustrated

How the New MLB Postseason Format Impacts Pitching

Here are the trends and oddities in store for pitchers over the rest of the playoffs.

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A Near Perfect Day of Baseball Games

For baseball fans without any vested interests in the eight teams playing this weekend, yesterday was just about the perfect day of games. The four games delivered just the right combination of tension and action—the formula for any good baseball game—by showcasing the variety of genres only our ...

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Musgrove pitches Padres past Mets, into NLDS vs. Dodgers

NEW YORK — There was more champagne. There will be more baseball.

Tribune News Service

How one baseball fan is set to make millions after catching an Aaron Judge homerun

Even before New York Yankees’ star Aaron Judge broke a home run season record, collectors had offered seven figures to the lucky fan in the path of the ball.

ABC News

This baseball quiz is a sprint, not a marathon

Once the baseball playoffs begin, the old adage is turned upside down because it’s a race to the title

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Major League Baseball Wild Card Playoffs StartingFriday.

ESPN is excited to be home of the new expanded Major League Baseball Wild-Card Playoffs that begin this weekend.

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This trumpet-fueled walk-on song is professional baseball's latest craze

"Narco," a dance hit by Australian musician Timmy Trumpet and the Dutch DJ duo Blasterjaxx, is the walk-on music for star relief pitcher Edwin Díaz.

WEKU

ESPN Has The Major League Baseball Wild Card Playoffs Starting Friday

ESPN is excited to be home of the new expanded Major League Baseball Wild-Card Playoffs that begin this weekend.

Zenger

Chris Taylor determined to play in NLDS; Dodgers mulling pitching roster

LOS ANGELES — The only playoff baseball at Dodger Stadium on Friday was played on the televisions in the clubhouse and the scoreboards in the outfield.

Los Angeles Times

An epic Game 1 win by the Phillies was postseason torment at its best

ST. LOUIS — Playoff baseball is like watching a loved one defuse a bomb. It is not something that you enjoy. It is something that you endure. Every pitch is a tick on a timer that is counting down to some unknown number, every swing a snip at a tangle…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Rays go quietly in Game 1 wild-card loss to Guardians

CLEVELAND — Manager Kevin Cash and the Rays have been saying for weeks that they like the new postseason format Major League Baseball adopted this year because it doesn’t force the wild-card teams into a one-game showdown after a six-month, season-long battle.

Tribune News Service

Eight Thoughts Heading Into the First Day of the Playoffs

For us baseball fans, few days are better than the one we have today. Four postseason games, back-to-back-to-back-to-back. Well, technically, there is some overlap, but that’s even better! More games means flipping channels, which means less of a chance we’ll have to sit through commercials for ...

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How to watch MLB baseball on ESPN Plus

The MLB will have a streaming home on ESPN Plus for the 2024 baseball season, offering games from all 30 big league teams.

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SI:AM | One Thing to Watch in Each Wild-Card Series

MLB’s expanded playoffs get underway on Friday with the four wild-card series.

The Guardian - US

2022 MLB playoffs: ranking the title contenders from first to worst

Will an expanded Wild Card round lead to an unexpected upset or will one of the established baseball juggernauts emerge as the World Series winners?

AAP

Man walks free over Xmas day killing

Hudson Martin has been acquitted of manslaughter by a Supreme Court jury, after he fatally hit a Victorian grandfather with a baseball bat on Christmas Day.

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How will the Phillies’ Zack Wheeler react to the playoff stage? His former coach knows.

ST. LOUIS — In bracing for his first career postseason start, Zack Wheeler recounted his most nerve-racking moments on a baseball field. He thought about the 2012 Futures Game in Kansas City and the 2021 All-Star Game in Denver. He remembered the pterodactyls churning in his stomach, the pounding in…

Los Angeles Times

Bill Shaikin: Forget Frick. Time to put Vin Scully's name on this award.

LOS ANGELES — The postseason won't be the same without Vin Scully. The last time we had one without him, "the postseason" was simply called "the World Series," won by the most celebrated team in baseball history: the 1927 New York Yankees.

Tribune News Service

The Orioles and their fans set sights on 2023 playoffs, although dueling Angelos family lawsuits cloud offseason forecast

The Major League Baseball playoffs begin this weekend. Next year, Orioles fans expect their team to be in them.

Tribune News Service

Ron Cook: Terry Francona is riding high after 'one of the best managing jobs in the history of baseball'

So what does the baseball world think of the job Terry Francona did managing the low-budget Cleveland Guardians to another American League Central division title and a wild-card matchup with the Tampa Bay Rays on Friday afternoon?

Tribune News Service

Sam McDowell: The Royals fired Mike Matheny. To fix 97 losses, they’ll need to change more than that.

A statistic popped into my Twitter feed late Wednesday, though not as late as the Royals were sending out tweets, and it caught my attention.

Chicago Sun-Times

White Sox year in review: It wasn’t pretty

The tragic tale of the 2022 White Sox began last October when the Astros exposed them in the ALDS, leaving no doubt where the Sox stood in baseball’s hierarchy of teams.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Dodgers falling short of a World Series title would be one of the biggest letdowns in sports

After a historical season, anything less than a title would be a major disappointment.

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