Braves exercise $18M option on pitcher Chris Sale
The Atlanta Braves are exercising the $18 million team option in Chris Sale’s contract to keep the left-hander in the fold for 2026. Sale was 7-5 with a 2.58 ERA in 2025 but spent 10 weeks on the injured list with a fractured ribcage. He had 165 strikeouts, including four...
Game 7 of World Series watched by 27.3M in U.S., most since 2017
Feverish interest in Game 7 of the World Series produced giant ratings for Fox Sports, which revealed Tuesday that 27.3 million viewers across the United States tuned into the championship decider. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ 5-4 comeback win over the Toronto Blue Jays was the most-watched World Series clash since...
Alex Bregman, Lucas Giolito, Pete Alonso, Edwin Díaz and Cody Bellinger become free agents
NEW YORK — Boston third baseman Alex Bregman and right-hander Lucas Giolito, New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso and closer Edwin Díaz and New York Yankees outfielder/first baseman Cody Bellinger were among the players who turned down player options or exercised opt outs and become free agents Tuesday. San...
Victor Conte, who sold undetectable steroids to elite athletes in baseball and track, has died at 75
Victor Conte, the architect of a scheme to provide undetectable performance-enhancing drugs to professional athletes including baseball stars Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi and Olympic track champion Marion Jones decades ago, has died. He was 75. Conte died Monday, SNAC System, a sports nutrition company he founded, said in a...
Braves hire Walt Weiss as new manager
ATLANTA — The Atlanta Braves have their new manager, announcing they’ve promoted bench coach Walt Weiss to the position Monday evening. President of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos oversaw a monthlong process to find the franchise’s replacement for Brian Snitker, who transitioned into an advisory role after one of the most...
Ian Happ wins again as the Chicago Cubs earn a major league-high 3 Gold Glove awards
CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs had a major league-high three Gold Glove winners this year, with Pete Crow-Armstrong, Ian Happ and Nico Hoerner all taking home baseball’s most famous fielding honor. It was the first Gold Glove for Crow-Armstrong, part of a breakout season for the All-Star center fielder. Happ,...
Dodgers still can’t believe what happened in all-time World Series Game 7
TORONTO — Game 7 was so insane, so compelling, so breathtaking, so dramatic, that when the final out was made early Sunday morning, Dodgers three-time Cy Young winner Clayton Kershaw looked at his teammates in disbelief. “What, we just won?” Kershaw said. “‘Really? Are you sure?’ I was warming up....
Dodgers repeat as World Series champs on Will Smith’s homer in 11th inning of Game 7
TORONTO — Will Smith homered in the 11th inning after Miguel Rojas connected for a tying drive in the ninth, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4, in Game 7 on Saturday night to become the first team in a quarter-century to win consecutive World Series...
Dodgers hang on, use game-ending double play to force Game 7 of the World Series
TORONTO — The Los Angeles Dodgers produced a three-run third inning Friday, then held on thanks to a game-ending double play, forcing Game 7 in the World Series with a 3-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Mookie Betts keyed the third-inning rally with a two-run single to help the...
Report: Nationals finalizing hire of 33-year-old Blake Butera as manager
The Washington Nationals are finalizing a deal to hire 33-year-old Blake Butera as manager, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The Nationals fired Dave Martinez in July, and Miguel Cairo took over on an interim basis. Butera would be the youngest manager since Minnesota’s Frank Quilici in...
Errors cost Dodgers in World Series Game 6 loss to Blue Jays
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers had two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell on the mound for Game 5 of the World Series with a chance to take a 3-2 lead. Instead, the Dodgers have fallen behind after losing 6-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday. Though Snell...
Rookie Trey Yesavage fans 12 as Blue Jays beat Dodgers to move 1 win from World Series title
LOS ANGELES — Trey Yesavage set a World Series rookie record with 12 strikeouts, and the Toronto Blue Jays opened Game 5 with back-to-back homers in a 6-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday that moved them within one win of their first championship since 1993. Davis Schneider...
