8:00 AM ET One game is just that, one game. But in a five-game series, it means a lot for the Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox, because notching Game 1 wins mean that last year’s defending champs and this year’s MLB wins leaders have to achieve only a split in four games to advance
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8:33 PM ET Stefano FusaroESPN HOUSTON — Astros right-hander Gerrit Cole became the second player in MLB history to record at least 12 strikeouts without a walk in a postseason game Saturday in leading Houston to a 2-0 lead in its American League Division Series against the Cleveland Indians. A day after Justin Verlander shut
8:00 AM ET Marly RiveraESPN Writer Close Marly Rivera is a writer for ESPNdeportes.com and ESPN.com. Josh Donaldson and Edwin Encarnacion might seem like an unlikely duo to have become friends. One of them is flamboyant and boisterous, the other one is discreet and introverted. One hails from Alabama (via nearby Pensacola) and was a
7:50 AM ET The Colorado Rockies might be the one team down 2-0 in a best-of-five series that still can feel confident about forcing a Game 5 simply because their next two games against the Milwaukee Brewers in the National League Division Series are at Coors Field. The Rockies return to Denver for Game 3
4:47 PM ET Atlanta Braves left-hander Sean Newcomb will start Game 3 of the National League Division Series with his team on the brink against the Los Angeles Dodgers, the team announced Saturday. Manager Brian Snitker had said a day earlier that they wold turn to Kevin Gausman, but the Braves, who failed to score
2:23 PM ET The Red Sox have removed right-hander Steven Wright from their American League Division Series roster because of a knee injury. Boston announced the move Saturday after receiving approval from the league. Wright, who is now ineligible to return to Boston’s active roster until the World Series, will be replaced on the team
3:29 AM ET LOS ANGELES — Late into Friday night, in the aftermath of a unique sort of masterpiece in Game 2 of this National League Division Series, Clayton Kershaw was asked, with his children on both knees, if his most recent triumph provided him with an extra dose of satisfaction, given the circumstances leading
2:44 AM ET LOS ANGELES — This is baseball, right? It’s not an early September non-conference football game featuring Alabama and Nowhere Tech. It’s the big leagues and one thing we know about this sport is that from the perspective of a single game or two, there is no such thing as an upset. It
2:46 AM ET Donovan Farrell got an unexpected birthday present Friday night — a Manny Machado home run ball and a meeting with the man who hit it. Donovan, who turned 12 on Friday, caught Machado’s two-run home run in the first inning of the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ Game 2 against the Atlanta Braves in
1:17 AM ET BOSTON — This is postseason baseball. You hope for your stars to carry the team and produce plenty of decisive plays, but you know that any game — any series — could come down to one of the unlikeliest of contributors getting a key out or critical hit. Carrying expectations from being