Month: October 2020

11:40 PM ET We can only hope 2021 will be a more normal season, with 162 games and fans in the stands and hot dogs to eat and overpriced beer to drink. We don’t know what the state of things will be come April 1, when the 2021 season is scheduled to begin, but we

12:00 AM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com The 2020 World Series is in the books and the Los Angeles Dodgers are baseball’s champions after defeating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-2 in the series. After getting only two hits through the first five innings, the Dodgers’ offense got going in the sixth inning when L.A. scored two runs.

6:28 PM ET Associated Press ARLINGTON, Texas — The Los Angeles Dodgers‘ 6-2 Game 3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays was the least-watched World Series game ever, beating the record set two days earlier in Game 2. Friday night’s game was seen by an average of 8,156,000 viewers age 2 and higher on Fox,

11:44 PM ET The Los Angeles Dodgers, fresh off winning their first World Series title since 1988, have been installed as the favorites to win next year’s World Series, too. The Dodgers, who finished off the Tampa Bay Rays 3-1 in a clinching Game 6 Tuesday in Arlington, Texas, head into the offseason at +400

12:09 AM ET Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner tested positive for COVID-19 and was pulled from the team’s Game 6 World Series-clinching win against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred confirmed the positive test after the game, telling Fox: “It’s a bittersweet night for us.”

10:57 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash’s decision to pull starter Blake Snell in the sixth inning of Game 6 of the World Series on Tuesday night might be one that’ll be questioned for a long time. With the Rays leading 1-0, Snell was throwing arguably his best game of

11:41 PM ET ARLINGTON — They might have gotten a little help from the opposing manager in Game 6, but the Los Angeles Dodgers finally won their World Series, the first for the franchise since 1988 and the first in three tries for them over the past four years. The Dodgers beat the Tampa Bay

11:38 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — The Kirk Gibson home run had endured, but it had also run its course. The clip remained a constant presence around the Los Angeles Dodgers, consuming their broadcasts and playing on a near-constant loop at their stadium. It stood as the seminal moment from a bygone era, of a