SAN DIEGO – For the second straight year, the Brewers will play for the pennant. And for the second straight year, the Dodgers are standing in the way.

SAN DIEGO -- Sometimes, the playoffs come down to a game of inches. Manny Machado smashed a potential game-tying fly ball to deep center field in the eighth inning that would have tied up Game 4 of the National League Division Series if it ... just … kept … going.

NEW YORK -- Two weeks ago, Kevin Cash set the tone for the rowdy celebration raging in the visitors' clubhouse at Yankee Stadium with a message that made it clear the Rays weren’t done. They had accomplished their regular-season goals, getting back to the postseason and winning their first American

NEW YORK – Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: There was fan interference on an apparent home run ball at Yankee Stadium on Wednesday night. On a seemingly game-tying home run, hit by a Yankee, in a postseason game, against an American League East opponent. This time, though,

ATLANTA -- Coming off a historically poor offensive performance last postseason, Andy Pages went hitless through the first two games of this year's NL Division Series. The small sample of seven at-bats raised some concerns, especially because he missed most of the final month of the regular season due to

NEW YORK – There was no team meeting held, no rah-rah speech offered in the clubhouse as the first pitch approached on Wednesday night. Their backs against the wall, these Yankees understood the stakes: Play well for the next nine innings, or endure another long winter filled with questions. The

CHICAGO -- The Rate Field crowd was buzzing with anticipation in the eighth inning on Wednesday. Guardians third baseman José Ramírez was at the plate, awaiting an 0-2 pitch with runners on second and third and two outs. Cleveland led by two runs, and any chance of the White Sox

If you felt yourself biting your nails or pacing a bit more than usual during the NLDS between the Brewers and Padres, we wouldn’t blame you. We all just witnessed a historically closely-contested series.

The Tampa Bay Rays finished off a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees on Wednesday night, clinching the third trip to the American League Championship Series in franchise history. And now they just get to kick back and wait to see who will be flying south to Florida for

SAN DIEGO -- Jacob Misiorowski said he was warmed up and ready to go. Brewers manager Pat Murphy said it was one big deke. And the bullpen catcher, Ty Duvall, was just happy he came through it unscathed. “The bullpen is a little dark out there,” Duvall said. “The ball

Wednesday was a day unlike any other in postseason history. With series-clinching victories by the Dodgers, Rays and Brewers, plus a series-extending win by the Guardians, the road teams ruled the day.

ATLANTA – The Dodgers are headed back to the National League Championship Series for a third straight season -- and they’ll once again have a little bit of rest before the next series.

The Rays could surely get used to this. Fifteen days after clinching the AL East at Yankee Stadium, the Rays were once again celebrating inside the visitors' clubhouse in the Bronx. They wrapped up a clinical three-game sweep of the Yankees with a thrilling 4-3 victory on Wednesday night.

SAN DIEGO — Garrett Mitchell was at the right place at the right time. So was Pat Murphy. Mitchell, the Brewers' center fielder, took a potential two-run homer away from Manny Machado with a catch above the wall during the eighth inning of Wednesday's Game 4 of the National League

Major League Baseball on Monday announced finalists for the 2026 Hank Aaron Award, an honor that recognizes the most outstanding regular season offensive performer in each League. At last year’s All-Star Game in Atlanta, MLB celebrated the 51st anniversary of Hank Aaron’s historic 715th record-breaking home run with a special

NEW YORK -- A year ago, Ryan Vilade was sleeping on a Walmart bed while playing for Triple-A Memphis -- the affiliate of the Cardinals -- still searching for a place to call home in the Major Leagues. On Wednesday, he was rounding the bases at Yankee Stadium after hitting

ATLANTA -- Navigating October baseball isn't always about perfection; sometimes it's simply about surviving the tight spots long enough for your team to finish the job.

NEW YORK -- The schedule for this year’s American League Division Series came with an extra off-day that, theoretically, meant teams would only need three starting pitchers. But the Rays swept the Yankees by using all five of theirs, brilliantly executing a pitching plan they devised during the downtime between

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.

SAN DIEGO -- Much had been said about how dominant the Padres’ bullpen had been coming into the National League Division Series. But the Brewers’ stable of arms had been every bit as good.

SAN DIEGO -- Every postseason exit hurts. They may hurt for different reasons. They all hurt. This one, most of all, is going to hurt because of what could have been. The Padres and Brewers staged an epic of a National League Division Series. The margins were thin. Agonizingly thin.

ATLANTA -- In the end, the Braves didn’t have enough healthy pitchers. But even if they had, they wouldn’t have had enough offense to prove successful in the postseason. There were plenty of reasons for the Braves to be proud of the 94-win regular season that netted them their seventh

CHICAGO -- After their unorthodox and reliever-heavy pitching plans worked through the first four games of their postseason run, things finally went a bit haywire for the White Sox in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Wednesday.

NEW YORK – Aaron Judge spent most of the past two weeks trying to override the Yankees’ caution about his right calf muscle, an ongoing battle that ended with the captain watching all five postseason games from the bench. With the offseason underway far too early for his taste, Judge

NEW YORK -- There was no consolation to be had on Wednesday night in the immediate aftermath of another gutting postseason defeat. The standard is the standard in the Bronx, and a Division Series loss falls short of the standard. But it’s hard to ignore that there was still a