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TORONTO — George Springer put Toronto ahead with a three-run homer in the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays advanced to the World Series for the first time since 1993 by beating the Seattle Mariners 4-3 in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night. It...

TORONTO — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his sixth home run of the postseason, rookie Trey Yesavage struck out seven in 5 2/3 innings and the Toronto Blue Jays forced a Game 7 in the American League Championship Series by beating the Seattle Mariners 6-2 on Sunday night. The series will...

TORONTO — The Seattle Mariners will be sailing in uncharted waters Sunday night when they visit the Toronto Blue Jays for Game 6 of the American League Championship Series. The Mariners can shed the albatross of never having reached the World Series with a victory. They took a 3-2 lead...

Baseball’s majesty and misery are almost always intertwined. And in a stunning eighth inning in an unforgettable Game 5 of the American League Championship Series, they were inseparable. For several pulsating minutes at T-Mobile Park, the fates of the Toronto Blue Jays and Seattle Mariners hung first on a crucial...

LOS ANGELES — It was a night that will live forever in Los Angeles Dodgers history. There was the Sandy Koufax perfect game. There was the Kirk Gibson home run. And Thursday night, it was The Shohei Ohtani Game, one of the greatest postseason performances in baseball history. Ohtani hit...

SEATTLE — Eugenio Suarez’s second home run of the game, an eighth-inning grand slam, broke a tie as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-2, on Friday to regain control of the American League Championship Series. Cal Raleigh sparked the rally with a leadoff homer in the eighth...

In Friday’s “First Call,” Bengals receiver Ja’Marr Chase explains the predictability of the Steelers’ defense. An ex-Pirate shines on the mound during the NLCS. The Penguins prepare to close out their early West Coast road trip. And Robert Morris opened its men’s hockey season with a tough challenge against a...

SEATTLE — Mad Max had nearly a month to fume, seethe and boil as he waited for his October opportunity. Finally given the ball in the playoffs, he shut down the Seattle Mariners — and his own manager, too. A fiery Scherzer turned back the clock with a vintage pitching...

LOS ANGELES — Tyler Glasnow struck out eight batters, Tommy Edman hit a go-ahead RBI single in the sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers took a commanding lead in the National League Championship Series with a 3-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday. Mookie Betts had an RBI...

Something refreshing happened within the context of MLB’s current zeitgeist Monday night: A starting pitcher threw eight innings. No, it’s not a complete game. And the length of Blake Snell’s stay on the mound for Los Angeles was made more palatable because he only threw 103 pitches, less than usual...

From utter futility to a startling fusillade: That’s the story of the Toronto Blue Jays in this American League Championship Series. And after two games of punchless offense was followed by a lineup uprising in Game 3, they are still very much in it. The Blue Jays annihilated Seattle Mariners...

LOS ANGELES — After charging through America’s Dairyland with a pair of beefed-up pitching performances, the Dodgers play host to the Milwaukee Brewers on Thursday in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series. Six victories away from becoming the first team to win back-to-back World Series titles in 25...

MILWAUKEE — Relying on an old-school pitching strategy has the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers two wins from returning to the Fall Classic. As long as their star-studded rotation can continue working deep into games, they don’t need to worry about their inconsistent bullpen. Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw a...

MILWAUKEE — Brice Turang not letting himself be hit by a pitch in the ninth inning was the subject of debate, if not outright criticism, as soon as Game 1 of the National League Championship Series ended in a Milwaukee Brewers loss. But stand in that batter’s box, and see...

MILWAUKEE — Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts has refused to stay at the team hotel in downtown Milwaukee for years, convinced the famous Pfister Hotel is haunted. So when the Dodgers come to town, he always checks into an Airbnb away from the team, not ready to encounter any...

MILWAUKEE — Blake Snell allowed one baserunner in eight shutout innings before Los Angeles’ bullpen barely held on as the Dodgers opened the National League Championship Series with a 2-1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday night. Blake Treinen struck out Brice Turang with the bases loaded to end...

San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt announced Monday that he will retire immediately after guiding the club to the playoffs in his two seasons at the helm. Shildt, 57, compiled a 183-141 record in two years as the Padres manager, with the club advancing to the National League Division Series...

The Seattle Mariners are going home with a commanding advantage in the American League Championship Series. The pitching-centric team is crushing the Toronto Blue Jays in all facets of the game, slugging three home runs in Game 2 to cruise to a 10-3 victory Monday at Rogers Centre. And now,...

TORONTO — Cal Raleigh homered, Jorge Polanco drove in the go-ahead run with a sixth-inning single and the Seattle Mariners beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-1, on Sunday night as they returned to the AL Championship Series for the first time in 24 years. George Springer homered on the first...

MILWAUKEE — Pat Murphy and his Milwaukee Brewers adopted an underdog mentality even as they produced the best regular-season record in the major leagues this year. Their NL Championship Series matchup with the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers enables them to embrace that approach even more. The series...

MILWAUKEE — Andrew Vaughn hit a tiebreaking homer in the fourth inning and William Contreras and Brice Turang also went deep as the Milwaukee Brewers shook off their recent history of playoff frustration by beating the Chicago Cubs, 3-1, in the decisive fifth game of their NL Division Series on...

SEATTLE — Jorge Polanco hit a game-ending single in the 15th inning, and the Seattle Mariners advanced to the AL Championship Series by outlasting the Detroit Tigers for a 3-2 victory Friday night in the longest winner-take-all postseason game in baseball history. With one out and the bases loaded, Polanco...

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers will be looking to their hard-earned homefield advantage as they try to stave off the Chicago Cubs in the decisive fifth game of the National League Division Series on Saturday night. Seemingly in control after winning the first two games against their Central Division rivals...

CHICAGO — Matthew Boyd pitched two-hit ball into the fifth inning, and the Chicago Cubs shut down the Milwaukee Brewers for a 6-0 victory Thursday night that pushed their NL Division Series all the way to a decisive Game 5. Ian Happ, Kyle Tucker and Michael Busch homered for Chicago,...