TORONTO — “The Double” doesn’t need another tribute. It doesn’t need to be a talking point on TV. It doesn’t need its grainy replay rolled yet again, annual nostalgia in place of something new.

The Seattle Mariners’ most memorable moment needs more company.

This team is making up for lost time.

Because, in the three decades ...Read more

SEATTLE — That was the only way this could end if the scriptwriters had any sense.

No other outcome was feasible if the baseball gods had a code.

So many times throughout the evening it looked as though the Tigers were going to leave T-Mobile Park pin-drop quiet. Instead, the Mariners had their mic-drop moment.

In the bottom of the 15th ...Read more

Albert Pujols met with Angels general manager Perry Minasian on Thursday regarding the team’s open managerial role, a source confirmed on Friday.

Although Pujols is considered one of the leading candidates, it remains uncertain if Pujols will ultimately get the job. Torii Hunter, who works as a special assistant in the Angels’ front office,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The end of a season always feels empty. The more suddenly the end comes, the emptier it feels. But it never feels emptier than when you are the one who is closest in proximity to it. In those moments, the emptiness has a weight that is yours and yours alone.

Early Thursday night, in one of the most iconic ballparks in baseball, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Roki Sasaki was literally the toast of the Dodgers.

"Shot for Roki!" infielder Miguel Rojas screamed.

Hooting and hollering, the players raised the little paper cups in their hands and emptied the contents into their mouths to celebrate the three perfect innings delivered by Sasaki in an 11-inning, 2-1 victory over the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In those buoyant days of spring, Dodgers fans blithely predicted their star-studded and well-financed team would win, say, 125 games. No major league team had won more than 116 but, if the Dodgers were going to ruin baseball, they would have a damn good time doing it.

Then the season started, and with it the ups and downs, and ...Read more

CHICAGO — When the National League Division Series moved to Wrigley Field with the Chicago Cubs facing a 2-0 deficit against the Milwaukee Brewers, manager Craig Counsell acknowledged the hole they had dug for themselves.

“No question about it,” Counsell said Tuesday. “And we get to decide how this story ends.”

Sweetheart, get him ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs have quickly become battle tested in elimination games.

For the third time this postseason, the Cubs staved off their season ending. Thanks to another first-inning home run — a rocket off Ian Happ’s bat that landed in the right-field bleachers for a three-run lead — and a masterful performance by left-hander ...Read more

DETROIT — Tarik Skubal felt a lot like most of the fans did in the stands during Wednesday’s potential playoff elimination game at Comerica Park.

He saw his teammates struggling at the plate, trudging back to the dugout one after another in Game 4 of the American League Division Series, and he felt the silence growing louder in the ballpark...Read more

The Phillies suffered an 11-inning 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the National League Division Series, putting an early end to the Phillies’ postseason run.

From tricky shadows to a fielding error to end the game, here are some of the best and worst moments from the Game 4 broadcast …

‘Tricky’ shadows

TBS broadcaster...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Andy Pages hit a dribbler to the mound.

Orion Kerkering fielded it — then threw away the Philadelphia Phillies’ season.

With the bases loaded in the bottom of the 11th in Game 4 of the National League Division Series, that’s how the Dodgers secured a 2-1 walk-off win. On a throwing error from Kerkering. On a ball that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Chavez Ravine has been a politician’s vanity purchase, a nest of disease, a sleepy, multicultural neighborhood, the site of municipal bullying, and, since 1962, the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The trees and scrub on the surrounding hills and the orange-and-blue “76″ sign, a vestige of bygone gasoline wars, sit in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No, he didn’t.

Yes, they did!

No, it’s inconceivable that Philadelphia Phillies’ reliever Orion Kerkering would botch a grounder and throw it away with the season on the line.

Yes, it happened with the bases loaded and the Dodgers scored to steal a National League Division Series clinching 2-1 victory in 11 taut innings ...Read more

NEW YORK — Once the season ends, the truth usually comes out. However, there are still no answers for the offseason ahead of ailing Yankees‘Aaron Judge and Anthony Volpe.

Judge and Volpe were both playing through injury for a good portion of this season. The Yankees captain injured his right elbow after making a throw against the Blue Jays ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The familiar sound reverberated throughout Dodger Stadium.

Crack!

The baseball soared into the October sky, Shohei Ohtani gliding down the first base line as he watched it travel back, back, back …

… only to be caught a few inches in front of the left-field wall by Max Kepler.

So close.

So close to a seventh-inning home ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Seventeen years ago, in this very ballpark, when the Phillies needed it most, a muscle-bound slugger with a short left-handed stroke ripped one into the night and changed a playoff series.

Did Kyle Schwarber do an uncanny Matt Stairs impression, or what?

It depends, of course, on whether the Phillies can come all the way back ...Read more

DETROIT — They said they were one swing away, one inning away. They insisted they were close to busting out, any moment now.

You can doubt the Tigers at times, but good luck trying to bury them. Once they started swinging Wednesday, they couldn’t stop, one after another, like a baseball conga line. Finally ignited, there’s no telling ...Read more