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Mariners get rocked in Game 3 of ALCS as Blue Jays climb back into series

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SEATTLE — Game on, and on to Game 4.

The Toronto Blue Jays rocked George Kirby and the Mariners, 13-4, in Game 3 on Wednesday night, silencing a sold-out Seattle crowd and climbing back into this best-of-seven American League Championship Series in emphatic fashion.

Party-like vibes had taken over T-Mobile Park early Wednesday evening, after...Read more

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Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani takes rare on-field BP amid playoff slump, downplays impact of two-way role

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LOS ANGELES — At 5:37 p.m. Wednesday, Michael Buble's "Feeling Good" blared from the Dodger Stadium speakers.

Shohei Ohtani came strolling to the plate with a bat in his hands.

There was no one in the stands, of course. Nor an opposing pitcher on the mound. The Dodgers, on this workout day after returning from Milwaukee, were still some 22 ...Read more

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Yankees' Anthony Volpe undergoes shoulder surgery after difficult 2025 season

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NEW YORK — After playing through a partially torn labrum for most of the 2025 season, Anthony Volpe underwent surgery on his left shoulder on Tuesday.

The procedure, reported by the New York Post’s Joel Sherman, was performed by Yankees team doctor Christopher Ahmad. The hope is that Volpe will be ready for the start of the 2026 season, ...Read more

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'We didn't reach all of our goals': 4 Cubs takeaways from Jed Hoyer's 2025 season wrap-up

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CHICAGO — Four days after the Chicago Cubs’ season ended in the National League Division Series, team President Jed Hoyer reflected.

Hoyer, during his annual end-of-season news conference Wednesday at Wrigley Field, described how proud he felt of the team with its consistency, effort and connection to the fans while also acknowledging that ...Read more

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Skaggs lawyer questions ex-Angels executive Tim Mead about negligent supervision over Eric Kay

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Witness testimony began Wednesday with an accusation of negligent supervision in the high stakes trial against the Angels by the family of deceased pitcher Tyler Skaggs.

Tim Mead, an Angels employee of 40 years, was portrayed by the plaintiffs' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, during four hours of direct examination as a well-meaning...Read more

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In this postseason, Dodgers' offense starts from the bottom

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MILWAUKEE — The Los Angeles Dodgers haven't so much beaten opponents this postseason as they have worn them down. A lineup that underperformed for much of the summer has been relentless, resourceful and unstoppable in the fall.

And deep. Did we mention deep? Because while the Dodgers have stars at the top of that lineup, it's been the players...Read more

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Dodgers' Teoscar Hernández avoids Milwaukee's allegedly haunted hotel at wife's insistence

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MILWAUKEE — Teoscar Hernández doesn't believe in ghosts.

But just the same, the Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder declined to stay with the team at the historic — and allegedly haunted — Pfister Hotel in downtown Milwaukee during the first two games of the National League Championship Series against the Brewers this week.

Hernández told ...Read more

Bill Shaikin: Dodgers starting pitchers proving to be the ultimate opposing crowd silencers

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MILWAUKEE — First things first: The fans in an outdoor stadium in Philadelphia are louder than the fans in an indoor stadium in Milwaukee. No contest.

They are respectful and truly nice here. They booed Shohei Ohtani, but half-heartedly, almost out of obligation. In Philadelphia, they booed Ohtani relentlessly, and with hostility.

Here's the...Read more

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Paul Sullivan: 6 options for President Jed Hoyer as he tries to build on Cubs' 2025 success

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CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs should have some extra motivation for 2026 after Milwaukee Brewers reliever Trevor Megill brought an “L” flag to his team’s postgame picture following Saturday’s National League Division Series-clinching win at American Family Field.

It was one last way to taunt the Cubs — the Brewers’ archrivals in the ...Read more

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Yoshinobu Yamamoto's stellar complete game helps lift Dodgers over Brewers in Game 2

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MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers have used the slogan “Magic Brew” as the tagline for their postseason run.

On Tuesday night, the Dodgers made it feel like the magic was running out.

