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
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12:54 AM ET ESPN News Services Former big league manager Bobby Valentine fell short in his bid to become mayor of Stamford, Connecticut. The 71-year-old Valentine conceded the election to Democratic state Rep. Caroline Simmons late Tuesday night in what ended up being a close race decided by absentee ballots. “It’s time for me to
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11:34 PM ET The Atlanta Braves are World Series champions, but the Los Angeles Dodgers are the favorites to win next year’s title entering an offseason with a bevy of impactful stars on the free-agent market. The Dodgers are the favorites, at 11-2 at Caesars Sportsbook, followed by the Houston Astros (7-1) and the Braves
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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