3:37 PM ET Boston Red Sox pitchers Brian Johnson and Hector Velazquez have been told they won’t be on the roster for the American League Division Series, manager Alex Cora said Tuesday. Cora called it “very difficult” to give them the news. He said that while the two will not be on the roster, they
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12:00 PM ET Can the Houston Astros repeat as champions? Or will the 108-win Boston Red Sox wrap up their historic season with a title? Who is coming out of the wide-open National League? With the postseason set to start Tuesday with the NL wild-card game (8 p.m. ET, ESPN), we asked 27 of our
7:02 PM ET The Minnesota Twins have relieved Paul Molitor of his duties as manager but hope to keep him with the organization in a different role next season. Molitor, 62, compiled a 305-343 record over four seasons as manager. The Twins went 78-84 this season and finished 13 games behind the first-place Cleveland Indians
12:38 PM ET NEW YORK — New York Yankees right-hander Luis Severino will start the American League wild-card game for New York, manager Aaron Boone announced Tuesday afternoon. The Yankees will host the Oakland Athletics at 8 p.m. Wednesday. Severino won his last two starts of the regular season and went 19-8 with a 3.39
10:19 AM ET Milwaukee Brewers manager Craig Counsell. Jamie Sabau/Getty Images Editor’s note: This excerpt is taken from “The Chicken Runs at Midnight” by Tom Friend. Copyright © 2018 by Tom Friend. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved. With all the Marlins’ weapons, they just wanted reliability, a role player. “We didn’t need another
9:00 AM ET Baseball’s marathon regular-season schedule tells us a lot about who’s the best team in baseball, but as of today, that question becomes almost totally irrelevant. A 108-win team (like the Red Sox) is barely a 3:2 favorite in a single game against a 90-win team (like the Braves), and that’s the biggest
The New York Yankees didn’t win the division, but it was the most wins for the franchise since the 2009 World Series championship and their first back-to-back playoff appearances since 2011-12. With 267 home runs, they set a single-season record — even as Gary Sanchez struggled and Aaron Judge spent nearly two months on the
9:43 PM ET We had two tiebreaker games on Monday. That was fun. The Brewers-Cubs game at Wrigley was a tense affair that the Brewers put away with two runs in the eighth and then too much Josh Hader for the Cubs’ taste. The Brewers won their first division title since 2011 thanks to winning
8:50 PM ET Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland will start Tuesday’s National League wild-card game against the Chicago Cubs, manager Bud Black announced Monday. He’ll face Cubs lefty Jon Lester. Freeland (17-7) finished with a 2.85 ERA overall this season. He joined Marvin Freeman (2.80, 1994) and Ubaldo Jimenez (2.88, 2010) as the only Rockies pitchers
8:17 PM ET LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers, 10 games below .500 early in what became a bizarre 2018 season, are division champions for the sixth consecutive time, a distinction they secured by beating the Colorado Rockies 5-2 in Monday’s tiebreaker. Jon Lester will start against the Rockies and first baseman Anthony Rizzo