Because of the heroics of shortstop Carlos Correa, who hit a walk-off home run Thursday, the Astros constrained a Game 6 of the American League Championship Series against the Rays. The two teams’ starters are set for that affair on Friday. The Astros will use left-hander Framber Valdez, per manager Dusty Baker (through Brian McTaggart […]
Austin Riley begun the ninth inning with a tiebreaking homer that started a four-run upheaval, and the Atlanta Braves opened their first National League Championship Series since 2001 with a 5-1 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday night. Riley, the No9 player in the Braves lineup, hit a 448-drive to left-center off Blake […]
Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Oliver Drake was supplanted on the AL Division Series list by right-hander Trevor Richards only hours before the New York Yankees’ 5-1 dominate in Match 4 Thursday night at Petco Park. The Yankees leveled the best-of-five series at 2-2 to set up Friday’s decisive final game. The list trade must be […]
Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona went through three surgeries in four days and spent time in the ICU while he was away from the team in 2020. Francona, 61, tended to his medical problems Wednesday, clarifying he initially had a method for a gastrointestinal issue, however required extra surgeries in the wake of creating blood […]
Pedro Martinez may have disapproved of Gleyber Torres taking a respectable second base in the head of the ninth inning with a six-run lead in the Yankees’ ALDS Game 1 triumph over the Rays in San Diego, however Tampa Bay director Kevin Cash didn’t. “None whatsoever,’’ Cash said before Game 2 on Tuesday. “We’d be […]
Detroit Tigers general manager Al Avila said Friday that Detroit isn’t precluding the chance of hiring AJ Hinch or Alex Cora for its manager vacancy. Hinch and Cora were suspended through the 2020 postseason for their roles in the Houston Astros’ sign-stealing scandal. The Astros fired Hinch and general manager Jeff Luhnow on Jan. 13 […]
The scoreless innings kept accumulating, alongside the strikeouts. The shadows started to crawl over the infield, and when the lights entered a generally empty stadium for a postseason game that started a little past early afternoon, it seemed like this may go on until the end of time. At long last, Freddie Freeman had seen […]
Arizona Diamondbacks fans realize beyond any doubt what’s in store when Robbie Ray is pitching. Toronto Blue Jays fans are beginning to arrive. Ray, who was traded by the D-backs at the trade deadline to Toronto, made his postseason debut for the Blue Jays on Tuesday. Entering the game, Ray had a 4.79 ERA in […]
Tiger Woods and Justin Thomas edged Rory McIlroy and Justin Rose in the first-ever Payne’s Valley Cup, played at Big Cedar Lodge in Missouri to stamp the kickoff of Woods’ first-since public course design. Woods and Thomas joined in a Ryder Cup-style match against a couple of previous world No. 1s from Europe, with the […]
The Minnesota Twins’ Josh Donaldson figured out how to get catapulted while hitting a home run. Donaldson yapped at plate umpire Dan Bellino for the second time in the 6th inning of a 4-3 misfortune to the Chicago White Sox on Thursday. With Minnesota following 3-2, Bellino called a strike when the 2015 American League […]