10:30 AM ET HOUSTON — When the final out was recorded in Game 6 of the 2021 World Series, Dusty Baker’s 24th year as a big league manager ended in the same way as the previous 23 — with another team winning the season’s last game. Afterward, the Houston Astros‘ manager sat in the dugout
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2:06 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of “The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports” HOUSTON — In the early hours of July 11, a small group gathered in a ballroom at the Ritz Carlton Key Biscayne hotel in Miami for what felt like a wake. Over
12:35 PM ET Associated Press WASHINGTON — Gary DiSarcina will coach third base for the Washington Nationals, Eric Young Jr. will coach first base and Ricky Bones is the new bullpen coach as part of a revamped staff under manager Dave Martinez announced Wednesday. DiSarcina and Bones come to Washington from the National League East
7:00 AM ET The Atlanta Braves just won the 2021 World Series by eliminating the Houston Astros in six games — but we’re already looking ahead to next year. Will Atlanta repeat as champions after an unexpected title run? Will the team to beat in all of baseball come from a stacked AL East? And
11:34 PM ET ATLANTA — The narrative shape of the 2021 Atlanta Braves, the newly crowned champions of baseball, was not an arc, as fantastical tales tend to be. It was more like a wave chart, with ebbs and flows leading to one final tidal wave that began gathering momentum in early August and crashed
1:40 AM ET HOUSTON — If you were among the millions watching Game 6 of the World Series at home, the last you saw of Atlanta Braves slugger Jorge Soler‘s home run ball was when it disappeared over the Minute Maid Park railroad tracks into the night. That was what Manuel Ramos saw, too, while
11:37 PM ET HOUSTON — Jorge Soler coiled, and then he unleashed the mightiest swing he could muster. His batted ball would clear the left-field train tracks in Houston’s Minute Maid Park, soaring 446 feet to give his team the early three-run lead that Max Fried would not relinquish. He dropped his bat upon contact,
11:52 PM ET HOUSTON — The season’s journey of World Series MVP Jorge Soler did not begin with the Atlanta Braves. But it did end with the newly crowned champs, merging the stories of a player and a team that followed a very similar trajectory. Soler emerged as the clear-cut MVP of the Braves’ six-game
12:47 AM ET Atlanta Braves general manager Alex Anthopoulos did not attend the team’s World Series-clinching Game 6 victory in Houston on Tuesday night after testing positive for COVID-19, he told ESPN’s Buster Olney. Anthopoulos, who tested positive on Saturday, told Olney he did not reveal the news until after Tuesday’s win because he didn’t
2:15 AM ET HOUSTON — As Astros star Carlos Correa stepped into the box in the ninth inning of Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night, he understood the magnitude of the moment for him. The game and subsequently the Series were well in hand for the Atlanta Braves, who captured the championship