Having just addressed his team following the season-ending 4-3 loss to the Dodgers in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday night, Braves manager Brian Snitker explained why this year’s disappointment wasn’t as painful as what he’d experienced last October. • Box score “This hurts, but I’m

As he dealt with the pain of having suffered a season-ending 4-3 loss to the Dodgers in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington, Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman was already looking forward to the 2021 season.

From Game 7’s wobbly outset with 23-year-old Dustin May and 26-year-old Tony Gonsolin to its storybook finish with a perfect three-inning save from 24-year-old Julio Urías, the stealth youth movement within the Dodgers’ pitching staff was on national showcase at Globe Life Field in Arlington in Sunday’s 4-3 win over

Cody Bellinger was hyped. He had just hit a go-ahead home run in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series, becoming the ninth player in Major League history to accomplish that feat in the seventh inning or later of a Game 7. Ever. So when he crossed home plate

The fourth inning of Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday at Globe Life Field could have been a nightmare for the Dodgers. But a key double play -- fueled by another questionable Braves baserunning decision -- allowed Los Angeles to stay within one, setting the stage

How does a team do this: lose the first two games of a best-of-seven National League Championship Series, face three consecutive elimination games, trail Game 7 in the sixth inning and still find a way to reach its third World Series in the last four years? “We’re resilient,” said Cody

It was Texas-sized tension. Arlington’s Globe Life Field is a colossal construction. But because of a history of incomplete Octobers for the two franchises on the field Sunday night and the way this National League Championship Series had unfolded, the building could not contain the weight of what a World

Build a list of the enduring images of the National League Championship Series. At the top is probably a snapshot of Cody Bellinger, paused at home plate late Sunday evening in Game 7, watching his go-ahead home run take flight. The next three memories may well be, as Dodgers manager

A highly entertaining battle will come to a close when the Braves and Dodgers battle in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Sunday night at Globe Life Field.

The Dodgers beat the Braves, 3-1, on Saturday at Globe Life Field to force a decisive Game 7 in the National League Championship Series on Sunday. This marks just the third time we’ve had Game 7s in both LCS since the round expanded to a best-of-seven format in 1985. The

Just like the Astros and Rays did on Saturday, the Braves and Dodgers will play for the seventh consecutive day on Sunday, when they meet in the winner-take-all finale of the National League Championship Series at Globe Life Park in Arlington.

Having already gotten a feel for Ian Anderson’s poise and maturity, the Braves are confident the rookie will rise to the occasion when he starts Game 7 of the National League Championship Series against the Dodgers on Sunday night at Globe Life Field in Arlington.

Game 7 is upon us in the National League Championship Series, and it’s hard to overstate what that means for two franchises steeped in October entries … and October angst.

Mookie Betts' reaction was somewhere between a jog, a dance and a strut. With his back to the fence and the ball safely in his glove, Betts craned his neck to the sky, screaming with emotion as he charged in from right field. For the second consecutive night, Betts had

Being backed against the wall doesn’t faze the Dodgers, especially the fearless Walker Buehler, who added to his big-game resume on Saturday, when the Dodgers beat the Braves, 3-1, surviving a second consecutive elimination game to set up Sunday’s Game 7 for the National League championship. Once trailing in the

For modern hitters, there is no more noble pursuit than “grinding out an at-bat.” It is the cliché to which nearly all hitters aspire, trying to avoid chasing as they jack up an opponent’s pitch count. The Dodgers accomplished that expertly in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series,

Nearly four years ago now, I sat in a press box far above the field at NRG Stadium in Houston, watching the Atlanta Falcons take a 28-3 lead on Tom Brady and the New England Patriots. It was the third quarter, the president had already left the stadium and it

Max Fried surrendered two homers in a three-run first inning and the Braves squandered too many opportunities as they suffered a 3-1 loss to the Dodgers in Game 6 of the National League Championship Series on Saturday at Globe Life Field.

When he pitched the ninth inning for the Dodgers in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series, the Kenley Jansen saga took a turn his haters never saw coming. He was good. Jansen, who lost the closer job a week ago when diminished velocity led to ineffective outings, struck

An individual standout performance here and there can lift a team to postseason victories, but when it comes to a seven-game National League Championship Series with a World Series berth on the line, it takes a team effort.

After surviving one elimination game Friday night, the Dodgers will continue their uphill climb on Saturday in Game 6 against the Braves in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series at Globe Life Field, which Atlanta leads, 3-2.

Corey Seager isn’t ready to go home. In a must-win Game 5 of the National League Championship Series against the Braves at Globe Life Field on Friday, the Dodgers shortstop hit a pair of home runs, with the second giving Los Angeles a commanding five-run lead in the seventh inning

Will Smith -- the one with Dodger blue on his jersey -- shrugged off the absurdity of it all. “It’s a common enough name,” Smith said late Friday night after hitting a go-ahead three-run homer off the Braves’ Will Smith in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.

The Dodgers will have to wait and see to determine Chris Taylor’s availability for Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Braves on Saturday.

If the Dodgers go on to win the pennant and then the World Series, exorcising more than three decades of demons to bring a championship to Los Angeles, they may be able to point to the third inning Friday as the moment when everything changed. If the Braves continue their