LOS ANGELES — Forty minutes after the Milwaukee Brewers emptied out of the visiting dugout at Dodger Stadium and turned the defending back-to-back champions’ three-peat dream into a National League Championship Series nightmare, shortstop Miguel Rojas’ eyes were still bloodshot from the tears. The Dodgers’ reign of baseball supremacy ended Thursday night in stunning fashion,…
One game into the National League Championship Series, and the Brewers have already demonstrated that they’re not the same team they were a year ago. After getting swept by the eventual champion Dodgers in last year’s NLCS, the Brewers took Game 1 of the rematch on Sunday by beating Tarik Skubal, the ace who got…
It’s now October and the playoff baseball really begins as the final eight teams all kicked off the division series. Munetaka Murakami hit his first career postseason homer in a 3-0 White Sox win over Cleveland, Tarik Skubal and Kyle Tucker led the Dodgers past the Braves, and Drew Rasmussen nearly no-hit the Yankees in…
From big home runs to dominant pitching and confusing late-inning calls, the first four games of the Division Series had everything. After the Chicago White Sox opened the day with a win, the three home teams – the Dodgers, Rays and Brewers – held serve with wins. Los Angeles and Tampa Bay got huge outings…
Depth over the marathon of a 162-game season helped 12 teams reach the postseason. Now, it’s the stars and standouts who will take center stage. Here are the 26 players who will define the 2026 MLB playoffs, whether through their talent, their storylines entering October, their importance to their clubs or all of the above. …
This is it. With one week remaining in the regular season, the National League playoff field looks nearly complete. The Brewers, Dodgers and Braves have already clinched their respective divisions, while the Cubs, Padres and Phillies are jockeying for wild-card seeding while hoping to hold off the Diamondbacks, who haven’t been eliminated yet but are…
The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their fifth consecutive NL West division title and 13th in 14 seasons, sparked by four hits from Kyle Tucker that included a first-inning home run in an 8-2 win over the Cincinnati Reds on Thursday, The two-time World Series champions already were assured of their 14th straight postseason appearance, trying…
LOS ANGELES — During a months-long spiral at the plate, Teoscar Hernández tried to maintain his upbeat, convivial persona. But for much of the summer, before his September revival, it was difficult for the Dodgers’ fun-loving, seed-tossing veteran presence to look or feel like himself. “I try to stay positive and bring the same energy…
It’s not how you start the season, it’s how you finish. We hear that phrase all the time from baseball players, and it’s most important now to these various stars who have a lot riding on the final month of the regular season. There are multiple players chasing something historic. There’s a long-expected comeback from…
A slumping star player is the last thing a team wants with the MLB postseason just around the corner. And yet, everyone from the World Series favorites to the Wild Card hopefuls is dealing with it in some capacity. The question now is whether it’s too late for those players to turn things around or…
