BOSTON — On a September night as warm as July, the Boston Red Sox kicked down the doors of October baseball for the first time since 2021, with a come-from-behind walk-off that will not be forgotten any time soon.

But for most of the nearly three-hour game, it seemed champagne and beer showers would have to wait another day.

The Red Sox have...Read more

TORONTO — Junior Caminero hit his 45th homer and Jonathan Aranda went deep in his first at-bat since breaking his left wrist on July 31, but it wasn’t enough for the Rays to slow the Blue Jays’ push for the American League East title.

The Jays won, 4-2, Friday at sold-out Rogers Centre and can clinch their first division title since 2015 ...Read more

NEW YORK — With the Yankees still fighting for a division title, they faced a tough test on Friday night in the form of Orioles ace Trevor Rogers.

The Bombers passed with flying colors, as Giancarlo Stanton and Aaron Judge combined for three home runs off the left-hander, one of baseball’s best pitchers this season, in an 8-4 win.

With two...Read more

Alec Bohm jogged from third base to catch up with Aaron Nola as he walked off the mound. He gave his pitcher a congratulatory clap on the back before they both descended the dugout steps.

Nola’s head was down. His work wasn’t finished. But he had just struck out the Twins’ Eduardo Julien to end the top of the fifth inning and accomplish a...Read more

CHICAGO — Pete Crow-Armstrong received the ball from his 30th home run Friday from a bleacher fan who told him he hadn’t been to a game in about 30 years.

Thirty proved to be the magic number Friday in the Chicago Cubs’ 12-1 drubbing of the St. Louis Cardinals at Wrigley Field.

Crow-Armstrong became the first Cubs player with 30 doubles,...Read more

Their total hours of sleep were certainly diminished from an earned and deserved celebration that lasted into the night and early morning hours. The external motivating factor of earning a bye through the wild card had already been secured roughly an hour before Emerson Hancock fired the opening pitch of Thursday night’s game vs. the Rockies. ...Read more

Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Michael Lorenzen saved his best effort for his final appearance of the 2025 season. Facing his former team, Lorenzen carved up the Los Angeles Angels in a 9-4 victory at Angel Stadium.

And he did it with relative ease. Lorenzen tied a career-high with nine strikeouts.

The veteran right-hander — who grew up...Read more

SEATTLE — Moral of the story is, nice guys finish with a front-row seat.

Glenn Mutti-Driscoll, sitting in the right place at the right time, reached out his right hand and caught Cal Raleigh’s historic 60th home run ball Wednesday night in Section 108 of the right-field bleachers at T-Mobile Park.

What caught everyone else’s attention ...Read more

NEW YORK — Giancarlo Stanton is as stoic as they come, so when he unleashed a fist pump after reaching second base, it served as a testament to the immense importance of Thursday’s game.

The celebration followed a go-ahead, three-run double by Stanton in the bottom of the fifth, which proved to be the game-winner in the Yankees’ 5-3 ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — After Walker Buehler threw his 74th and final pitch against the Marlins — a sweeper that Agustín Ramírez lifted to left field for a flyout — his night wasn’t over.

Buehler had just completed five scoreless innings in the Phillies’ 1-0 rain-interrupted win over Miami, though he finished with three walks. So when ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs are progressing as though right-hander Cade Horton will be available when the postseason begins next week.

Horton’s MRI on Wednesday showed “some areas of concern” in his ribs, manager Craig Counsell said before Thursday’s series finale against the New York Mets. While the Cubs plan to gather more ...Read more

CHICAGO — No one on the Chicago Cubs is thinking yet about the San Diego Padres.

It wouldn’t be prudent, of course, even though the Cubs’ wild-card-series opponent has been apparent for a while and was made official Thursday afternoon when the Los Angeles Dodgers clinched the National League West.

There’s still that one little thing on...Read more

CHICAGO — The Mets are often down, but they never seem to be out of the race.

Hours after the Cincinnati Reds beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to move to within a 1/2 game of the Mets in the NL wild-card standings, the Mets countered with a 8-5 win over the Chicago Cubs. Despite the Cubs outfield making several highlight-reel catches against the ...Read more

CLEVELAND — At least for one night, things fell back into place for the Tigers.

They flexed their latent home run power. The term “chaos,” as it’s applied to their pitching plan, had a positive connotation. And just like that, the eight-game losing streak was stopped and the month-long free fall was at least suspended.

The Tigers ...Read more

TORONTO — The playoff celebration will have to wait at least one more night.

The Red Sox bats were stymied in Thursday’s 6-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, whose pitching staff combined to carry a perfect game into the seventh inning. The Blue Jays also got two home runs as part of a six-run bottom of the sixth, with Daulton Varsho’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers are not the norm in baseball. For the majority of teams in the major leagues, the last week of the regular season is the last week until spring training.

As the Angels played out their final week, the Angel Stadium store featured a "Thank You Fans" sale, with up to 50% off caps, T-shirts, polo shirts, jackets, even ...Read more

PHOENIX — It was not supposed to be this difficult. It was not expected to feel so frustrating.

Six months ago, the question was not whether the Dodgers would win the National League West, but how far out of the water they'd blow the competition.

It wasn't whether they'd enter October in position to defend their World Series title, but if ...Read more

CINCINNATI — The fifth-place Pirates spent most of their trip to Ohio punching away at the contending Reds’ playoff hopes. The Reds had the final blow.

Right fielder Noelvi Marte robbed Bryan Reynolds of a game-tying homer in the ninth inning, clinching a 2-1 win for the Reds against the Pirates on Thursday afternoon at Great American Ball ...Read more