In their first truly stress-free win of these playoffs, the Dodgers slowly suffocated the Brewers in a 5-1 Game 2 victory in the National League ...Read more

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Dylan Hernández: The Dodgers' latest starting-pitching flex? Make the bullpen a non-factor.

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MILWAUKEE — Technically, Roki Sasaki was available to pitch in relief for the Dodgers on Tuesday night.

Realistically, he wasn’t.

“I wouldn’t say unavailable,” manager Dave Roberts said before the game. “But it is unlikely that we will use him.”

The Dodgers had only one potential silver bullet, and it wasn’t even loaded for ...Read more

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Report: Red Sox 3B Alex Bregman to opt out, test free agency

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BOSTON — When Alex Bregman signed a three-year, $120 million deal with the Red Sox this past spring that included opt outs after each season, it seemed clear the veteran third baseman would try his luck on the open market at some point.

Now, it appears that time has come.

According to MLB insider Jon Heyman, Bregman plans to exercise his opt...Read more

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Just how much are the Dodgers charging for World Series tickets?

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LOS ANGELES — Can you put a price on the experience of enjoying a World Series game at Dodger Stadium?

Yes, and it's a very high one.

The Dodgers put tickets for potential World Series games on sale Tuesday, with the cheapest seat available for $881.95, according to an afternoon review of the team website. That seat — $800 for the ticket ...Read more

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Mike Vorel: Forget the pain. Forget the past. The Mariners are writing a new story.

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TORONTO — After conceding nine consecutive runs in a stunning loss to the Detroit Tigers, a song cruelly thumped through the Seattle Mariners’ clubhouse. It seemed, at the time, like a fitting nod to this fan base’s unending agony.

The same six words repeated:

I’m just a sucker for pain.

Consider where these Mariners were on Wednesday...Read more

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NBA's Tyrese Haliburton was a Brewers fan. Here's why he's actively rooting against them in the NLCS

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LOS ANGELES — Tyrese Haliburton was once a Milwaukee Brewers fan.

Now he's possibly their biggest troll.

On Saturday, the injured Indiana Pacers star sat on his team's bench during a preseason game against the Oklahoma City Thunder wearing a Chicago Cubs jersey. It just so happened that the Cubs were playing the Brewers that day in Game 5 of...Read more

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6 years after pitcher Tyler Skaggs' shocking death, trial against Angels begins

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs died in a hotel room because the ballclub allowed an employee they allegedly long knew to be a drug addict and dealer to travel with players on a Texas road trip, attorneys representing Skaggs’ family told an Orange County jury on Tuesday, Oct. 14, as a civil trial began in a wrongful death ...Read more

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Why Blue Jays fans might not overtake Seattle for ALCS games vs. Mariners

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SEATTLE — The Canadians are coming.

Welcome. Good to see you, even if there may not be as many coming to town as in the past.

The next three days at T-Mobile Park could end up looking a little bit like years of the past when a flock of Blue Jays would make the trip south from Western Canada with the hopes of seeing the team of the country ...Read more

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Dylan Hernández: Dodgers' Game 1 NLCS win shows financial might can make things right

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MILWAUKEE — The disparity in the payrolls was the focus of the series before the first pitch ever delivered, the handiwork of the manager in charge of the small-market franchise that won more regular season games than any team in baseball.

"I'm sure that most Dodgers players can't name eight guys on our roster," joked Pat Murphy of the ...Read more

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Bill Shaikin: Blake Snell replicating what Sandy Koufax achieved 60 Octobers ago

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MILWAUKEE — Sixty years ago, the only pitcher with a statue at Dodger Stadium delivered the most dominant postseason performance in franchise history.

Sandy Koufax, meet Blake Snell.

With apologies to Orel Hershiser and his classic run in 1988, the three postseason starts put up by Koufax in 1965 practically mirror the three postseason ...Read more

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It took some luck, but good things finally happen to Dodgers' Blake Treinen

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MILWAUKEE — Blake Treinen's first save of the postseason was hardly a memorable performance.

He threw more balls than strikes. He walked the first batter he faced and nearly hit the second. And he got the final out on a pitch that was well out of the strike zone.

But he did get the final out, preserving the Dodgers' 2-1 win over the ...Read more

 

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