A squeeze play sent one American League Division Series to Game 5, as Cleveland’s David Fry hit a pinch hit homer and then bunted home the winning run in the Guardians’ come-from-behind road win over the Detroit Tigers. Meanwhile, benches cleared in an otherwise quiet evening in Kansas City, Mo., where the New York Yankees […]
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DETROIT– It started as a joke. Tigers superfan Josh Tebeau, who went to around 50 games this year, always heads to Comerica Park armed with two things: a lot of layers and an armful of signs intended to help to pump up the crowd. Tebeau, a 41-year-old lifelong fan who started going to more games
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By Chad Jennings, Stephen J. Nesbitt and C. Trent Rosecrans No major-league ballpark holds more fans than Dodger Stadium. Its 56,000 seats blend high-wattage celebrities with anonymous diehards to create one of baseball’s loudest, most intense atmospheres. It’s intimidating. Especially in October. Just not for Jurickson Profar. Home crowds always have their say in the
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In his postseason debut, Shohei Ohtani helped lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a comeback win over the San Diego Padres. The New York Mets continued their late-inning comeback magic. The New York Yankees topped the Kansas City Royals in a back-and-forth, unconventional October classic, while a Cleveland Guardians’ offensive outburst helped them take the
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Underdog (uhn-der-dawg): noun 1. A predicted loser in a struggle or contest2. A victim of injustice of persecution CLEVELAND — When Will Vest went home for the birth of his second child in late August, the Detroit Tigers’ playoff odds were 2.9 percent. While he was away on the paternity list, Vest texted a group
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We’ve reached the division round of the American League playoff marathon and one division reigns supreme — the AL Central. Much maligned in recent years and home to the worst team in MLB history, the AL Central is nonetheless the only division in the American League guaranteed to have at least one representative in the
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There was a lot of good baseball this week. Elite pitching performances. One-run contests. Stars getting big hits in big moments. Thursday night’s Game 3 — New York Mets 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2 — was a true postseason epic. Back-to-back Brewers homers in the seventh inning. Pete Alonso going deep in the ninth to keep his
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You think it’s easy watching four postseason baseball games in one day so you don’t have to? You think it’s no big deal to stay laser focused when three of those games are going on at the same time and also … the bases are loaded in the ninth in one of them? You think the human
The Athletic has live coverage of the MLB Wild Card Series. You don’t need some pointy-headed baseball writer to tell you that the postseason can be unpredictable. The Arizona Diamondbacks won the pennant last year. Every generation gets their perfect example of a team that rides a wave all the way to the World Series, and
The Athletic has live coverage of the MLB Wild Card Series. The postseason begins with no clear favorite, as MLB finished the regular season with no 100-game winner for the first time since 2014. Every team seemingly has a path to a title, and every team also appears to have a flaw as big as the
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