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Brian Cashman said he and the Yankees have agreed on a new contract. They're just hammering out the final details. "We're locked and loaded."
Inside how the Tampa Bay Rays built another World Series team. Culture is everything, and the Rays embody it in plenty of tangible ways. espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/5022…
“I feel like I just get to have small conversations with him every day.”
Garrett Mitchell joined the latest episode of Sources Tell Jeff Passan, and here he remembers the late Bob Uecker and explains a relationship that went far beyond baseball -- and is kept alive by a mural.
Full episode with Garrett Mitchell: On beating the Dodgers, robbing Manny Machado of a home run, hitting meaningful postseason homers himself and much more. youtube.com/watch?v=1U_j-bIZ…
FINAL: Rays 7, Guardians 3
The Tampa Bay Rays are American League champions and will play the Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series — and one of them will win their first championship in franchise history. The Rays have been around for 29 years and the Brewers for 58 seasons.
This is how you celebrate a home run in a game that could send you to the World Series. Junior Caminero is ready.
Jeff Passan retweeted
Aaron Boone is returning as Yankees manager next season, a source confirmed to ESPN. @pcaldera was on the news.
News: The Baltimore Orioles are hiring Jared Banner as general manager, sources tell ESPN. Banner, who was an assistant GM with the Cubs, joins Mike Elias in Baltimore’s leadership after nearly two decades working a range of executive jobs with the Cubs, Mets and Red Sox.
FINAL: Rays 3, Guardians 1
Tampa Bay heads home one win away from the World Series. Drew Rasmussen was brilliant over seven innings, the Rays hit and ran and bunted their way to enough offense and their defense was exceptional. A classic Rays win leading into Game 6 on Monday.
Junior Caminero hit a ball 110 mph at 29 degrees in the fourth inning -- and it was not a home run. Since that was not good enough, he hit one at 110 and 8 degrees for a go-ahead double in the sixth inning. The Rays lead, 2-1, and have runners on second and third with no outs.
Game 4 of the ALCS has been postponed.
It will be played Saturday at 8 p.m. ET. Game 5 has been moved to Sunday at 5 p.m. ET.
FINAL: Brewers 6, Dodgers 4
The Milwaukee Brewers are going to the World Series after sweeping the two-time defending champion Dodgers. The Brewers came back from down 4-0 to advance to their first World Series since 1982 and exact revenge on the Dodgers’ NLCS sweep last year.
This was Shohei Ohtani’s first home run since Aug. 18. Never seen this sort of emotion from him after a homer.
FINAL: Guardians 3, Rays 2
Petey Halpin’s two-run homer — with a 25-foot-high bat flip to boot — put Cleveland ahead in the fifth, and four scoreless innings of Guardians relief capped an excellent Gavin Williams start. Cleveland leads the ALCS, 2-1. Great come-from-behind win.
For all the great pitching in the postseason, no one looks better than Gavin Williams right now. His stuff is huge and through three innings of Game 3, he’s got 28 strikes on 35 pitches and five Ks. Another Guardians pitching-development success story in a long line of them.
Really enjoyed this breakdown from Alex Bregman and Joey Votto on Shohei Ohtani's struggles and the difficulties of playing hurt in the postseason. It's constant grind mode, it's band-aiding, it's buying yourself another day only to run into the reality that days are dwindling.
The league-wide batting average this postseason is .212. The average fastball is 96.2 mph. Hitting is hard. In the postseason, it's Sisyphean. To better understand why, we spoke with Joey Votto and Alex Bregman, two of the purest hitters of this generation, for their insight.
Here’s the full hour with Joey Votto and Alex Bregman. Joey said midway through that it felt like a masters-level course on hitting. If you want to understand how modern hitters think — and handle otherworldly stuff — this is a great place to start. youtube.com/watch?v=WaOgM2NV…