MILWAUKEE -- His tombstone is precariously perched on a hillside, among the scattered leaves and faded memories contained within the city’s oldest Catholic cemetery. When they buried Henry J. Killilea here at Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum on Story Hill in 1929, they could not have known how appropriate this final

MILWAUKEE -- Game 1 of the World Series was so tense and tight that it required two final outs. The Brewers survived an overturned out to hold serve at home, but the visiting Rays made it clear that this Fall Classic, which continues with Game 2 on Saturday night at

MILWAUKEE – The first tailgaters parked their vehicles on the outskirts of the American Family Field grounds and set up their supplies around 9 a.m. local time, six hours before the official lots even opened and 10 hours before the first pitch of the World Series. “I'm surprised it took

MILWAUKEE – The history guaranteed to be made in this unusual World Series starts here. It starts with the host Milwaukee Brewers giving the ball to their fireballing ace, Jacob Misiorowski, a 24-year-old getting a start that, for the Cream City, is 44 years in the making. It starts with

MILWAUKEE -- Pat Murphy saw the incoming FaceTime from a number with a 732 area code. When The Boss calls, you answer. Murphy swiped to accept the call, and then, suddenly, there on that little phone screen, was his hero.

MILWAUKEE -- The trade was completed with executives from one team boarding a Southwest Airlines flight and the top executive from another in a hospital bed. So maybe we should have known it would produce an unusual result.

CLEVELAND -- José Ramírez’s scorching grounder up the middle seemed headed for grass, except that Rays second baseman Ben Williamson dove to his right, snagged it and made the throw to first in time. It was the first out of the bottom of the fourth inning of Game 5 of

CLEVELAND -- Who would have thought two teams with similar styles and organizational priorities and roster efficiencies would turn out to be so evenly matched on the field? Well, actually, not the oddsmakers. They had the No. 1-seeded Rays as a pretty heavy favorite over the No. 2-seeded Guardians going

CLEVELAND -- As Steven Kwan settled under the final fly ball in foul territory, there was silence. And when it landed in his glove, there was a roar. The Guardians had sealed a 3-2 victory over the Rays in Game 3 of this ALCS. And now they were two wins

CLEVELAND -- José Ramírez might just be your favorite baseball player. You just don’t know it yet. Well, OK, Guardians fans know it. And even casual fans know by now that Ramírez is a dynamic player. The "underrated" label has long since stopped applying to this seven-time All-Star.

CLEVELAND -- The adopted Clevelander went deep, and the native Clevelander went nuts.

CLEVELAND -- This must be how it had to be.

CLEVELAND -- The last out had been recorded moments earlier and the Guardians were freshly down 0-2 to the White Sox in this best-of-five ALDS when I passed a club employee in the underbelly of Progressive Field.

CLEVELAND -- Had it worked out the way he wanted, Will Venable would not be in the dugout managing the surprising White Sox in the 2026 MLB postseason. Perhaps by now, he’d be on a different bench, trying to reach the NCAA Final Four instead of the final foursome that

CHICAGO -- It was a black-clad crowd roaring at Rate Field as the White Sox tried to close out the American League Division Series on Wednesday. But the Guardians, it turns out, weren’t ready to attend their own funeral.

The most fundamental, monumental and consequential change to Major League Baseball’s postseason structure was the arrival of the Wild Card and the 1995 debut of the Division Series. That’s the alteration that opened October to a new level of randomness. In the time since, 13 non-division winners have reached the

CHICAGO -- Guardians players were bracing themselves. They’re walking into a buzzsaw of booing Wednesday at Rate Field, where Game 3 of the American League Division Series will be the first postseason home game after three straight 100-plus-loss seasons for the White Sox, who are up 2-0 in this best-of-five.

Fred Claire, a respected former MLB executive who served as general manager of the 1988 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, passed away Monday. He was 91 years old. In a long tenure across multiple roles with the Dodgers, Claire was not only instrumental in building the 1988 championship team

CLEVELAND -- Dec. 11, 2024: Chicago White Sox traded LHP Garrett Crochet to Boston Red Sox for the starting catcher, second baseman and right fielder on a team that will be on the doorstep of the ALCS in 663 days. If only the transaction wire warned us, huh?

CLEVELAND -- As the White Sox and Guardians battle in the American League Division Series, it’s fun to look back at the role these two franchises played in the creation of the American League in the first place.

CLEVELAND -- The last pitch was a big curveball that dropped in the dirt as it induced an awkward half-swing from Travis Bazzana. When third-base umpire Jansen Visconti ruled that Bazzana had gone around for strike three, Grant Taylor let out a primal roar louder than what little contact he

CLEVELAND -- Spare me any suggestion that the American League Division Series that begins Saturday at Progressive Field is the black sheep of the MLB postseason bracket. The Guardians and White Sox might have the lowest win totals of the remaining playoff teams. But if you spend too much time

The American League Central race got flipped on its head in the season's final month. The Guardians shook off a 3 1/2-game deficit to overtake the White Sox and claim their third straight division crown. There was much more than bragging rights at stake. Cleveland got the No. 2 seed,

They are the Senior Circuit’s surest things. The Dodgers, with their 14 consecutive postseason appearances to go along with three World Series crowns this decade. And the Braves, with their 19 NL East titles and two titles in the Wild Card Era. Naturally, they’ve run into each other a time

Five seasons into the best-of-three Wild Card Series format (2020 and 2022–25), the data sends a clear warning: Don’t lose Game 1! In 24 previous WCS matchups, only three teams rallied to win the series after dropping the opener. Two occurred during the unusual fan-free 2020 playoffs, leaving last year’s