MLB Playoffs 2019

World Series ratings remain at record lows

ARLINGTON, Texas — The World Series drew a record-low audience of television viewers for the second straight night. Tampa Bay’s 6-4 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 2...

Betting lines for Dodgers-Padres don't match up

On Tuesday, two perceived juggernauts square off in a National League Division Series. The Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres led the NL with the most wins in 2020,...

What will likely swing Yankees' Clint Frazier decision

Despite numbers that indicate a different decision, it is likely Clint Frazier will start in left field on Monday night at Petco Park when the Yankees and Rays play Game...

Yankees avoid debacle that tarnished last year's postseason

The Yankees issued 71 full postseason shares this season, the most of any playoff team — a year after they were roundly criticized for handing out just 45 full shares,...

World Series lessons for the Mets and Yankees

A team wins a championship and one of the instant reactions is to try to determine a secret sauce that can be imported to your team. But maybe it is...

Stephen Strasburg path: From innings limit to World Series MVP

HOUSTON — The shutdown that shook baseball paid off for Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals. It just took seven seasons. Strasburg was voted MVP of the World Series following...

Nationals' Max Scherzer guts out five innings days after injury

HOUSTON — Max Scherzer never had a clean inning in Game 7 of the World Series for the Washington Nationals. He finished with more walks than strikeouts and walked off...

A.J. Hinch knows 'he will have to live with' this decision

HOUSTON — Astros manager AJ Hinch had options. There was Zack Greinke, a veteran ace showing his first signs of fatigue. Out in the bullpen, Gerrit Cole was watching. And...

Patrick Corbin delivers big-time outing

HOUSTON — Patrick Corbin knew at some point Wednesday night he’d need to be ready out of the Nationals’ bullpen. When the phone buzzed letting him know his time had...

Gerrit Cole is already disowning the Astros after World Series loss

HOUSTON — His team just having suffered a stunning World Series Game 7 loss to end its season, Gerrit Cole held an awkward exchange with an Astros media relations official...

Topless Nationals fan goes wild in World Series celebration

Another fan went topless during the World Series. A man at the Nationals' ballpark viewing party ripped off his shirt and slid belly-first on one of the dugouts after Washington...

Astros' World Series meltdown is October at its finest

HOUSTON — You can make tanking cool. You can draft right, trade right and sign the right free agents. You can run intellectual circles around your competitors. Sometimes, though, no...

Gutsy Nationals are deserving World Series champions

HOUSTON — The end made all that came before it worthwhile. All the strikeouts. All the homers. All the questions of the 2019 season about first the liveliness of the...

Nationals win first World Series in franchise history

HOUSTON — If there were a pair of dry eyes belonging to the Nationals on the stage set up between home plate and third base as the World Series trophy...

The fallout from controversial World Series interference call

HOUSTON — As a hitter and first baseman, Ryan Zimmerman gets to see the controversy that interrupted Tuesday night’s Game 6 of the World Series from each side of the...

Where MLB should stand in the playing loud-tradition conflict

HOUSTON — Talk about internal conflict. Late Tuesday night, following an intense, sensory-overloaded World Series Game 6 at Minute Maid Park, both Astros manager A.J. Hinch and Nationals manager Dave...

World Series Game 7 will have to measure up to this thrilling finish

HOUSTON — The ball was coming straight for us. Of all that I remember from the 2001 World Series, the ball coming straight for us was what stays with me...

Astros Vs. Nationals Game 7 Live Stream: How To Watch The World Series Online 

It doesn't get much better than this! The Astros and Nationals meet in Game 7 of the World Series.

Ex-Yankee uses World Series fiasco to troll A-Rod

Phil Hughes controls one of the best Twitter accounts in baseball, and a large part of that is the ex-Yankee hurler’s willingness to teasingly tweak and troll former teammate Alex...

Nationals star calls out Joe Torre during World Series controversy

A hot mic made Tuesday night’s chaos at the World Series an even more heated situation. During the controversial 10-minute delay in the seventh inning of Game 6, Fox microphones...