Report: Twins hire former Pirates skipper Derek Shelton as next managerVideo
The Minnesota Twins have picked former bench coach Derek Shelton as their new manager, a person with knowledge of the decision confirmed Wednesday night. The person spoke to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team had not announced the hire. Major League Baseball encourages clubs to avoid...
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homers, Blue Jays even World Series with win over Dodgers
LOS ANGELES — Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit a two-run homer off Shohei Ohtani, Shane Bieber pitched four-hit ball into the sixth inning, and the Toronto Blue Jays shook off their epic 18-inning loss to even the World Series with a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4...
Ex-wife of Angels employee says team failed her drug-addicted husband at trial over pitcher’s death
SANTA ANA, Calif. — The ex-wife of a Los Angeles Angels employee on Tuesday said the MLB team failed her drug-addicted husband during a trial over the fatal overdose of one of its star pitchers. Camela Kay testified that she previously had seen Angels players partying, drinking and passing around...
Freddie Freeman ends World Series marathon with 18th-inning homer as Dodgers top Blue Jays
LOS ANGELES — Freddie Freeman homered leading off the bottom of the 18th inning, Shohei Ohtani went deep twice in another record-setting performance and the Los Angeles Dodgers outlasted the Toronto Blue Jays, 6-5, in Game 3 on Monday night to win a World Series classic. The defending champion Dodgers...
Dodgers’ Mookie Betts wins Roberto Clemente Award for humanitarian work
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts has won the Roberto Clemente Award for his humanitarian work. Betts received the award before Game 3 of the World Series on Monday, joined by Commissioner Rob Manfred and Clemente’s sons, Luis and Roberto Jr. “Life is about more than kind...
Orioles reportedly hiring Guardians’ Craig Albernaz as manager
CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Guardians entered their offseason with hopes the coaching staff would remain in place through the winter, but they also knew those chances weren’t especially high. They averaged 90 wins and won back-to-back division titles over the last two seasons despite a bottom-third payroll over that span,...
Blue Jays’ Max Scherzer ready to make World Series history
LOS ANGELES — After the 32-year wait to return to Canada, the World Series shifts back to Los Angeles, where memories remain thick from its visit just one year ago. All even at one game each, the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers will duel to get the upper...
Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto tosses gem in Game 2 of World Series vs. Blue Jays
TORONTO — Of the 82 pitches Kevin Gausman threw in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday, almost all of them were either untouchable or produced no damage. Yet two swings by Will Smith did damage, and that was the very narrow margin between Gausman and Los Angeles Dodgers...
Blue Jays stomp Dodgers in Game 1 with 9 runs in 6th inning
TORONTO — It was a 12-batter onslaught, a beatdown that started with a leadoff walk, accelerated with a grand slam that made World Series history and ended with a pile-on two-run homer from the player who perhaps best exemplifies just how suffocating these Toronto Blue Jays are. And now the...
Dodgers-Blue Jays World Series a battle of experience vs. ‘naivete’
TORONTO — The Los Angeles Dodgers might have a double on their minds entering the World Series, but the Toronto Blue Jays are aiming for a triple of their own. The Dodgers have their sights set on a second consecutive World Series title when the best-of-seven series begins Friday night....
Freeman returns to Canadian roots as Dodgers face Blue Jays in Toronto to open World Series
Freddie Freeman is returning to his family roots when the Los Angeles Dodgers open defense of their World Series championship against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Friday. The All-Star first baseman’s parents are from the province of Ontario; father Fred is from Windsor, and late mother Rosemary was from...
Angels tab Kurt Suzuki as next manager
The Los Angeles Angels are hiring Kurt Suzuki as their next manager, multiple media outlets reported Tuesday. Suzuki, 42, has spent the past three seasons as a special assistant to Los Angeles general manager Perry Minasian. He finished his 16-year playing career by spending his final two seasons as a...
Blue Jays carry hopes of a nation into World Series amid Canada-U.S. tension
TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have crashed baseball’s biggest party and will have the support of an entire nation when they face the star-studded and deep-pocketed Los Angeles Dodgers in a World Series played amid ongoing Canada-U.S. political tension. After 32 years in baseball’s wilderness, Canada’s lone MLB team...
