10:17 PM ET LOS ANGELES — Julio Urias, who thrust himself into the Cy Young discussion with another dominant season as a full-time starting pitcher, will get the ball for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 1 of the National League Division Series, opposing the San Diego Padres‘ Mike Clevinger. Clayton Kershaw will face former
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5:35 PM ET NEW YORK — As the New York Yankees finish locking down their postseason roster, the question of whether infielder DJ LeMahieu will be playing in the American League Division Series remains up in the air. LeMahieu has dealt with nagging toe inflammation throughout the second half of the regular season and returned
5:33 PM ET Associated Press OAKLAND, Calif. — Billy Beane still firmly believes the Athletics will secure a new ballpark in Oakland, and he plans to stick around to see it through. Beane, the club’s longtime executive vice president of baseball operations, said Monday he plans to be with the A’s for as long as
3:01 PM ET Associated Press CHICAGO — Jed Hoyer was encouraged by how the Chicago Cubs finished the year. What that means going forward remains to be seen. Speaking for the first time since Chicago completed its second straight losing season, Hoyer talked Monday about building on the team’s 40-31 finish. But the Cubs’ president
9:34 AM ET Associated Press ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves made another investment in their future by signing rookie right-hander Spencer Strider to a $75 million, six-year contract on Monday. The move came one day before the Braves open their NL Division Series against the Philadelphia Phillies and less than two months after Atlanta signed
12:39 PM ET The Philadelphia Phillies are removing the interim tag from manager Rob Thomson’s job title, signing him to a two-year contract for the 2023 and ’24 seasons, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski announced Monday. Thomson, who took over after Joe Girardi was fired in June, led the Phillies to a 65-46 record
9:35 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Baseball’s biggest spenders looked spent. The New York Mets enjoyed 175 days in first place, boosted by their billionaire new owner, confident Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer would lead them to glory, certain Buck Showalter would make all the right moves. All that blood, toil, tears and
11:01 AM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — Guardians reliever Nick Sandlin will miss the rest of the postseason with a shoulder strain suffered in Game 2 of the AL Wild Card Series. The team said Monday that Sandlin underwent an MRI that revealed the strain of his Teres major muscle. The right-hander will be shut
10:00 AM ET Patrick Mahomes begins the week in new territory: a home underdog for the first time in his career. On Sunday afternoon, sportsbooks installed Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs as 2.5-point underdogs to the visiting Buffalo Bills in a Week 6 showdown that’s expected to attract massive betting interest. If the line
10:15 PM ET NEW YORK — Starter Joe Musgrove dominated the New York Mets, who mustered one hit out of the entire evening, as the San Diego Padres cruised to a 6-0 victory in Game 3 of the National League Wild Card Series on Sunday, punching a ticket to the NLDS against the Los Angeles
2:14 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Brian Cashman realizes Aaron Judge struck gold with his record-setting season, raising the price for the New York Yankees to keep their star slugger. In the hours before Opening Day, Judge rejected a contract that would have paid him $213.5 million over seven seasons from 2023 to
11:46 AM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman was dropped from the team’s American League Division Series roster because he missed Friday’s workout. Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Sunday that the former All-Star closer was in Miami rather than at Yankee Stadium and did not provide an acceptable excuse. “I was
8:34 AM ET MLB’s first-ever wild-card series weekend concludes with just one Game 3: the San Diego Padres at New York Mets. The playoff field expanded to 12 teams for the 2022 postseason — four best-of-three series to determine which teams will advance to the ALDS (against the Houston Astros or the New York Yankees)
1:46 AM ET NEW YORK — Mets ace Jacob deGrom couldn’t help but ponder his future on Saturday night. With free agency looming and the San Diego Padres taking Game 1 of the National League Wild Card Series, deGrom said he went into his start in Game 2 knowing that if he didn’t pitch well,
11:57 PM ET ST. LOUIS — The Philadelphia Phillies completed a sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in their NL Wild Card Series on Saturday with a 2-0 victory. Philadelphia’s stars showed up in Game 2, with Aaron Nola pitching 6 2/3 shutout innings, Bryce Harper hitting a solo home run in the second and
8:34 PM ET TORONTO — Fueled by an improbable comeback, the Seattle Mariners are into the American League Division Series with a 10-9 win on Saturday to complete a sweep of the Toronto Blue Jays in their AL wild-card series. The Mariners were down 8-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning before scoring four
8:09 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays center fielder George Springer was carted off the field after he collided with shortstop Bo Bichette in the eighth inning of their playoff game against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday. With two out and the bases loaded, J.P. Crawford hit a blooper into shallow center
5:11 PM ET CLEVELAND — Cleveland‘s baseball franchise is back in the division series for the first time since 2018 after its two-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays in one of the American League wild-card affairs. The Guardians ended a marathon Game 2 with a walk-off solo home run by Oscar Gonzalez in the