Dusty Baker remembered the games. Not the ones that Fernando Valenzuela would bend to his will like his signature screwball, but the moments in between. The...
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No more cute underdog stories. The World Series is here and the Goliaths are set to battle for the trophy. It’s a marquee match-up — at...
Aaron Judge left money on the table to stay in New York long-term. The Yankees won’t get as lucky with Juan Soto, even if they win...
Here’s my third and final dispatch from my week scouting the Arizona Fall League, which included 11 games in five days, a lot of walks (the...
Bud Black could have retired to his home near San Diego to devote his time and energy to his five grandchildren. After all, Black has accomplished...
CLEVELAND — For a generation, he was as much a part of October as fun-size Snickers bars and pumpkin-spice lattes. Andy Pettitte made 44 starts in...
NEW YORK — When Francisco Lindor led off the bottom of the seventh inning, reality reduced Citi Field’s a cappella rendition of “My Girl” to a...
Winning a baseball game in the playoffs is extremely difficult. Just ask the other 26 teams in Major League Baseball that are home watching the last...
CLEVELAND — The baseball gods work in the shadows, scripting moments and matchups and sequences that we couldn’t begin to fathom. Take, for instance, the night...
