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The Toronto Blue Jays sent 57 batsmen to the plate in the 25 hours between Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s last pitch of Game 6 of the World Series…

This thoroughly excellent World Series will go seven games because it needs to go seven games. Not “needs to” in the wishful sense employed by my…

It is a truism, but it is also actually true that you should be careful what you ask for. Distraction episodes are typically right around an…

The last time the lasting historical footprint of a World Series was left by the losing team was the night of Carlton Fisk’s waved-in homer in Game 6…

Wednesday night in Los Angeles it was finally the Blue Jays’ turn to benefit from a historic performance. They’d lost Game 2 of this World Series…

There is a somewhat prevalent belief among fans that baseball should be boring. That is, baseball is a sport best suited for the interminable regular season…

A superstar slugger cannot be relied on like the take-over-a-game greats in other sports. You can’t get him the ball again and again. You can’t give…

It started as it would end, with Freddie Freeman, and then it just kept happening: Dodger after Dodger in extra innings would smoke a potential walk-off…

Shohei Ohtani’s pennant-clinching game against the Brewers was the greatest baseball performance of all time, and during Game 3 of the World Series, it wasn’t hard…

I think we can all agree we got cheated last night, and to be technical about it, it was still last night—at least on the West Coast…