8:24 AM ET NEW YORK — On the very October day when Derek Jeter had one of the most memorable plays in postseason history, sprinting toward the first-base line at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and creatively flipping a relay throw home to catcher Jorge Posada, CC Sabathia — some 2,500 miles away — made his first
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7:00 AM ET With the other three division series wrapped up in just 10 games among them, we’re left with the drawn-out drama of the Red Sox aiming to eliminate the Yankees in New York for the first time (in their first opportunity) since 2004. If you’re looking for a sign that this might be
12:04 AM ET Brock Holt became the first player in major league history to hit for the cycle in a postseason game in the Boston Red Sox‘s 16-1 rout of the New York Yankees in Game 3 of the American League Division Series on Monday night. Holt capped his momentous day with a ninth-inning home
2:22 AM ET NEW YORK — New York Yankees starting pitcher Luis Severino contended that he was not rushed as he went through what he considered a normal pregame warm-up routine ahead of his Game 3 American League Division Series start Monday night. The 24-year-old right-hander and his pitching coach also said he knew exactly
11:47 PM ET NEW YORK — One way to silence 49,000-plus Yankee fans at Yankee Stadium is to pile on the runs against a staff ace with a blazing fastball. Another is to send out your own right-hander with a blazing fastball and have him shut down the high-power Yankees offense that set a single-season
10:57 PM ET ATLANTA — The showdown between baseball’s hottest teams is set, in no small part thanks to a big night from a player both teams in that showdown badly wanted in July. That player is Manny Machado, who drove in four runs on Monday to lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to a series-clinching
10:34 PM ET David Shoenfield NEW YORK — The ball kept finding Angel Hernandez. That’s not necessarily a good thing if you’re the first-base umpire. The 57-year-old veteran umpire had four plays reviewed at first base in the first four innings of Monday’s Game 3 of the American League Division Series between the Boston Red
9:32 PM ET Associated Press CLEVELAND — The master plan was for Trevor Bauer to be Cleveland’s secret weapon, the October surprise. But that idea, and just about everything else the Indians tried, was tossed away. Bauer’s two throwing errors in Monday’s seventh inning helped Houston rally for three runs, and the Astros overwhelmed the
8:17 PM ET NEW YORK — They love David Price in the Bronx. Two nights after the Boston Red Sox starting pitcher gave up three runs in a 1⅓-inning outing in his Game 2 American League Division Series loss to the New York Yankees, a capacity Yankee Stadium crowd gave the left-hander a loud ovation
8:03 PM ET CLEVELAND — With efficiency and authority. That’s the way the Houston Astros handled the Cleveland Indians in a three-game sweep of the American League Division Series. The defending World Series champions now have a few days before they play either Boston or the Yankees in the next round. The Astros dominated the