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It probably felt like a cutting-edge caper at the time: The New York Giants, using an elaborate spyglass-and-buzzer system, would have the opposing team's signs relayed from their center-field clubhouse at the Polo Grounds to the bullpen and then to the batter, passing along valuable information...

With temperatures dipping into the 40s, numbing their fingertips as they tried to grip the baseball, Justin Verlander and Chris Sale both struggled to get the ball over the plate. Verlander recovered quickly. Sale never did. After walking in one run and giving up the tying score on a wild pitch,...

October 15, 2017 was a Sunday, and an off-day between Games 2 and 3 of the American League Championship Series, but as the rest of the Houston Astros' players and coaches bused from the airport to Yankee Stadium for a late-afternoon workout, bench coach Alex Cora, with his bosses' permission, headed...

Gerry Davis, who has umpired a record 144 postseason games, will be the crew chief for the NL Championship Series. Joe West, whose 5,194 regular-season games are second to Bill Klem's 5,375, will be the AL Championship Series crew chief, the commissioner's office said Thursday. Scott Barry will...

His team's season had just ended in the American League Division Series, and before the New York Yankees exited into the chill of winter, veteran left-hander CC Sabathia — one of the most-respected players in the sport — wanted to vent. "I need to say this," Sabathia told reporters at Yankee Stadium...

Chief Wahoo, the mascot of the Cleveland Indians, expired late Monday after his namesake baseball team was eliminated from the American League Division Series, swept in three games by the defending World Series champion Houston Astros. Officially, Wahoo was 71 years old, though accounts vary on...

Angel Hernandez hit .250 in Game 3 of the AL Division Series. That's a mediocre batting average for a player and awful replay average for an umpire. Hernandez was overruled on three of four video reviews of his decisions at first base during Boston's 16-1 rout of the New York Yankees on Monday...

The Houston Astros advanced to the AL Championship Series for the second straight year, completing a division-round sweep of Cleveland on Monday with an 11-3 win in Game 3 helped by two key throwing errors from Indians reliever Trevor Bauer. Marwin Gonzalez hit a two-run double off Bauer on a shoulder-high...

Some three hours of baseball were played Saturday night between the moment the Boston Red Sox's starting pitcher departed the proceedings and the moment when Game 2 of the American League Division Series ended — three hours in which the outcome was still more or less malleable, and the Red Sox's...

Say this for the 2018 White Sox: For a team that lost 100 games, there was remarkable consistency on the roster. Eight of the nine hitters in the opening day lineup wound up as the primary players at their position, with an 80-game PED suspension making catcher Welington Castillo the exception....

Fittingly, Liam Hendriks wore his cap backward. A reliever is going to start a team’s postseason opener. A pitcher with no wins in the regular season. A pitcher cut from the 40-man roster in June who spent two months toiling in the minor leagues. “Instead of the starter going six and handing it...

The Minnesota Twins fired Paul Molitor on Tuesday, one season after he won the American League Manager of the Year award, in pursuit of more productive development by their younger players. "This wasn't about our record this year. This is about what we think is best as we continue to grow a young...

The “Merkle’s Boner” makeup game in 1908. “The Shot Heard ’Round the World” in 1951. “The Blackout Game” in 2008. Tiebreakers have produced some of the most memorable games in Major League Baseball history. Monday’s dual tiebreakers in the National League mark the first time there have been two...

Joe Mauer received one more pitch as catcher for the Twins, and Minnesota likely said goodbye to the longtime face of its franchise during an emotional 5-4 win over the White Sox on Sunday. The White Sox lost their 100th game of the year, the first time they've done so since 1970. Meanwhile, the...

Photos from the White Sox's season finale against the Twins at Target Field on Sunday, Sept. 30, 2018.